Peter Herbert Dombrovskis (; 2 March 194528 March 1996) was an Australian photographer, known for his Tasmanian scenes. In 2003, he was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, the first Australian photographer to achieve that honour.
Biography
Dombrovskis was born in 1945 in a refugee camp in Wiesbaden, Germany to Latvian parents. Together with his mother, he migrated to Australia in 1950, and they settled in , a suburb of .
On 28 March 1996, Dombrovskis died of a heart attack while photographing near Mount Hayes, in the Western Arthurs mountain range in South-West Tasmania.
His works are represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Australian Heritage Commission, and in private hands.
Exhibitions
- 2017 - Dombrovskis: Journeys into the Wild, National Library of Australia - Canberra, Australia
- 2020 - Tasmanian Wilderness, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery - Cradle Mountain, Australia
See also
- Gordon Splits
- Olegas Truchanas
- David Tatnall (photographer)
- Wildness (film)
References
External links
- Dombrovskis collection of Tasmanian wilderness photographs, 1978–1995, National Library of Australia, Canberra, a collection of 21 colour photographs
- Gallery of photos by Truchanas and Dombrovskis