Frank Hurley

Frank Hurley was born in Australia in 1885. He ran away from home at age thirteen. Hurley worked in an ironworks and at the Telegraph Department before becoming a photographer. In 1911, he joined Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic expedition, which he documented with stills and a film entitled "Home of the Blizzard." Upon his return from Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition, Hurley went on to serve Australia as an official photographer in both world wars; returned to the Antarctic as a...See more

Frank Hurley was born in Australia in 1885. He ran away from home at age thirteen. Hurley worked in an ironworks and at the Telegraph Department before becoming a photographer. In 1911, he joined Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic expedition, which he documented with stills and a film entitled "Home of the Blizzard." Upon his return from Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition, Hurley went on to serve Australia as an official photographer in both world wars; returned to the Antarctic as a filmmaker with Mawson in 1929; and made many more documentary and fiction films that confirmed his reputation as Australia's greatest photographer by the time of his death, in 1962. See less