Helen Ennis

Helen Ennis writes on Australian photography and photographers. She was formerly Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory and Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History at the ANU School of Art & Design; she is currently Emeritus Professor. She has curated numerous exhibitions for the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Library of Australia. Her many books include Margaret...See more

Helen Ennis writes on Australian photography and photographers. She was formerly Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory and Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History at the ANU School of Art & Design; she is currently Emeritus Professor. She has curated numerous exhibitions for the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Library of Australia. Her many books include Margaret Michaelis: Love, loss and photography (2005), winner of the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Olive Cotton: A life in photography (2019), winner of the 2020 Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the 2022 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction, and the 2020 Magarey Medal for Biography. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and was awarded the J. Dudley Johnston Medal by the British Royal Photographic Society in 2021. www.helenennis.com See less