MEET PIP
Pip Williams didn’t grow up in rural Australia, but her move there awakened a love for the red ochre land, the rough and tumble of the bush and the people who call it home.
BEHIND THE LENS
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Pip Williams didn’t grow up in rural Australia, but her move there awakened a love for the red ochre land, the rough and tumble of the bush and the people who call it home.
There’s something about the morning light – it shines brighter, dapples the trees with the look of stardust and sparks birdsong. Then dusk arrives, painting the sky a breathtaking palette of pinks, greys and gold.
And while that light, those colours, undoubtedly inspire Pip’s work, it’s the people who live beneath them who capture her camera’s gaze. Not only because, like the red ochre land, she fell hard for their down-to-earth, unapologetically authentic selves, but because Pip realised her own albums have too-long missed photographs of those everyday moments of connection – the times her family are simply together, content and connected in their corner of the world.
It’s those timeless, seemingly small moments that Pip captures in her photography of other families. Moments that trigger feelings of nostalgia, love and a longing for her own childhood. Moments that pull you back into the here and now, and give you permission to just be where your feet fall.
Because that’s the stuff that truly matters, the world you’ve built from the ground up, among the drought and the dirt, the cotton fields and the cattle yards. That’s what’s real, pure, vulnerable and true.
These are the times that translate to any era, any place – it just so happens that yours are captured by Pip, in the free, open air of rural Australia.
"I've lost count of the number of times we've had the pleasure of Pip capturing our family. Each and every time Pip has been an absolute breeze to deal with and even my reluctant husband is on board with having her out to take our photos. The end product just makes us smile so very much. She is so very talented at capturing the personalities' of our children in such a natural way and we will treasure her photos forever."
AMY BALLINGER
