Julian Smith (b. England 1873, a. Australia 1876, d. 1947) completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Adelaide in 1892 and went on to study medicine at the University of Adelaide and the University of Melbourne before establishing himself as a distinguished Melbourne surgeon. Smith took up photography in about 1925 as a hobby and began exhibiting his prints locally and overseas. He became a founding member of the Victorian Salon, a member of the Melbourne Camera Club, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He was also one of Australia’s most prominent pictorialist photographers and became famous for his portrait character studies.

(2015)