You’d think living in Esperance, on the southern coast of Western Australia, would be enough remoteness for anyone, but for multi-award-winning OM SYSTEM photographer Scott Portelli, it’s just the start of the story. Since moving there two years ago, he has spent all but four months in other wilderness areas of Australia and the world, ranging from Lake Eyre, the waters off Whyalla in South Australia and whale projects in the Southern Ocean, to the Norwegian Arctic, Iceland, Patagonia and extensive travels in Antarctica.
Portelli’s expertise extends through land-based, underwater and aerial/drone photography, and from wildlife and landscape documentary photography (and video) to more abstract, creative approaches.
One recent project that could be said to naturally involve both was photographing the annual giant cuttlefish ‘aggregation’ near Whyalla, where tens of…