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EQUUS: In Celebration of the Horse

by Glenn Hunt

Australia

INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED EQUESTRIAN PHOTOGRAPHER UNVEILS NEW BOOK ON EQUINE CULTURE

One of the Worlds most awarded equine photographers, Glenn Hunt, has released his much-anticipated debut book, titled Equus: In Celebration of the Horse.

The black and white photographic collection documents the ancient and enduring relationship between man and horse in a series of 114 extraordinary images from across the globe.

Hunt, 36, describes the book as a labour of love - more than a decade in the making.

"While horses have long passed their 'use-by date' thanks to modern technology, generation after generation of cultures across the world remain enchanted with the horse, he said.

"From the nomads found on the harsh steppes of Mongolia, to the warriors of Morocco and the stockmen of Australia, horses are very much embedded within thehistory, and survival, of every civilisation."

"Over the past 10 years, I've endeavoured to document this timeless relationship. The result is Equus."

During his travels, Hunt has journeyed to many remote cultures, including the Indonesian island of Sumba, east of Bali, and the foothills of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

He has also captured the time-honoured equine triathletes at England's elite Windsor International Horse Trials and one of Australia's most famous outback horse events the Birdsville Races.

However Hunt says he was particularly fond of his time in Spain, where he was granted entry to Spain's Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art: The Real Esceuela Andaluza Del Arte Ecuestre. It was there he captured one of the world's most stunning and rare images of an Andulusian horse performing a 'Capriolle', a movement developed and refined from times of war many centuries ago.

Equus is the first in a series of equine photography books to be produced by the award-winning photographer.

Hunt intends to commence shooting his second volume in the Equus series in mid-2009. He is currently making travel plans to visit the island of Minorca, Spain to photograph the Fiesta de San Juan where giant black stallions rear up and walk on their back legs through crowds of excited onlookers. He will then travel directly to Sienna in Italy to photograph the famous Palio horse race that takes place in the heart of the ancient city.

In 2003, Hunt won the coveted International Photographer of the Year Award for his work photograping the Naadam festival in Mongolia. In 2004 and 2006, he was awarded the Humanity Award for his photographic work of the Naadam Festival and the Pasola festival in Suma, Indonesia.

His work has been collected by the State Library of New South Wales, The King George V building collection and various private collections. 2006 also saw Hunt's work noticed by the King of Bahrain, who commissioned him to photograph the World Junior Endurance Championships in Bahrain that year.

In 2000, Hunt returned to Adelaide for three years where he trained his focus on the worldwide documentation of horse culture, which has been his major personal project to this date. Since then, he has divided his time between working as a commercial photographer and travelling to diverse, and often remote, locations around the world to capture the ancient and enduring relationship between man and horse.

Hunt moved to Melbourne in 2003 where he became the official photographer to Equitana, the largest and most prestigious Equine event of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. In addition to his freelance work in Melbourne as a commercial photographer, the demand for his work led to the showcasing of his street photography and horse culture projects in three major exhibitions in 2006.

Recently, Hunt was commissioned by Bates Australia and Canon Australia to shoot their national advertising campaigns.

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