John Elliott (14)

John Elliott is an Australian photographer, writer, creative producer and social documentary maker. John has 30 years experience as a self-employed as a writer, photographer and documentary maker. His work has focused mostly on Australian culture, the bush and music. He has compiled Australia’s most extensive country music photo library. He was Slim Dusty’s preferred photographer for many years and produced the images for 20 of Slims album covers. John has authored two definitive books on Australian country music – On The Road With Slim (ABC Books)which sold 23,000 copies and Where Country Is – a pictorial history of the past 25 years of Australian Country Music (Rural Press). He is collaborating with Joy McKean on a major coffee table book set for release late 2011. John was founding editor of Australian Country Music Magazine. He also wrote a weekly music column for Australasian Post Magazine. He was a board member of the Country Music Association of Australia for seven years and a board member of The Australian Centre for Photography.