Ferne Millen

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Ferne Millen (b. 1978, Geelong, Australia) is a music and event photographer. She began photographing seriously at the age of 14, shooting with her first hand held Nikon Camera.

Ferne's first exhibition was in 1994. A Slice of Life documented the life of people in the street in Geelong and Melbourne. Her exhibition was processed and printed by hand in the darkroom.

In 1997 Ferne travelled around the world working in Greenhouses in Canada, for Camp America and living in Chicago, New York and London before touring Western Europe.

Other travels to East Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Fiji etc.. have inspired Ferne to explore other cultures, always with her Camera in her hand.

In 1998 Ferne attended V.C.A/ Melbourne University to study a combined Bachelor Degree in Visual & Performing Arts. She graduated from Creative Arts in 2003 after majoring in Visual Arts, Photography, Theatre Studies in both design and performance. Since graduating Ferne has worked mainly as a photographer, though she has worked in theatre roles for Real Fiction Theatre Company at La Mama and small television parts (Secret Life of Us, Neighbours).

Ferne's interest in photographing musicians,performers and artists was cultivated by her strong upbringing in the arts. Her mother Rhondda Millen, is a painter and artist from Melbourne. Her father, Neville Millen a lecturer in Sociology and writer at Deakin University, Geelong, was also born in Melbourne. He is a keen travel writer. Some of his stories can be read online at www.bootsnall.com. *[[1]]

"Photography exists as a tool to express one's relationship with the world around us. Everyone has a distinctivley different view. No two people are the same." It this vision to define's one's perspective on the arts and music that has driven Ferne to focus predominantly on her Music Photography. A recent exhibition entitled "Rock On" at Revolver Upstairs [2] was a visualisation of this.