Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. Ponting sold his fruit farm in 1898 and, with his wife and daughter, returned to Britain to stay with his family. If you turn the furside outside – as you say, it grows on that side, Scott's biographer David Crane describes Cherry-Garrard as "the future interpreter, historian and conscience of the expedition." If you decide to side with that 'side', turn the outside furside inside His ability to capture the very essence of what he sees, whether for film or stills, gives his work a quality of integrity that is immediately understood by any person viewing it. As well as politically hostile environments Paddy has spent a lot of time working in environmentally hostile places. Ponting's cinematograph sequences, pieced out with magic lantern slides, were to have been a key element in the expedition's financial payback. Paddy has worked in just about every weather and landscape extreme that this planet offers and no matter how difficult the conditions are Paddy is able … [7] Ponting photographed other members of the shore party setting off for what was expected to be a successful trek. The expedition's scientists studied the behavior of large Antarctic animals, especially killer whales, seals, and penguins. Ponting is also the author of a verse in trochaic tetrameter, "The Sleeping Bag" (1911). [9] A few of the surviving expedition members grew envious of Ponting, thinking that he was profiting off the exhibition for monetary gain and fame. After studying Documentary film making at the London Met School Paddy began his career as a cameraman working on music videos for Florence and the Machine and Coldplay where visual choreography and lighting became second nature. The gifts repaid the entire cost of the expedition, provided large annuities (carefully doled out by expedition status and rank) for the widows and survivors, and left a substantial surplus for eventual use as the startup endowment of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), part of Cambridge University. In 1895 he married a California woman, Mary Biddle Elliott; their daughter Mildred, was born in Auburn, California in January 1897. Then your outside’s next the skinside, which for comfort’s not the right side. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). One 'side' likes the skinside inside and the furside on the outside. Paddy’s keen interest in current world events and his belief in documenting truth without judgment soon lead him to news work for the BBC, Aljazeera and Associated Press. First was an expedition to Patagonia where Paddy climbed some of the regions highest peaks and spent time with a farming family who had campaigned to prevent the damning of the Baker River. Ponting died at his home in London in 1935; his photographs were sold to raise funds to pay for medical and other expenses.[13]. Scott knew he was doomed, and used his final hours to write pleas to his countrymen to look after the welfare of the expedition's widows and survivors. It was, however, used extensively in the press and exhibited at the Fine Art Society, Bond Street, shown in venues all over Britain and used in numerous lectures by Ponting and other expedition members (including at Buckingham Palace and the Royal Albert Hall). Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), Scott's last Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912: spray ridges of ice on Cape Evans after a blizzard. Herbert Ponting, photographer on Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, 1910. Copies of his films of Scott were shown to soldiers at the front who were, according to an army chaplain, moved by the heroism of Scott and his men. He has spent two seasons as a cameraman and photographer in Antarctica where he twice reached the South Pole and became adept at working in Polar environments, he has used drones to film climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, he has followed British Olympic gold skier Chemmy Alcott skiing in Greenland and he has paddle boarded with his camera up the Amazon as expedition photographer. The primitive device, called a cinematograph, could take short film sequences. Paddy is a member of the Royal Photographic Society, a member of Expedition Media, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. After spending much of 1901–6 travelling around photographing in Asia, Ponting returned to Europe, where he continued to take stereoviews (including in Switzerland and Spain) and wrote illustrated articles for magazines including Country Life, the Graphic, the Illustrated London News, Pearson's, and the Strand Magazine. Ponting tried to get as close as possible to these animals, both on the Terra Nova in the sea ice and later on Ross Island, and narrowly escaped death on one occasion in early 1911 when a pod of eight killer whales broke up the ice floe in McMurdo Sound on which he was standing. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913) These works brought him little personal recompense but he continued to work on inventions related to the 'movies', including a special effects machine which was used in the English language version of "Emil and the Detectives" (1935). When World War I began Ponting tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the War Office to make use of his skills as a photographer and war correspondent, but his age was cited as a reason for his being rejected for war service. With Scott to the Pole: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913; The Photographs of Herbert Ponting by Herbert Ponting (2004-11-05) INFINITE PHOTOGRAPHS 1910 Foto: Edgar Evans, Petty Officer | Terra Nova | British Antarktic | Expedition | H Ponting | Vintage-Foto. His flair for journalism and ability to shape his photographic illustrations into a narrative led to his being signed as expedition photographer aboard the Terra Nova,[5] the first time a professional photographer was included on an Antarctic expedition. Ponting expanded his photographs of Japan into a 1910 book, In Lotus-land Japan. [1] In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.[2]. Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. Others like the skinside outside and the furside on the inside Paddy is also a licensed drone pilot and operator. Under these conditions, Ponting's Antarctic work took on a tragic overtone and became a memorial to Scott and his companions rather than a celebration. Paddy’s photography has been credited with numerous awards, most recently he was a finalist in the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, his image ‘Unstoppable Force’ was on display in the exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Paddy Scott Photographer, Cameraman and Filmmaker. No need to register, buy now! In the distance Inaccessible Island, photographed by H. G. Ponting, 8 March 1911, the expedition's offical photographer. Then the hard side, cold side, skinside’s, beyond all question, inside outside. Following a chance meeting with a professional photographer in California, to whom he had given advice about the locality and showed his own photos, he entered his pictures in competitions and won awards; he also sent some of his stereoscopic photographs to companies who published them. Then the soft side furside’s inside, which some argue is the wrong side. Paddy Scott is a photographer, cameraman and filmmaker. If you turn the skinside outside, thinking you will side with that 'side', Ponting was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in the south of England, on 21 March 1870. [14] The Great White Silence was restored by the British Film Institute and re-released in 2011. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). However, when the bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered in their tent on the Ross Ice Shelf in November 1912, their diaries and journals were also found. For the skinside is the cold side and your outside’s not your warm side Ponting was one of the first men to use a portable movie camera in Antarctica. Herbert George Ponting, (1870 – 1935) professional photographer. Over the course of time, Ponting would eventually fall out with some of the surviving members of the expedition, most notably with Lieutenant Evans, as well as falling out with the trustees of the Terra Nova Expedition. The eloquent appeals, upon publication in the British press, wrung massive donations from the public. As the skinside is the hard side and the furside is the soft side. In the distance Inaccessible Island, photographed by H. G. Ponting, 8 March 1911, the expedition's offical photographer. 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During the 1911 winter, Ponting took many flash photographs of Scott and the other members of the expedition in their Cape Evans hut. His photographs of the Amazon’s Rio Negro were featured by Condé Nast Traveller magazine. In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. [10], He published The Great White South, the photographic narrative of the expedition, in 1921 which was a popular success, and produced two films based upon his surviving cinematograph sequences, The Great White Silence (1924 - silent) and Ninety Degrees South (1933 - sound), the latter of which he collaborated with Evans, whom he had since made peace with. In addition, one of Ponting's photographic darkrooms was reconstructed in the collections of the Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. Ponting also brought autochrome plates to Antarctica and took some of the first known color still photographs there. As a member of the shore party in early 1911, Ponting helped set up the Terra Nova Expedition's Antarctic winter camp at Cape Evans, Ross Island. With Scott to the Pole: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913; The Photographs of Herbert Ponting by Herbert Ponting (2004-11-05) INFINITE PHOTOGRAPHS 1910 Foto: Edgar Evans, Petty Officer | Terra Nova | British Antarktic | Expedition | H Ponting | Vintage-Foto. Photography This article is more than 4 years old. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). Photographs taken by Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott during his ill-fated Terra Nova expedition are being auctioned off in London today (April 28). It was expected that Scott would return from the South Pole as a celebrity and that he could use moving images from his expedition in a one-man show. On the advice of Fridtjof Nansen, Scott recruited a … [3] From the age of eighteen Herbert was employed at a local bank branch in Liverpool, where he stayed for four years. With Scott to the Pole: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913; The Photographs of Herbert Ponting by Herbert Ponting (2004-11-05) INFINITE PHOTOGRAPHS 1910 Foto: Edgar Evans, Petty Officer | Terra Nova | British Antarktic | Expedition | H Ponting | Vintage-Foto. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), Scott's last Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912: spray ridges of ice on Cape Evans after a blizzard. When the Terra Nova had sailed south in 1910, it had left massive debts behind. With these plates, Ponting could capture images of Antarctic icescapes and landscapes. [11] In addition to this, most of the money from Ponting's lectures went to paying of the debts from the expedition, as well as to the memorial fund that was established to aid the widows and dependents of the members who had perished. That time was long enough to convince him that he did not wish to follow in the profession of his father, and attracted to stories of the American West, he moved to California where he worked in mining and then bought a fruit ranch in the 1890s. When they returned to the USA he turned his long-standing hobby of photography into his next career. With the start of the 1911–12 sledging season, Ponting's field work began to come to an end. On the outside grows the furside. He took extensive photographs in Spain. The catastrophic end of "Scott's Last Expedition" also affected Ponting's later life and career. [12] He also continued to lecture extensively on the Antarctic. As a middle-aged man, he was not expected to help pull supplies southward over the Ross Ice Shelf for the push to the South Pole. On the inside grows the skinside. As the skinside is the inside (and the furside is the outside) He has spent two seasons as a cameraman and photographer in Antarctica where he twice reached the South Pole and became adept at working in Polar environments, he has used drones to film climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, he has followed British Olympic gold skier Chemmy Alcott skiing in Greenland and he has paddle boarded with his camera up the Amazon as expedition photographer. In the Strand, Ponting's work appeared side by side with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, one of Ponting's contemporaries. [8] Ponting's illustrated narrative would be waiting for Captain Scott to use for lectures and fundraising in 1913. Paddy’s understanding of landscapes and the people living in them gives him the ability to photograph Cornwall as though it is an un-encountered wilderness and to photograph a Patagonian gaucho as though a member of his close family. These records described the explorers' final days while suffering from exposure and malnutrition, and their desperate effort to get to a depot of food and fuel that could have saved them. Herbert Ponting was the expedition's photographer, whose pictures would leave a vivid visual record. mail@paddyscott.com / +44 (0) 7876750129. The Scott Polar Research Institute purchased the Ponting Collection in 2004 for £533,000. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. [6], Grotto in an iceberg with the Terra Nova in the background. And the two cold sides coming side-by-side are not the right sides one 'side' decides. Later that year a photography expedition across India following the trail of Mark Shand for the charity Travels With my Elephant resulted in photographs of rural India that defy any sense of time. Antarctica: … [10] This was untrue, as Ponting felt it was his duty to protect the interests of not only his photographic program, but to protect the memory and achievements of his friends Wilson and Scott. His work was also selected for the first San Francisco Salon; at that time he was living in Sausalito, north of San Francisco. The camp included a tiny photographic darkroom. He took stereoviews of and reported on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05, and afterwards continued to travel around Asia, working in Burma, Korea, Java, China and India taking stereoviews and working as a freelance photographer for English-speaking periodicals. Improvements in the printing press had made it possible, for the first time, for mass-market magazines to print and publish photographic illustrations.[4]. Scott expedition pictures on show together over 100 years after artists' plan This article is more than 4 years old. The poem, elaborating on a motif also found in the anonymously-authored Longfellow parody "The Modern Hiawatha" (ca. Paddy is an experienced expedition photographer and cameraman and has worked in some of the world’s most remote and hostile regions. So the furside is the outside and the skinside is the inside. His father was a successful banker, Francis Ponting, and his mother was Mary Sydenham. With the conclusion of the war, Ponting's archive drew a nibble of interest. In 2009, SPRI and publisher Salto Ulbeek platinum-printed and published a selection of the Collection. During the period of the Scott expedition centenary (2010–3) his work was widely published and exhibited, reaching new audiences. Paddy was born in London in 1982 but is as at home in the wilderness and in extreme environments as he is in the city. After 14 months at Cape Evans, Ponting, along with eight other men, boarded the Terra Nova in February 1912 to return to civilization, arrange his inventory of more than 1,700 photographic plates, and shape a narrative of the expedition. Receive one of Paddy's shots to your inbox each month. With Scott to the Pole: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913; The Photographs of Herbert Ponting by Herbert Ponting (2004-11-05) INFINITE PHOTOGRAPHS 1910 Foto: Edgar Evans, Petty Officer | Terra Nova | British Antarktic | Expedition | H Ponting | Vintage-Foto. PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE WORLD: THE BIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT PONTING. Although the expedition came more than 20 years after the invention of photographic film, Ponting preferred high-quality images taken on glass plates. Antarctica: The Last Continent by … Find the perfect captain scott expedition stock photo. His … 1904)[1], is recited for humorous effect in the film Scott of the Antarctic. 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