Who is Haelio Photo?

I'm Madeline, and I love to spend time on an adventure waiting for the right photographic moment to emerge. I am an available light photographer, using the light that is around me day or night.

When I am not at home in Melbourne working in branding and as a photographic art director, or teaching film photography, I travel the world, working on photography projects and hunting down old neglected cameras to add to my growing collection.

I learned photography by hand, developing negatives and prints in a darkroom in the late 1990s and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Photography and Graphic Arts and a Master of Arts. 

I now work with both digital and film depending on what medium will work best and suit the location I am in (sometimes I'm shooting both at the same location).

My current go-to equipment is an Olympus OMD-EM1 kit for my digital needs, and for film, an Olympus OM-1n, a Bronica Zenza S2, and a 4x5 Wista large format field camera.

I enjoy teaching people about film photography and sharing my passion for this photographic medium, and run a business taking small group tours teaching everyone from beginners to more advanced digital photographers how to shoot with film. Find out more at photo-tours.com.

• Ballarat International Foto Biennale Open Artist Program, Group Exhibition with Ben Metherell at Webster's Cafe, Ballarat. August 2021–January 2022
• Banyule Art Gallery Salon, Ivanhoe, 2021 (delayed from 2020)
• Ballarat International Foto Biennale Open Artist Program, Group Exhibition with Ben Metherell, "Between silent and populous: scenes of light, colour and night", Webster's Cafe, Ballarat. August–October 2019
• Centre for Contemporary Photography Ilford Salon, Collingwood, 2018
• Exhibition at in.cube8r Almost Solo v.8, Fitzroy, 2018
• Group exhibition at in.cube8r Postcards exhibition, Fitzroy, 2018
• Banyule Art Gallery Salon, Ivanhoe, 2018
• Stall Holder at Heide Museum Market, Melbourne, 2018
• Stall Holder at Rose Street Market, Melbourne, 2018
• RAW Natural Born Artists exhibitor, Melbourne, 2016
• Banyule Art Gallery Salon, Ivanhoe, 2016
• Exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2016
• ETSY Market, Melbourne, 2015
• Visual Arts Final Year exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2004
• Visual Arts exhibition, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2003