Frank Hurley, an Australian, was the expedition’s photographer and a pioneer in the emerging world of photo-journalism. Greenstreet, First Officer on the Endurance called him “a warrior with his camera who would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture”. Hurley’s photographs form the visual narrative of an epic journey, capturing new and amazing landscapes in which a great human drama is played out.
The aim of the lecture is to capture Hurley’s achievements as a photographer of the Antarctic in the first flush of human contact when it was still essentially terra incognita.
Born in the Isles of Scilly and educated at Truro School in Cornwall and Birmingham University, Mark Cottle has spent over 20 years lecturing in history. He has always been fascinated by the sea and its stories.