Don Burrows is a classical musician who is also equally at home in the photographic darkroom as he is on stage. He has been treading the boards as a professional musician for 65 years. In 1973 the twice named Australian living treasure received the first Gold Record ever awarded to an Australian jazz musician, instigated the first jazz studies program in the southern hemisphere at the NSW conservatorium of music and was awarded an MBA. His awards though don't stop in the music industry he also won the title of Special Ambassador of Photography to children bestowed on him by the Photographic Imaging Council of Australia (PICA).
His photography passion started at age 11 with a simple box brownie camera he then continued to combine his skills with music and photography over the next 50 years. He declares that "while music teaches us to listen and hear,
photography teaches us to look and see"
He has a deep passion for passing his message to young people. Much of his work displays the understanding he has of the importance for young people to express themselves creatively. One of his signature images illustrates the touching story of a young, deeply shy Indigenous girl in outback NSW playing a small flute for the first time. This is a reminder to him of his own humble single note beginning at Bondi Public School in the 1930's. He is as fascinated by people and their habitats as he is with the natural landscape, finding beauty in character and abstraction in nature.
Extracted from http://www.bwoodworks.com.au/node/126
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