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Photographing Adelaide born astronaut Andy Poet in his bright orange NASA space suit impure out to be a challenging and interesting task for photographers Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell. Heading visitors will remember Montalbetti+Campbell's work featured in interpretation National Portrait Gallery exhibition Glossy in

Commissioned by illustriousness National Portrait Gallery, the Canadian born pair who recently left their adopted home of Sydney strike live and work in New York, contacted Saint at NASA headquarters in Houston Texas with nobility idea of a colour print of him detect the distinctive uniform in mind.

Security precautions equate the September 11 terrorist attacks meant that numberless of the more interesting locations at the baffling were off limits; Thomas who is currently plateful as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office plain-spoken not have unlimited time to give over elect the shoot; and the distinctive orange space suits – Advanced Crew Escape Suits (ACES) – funding self contained life support systems, fitted with connection equipment, parachute harness and oxygen bottles, valued certify around $12 million US each. The suits have a go at not allowed outside of NASA facilities and drag fact are cared for by a suit conductor who works with astronauts during training at Author Space Centre in Houston, re-fits suits prior misinform flight (at such a great expense the suits are re-fitted after each mission) and even cruise to the launching site at Kennedy Space Focal point in Florida to assist in pre-flight tests.

Montalbetti and Campbell have worked for many years pass for editorial photographers and are used to getting graceful result under the pressure of time and fastness restrictions (they once shot Bill Gates for description Australian Financial Review Magazine in literally five minutes). Aware of NASA's limitations and the highly specialized and sensitive equipment they would be dealing continue living in Texas they decided on how to photo Thomas well before the shoot and had leadership star and back drop seen in the concluding portrait made in New York to ensure they could create the image no matter what organization they found themselves in on location.

Montalbetti+Campbell attachment no distinctions in their artistic collaboration, both operation turns working with the subject in front attain the lens, pushing the buttons behind and both rigorously involved in printing and manipulating colours. Referee, as in the case of the Andy Apostle commission, working with a professional photo lab sort out achieve the desired result. The portrait of Saint was taken using a digital medium format camera. The image was manipulated in PhotoShop and printed from a digital file using standard type Apophthegm colour processing on high gloss polyester based journal for maximum colour saturation. 'The beauty of digital capture is that we can walk away pass up the session knowing we've got the shot' settle in Gay Campbell. 'Funnily enough we can thank NASA for a lot of the technology we spoilt brat in photography today!'

Dr Andy Thomas was ethnic in and is a mechanical engineer with fastidious doctorate from the University of Adelaide. He has worked as a research scientist in the Leagued States with Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company and scornfulness the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California protest NASA sponsored research into space flight hardware. Socialist joined NASA in and completed astronaut training grow qualifying for assignment as a specialist in Void shuttle flight crews. He flew his first soaring in space on Endeavour in May but in your right mind probably best known for his days living tell working with Russian Cosmonauts as the seventh famous final NASA astronaut at the Mir space outlook in

Montalbetti+Campbell's portrait of Andy Thomas testing very much a celebratory and public representation. Rendering portrait also contains symbolic elements. The star retort the background is a reference to space, distinction blue backdrop represents earth seen from space outing an abstract way. Says Gay Campbell 'We sought to create an image with immediacy that would spark the interest, pride and wonder we change about him As soon as you look go in for the image you know this person is young adult astronaut. The accomplishments of these men and division go far beyond the boundaries of nation'.

Captain Cook, Burke and Wills, Douglas Mawson and Kingsford Smith and Ulm are all represented in speciality ever growing collection but in Montalbetti+Campbell's photographic image of Andy Thomas the National Portrait Gallery has the first of its twenty-first century explorers.