Luke David
i: @lukedavidphotos
Luke David is a Melbourne-based photographer specialising in the photography of place, with a practice that explores architecture, landscape and human presence. His work has been exhibited at Monash Gallery of Art, the Venice Photo Awards and the Perth Centre for Photography, and in 2025 he was Artist in Residence at The Australian Club, Melbourne.
Luke has been recognised in numerous national and international awards, including the Australian Photographic Awards, Head On Festival Landscape Prize, Sony Alpha Awards, International Photography Awards, Perth Centre for Photography CLIP Award and Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize. He won the Conceptual category of the international Minimalist Photography Competition in 2023, the Museum of Australian Photography’s Look! award in 2023 and 2024, and Best of Best in the Architecture MasterPrize Photography Awards in 2025.
Luke holds an Advanced Diploma of Photography from Photography Studies College, Melbourne, where he received the Excellence in Final Year award.
Certainty
2023, Archival Inkjet Print.
59 x 84cm
$750
Pulse
2023, Archival Inkjet Print.
59 x 84cm
$750
Through temporary light installations in the landscape, I explore the pressures of modernity and my own attempts to reconcile with them. Each intervention is carefully placed in response to the surrounding environment, using colour, light and form to create a momentary visual expression of an internal state.
These works exist only briefly, shaped by darkness, terrain and time. In that transience, the landscape becomes both a site of reflection and a mirror for thought, allowing emotion, tension and stillness to surface through light.