Helen Ennis holds the William Dobell Chair in Art History at the Australian National University, and is a past ABR Fellow.  She is an independent photography curator and writer specialising in the area of Australian photographic practice. Her publications include Reveries: Photography and Mortality (2007) and Photography and Australia (2007). Her biography Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography (2006) was awarded the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and the prize for Best Book from the Power Institute of Fine Arts and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. She is currently writing a biography of the photographer Olive Cotton. (Photograph by William Yang)