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About Our Photographers
David Blanch
I am the owner of Autopics and was lucky enough to photograph motor racing in the late 1960's, early 1970's. At the age of 18 I photographed my first meeting at Oran Park in 1967. My collection is small in comparison to Peter's and Lance's but the era was magical, the Touring Car battles between Geoghegan, Beechey, Moffat and Jane and the visits to Australia by Clark, Hill, Stewart, Hulme, Courage and Amon for the Tasman Series
Peter D'Abbs
Born in England in 1921Peter moved to Australia in 1947 and commenced motor racing photography in 1956. His first meeting was the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Grand Prix and continued until the mid 1990's. Peter's collection consists of approximately 180,000 photographs from most circuits and hillclimbs throughout Victoria. From his archives are photos of the first Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island, the first Calder and Sandown meetings in 1962, Templestowe Hillclimb back as far as 1957, Geelong Sprints, Ballarat Airstrip and the Mobil Economy runs of the '60's. A truly great collection of motor racing history captured on film. In January 2002 Autopics.com.au purchased the Peter D'Abbs collection.
Lance J Ruting 1942-1997
At the age of 21 years, encouraged by Warwick Farm's Geoff Sykes and Max Stahl from Racing Car News, Lance turned full-time professional in 1964. Almost without making a conscious decision, he had discovered his career, photographing motor racing. He captured every Bathurst 500 from 1964 to 1996, Oran Park Catalina and Warwick Farm from 1964, Amaroo from the first meeting in 1967 and rallys, trials and hillclimbs all over NSW. His legacy is a 35 year archive of over 260,000 negatives and slides of cars and characters, moments and details, a motor sport treasure.
John Stanley
John grew up in Brisbane before moving to Sydney in his 20's...Always had an interest in photography and spent the first ten years of his working life with Kodak then Hanimex in Brisbane and London as a photographic equipment technician. Attended his first road racing meeting at the Lakeside opening day in 1961 with a box Brownie and my Dad's wartime bellows camera.
His motor sport photography was mainly just a very satisfying hobby and has just a small collection compared to our other photographers but what great memories of that wonderful motor racing era of the 60's....... John's collection consists of around 300 colour transparencies.
Bruce Blackley 1934 - 1999
Always having a keen interest in motor sports, and a great love of photography, it seemed only natural that the two should be combined. Bruce photographed motor racing from the early 1960's to the mid to late 1970's. He photographed at Amaroo, Bathurst, Catalina, Oran Park and Warwick Farm and was a regular contributor to Racing Car News and other magazines of that time.
Richard Austin
Started his photographic career with the Telegraph's Everybody Magazine in the early 60's then after going to a Warwick Farm meeting in the early 60's and bitten by the motor racing bug. He moved to Modern Motor Magazine soon after and continued motor racing photography until the mid 70's. Richard's collection consists of around 800 colour transparencies.
Darren House
Darren took his first motor racing photograph in 1974 at the age of 13 after being introduced to the medium by master lensman, Ian Smith. Five years later he was working professionally, supplying photographs for specialist publications Auto Action, Chequered Flag and Motorsport News and continued until the early '90s. His work covers most Calder, Sandown, Winton and Phillip Island meetings during this period, as well as many Bathurst 1000s and Australian Grands Prix in Adelaide.
