Ian Macrae has been a film director and photographer for over 40 years. His photographs are held in various private collections in Australia and Europe. Ian trained at Prahran Art School in Melbourne majoring in Painting and Photography. His principal career has been as a film director specializing in visual special effects. Ian held an exhibition in 1999 called Pure, consisting of photographs, predominantly landscapes, taken over a 20 year period. In 2000 Ian and his wife Andy spent a year living in Italy, in a small town called Bevagna situated in the centre of Umbria. Since then they regularly travel back to Italy where they make a point of discovering new places they haven’t seen and finding interesting photographic opportunities. In 2008 Ian had an exhibition at Forty Five Downstairs Melbourne, Italy Eye, based on his experiences in Italy over an eight year period and in April 2012 an exhibition of his photographs was held in Bevagna, Italy celebrating Il Mercato delle Gaite.