A holder of multiple Nationality, Victoria Ginn was born on the 14th October 1952 in the house of her grandmother in Thorndon, Wellington New Zealand. From the beginning of her photographic work, at the age of 15 years, this self-taught photographic-artist has embraced the Individual/Individuality, in the context of personality,symbol, emotion, archetype. Utilizing natural or found light, her creative focus, initially seen via the black-white Portrait evolved to encompass the intertwined contexts of Landscape and Culture. In her photographic essays, done through the years mid 1960’s – mid 1990’s, Victoria explores the South Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand , South East Asia, Central Asia, Southern Europe - to document art-performance-religious expressions of these regions. Victoria Ginn’s work has been published world-wide, her major essay –The Spirited Earth – Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific, published by the leading Fine-art Publisher Rizzoli International, New York.