Top advertising and glamour photographer John Kelly, whose work is familiar to readers of Penthouse magazine and other quality men's publications, was given the enviable task of recording everyday scenes of Australia's beach life. His brief was simply to capture the essence of a lifestyle that is unique to the Island Continent without resorting to professional models and, wherever possible, to avoid using the sort of contrived shots that are the staple of the glamour world.
Six months of travelling the magnificent golden coasts and exotic offshore islands of Australia, armed with little more than his cameras and a ready smile, resulted in this fine collection of evocative photographs that amply demonstrate the young Australian's joie de vivre, and earned for this easy-going, friendly and most hospitable of peoples a firm place in John Kelly's memories and heart.
