The Australian Women's Register

Elsie Edna Tudor was born in South Melbourne, Victoria in 1905. She was the only child of Richard Tudor and Martha Jane McArthur Tudor.

Her father was an amateur photographer and an inspiration to her. Together they would travel to the bush at dawn, photographing the animals and landscape around them.

During the 1920s, at the age of 16, Tudor began working at the Burlington Studios, Melbourne, as a photographer’s retoucher, and went onto work as a colourist at a studio in Prahran.

Landscape photography was her main interest. Tudor captured bush, rural and coastal scenes which stylistically bordered on Pictorialism, with evocations of romance and atmosphere. She entered her photographs into the exhibitions at the Royal Melbourne Show between 1927 and 1935 and won six first and six second prizes.

Elsie Edna Tudor married Raymond Stewart Carter in 1933, and ended her professional photographic career shortly afterwards. But she continued taking photographs as a keen amateur.

She died in 1975, at Ashburton, Victoria, aged 69.

Technical

Elsie Edna Tudor used a Folding Pocket Kodak Camera.

Collections

National Library of Australia