A self-taught photographic artist, Victoria Ginn has always embraced the individual and individuality as the purveyor of the inner 'invisible' the Self, as symbol and archetype. Utilizing natural or found light, her creative focus evolved from black/white portraiture to encompass the intertwined contexts of landscape and culture. In her photographic essays done from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, Victoria explored the South Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Central Asia and Southern Europe to document art-performance-religious expressions of these regions. Her work has been published worldwide, and her major essay, The Spirited Earth - Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific, was published by leading fine-art publisher Rizzoli International, New York. Victoria was born of the artist Ellinore Ginn in the house of her grandmother, renowned opera singer and teacher Anna Ginn, in Wellington. She now resides in a restored 1890s former hotel in South Taranaki, New Zealand.