David Neilson is the photographer and author of five books, including Chasing the Mountain Light: A Life Photographing Wild Places; South West Tasmania: A Land of the Wild; Wilsons Promontory: Coastal Wildness; and Patagonia: Images of a Wild Land. In 1990 and 2004 he received Antarctic Arts Fellowships from the Australian Antarctic Division that enabled him to spend two summers taking photos in East Antarctica. In 2021 he was one of four Antarctic Arts Fellows to be featured on a set of Australia Post stamps.