A Look at Heath Ledger’s Photography

By Jonathan Shih

Revealed in the 2017 documentary I Am Heath Ledger, the actor’s passion for photography and visual art was an integral part of his life. Away from the screen, Ledger was rarely without a camera — capturing friends, travels, and quiet moments on Polaroid film. He often transformed these images into mixed-media works, painting and drawing over them with colored markers, paint, and even nail polish. The result was raw, intimate, and deeply personal — a glimpse into the creative restlessness that defined him beyond acting.

J.M.W. Turner - The Painter Who Mastered the Sea, the Sky, and the Storm

 By Jonathan Shih

J.M.W. Turner painted the world in motion. Trained in architectural drawing but drawn to chaos, he turned seascapes and skies into theatres of light and emotion. His ships were often just specks against vast storms; his sunsets and fires, dissolving worlds of molten colour.

Obsessed with weather and the sublime, Turner sought not to record nature but to experience it; rumour has it he once tied himself to a ship’s mast just to feel the sea’s fury firsthand. His vision transformed landscape into feeling, laying the groundwork for everything from Impressionism to abstraction. The result is a body of work that still hums with atmosphere, where the sky itself seems alive.