Ledger's desire to learn from the bottom up was something that built the foundations for his brilliance. While cinema was his overall success, his love for photography was a creative output that followed him around relentlessly.
Saul Frank, owner of a Perth camera store, sold Ledger his first camera which included theRolleiflex 3.5F twin-lens reflex camera and a string of Polaroid cameras. "You have to be pretty dedicated to use aRollei," Frank once said in remembering Ledger's work ethic. "But he loved photography, so there was no issue."
"Obviously he was a real creative," Frank added. "He loved the precision and the gear but also to own something like a Holga - completely different price point, completely different image and quality, and youcan just have fun with it."
Here, a series of fascinating Polaroid photographs taken from his youth, his private life and from continuity shots pictured on set of multiple of his films.
