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Dennys Ilic is best known for moody, soulful photographic portraiture. But before this he began his career as cinematographer, having shot many Australian short films and music videos then moving into independent features. After lensing the low budget horror film Reign in Darkness which garnered him an award from the Australian Society of Cinematographers he went on to shoot one of the first HD major motion pictures in Bollywood Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!

Dennys first gained noteriety with his portraits of Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom and Elijah Wood for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. From there he was enlisted by Warner Bros. Pictures to photograph Daniel Radcliffe. These photographs were commissioned for the international publicity to surround the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. On the eve of Daniels 16th birthday Dennys created a series of coming of age images that took the world by storm. The photographs showed Daniel as a versatile and amazingly handsome young man and appeared on magazine covers the world everywhere.

So pleased were Warner with the success of this shoot that they enlisted Dennys to photograph Daniel for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as well as the Australian film December Boys.

Dennys continues to work in film, television and music, most recently capturing a range of intimate one-on-one portraits with actors such as James Callis, Aaron Douglas (actor), Michael Hogan (Canadian actor) as well as director Michael Rymer and producer Ronald D. Moore on the set of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined) during its highly anticipated finale.