Axel Poignant

Axel Poignant (12 December 1906 – 5 February 1986) was an Australian photographer.

Personal life Poignant was born on 12 December 1906 in Leeds, England, to a Swedish father and an English mother. where he specialised in portrait photography, personal events as well as aerial photography for Western Mining. Poignant and Sandra divorced in 1941. In 1956, they moved to England, where Poignant died on 5 February 1986 at his home in Lewisham, London.

Books Piccaninny Walkabout, published in 1957 won the 1958 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book Children's Book of the Year Award. It is the story of two Australian Aboriginal children, Nullagundi and Rikili, who go on a walkabout.

Kaleku 1972 with Roslyn Poignant Children of Oropiro 1976 with Roslyn Poignant

Encounter at Nagalarramba published in 1996 and a joint work with Roslyn Poignant.

Exhibitions In September 1941 Poignant and Hal Missingham held an exhibition of fifty photographs each. They gave conversational lectures at the Perth Newspaper House. In 1986 Poignant's work was shown in Aspects of Post Modernism 1929-1942, which was held at the University of Western Australia in 1986. and the art galleries of Western Australia and New South Wales held collections of his work. In 2007 the Art Gallery of New South Wales held an exhibition of his work on Indigenous Connections.