Francis Reiss (1927 – 4 December 2017) was an Australian photographer, born to Danish parents in Hamburg, Germany.
[2] Reiss began working for Picture Post magazine in the UK at the age of 17, the youngest staff photographer employed by them.
In 1947, Reiss sailed for New York and immediately started working for LIFE magazine.
In 1950, realising he had gone stale, Reiss quit photography, and entered the wool trade.
[1][3] Not until 1993, ten years after migrating to Australia and receiving a chance commission from James Mollison did he return to photography.