Posts Tagged ‘photojournalism’

I’ve been selected as one of the Top 10 Photographers in Australia

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Australia's Top Photographers Awards

OK, so this is slightly old news but I wrote this post and never published it back in May. It’s obviously good news that I’m proud of so at the risk of blowing my own trumpet, sometimes one needs to celebrate success with others. I’m pleased to share the belated news that I’ve been named in the Top 10 in both the Editorial and Photojournalism categories in the Capture Magazine 2010 Australia’s Top Photographers Awards. Hooray me!!

As an award judged by Australia’s top commercial photographers I’m thrilled to be judged in the same league as so many photographers whose work I really admire. Editorial photographers such as Richard Bailey, Ingvar Kenne, George Fetting and Georges Antoni all rock my boat.

Australia's Top Photographers 2010 Editorial

In the photojournalism category I’m sitting alongside great Australian photographers such as the legendary Stephen Dupont, Dean Sewell of Oculi, the awesome Trent Parke of Magnum, Walkley award winner from Degree south David-Dare Parker, Narelle Autio of Agence Vue and Tamara Dean also from Oculi.

I highly recommend checking out all these photographers, they all do stunning work! Oh and of course don’t forget to check out some of my recent work ….

A BIG congratulations also to all the emerging photographer winners I know, whom I’ve been lucky enough to get to know through their success in the Projections competition. I ran Projections for the ACMP over the last couple of years and it’s a delight to see so many of them recognised again as Australia’s best emerging photographers.

In particular Natalie Grono – emerging winner overall, emerging editorial winner and emerging travel winner, Wren, emerging finalist in Advertising, Stewart Leishman, emerging winner in Wedding and emerging finalist in Architecture, Fiona Wolf, emerging finalist in Portrait, Conor Ashleigh, emerging runner up in photojournalism/documantary. Apologies if I’ve missed anyone and again check them out….

Congratulations also to Marc Gafen and the team at Yaffa and Capture magazine for putting on the awards..

Moral Dilemmas for Photojournalists

Friday, March 26th, 2010

WARNING: STRONG CONTENT AFTER LINKS

A very interesting look at how photographers work in extreme and troubled situations such as the recent Haiti disaster. Pete Brook of the blog, Prison Photography has a 12 part (post) piece and interviews with most of the photographers who covered the shooting of 15 year old Fabienne Cherisma, by police in Port-au-Prince Haiti, during looting following the earthquakes. The last post is where all 12 are listed at the bottom so you can look at them in succession. It provides an insight into both the minds of the photographers and also the people involved, both of which are at times surprising.

Click (here) to view the posts.

5th Anniversary of 2004 Tsunami

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

It’s important to mark these things and to remember that these events change people’s lives not just for the weeks that follow but forever. A new style and voice to our social conscience is emerging. See the teaser below and go to the website here – Surviving the Tsunami – Stories of Hope/#

Ooh Aah a supermodel

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Had the opportunity to photograph highly regarded Australian model Miranda Kerr this week.  Normally I wouldn’t gloat about such things but there’s nothing like a supermodel to make people sit up and pay attention.  I’d actually assumed this would be a presser with a gang of photographers and was pleasantly surprised when I found out I had solo access and the VIP Villa suite at Crown Towers.  Miranda and her entourage were very friendly and really the only limitations I had were a dress that didn’t offer  much ability for Miranda to move around, a minimum of lighting gear and the usual tight time constraints. Anyway, on to the photos....