Honours
2017 Medal of the Order of Australia [OAM]
2015 AIPP Licentiate [APP.L]
2011 Master fifth gold bar AIPP [APP M.Photog V]
2007 Master fourth gold bar AIPP [APP M.Photog IV]
2003 Fellow AIPP [FAIPP]
2002 Master third gold bar AIPP [APP M.Photog III]
2000 Honorary life Member AIPP [HLM]
1997 Master second gold bar AIPP [APP M.Photog II]
1993 Master Photographer AIPP [APP M. Photog]
1988 Associate AIPP [AAIPP]
1987 BA [Photography] RMIT
Memberships and Associations
2017 – current Patron Creswick Photography Prize
2016 Member Friends of Magnet Gallery
2016 Member Advisory Board, the Lucie Foundation
2014 Founding Member the Arts Party
2012 – current creator and editor BETA developments in photography
2008 – 2015 Festival Director & Creative Director, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2007 – current Member, Friends of the Monash Gallery of Art
2006 – 2009 Vice President AIPP Victorian Division
2004 – 2008 Festival director Daylesford Foto Biennale
2004 Founder Daylesford Foto Biennale
2003 – current Organiser Homeless Gallery/Galeria Bezdomna in Australia
2002 – 2009 Member AIPP Victorian Division Council
2001 – 2005 Member AIPP National Education sub committee
2001 – 2009 Member RMIT Photography Program Advisory Committee
2000 – current Editor free radical notes
2000 Founder free radicals
2000 – 2006 AIPP Vic Division Student Liaison
1999 – 2004 Curator VPSY Travelling Exhibition
1997 – 2004 Convener Victorian Photography Student of the Year Awards
1994 – 2000 Member Society of Advertising, Commercial & Magazine Photographers
1987 – current Member Australian Institute of Professional Photography
Prizes and Grants
2019 International Curator Award for Antipodean Mnemonic, Baohe Photo Week, Hefei, Anhui,China
2017 Shortlisted ‘The Face’ exhibition, Juror Catherine Just Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA
2016 Shortlisted ‘Photosynthesis Gallery CN USA ‘Witching Hour’ juror S Gayle Stevens
2016 Winner AIPP Contemporary Australian Photographic Artist of the Year 2016
2016 Juror’s choice, Artifact, Juror Davy Rothbart, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont USA
2014 Legumes Morts, best international show, Pingyao International photo Festival, China
2010 Shortlisted Head On portrait Prize
2008 Shortlisted Head on Portrait prize
2007 Nominated Victorian Regional Achiever Award
2007 Capture Magazine nominated Australia’s top 10 art photographers
2006 Regional Arts Vic Professional Development grant
2006 Shortlisted Prospect Portrait Prize, Prospect SA
2006 Capture Magazine nominated Australia’s top 10 art photographers
2006 Shortlisted Self Portrait Prize Art Holes Gallery, Fitzroy
Solo Exhibitions
2019 The Great Walls of China, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2019 Rodents Mort, Lishui Photography Festival, Zhejiang, China
2019 Rodents Mort, Pingyao International Photo Festival, Shanxi, China
2019 Rodents Mort, Vision Boundary Taizhou Cultural Centre, Zhejiang, China
2019 Keep on Truckin’ Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2019 I Heart Cambodian Girls Shenzhen Photo Festival, China
2019 Oldskool [Keep on Truckin + Bountiful Harvest Redux] Mercure Hotel, Ballarat
2019 Shrines, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2019 Shrines, The Rat Gallery, Ballarista, Ballarat
2018 Lotus, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2018 Bountiful Harvest Redux, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2018 Artifact, Maud Street Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2018 Arifact, Shimmer Photo Biennale, City of Onkaparinga, SA
2018 Artifact, Camel Bell on Silk Road 1st Naiman International Photo Festival, Inner Mongolia, China
2018 Bountiful Havest Redux, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2018 Artifact, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2017 The Leaf Suite, Yixian Photo festival, Anhui Province, China
2017 Don’t make me Laugh, The Rat Gallery Ballarista, Ballarat
2017 Channelling Walker Evans, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2016 Chop, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2016 Red Shoe Tourist and Bountiful Harvest Yixian Photo Festival, China,
2016 Volt, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2016 Crossing Clunes, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2015 Legumes Morts, Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe
2015 Volt, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2015 Requiem for a Love Lost, Dali International Photo Festival, China
2015 Requiem for a love Lost, Fotobazaar Art Fair, FotoDC, Washington USA
2015 Bountiful Harvest, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2014 Twenty Carat Love, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2014 Circumstance, with Sandra Chen Weinstein, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2014 Requiem for a Love Lost, Manning Clark House, Canberra ACT
2014 Legumes Morts, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2014 Requiem for a Love Lost, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2014 Legumes Morts, Voies Off Projections, Arles France
2013 The Elephant Stamp, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2013 The Elephant Stamp, Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe
2012 The Elephant Stamp, Radio Springs Hotel Lyonville
2012 The Elephant Stamp Manning Clark House Canberra
2012 Adventures of the Red Shoe Tourist, Radio Springs hotel Lyonville
2011 Leif Motif, Radmac Gallery, [BIFB Fringe]
2010 Condomonium, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2010 Cuttings, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2009 Don’t make me laugh – BIFB’09 Fringe, Radio Springs Hotel, Lyonville
2009 Cuttings – Rocky Passes Estate Winery
2008 Loony Bin – Photo Kaunas Lithuania Projections night
2007 Condomonium Perfect Drop Wine Bar Daylesford
2007 Turn me off Turn me on Andersons Mill Smeaton [DFB07]
2007 Condomonium Castlemaine State festival Main Program
2006 Revenge of the Haiku Master Convent Gallery Daylesford
2006 Revenge of the Haiku Master Ansonia Hotel Ballarat
2005 Vegetal The Food Gallery [DFB ‘05]
2005 Storybook Viscom 9 Gallery
2004 Souvenir Spoons RMIT Dept of Graphic Design Gallery
2003 Revenge of the Haiku Master RMIT Dept of Graphic Design Gallery
2002 Loony Bin RMIT Dept of Graphic Design Gallery
2001 Course Code GR112 RMIT Dept of Graphic Design Gallery
1996 Revenge of the Haiku Master Viscom 9 Gallery
1995 Photography By Numbers Ossoroya Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Vision Boundary. Taizhou Cultural Centre, Zhejiang, China
2019 Me and My Family, Lishui Phot6ography Festival, Zhejiang, China
2019 Parsimony Photo Behoe, Hefei, Anhui Province China
2019 DMROS exhibition, Convent Gallery, Daylesford
2018 Mixed Blessings, The Mercure, Ballarat
2018 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2017 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2016 Witching Hour, Gallery 1361/2 Connecticut
2016 Artifact, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA
2016 Weltraum, Shimmer Photo Biennale, Adelaide
2016 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2015 Red Dot Collection, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2015 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2014 Ian Cugley benefit, Photonet Gallery, Fairfield
2014 Daylesford Art Prize, Bokeh Gallery, Daylesford
2014 Black + White Show, Bokeh Gallery, Daylesford
2014 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2013 Red Dot Collection, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2013 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2012 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2011 Andrew Chapman Benefit, Photonet Gallery, Fairfield
2011 In Camera, Tangled Maze Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe
2011 Galeria Bezdomna, Creswick Railway Shed, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2011 AddOn, Head On Festival, Sydney
2010 Hi Arts 2010
2009 Hi-Arts 2009
2009 Galeria Bezdomna, Andersons Mill [BIFB’09]
2008 Galeria Bezdomna edition #66 Canberra
2008 Pinhole Show, Parliament House Canberra
2007 Castlemaine State festival Fundraiser Auction
2007 Homeless Gallery edition # 41 St Kilda
2006 Sudan refugees Charity Auction Federation Square
2006 Prospect Portrait Prize [SA]
2005 ‘Little pictures Big Ideas’ DFB 05
2005 Homeless Gallery edition 32 New York USA
2005 Homeless Gallery edition 29 Torun Poland
2005 Homeless Gallery edition 27 Warsaw Poland
2004 Homeless Gallery edition 23 Collingwood
2004 Homeless Gallery edition 21 Hobart
2004 Homeless Gallery edition 18 London England
2004 Homeless Gallery edition 16 Berlin Germany
2004 Homeless Gallery edition 13 Geelong
2003 Homeless Gallery edition 11 Krakow Poland
2003 Homeless Gallery edition 10 Collingwood
2001 + 2002 ‘R Chee Ball Prize for Self Portraiture’ Viscom 9 Gallery
2001 ‘Blow Up – The Exhibition’ Bakehouse Gallery
2000 ‘Reunion’ Chiara Goya gallery
2000 ‘Off The Wall’ Mad Dog Studio
2000 ‘Bridges’ Chiara Goya Gallery
1999 + 2000 ‘Where Photography Meets Art’ St Kevin’s College
1998 AIPP Masters NZIPP Convention Wellington NZ
1995 Photography dept Staff Show RMIT Faculty Gallery
1993 Big Little Picture Show CCP
1992 + 1993 Camberwell Rotary Art Show
1992 Agfa Summer salon CCP
1986 Communication Art Show RMIT Faculty Gallery
Seminar Presentations
2019 Melbourne Camera Club ‘Who needs a camera’
2019 Camberwell Camera Club
2019 Loud and Luminous Symposium, ANU, Canberra
2018 ‘Peeling the Onion’ First Naiman International Photo festival, Inner Mongolia, China
2017 ‘Bluff and Illusion’, Yixian Photo Festival, Anhui Province, China
2017 Friends of MGA
2017 AIPP Vic Division Regional Retreat
2017 Melbourne Chinese Camera Club
2014 Shanghai Photo festival, China
2012 Daegu Photo Biennale , South Korea
2011 RMIT School of Creative Communications
2010 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2008 Camberwell Camera Club
2007 Words in Winter festival Daylesford
2007 WAPPA’s Perth WA
2007 VAPS Annual Muster, DFB07
2006 AAPP [portraitmakers] Convention St Kilda
2006 AIPP FNQ Chapter Townsville QLD
2006 Macedon Ranges Camera Club
2005 Site Unseen 06 Perth WA
2005 Fuji Breakaway Kenilworth Queensland
2003 AIPP SA Div PPY Adelaide
2002 Toorak Girls College Shoreham
2002 AIPP Tas Div TPPY Launceston
2001 Free radicals 10 X 10
2001 VPSY 2001 Seminar
2001 Southern Suburbs Camera Club
2001 Melbourne Camera Club
2000 Royal Photographic Society Melbourne
1996 – 98 Macedon Ranges Camera Club
1998 VAPS annual convention Bendigo keynote speaker
1997 AIPP Qld. Div QPPY awards Brisbane
1994 AIPP Tas Mini Convention Bicheno
1994 AIPP Vic Div monthly meeting
Exhibitions curated
2019 Antipodean Mnemonic Photo Behoe, Hefei, Anhui Province China
2019 Judith Crispin ‘The Dingo’s Noctuary’ Pingyao International Photo Festival, Shanxi Province, China.
2017 Old School: New School, Pingyao International Photo Festival, Shanxi Province, China.
2015 Co curator Projections program, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2015 Core exhibition program, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2014 The Wizards of Oz, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2013 Core exhibition program, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2012 BIFB Reprise, The Digital Show, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
2011 Core exhibition program, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2009 Drex Brooks – Photographs [BIFB’09]
2009 Bruno Benini Tribute [BIFB’09]
2009 Chillout Photography Prize, Creswick
2008 Chillout Photography Prize Woodshed Gallery, Daylesford
2007 Hueckelsersafin [Poland] ‘Selected Works’ Andersons Mill [DFB07]
2005 Michel Paradinas [France] Convent Gallery [DFB05]
2005 Christophe Bourgedous [France] – Rex Cinema [DFB05]
2003 Foto Polska E6 Plus gallery
2001 – 2003 R Chee ball Prize for Photographic Self Portraiture Viscom 9 Gallery
2001 Blow Up Bakehouse Gallery, Collingwood
2000 Reunion Chiara Goya Gallery, Fitzroy
1999 – 2004 VPSY Travelling Exhibition
Awards Judging & Reviewer
2019 Daylesford Agricultural Show Photography section
2019 Critical Mass reviewer and pre screener
2019 Photolucida portfolio reviewer
2018 Daylesford Agricultural Show Photography section
2018 Critical Mass Portland Oregon reviewer
2018 Pre screen panel, Critical Mass
2017 Daylesford Agricultural Show Photography section
2017 Judge Kyneton Daffodil Festival Photography Prize
2017 Critical Mass Portland Oregon reviewer
2017 Shortlist judge, Creswick Photography Prize
2017 Pre screen panel, Critical Mass
2017 First Book Award nominator
2016 Beautiful XinJiang exhibition judging panel
2016 Portfolio reviewer, Critical Mass , Photolucida, Portland Oregon USA
2016 Prix Pictet nominator
2016 First Book Award nominator
2016 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards, Melbourne
2016 Victorian professional Photographer of the Year
2015 Maggie Diaz Prize for Women Photographers
2015 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards, Melbourne
2015 Online portfolio reviewer, Critical Mass , Photolucida, Portland Oregon USA
2015 Prix Pictet nominator
2015 One for the Books Prize shortlist, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2014 Portfolio Review Panel, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
2014 Online portfolio reviewer, Critical Mass , Photolucida, Portland Oregon USA
2014 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards, Luna Park, Sydney
2014 Portfolio Review Panel, Pingyao International Photo Festival China
2014 Portfolio Review Panel, FotoFest Houston USA
2013 Prix Pictet nominator
2013 Portfolio Review Panel, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2013 Daylesford Art prize [Photography] Bokeh Gallery, Daylesford
2013 Portfolio Review panel, Head On Sydney
2012 Portfolio Review Panel, PhotoNOLA, New Orleans USA
2012 Portfolio Review panel, Paris Photo
2012 Portfolio Review panel, Head On Sydney
2012 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Melbourne
2011 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Melbourne
2011 Portfolio Review panel, Paris Photo
2001 Portfolio Review panel, Head On Sydney
2010 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Sydney
2010 RMIT Abus Award
2010 New North Photography Prize
2010 Portfolio Review Panel Foto Freo
2010 VAPS Muster Print Competition
2010 AAPP Lensman Awards
2010 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Melbourne
2009 AIPP Victorian Photography Student of the Year Awards [BIFB09]
2009 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Sydney
2009 AAPP Lensman Awards
2008 Portfolio Review Panel Foto Freo
2008 Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Melbourne
2008 AAPP Lensman Awards
2007 AIPP Victorian Photography Student of the Year Awards
2007 – 2010 Daylesford Agricultural Show Photography Section
2007 West Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Perth
2007 AAPP Lensman Awards
2007 AACA national Tertiary Art Prize [photography, photomedia & electronic art category]
2007 Portfolio Review Panel – DFB’07
2007 DFB07 Main Program Selection Panel
2007 West Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Awards
2006 Daylesford Agricultural Show Open Photography Section
2006 AIPP Victorian Photography Student of the Year Awards
Awards Judging & Reviewer cont.
2005 Daylesford Agricultural Show Photography section
2005 Defining Melbourne Project
2005 Site Unseen 06 Perth
2003 South Australian Art Directors Club Awards Photography Section
2002 Ringwood CC print of the year competition
2002 AIPP Tas Div PPY Launceston
2001 ICPP/ Herald Sun student Photography Competition
2001 Vic assoc of Photographic Societies Convention print Competition
2001 – 2004 AIPP SA Div Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Adelaide
2000 – 2003 Cinemedia/Infogrammes Diegesis Festival
1999, 2000 St Kevin’s College VCA Award
1999 Macedon Ranges CC annual print Awards
1999 – 2004 external assessor, commercial stream, Photography Studies College
1989 – 2005 AIPP Vic Division PPY
1990 – 2010 AIPP Australian Professional photographer of the Year Awards
1997 – 2006 Victorian Photography Student of the Year Awards
1997 AIPP Qld Div Professional Photographer of the Year Awards
Publications
2017 ‘Scan’ portfolio book 137pp Blurb
2017 Window Shopping, limited edition handmade book
2016 Shots magazine issue 133
2016 Festival catalogue Yixian / Huangshan Photo Festival
2016 Festival catalogue, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2014 Festival catalogue, Pingyao International Photo Festival, China
2012 Photo Review Magazine June-August issue
2012 Symposium catalogue, Daegu photo Biennale, South Korea
2009 Customs Ignored – Lithuanian & Australian Photography
2007 The Working Pro
AIPP Professional Photography Awards books 1989,91,92,93,94,95, & 2000
2001 1:1:2000 – 24 hours in the life of Australia
2000 [May/June] Commercial Photography in Australia
1995 ACMP Fuji Australian Photographers Collection 1
1989 – 1993 Wizards of Oz Books 8 – 12
1993 [July] Progress Press
1993 [Jan/Feb] Commercial Photography in Australia
1992 [AUG] Progress Press
1989 [Jan] Professional Photography in Australia
Teaching / Workshops
2019 ‘Pathways to Creativity, Shangtuf Art + Image, Taizhou, Zhejiang China2004 – 2009 Richard White Gt Ocean Rd Workshop
2004 + 2005 RMIT Dept of Creative Communication – Photography 1st year studio
2001 RMIT University Dept of Creative Advertising – lecture series – Photography & Advertising
1995 – 2003. RMIT University dept of Graphic Design – first yr photography
1995 RMIT University Dept of Visual Communication lecture series – Non Silver Processes 1988 1994 1999 RMIT University Dept of Visual Communication – 2nd yr portraiture, 3rd yr Studio
1990 + 1991 RMIT university Dept of Photography – Communication Arts B
1989 Holmesglen TAFE – photography for Architectural drafting
1988 Council Adult Education – folio prep for tertiary entry
Commercial Practice
Opened first studio in Flinders Lane, Melbourne in Nov 1987, servicing clients mainly in the advertising and corporate areas. Moved to larger studio in Hawthorn in 1998. Closed Hawthorn in 2002 and relocated to Lyonville. Work was mainly for advertising agencies and graphic designers and direct clients.
Client list has included Australian Wheat Board, Dairyvale, Ardmona, Interwest Corp, Shell, Fosters, Peter Lehmann, RM Williams, Debis Corporation, ACI Glass, Public Transport Corp, RMIT University, Victorian Plantations Corp, Australian National Line, Nulab, Witchcraft Colour, Metro Quality Foods, Burson Automotive, Australian Telecommunications Authority, Honda Power Equipment, Jurlique, South Australian Development Corp. etc. etc.
