Profiles

When Jesse Marlow was eight or nine his mother would encourage his early interest in picture-taking by driving him around Melbourne to photograph graffiti walls.

From Mozambique to the remote and icy shores of Norway, Ted Grambeau has created his own brand of surfing photography.

To achieve his win as Press Photographer of the Year, Nick Moir has not only had to know how to take a decent news photo, but embark upon a deep study of weather, and undergo training as a fire-fighter.

Perth art photographer Louise Mann began the interview for this story with a plain yet quietly triumphal statement: ‘This is how I make my living now.’

‘As soon as I finished school, I went overseas’, says Jess Brown. In 1998 at the tender age of 18, she was off to Europe. ‘I was using film and not shooting digital. I took a pack of film with me overseas and travelled around Europe. I just travelled and took photos for a year, which was great. I wouldn’t really walk around in my own city and take lots of photos, so it was good to be in a foriegn country where you didn’t have any inhibitions. I really started shooting.’

Luck plays only a small part in the genesis of photographer Anthony Roach’s seascapes.

If you happen to live in certain parts of Sydney, The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly is delivered to your doorstep every Wednesday. If you also happen to be a photographer, it is impossible not to notice the name John Appleyard. There it is time and again, under the photo on the front page, throughout the news pages and back through sections for the arts, entertainment, dining and sport.

Fifteen years ago, Sydney-based rock photographer Ian Jennings was a motorcycle mechanic and racer in the central North Island of New Zealand. At age 20, as young Kiwis do, he decided to check out London. Then a trip to Egypt inspired him to buy a Canon EOS-1 SLR on returning to London, and he started building up a kit.

The photographers at Urban Angles know that less is more when it comes to selling real estate at the top end of the market.

Big company commissions avant garde artist to create immense panoramic photographs using its latest technology.’ – Hardly sounds remarkable does it? But when the artist is well known for championing the aesthetic virtues of low resolution cameras, and when the imaging technology in question is Nokia’s 7610 phonecam, then you know you aren’t dealing with just another run-of-the-mill technology PR piece.