Profiles

When Glenn Campbell was growing up in Mount Isa, angling a holiday job at the lead smelter was something of a tradition for the kids in town. Fortunately Campbell’s father, who was in the transport business, happened to have a contact pretty high up at the smelter. So, in due course, when young Glenn came to be looking for a summer position, he soon found himself working in the plant’s photo lab.

David-Dare-Parker475 Michael James Quinn in front of Buck, the one-antlered deer. November 2009. The strength of Fremantle’s clubs are the members that frequent them. Each club has its loyal membership that get together to share a drink and a chat. In this image I was having a bit of a laugh at the one-antlered deer …

AmyStein475 Peri, Route 64, Kentucky.When I pulled up to a red van on the side of the road outside Lexington Kentucky I had no idea what I would find inside. I approached the vehicle and saw a man in the driver’s seat. He was ill and on oxygen and could not get out of the …

Like a lot of people, Ray Galea goes bushwalking to get close to nature, and he takes his camera along in case he comes across something worth photographing.

Jack Atley loves sport. Photography is a job. He only took it up, he quips, because he wasn’t good enough to win Wimbledon.

A year ago, photographer Melinda Kerr was a different person. But that was before April 2007…

New Zealand has been giving long overdue recognition to one of its finest photographers, Marti Friedlander. A retrospective exhibition of 150 of her black-and-white ‘instants kept open to scrutiny’ – selected from more than 50,000 taken over 40 years – has been touring the country in conjunction with the publication of the book Marti Friedlander: Photographs.

Some people travel the world to find meaning in their life. Some climb mountains. Some create works of art. Some take photographs. Martin Hill does all these things.

When she was a girl, Susan Fowler would spend hours on her stomach in the grass, examining the clover patiently in a search for those plants with the famously elusive four leaf pattern.

The occasion of Gavin Blue’s earliest foray into photography was a parade in his native Canberra. A float came into view carrying Mickey Mouse and Goofy perched on a set of steps of the sort once commonly wheeled out to airliners. The young Master Blue made a bid for the shot with a Kodak Instamatic. ‘I just couldn’t get to a front row, and when I got to the front they’d passed me. I got this shot of the backs of their heads going away from me, and all I was thinking was, “missed the shot, missed the shot”…’