Heroes
We would like you to meet some of our heroes. They are phoyographers and journalists whose footsteps we are inspired to follows in.
John Pilger
John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Like many of his Australian generation, Pilger and two colleagues left for Europe in the early 1960s. His numerous documentaries on Australia, notably "The Secret Country" (1983), the bicentary trilogy "The Last Dream" (1988), "Welcome to Australia" (1999) and "Utopia" (2013) all celebrated and revealed much of his own country's 'forgotten past', especially it's indigenous past and present endeavours
John Safran
John Safran is an Australian documentary maker, radio broadcaster and an author. Safran is known for his most most famous work; John Safran Vs. God, Race Around the World and Murder in Mississippi. John speaks to us about the morals of being a journalist, and the line between what is moral and immoral. The role of outsiders in covering stories.
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller is a Australian born playwrite. Suzie Miller holds two Master degrees in Threater and Film and also Law. Some at Millers most famous work include, "Cross Sections", Sold", All the blood and All the Water". Suzie shares her ideas on the art of story telling and reveals insider knowledge on how creative characters are inspired and formed, highlighting how much comes from the real - life experince of the writer.
Stephen Dupont
Over the past two decades, Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographys of frigile cultures and marginalised peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the world's most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artisitic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have exited for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world.
Nigel Brennan
Photographer Nigel Brennan, was held for ransom in Somalia for 462 days before Dick Smith paid his ransom. He converted to Islam 11 days after his capture. Two books kept him alive and sane, The Koran and Nelson Mandel's biography, Long Walk To Freedom. He is still Muslim. If he was to denounce his faith, his life would be at risk.
Claire Martin
Claire Martin began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work, however, she changed her focus to Photography when she realised that change can also be effected through this medium. Her ongoing documentation of marginalised communities within prosperous nations has recently won her the Magnum Foundation 2010 Inge Morath award for Female Photographers under 30 years of age.
Robert McFarlane
Robert McFarlane was born in Adelaide in 1942 and has been a documentary photographer for more than four decades - specialising in social issues and documenting performance in film and theatre, mostly within Australia. He is represented by the Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney. www.robertmcfarlanephotos.com
Tamara Dean
Tamara Dean is a fast forging a reputation as one of Australia's prominent photo-media artists with her defining series 'Ritualism', a study of the interplay of ritual and the human condition.
David Dare Parker
As a Nikon Award winning photographer, David Dare Parker has photographered for multitude of national and international publications throughout the middle east, europe, and Australaisa for publications such as LE Monde, Stern, Time and Australian Geographic. David is one of the co-founders of REPORTAGE, a Director of FotoFreo Photographic Festical. We found his work about people with HIV, a powerful and moving story of a disease which still haunts mankind.
Merv Bishop
Mervyn Bishop (born 1945) is an Australian news and documentary photographer. Joining the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet photographer, he was the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first Aboriginal Australians to become a professional photographer. In 1971, he was named Australian Press Photographer of the Year.
Tim Page
Photographer Tim Page's Near-death experience in the early 60's, made him view his life as 'free time' which led him to take photographs in dangerous situaltions where other journalists would not venture covering the war zones of Vietnam, he was injured in action four times. His unusual personality was part of the inspiration for the character of the journalist played by Dnnis Hopper in Apocolypse Now.
Robyn Williams
Renowned Science Journalist Robyn Williams received The Australian Human Rights Award for his work in radio. He has also been awarded the Media Peace Prize by The United Nations....and he has been proclaimed as one of Australia's National Living Treasures