2017
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Barbican
Concert Performance-‘The Reef’ (March 11th, 2017; The Barbican, London) – concert performance featuring video projection behind live orchestra.
Concert review here
2016
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Barbican
Concert Performance-‘Electronic’ (November 24th, 2016; The Barbican, London) – featuring projected film set to a live performance of electronic music.
Concert review here
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Senior Photographer:
Surfing World Magazine (Australia); 1998- present
Surfer Magazine (USA); 1995- present
'Head On' Photo Festival- Solo Exhibition, 'Australians', (Liverpool Library, Sydney 5th May - 25th June)
CAMERA OPERATOR:
Client- 'Breath' motion picture; B camera operator
Director- Simon Baker
Director of Photography- Marden Dean
Based on the novel by Tim Winton
DOP / EDITOR:
Client- Australian Chamber Orchestra & Tura Music (W.A.)
Concert Performance-‘The Reef’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra. Directed by Mick Sowry. Musical by Richard Tognetti.
Starring: Australian Chamber Orchestra, Steve Pigram, Shelton Murray, Craig Johnston, Brian Ritchie
U.S.A. tour- Los Angeles (Walt Disney Concert Hall, 16th Feb), NY (Kaufmann Concert Hall, 18th Feb), Richmond, VA (20th Feb, University of Virginia)
WATER CAMERA OPERATOR:
Client- Dior (France)
Tales of the Wild- 'Solace' - Anamorphic Super 16mm film featuring Harrison Roach
Client- 'Top of the Lake: China Girl' TV series
Director- Jane Campion
Director of Photography- Germain McMicking
2015
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Moran Prize , 2015 – Semi Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Solo Exhibition- 'Australians', Juniper Hall, (Paddington, Sydney, May 23rd-June 21st 2015)
WATER CAMERA OPERATOR:
Client- REEF USA; 'Eire' filmed in Ireland, November 2015. Starring Taylor Knox and Ben Howard
Client- Cobalt Blue/ ACO; Filming for 'The Reef', near Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
2014
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Moran Prize , 2014 – Semi Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Aurora Orchestra; London
Concert Performance-‘Testament’ (Melbourne Festival, October 25th, Melbourne Recital Centre) – featuring projected film set to a live performance of Charles Ives work “Three Places in New England”
SMH concert review here
2013
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Moran Prize , 2013 – Runner-Up, Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize; African-Australian Boy, Eastern Beach, Geelong, 2013; Pigment Ink on Rag
Monash Gallery of Art – Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize; African-Australian Boy, Eastern Beach, Geelong, 2013; Pigment Ink on Rag
Geelong Art Gallery – Solo Exhibition, Seascapes, May 18 – July 14, 2013
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Melbourne Festival with Australian National Academy of Music
Concert Performance-‘The Crowd’ – 11-13 October 2013 (Palais Theatre, Melbourne & Sydney Opera House Concert Hall), with co-creator Richard Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra
Client- Aurora Orchestra, London, UK
Concert Performance-‘Memento’ (London, July 7, 2013) – featuring projected film set to a live performance of Charles Ives work “Three Places in New England”
2012
DOP / EDITOR:
Client- Australian Chamber Orchestra & Tura Music (W.A.)
‘The Reef', concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra. Directed by Mick Sowry. Musical by Richard Tognetti.
Starring ACO 2, Mark Atkins, Steve Pigram
Premiere at The Darwin Entertainment centre. Tour of regional WA & performance at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, July 2012. Concert filmed by ABC television and broadcast November 2012 on ABC TV (extra concert dates for 2013 here )
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Festival Maribor / Australian Chamber Orchestra
‘Everything’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra (premiere September 2012)
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
Four Seasons Kuda Huraa , Maldives, November 2012
PARTNERSHIP:
Partnered with The Four Seasons Sydney to display 108 framed photographs in their premiere suites.
2011
VISUAL ARTIST
Client- Festival Maribor/ Australian Chamber Orchestra
‘Nothing’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra, with co-creator Richard Tognetti, ACO
Starring Barry Humphries, Aleksandra Jamojska (soprano), Festival Maribor Orchestra
Read Barry Humphries Slovenia notebook here
Client- Australian Chamber Orchestra, with co-creator Richard Tognetti, ACO
‘The Glide’, ‘The Glide’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra
Performances at Arts Centre, Melbourne & Angel Place, Sydney
Concert program here
2010
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Festival Maribor/ Australian Chamber Orchestra
Concert Performance-‘The Crowd ’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra, with co-creator Richard Tognetti, ACO
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Client- Festival Maribor
Exhibition of Photography - ‘Festival Maribor’ – Supported by Jan Minchin (Tolarno Galleries , Melbourne)
2009
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Client- Rip Curl International
Eco Clothing Range; ‘Artist of the Search’, with CA, USA artist Tyler Warren
Client- Festival Maribor
Exhibition of Photography -‘Festival Maribor’ – Supported by Jan Minchin (Tolarno Galleries , Melbourne)
VISUAL ARTIST:
Client- Festival Maribor, Slovenia
Concert Performance-‘The Glide’, concert performance featuring video projections behind live orchestra, with co-creator Richard Tognetti
Client- Festival Maribor
Exhibition of Photography – Supported by Jan Minchin (Tolarno Galleries , Melbourne)
2008
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Client- Rip Curl Planet/ World Wildlife Fund
Exhibition of Photography- Peniche,Portugal, Seascapes
EDITOR/ DOP:
Client- Spunk Records
Short Film-‘Last Hope’
WINNER:
Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Awards; Surfing Photograph of the Year
DOP/ EDITOR/ DIRECTOR:
Client- Rip Curl International
Film-‘Somewhere’, chapter titled ‘44 North’
DOP:
Client- Sprite/ Coca Cola Europe;
Cinema advertisement filmed in Norway
DOP (Water and 2nd Unit):
Client- Great Southern Communications
DOP (Water and 2nd Unit)
Documentary- ‘Musica Surfica’ , Winner, best film (New York surf film fest)
Client- Rip Curl Europe;
TV program (52 mins), ‘Searching the Arctic Circle’
WINNER:
Surfer Magazine (USA); Photo of the Year (2007)
Best Cinematography; Surfer Magazine Awards (USA), Film- ‘Super Computer’, 2000
Extreme Sports Film of the Year; NEA Extreme Sport Awards (Worldwide), Film- ‘Super Computer’, 2000
NOMINEE:
Surfer Magazine Awards (USA)
Film of the year; ‘Mick, Myself & Eugene’, 2006
Best Cinematography; ‘Mick, Myself & Eugene’, 2006
Best Cinematography; ‘Innervisions’, 2004
Film of the Year; ‘Litmus’, 1996
CINEMATOGRAPHER/ EDITOR/ DIRECTOR:
Client- Rip Curl International;
Film- ‘Mick, Myself & Eugene’, 2006
Film- ‘Innervisions’, 2004
Film- ‘Super Computer’, 2000
Client- The Val Dusty Experiment;
Film- ‘Litmus’ 1996, (Voted by Surfing Magazine (USA) as one of the top 25 surf films of all time)
CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Client- TGR Films (USA);
Film- ‘Gondwana’, 2003
Client- Rip Curl International;
Film- ‘Windows’, 2002
Film- ‘This way Up’, 2001
Film- ‘Chocolate, Barrels and Liquid Trips’, 1999
Film- ‘Stomp’, 1998
Client- Red Bull (USA);
DVD/ TV program- ‘Red Bull 5X’, 2005
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Book; ‘The Pilgimage’ by Sean Doherty, 2007, published by Penguin Books, Australia
Book; ‘Transmission’ by Jon Frank & Ted Grambeau, 2007, published by Breaker Publications
Book; ‘Wind on the Water’ by Jack Finlay, 2007, published by Harper Collins, Australia
Book; ‘Waves of the Sea’ by Jon Frank, 2000, published by Rip Curl
Magazine; ‘Litmus’ by Andrew Kidman, Jon Frank, Mark Sutherland, 1997, published by The Val Dusty Experiment
Book; ‘High Surf’ by Tim Baker, published by Harper Collins, Australia
Book; ‘A Wave Away’ by Matt Griggs, published by Harper Collins Australia
Book; ‘ The Moment’ by Sean Doherty, published by Hachette Australia