Guest Speakers
 Binh's awards are too many to list here! See http://www.ppp.net.nz/ Congratulations Binh on the 'Aperture' Award. See winners: http://www.internationalapertureawards.com/ |
Binh Trinh (New Zealand)
In his 2.5 short years as a photographer, Dr. Binh Trinh has achieved more than most photographers in a life time.
2008 has been a very big year for Dr Trinh. He became one of
the youngest
'Master of Photography' in NZ with the NZIPP. He also became the first NZ based photographer to
win the prestigious Wedding and Portrait Photographers
International Premiere Grand Award in US. Previous winners
of this prestigious awards include Tania Niwa and Marcus
Bell. Recently, Dr. Trinh further enhanced his
reputation as an emerging talent on the world stage by
beating some of the world best professional photographers
when he won 1st place – People and Portrait
Category in the 2008 International Aperture Awards. His
category received 680 entries from 13 countries, include
many previous award winning images and portfolio from all
over the world.
In 2008, he started a personal project called “The
Naked Truth” which aimed to celebrate the human body
without prejudice against size, shape, age and colour. The
project has gained significant momentum over the last few
months. It is his vision to hold an exhibition in 2009 to
show case his work. See Binh at work in our Life Photography
workshops (FW3 & FW9 - Fri 17) |
.jpg) Click to see...  Photos kindly sent to us for a gallery on this website by Trent Parke.. Click here. |
Trent Parke (Australia) Born in Newcastle, Australia in 1971, Trent Parke now lives in Adelaide, the only Australian photographer in the celebrated Magnum group. Trent won the prestigious W Eugene Smith Award for humanistic photography in 2003, for his epic road trip around Australia, “Minutes to Midnight”. He has also won World Press Photo Awards in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2005. He has been awarded five Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee (1996, 1997 and 1998) and the Canon Photo Essay Prize in the 2000 Sasakawa World Sports Awards. He was also selected to be part of the World Press Photo Masterclass in 1999. Trent self-published his first two books: Dream/Life in 1999 and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) in 2000. Both made the top two in the book category at the Picture of the Year International. His work has been widely exhibited, including recent solo
exhibitions in New York, London and Germany. “Minutes To
Midnight” was shown at The Australian Centre for Photography
in Jan/Feb 2005, in conjunction with the Sydney Festival,
and became the most highly-attended show in the recorded
history of the ACP. |
.jpg) Click here for Craig Potton photos, biography, and exhibition listing. |
Craig Potton
(New Zealand) Craig Potton is one of New Zealand's leading landscape photographers and a noted conservationist. Born in Nelson, New Zealand, he gained degrees in Eastern Religion and English, then, after a brief teaching career, began working full-time for the conservation movement. He remains actively involved in conservation work more than thirty years later. Craig is now established as one of New Zealand's leading photographers of wilderness landscapes, and in pursuit of his photography he has tramped and climbed extensively in New Zealand, its Sub-antarctic Islands, the Dry Valley and Ross Sea areas of Antarctica and the Nepal Himalaya. More recently, he has worked as Location/Stills Photographer on The Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe motion pictures, and has had a major retrospective exhibition at North Carolina's Rowe Gallery in the United States. Craig is the founder of Craig Potton Publishing, based in Nelson. His photographic publications include Images of a Limestone Landscape; Above New Zealand; Offerings from Nepal; Wearable Art - Design for the Body; Classic Walks of New Zealand; Wild and Scenic New Zealand; Moment and Memory; Improbable Eden - The Dry Valleys of Antarctica; The Southern Alps and the bestselling New Zealand pictorial book, New Zealand - Aotearoa. |
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Steve McAlpine (Australia) Steve is one of Australia's highly awarded photographers. A professional photographer for 14 years, his quiet and unobtrusive style has gained him great respect amongst clients. AIPP Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year, 2000,
2002 Click here for a small gallery of Steve's photos.  |
.jpg)  Johnston Gallery with CV Photos kindly sent to us for a gallery on this website by Narelle.. Click here. |
Narelle Autio (Australia) “I was born in a beachside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. On leaving school I went to an art college with the vision of becoming a painter… Somehow I ended up with a camera, instead of a paintbrush, in my hand. “After graduating with a degree in Visual Arts in 1990, I began working for the Adelaide Advertiser. I left Australia in 1995 and travelled extensively, working in England for numerous UK national newspapers as well as being the principal photographer for Australia’s News Limited London bureau. “I returned home in 1998, and currently work as a staff photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald. Last year the book ‘The Seventh Wave’, on which I collaborated with Trent Parke, was published. This book of surreal black and white photographs documents Australian beach culture from under the waves. “Arriving back in Australia proved to be an awakening for me. It is true what they say: you don’t miss what you have until you lose it. I realized there was so much here to photograph. Things I had grown up with, that I knew about and loved: all things that I had taken for granted. The only inspiration I needed was this country and the ability to see it with new eyes.” Now based in Sydney, Narelle is a founding member of Oculi, an independent, collective photographic agency. In 2001, Narelle and Trent Parke’s book “The Seventh Wave” came second in the American Pictures of the Year competition for best photography books. There was also a sell-out exhibition of the work at the Stills Gallery in Sydney. In 2002, Narelle won a 1st Prize World Press Photo Award in arts, for The School of Dance, and in 2000 a 1st Prize World Press Photo Award in nature and environment for a series on Australian Road Kill. In 2001, Narelle was a runner-up in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for The Seventh Wave series. She won The Walkley Award for excellence in journalism in 2000. Narelle was selected to exhibit her work in the Leica/ccp
documentary touring exhibition in 1999 with The Seventh
Wave, and in 2001 with a View From The Sydney Harbour
Bridge. In 2001 she was one of three photographers selected
in the Australian Art Collectors Magazine as one of the 50
most collectable Australian artists. |
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John Burford (New Zealand)
John Burford bought his first
camera at the age of 14 and promptly dismantled his mother’s
laundry to create a darkroom. Since then he has been very
active in amateur photographic groups and has received a
cluster of medals and hundreds of his photographs have been
exhibited in international salons. John lived in
the Canadian Arctic for a few years and traveled over an
area three times the size of In the last
few years John has reignited his interest in audio-visual
presentations that he first became involved with forty years
ago, and now his winter weekends are fully occupied
with creating and producing AV programmes that not only show
his photographic expertise but also his tendency for the
unusual and the bizarre! John has also
produced two photo books featuring the beauty and the people
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