| Troy Anderson Maffra-born Troy Anderson grew up around farming. "Often I would head down to the farms and help with milking, feeding and hay carting," he said. "My oldest brother Dale was a farm hand around the Maffra district, and when I was 10 he dropped his SLR Minolta camera into a river. So he bought a new camera and gave me the old one...to my surprise it worked well. From there my enthusiasm grew!" Freelancer Troy is also a qualified chef who loves to use local dairy products.
Mark Ashkanasy Mark is a multi award-winning photographer with more than 25 years experience in Melbourne's commercial photographic industry. He was the official photographer for the Australian Olympic Committee for three Winter Olympics, as well as the International Flower and Garden Show and the Australian Grand Dairy Awards.
Stuart Crossett Stuart Crossett is an advertising photographer. Stuart has worked on a number of large campaigns and his work appears in a diverse range of media from magazines and newspapers to outdoor sites.
Bree Fennell Gippsland-born and bred Bree Fennell has been photographing the important moments in the lives of local families since she was a teenager. Starting work in local photo laboratory from age of 16, she branched out into children's photography and then weddings. Living in Leongatha, she is the mother of two young sons. Her partner, Shane Jefferis was raised on a nearby dairy farm.
Nikki Davis-Jones Nikki grew up at Tangambalanga in north-east Victoria and completed a BA (Photography) in 2001 at Charles Sturt University in Albury. She works as a photographer at the Shepparton News.
Ken Duncan Ken Duncan is well known internationally as Australia's premier panoramic landscape photographer. Ken is deeply committed to researching and developing the latest and best technology to display his award-winning photographs around the world.
Ben Marden Ben's interest in photography started while working as a jackaroo on a million-acre cattle station in Northern Territory. He settled in the Bega Valley surrounded by dairy farms. "My style of photography is about capturing real life and real moments. This was a dream assignment for me, a beautiful historic farm, big-eyed Jerseys and people with character."
James Lauritz
Melbourne-based James Lauritz has a career spanning three decades. It ranges from freelancing on Fleet Street to regular magazine and editorial commissions in Australia and overseas along with marketing and corporate assignments. | Geoff Paynter
Geoff has been a photographer for 21 years, 18 of them working freelance. He moved to Bunbury in 1989 to be closer to the ocean. He likes scuba diving, underwater photography and cave diving. In 1997 he oversaw the scuttling of a former Navy warship for a dive wreck.
It sparked an odd sideline in ship sinking; he has helped to sink eight ships. He also loves camping and off-road driving, wildlife and landscape photography.
Karyn Reynolds
Karyn is the daughter of a Myponga dairy farmer. She became a restaurant manager in the Southern Vales region of South Australia.This year she releases a cookbook on Kangaroo Island primary producers. She enjoys capturing her passion for good food - and its sources - through her photography. One of her six children is hoping for a career with cows.
Chris Rix
Chris is a photo-journalist living and working in northern New South Wales. He is a news photographer at The Coffs Coast Advocate, as well as a freelancer. He has covered the work of aid agencies in East Timor and the homeless and disadvantaged living in Brisbane.
Eddie Safarik
Cairns-based freelance photo-journalist Eddie shoots most of his assignments for The Australian, and his work has been published in most of Australia's other leading newspapers.
He grew up on the Gold Coast but his break in newspapers came while living in Tasmania where he won several media awards including The Keith Welsh Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Joe Vittorio
Joe Vittorio's grandfather owned vineyards in Sicily before the family emigrated to Melbourne in the 1950s. Joe spent stints as an electrician and hairdresser before discovering his passion for photography 20 years ago.
Since then he has undertaken a portfolio of professional work that has appeared in magazines, newspapers and many publications nationally and internationally. He has worked across Victoria for the Department of Primary Industries.
Karleen Williams
Raised in Victoria, Karleen moved to northern Tasmania 13 years ago. She has two sons and works for the regional daily newspaper The Advocate. Her career highlights include winning a national award for a series of harness racing photographs and being named Tasmanian Media Photographer of the Year in 2005.
Mark Wilson
Mark was raised in Warrnambool in Victoria's south-west. Working initially at the Warrnambool Standard, he received a citation in the Graeme Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year awards for his part in the paper's coverage of the Ash Wednesday fires.
He spent 21 years working for the Melbourne Age, earning many awards, before going freelance in 2006. His in-laws run a mixed dairy and sheep property in western Victoria. |
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