Bob Barker

Picture Editor

Bob has worked as a photojournalist for 30 years and is one of Sydney’s most highly respected photographers. His experience in a variety of fields over the years have given Bob the edge when it comes to portraiture, fashion and the arts, but his true passion lies in photographing water and waves.

Website - www.rovingeye.com

Greg Barton

Editor

Australia’s premier and iconic travel magazine, Australian Traveller aspires to be the most authoritative, accessible, informative and entertaining source for anyone travelling within Australia.

Website - www.australiantraveller.com

Geoff Brown

Director of Photography

Geoff’s career in photography has spanned more than 25 years. Australian born, he trained in London and set up a studio in Sydney in 1982. Working on commissions for Australian and overseas clients for the next two decades winning numerous awards and accolades for his unique and detailed style he creates with his work.

Geoff now divides his time between directing and shooting TV commercials and photographic campaigns plus personal projects for exhibition and the fine art market in order to reach a more diverse audience. Geoff’s work has been used in Kodak teaching aids worldwide and has featured in numerous professional publications and annuals.

Major awards include: Two Hasselblad Masters awards for portraiture and landscape photography; a gold London Advertising Award; two Australian Advertising Awards; Australian Folio awards; Mobius and Clio awards in the USA.

Website - www.singogilvy.com.au/

Alan Davies

Curator of Photographs

Alan Davies has been Curator of Photographs at the State Library of New South Wales since 1989. He has produced numerous catalogues for photographic exhibitions and his previous books include The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900, At Work and Play: Our Past in Pictures and Sydney Exposures: Through the Eyes of Sam Hood and his Studio.

Rodney Dekker

Documentary and travel photographer

Documentary and travel photographer, winner of the 2007 RovingEye Expose Your World Competition Rodney Dekker has won many awards and grants and his images have been published in major Australian publications. He photographs dramatic documentary stories of people and places that are used for editorial, stock and corporate clients.

Website - www.rodneydekker.com

George Fetting

Freelance photographer

Freelance photographer specialising in portraits, documentary, travel, film stills and advertising With close to two decades of creative experience George Fetting brings a passion and style to his photography which is seen not only in his every day work, but is more than evident in his extensive personal work. His no-nonsense approach a result of a long press career translates into getting an image with a minimum of fuss. Recent awards include: Winner Australia’s Top Photographers 2008, Travel, as voted by Australia’s top photographers; Winner $10 000 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture 2007; Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize 2007 Runner Up; Travel Photographer Of The Year, 2007 London - Runner Up; The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 NPG Finalist; Headon Alternative Portrait Prize Finalist

Website - www.fetting.com.au

Peter George

Reporter, director and producer

Peter George is one of Australia’s most experienced and respected international correspondents, having spent 30 years reporting from more than 100 countries.

Peter has worked as a newspaper reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times and as a TV and radio reporter for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, ABC TV’s Foreign Correspondent, and Four Corners. He has also been a presented for Radio National (“Breakfast”).

He has produced and directed more than a dozen documentaries that have been aired internationally.

Stewart Hawkins

Editor - Weekend Life and Leisure

Stewart Hawkins is the editor of the Life & Leisure and Perspective Review sections of the Australian Financial Review. He has been newspaper journalist, editor and photographer for almost 20 years working with both News Ltd and Fairfax as well as a number of art and photography magazines.

Website - www.afr.com.au

Patrick Kinsella

Editor

A refugee from the land of the long grey cloud, Patrick Kinsella came to Australia from the UK a decade ago in search of new adventures, and found so many he never went back. As editor of Outer Edge, Australias ultimate adventure magazine, he is lucky enough to spend his working and private life playing around in the outdoors, falling off bikes and out of kayaks, and then writing about people who do it much better.

Website - www.outer-edge.com.au

Mark Munro

Federal Vice-President

Mark Munro is a Melbourne-based commercial photographer working in numerous fields including advertising, architecture, industrial and corporate.

He has been commissioned by and continues to work for many of Australia’s biggest institutions including the ANZ, NAB, Ford, Telstra, Department of Environment and Heritage, Heritage Victoria and Victorian Arts Centre Trust and for editorial clients including Monument, Inside, Architectural Review (Aust), Architectural Review (UK), Architectural Digest (USA), Arquitectura Viva (Spain) & Architecture Australia.

Mark is currently in his 3rd year as Federal Vice-President of the ACMP, and during this time he has been keen to advance the cause of young photographers, being actively involved with Trampoline – ACMP’s emerging photographer program – and has been an ACMP industry representative on the Steering Committee for Child Employment Legislation review for the Victorian Government, an advisor to the Australian Law Reform Commission in ongoing Federal Privacy Law Review Committee at Photography Studies College and is the ACMP’s representative on the Australian Copyright Council. He also is often invited to talk to students at schools and colleges about the state of the industry for the emerging photographer.

Mark frequently exhibits his fine art photography in Melbourne and Sydney, has had work featured in several ACMP collections, and was recently a finalist in the 2007 International Color Awards.

Website - www.acmp.com.au

Bruce Permezel

Cinematographer, director and editor

Most recently Bruce Permezel directed the multi-awarded 2007 ABC documentary television series Choir Of Hard Knocks. His experience as a camerman, director and editor spans nearly 20 years, featuring many memorable productions such as The Games, 4-Corners, The Problem with Men and The Great Peking to Paris Expedition.

Scott Podmore

Editor

Scott Podmore is an award-winning journalist for the Sunday Herald Sun in Melbourne. Currently the production editor of the newspapers prestigious lift-out, ie (Inside Entertainment), a magazine in which he is highly regarded as a writer and regular reviewer of music, DVDs and books. In addition, Scott also writes a weekly travel column called Siteseeing that is published throughout News Ltd publications. Last year he was chosen in a small team of prestigious film critics and writers to submit two essays in the hard cover publication, The 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema. With his wife, he also owns and runs a company called October Grey Media, which produces magazines and provides professional writing and editing services. As editor, he recently completed the hardcover book Icons of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes, published by the RovingEye Publishing Group.

Website - www.octobergrey.com

Michael James Rowland

Australian film director and writer

Michael James Rowlands 2007 feature film Lucky Miles was nominated for an AFI award for Best Screenplay and an IF award for Best Feature Film and Best Script. It won the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Special Prize of the Jury, the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Sydney Film Festival, and recently took the Grand Prix at the 9th Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma des Antipodes in Saint-Tropez. Michael was awarded Best New Director in Abu Dhabi.

Website - www.luckymiles.com.au

Mike Smith

Travel Editor

ASTW representative The Australian Society of Travel Writers is a non-profit organisation promoting unbiased travel reporting, international understanding and good will. Now in its 30th year, the ASTW has more than 300 members: professional travel writers, photographers and broadcasters and those involved in public relations within the travel industry.

Website - www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/