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Born in Singapore
Lives and works between Sydney & Montreal
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Mediums - Moving image / Sound installations & photography
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Sponsors
Leica cameras
Fuji cameras
Kodak
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Samsung
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Awards
2021 Winner - Global Oceanic film award - Mystique Sequence
2021 Nomination, Prix Pictet - “Fire”
2019. Mystique Sequence - Finalist Ciclope film awards Berlin
2019 Headon photography awards - Landscapes
2018 Apple “First Dance” campaign Shortlisted for Cannes
2017 Award Awards, finalist for “Felled” film ABC Australia
2015 Cannes Advertising Awards, finalist for James Boag’s, France
2015 Spider Awards, finalist for James Boag’s, USA
2014 Award Award’s, finalist for James Boag's, Australia,
2010 ADCN, nomination for Ben mobile phones, Holland
2010 Australian National Portrait Prize, finalist for “Fritz and the Peach”
2008 One Show Awards, IFAW (Crime Scenes) campaign, USA
2008 Archive, Best 200 International Photographers, USA
2008 Cannes, Lion Award, WWF (60 Earth Hour), France
2007 Cannes, Lion Award, IFAW (Crime Scenes), France
2007 British Advertising Awards, finalist for IFAW campaign, UK
2007 New York Festival, finalist for IFAW print campaign, USA
2006 Epica Awards, for IFAW Springer & Jacoby, France
2005 Best European Print Campaign, Zuivel, Holland
2003 National Geographic Magazine Award, Best International Feature for “Circus”, USA 2001 2001 World Press Photo Award, second place Portraits, The Netherlands
2000 World Press Photo Award, second place Portraits, The Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
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2025 The Hidden Theatre, Glasshouse Museum, Australia
2024 Chanamee, Never Die - Perth Arts Festival, Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia
2023 URRITJARA, Passage Gallery, Sydney
2023 The Hidden + Hidden Theatre - Messums Museum Wiltshire, UK
2023 HIDDEN THEATRE, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2022 The Hidden - Bundanon Trust commission
2021 Truth In Fire - MAC, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
2021 Truth In Fire - Turning Point, Diffusion 21, ffotogallery, Cardiff Wales
2020 Truth In Fire - ShoalHaven Regional Gallery, Australia
2020 Truth In Fire - Australian Centre of Photography
2019 Stranger Than Paradise - Fuji Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Mystique Sequence - Surflodge Montauk, New York
2019 The Portalist, The Portal Club, Milan
2018 The Portalist, Deus Gallery, Sydney 2018 The Portalist, Deus Gallery, Tokyo
2017 Headon Photo Festival, Sydney Australia
2017 Oracles, Olsen Annex gallery, Sydney Australia
2016 Participation Mystique, Ecume Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Cirque Du Soleil, Saatchi Gallery, Sydney
2007 Blood; or A Long Weekend with My Wife’s Family, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2005 Naarden Foto Festival Holland, foreign photographer of honour
2003 Circus, Mendo Gallery, Amsterdam
2003 Circus, Visa Pour L’Image Perpignan, France
2002 Muslims in New York, Visa Pour L’Image, France
2001 Afghan Refugees, projection at Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan France
2000 The Untouchables - Visa Pour L'Image, France
1999 Four Drops of Nectar, Art House Gallery, Sydney
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Group Exhibitions
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2024 Synergy : identity, portraiture and the moving body - Tweed Regional Gallery, Australia
2015 Contemporary photography - Olsen Gallery Sydney
2013 MCLEMOI gallery curated by SamIam, Sydney
2013 Weekender, Curated by 100% Halal, Amsterdam 2012 YIP at Christies, Amsterdam
2012 A Thousand Words, Sydney
2011 Glassworks group show, Amsterdam
2010 Carnivale - Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, Australia
2008 Stills Gallery, Sydney
2008 YIP, Foam Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 Unknown Clown, Stills Gallery Sydney
2006 Everyday is Not Like Everyday, Foam Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 Faultlines of Silence - Reportage Photo Festival, Sydney
2004 I Amsterdam, Foam Gallery, Amsterdam
2002 Afghans, Dupont Gallery, Paris
2001 World Press Photo Exhibition and Awards, Amsterdam & International Tour
2000 World Press Photo Exhibition and Awards, Amsterdam & International Tour
2000 End of the Line Azerbaijan, at Visa Pour L’Image, France
Residencies
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2025 UAP, Queensland, Australia
2025 Ganggang Residency, NSW, Australia
2021 & 2022 Arts Residency Bundanon Trust
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Acquisitions
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2023 Bundanon Trust Art Museum
2022 The Australian Museum
2021 Shoalhaven - Regional gallery, Australia
2021 Lake Macquarie - Regional gallery, Australia
2002 & 2008 Permanent collection: National Portrait Gallery, Australia
Private Collections: USA, Canada, France, Tokyo, The Netherlands,
Hong Kong, Australia & Japan
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Monographs / Group Books
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2022 Pilgrim Journal, 2022
2022 PUNK
2018 Book of Denim - Amsterdam
2018 144 hrs in Tokyo - Bookart
2017 SAND, Dinosaur Designs - Anteism Books
2016 Atomic Birds - Anteism Books
2016 Cuban Mischief - Anteism Books
2014 Triumph Over Polio - United Nations
2011 Blood or A Long Weekend with My Wife’s Family
2010 A New Kilo - Pie Books Japan
2009 The Book of Conversations - Germany
2009 The Worst Hotel in the World - Kessels Kramer Publishing
2005 2 Kilo - Pie Books Japan
2005 I Amsterdam - KesselsKramer Publishing
2004 Everyday Is Not Like Everyday - Stillandmovingstichting
2002 A Day in the Life of Africa - Tides Foundation
2000 Paris Photo book by Christian Caujolle, France
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Films
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2021 Urritjara - ABC & Nowness
2021 Pyrogenesis, II - Single Channel
2021 Requeim For a Forest - Single Channel
2020 Truth In Fire - Nowness
2020 United Nations, 75th Anniversary film
2020 Tennen - Hania Rani Music Video, Nowness
2019 Jeff Wall - Gagosian Galleries and Nowness
2019 Mystique Sequence - Global Oceanic
2019 Atomic Birds
2019 FILA X PRPS - China
2018 Land Of Many Winds - Surf Lodge
2018 Stranger Than Paradise - Prague Czech Republic
2018 The Portalist - Deus & Nowness
2018 Nightness - Forest Swords
2017 Sand - Dinosaur Designs
2017 Harlem Ballet - Fuji
2016 Felled - ABC Art Breaks
2016 Anywhere Really - Brooklyn
2012 The Untouchables - Albania
2011 Half Moon Run - Canada
2011 Bastian - The Netherlands
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Seminars
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2018 Guest speaker Fuji - Prague Czech Republic
2016 Guest speaker Fuji Ambassador, Australia and Tokyo tour
2014 Guest curator - Montreal Documentary Photography
2004 - 2005 Guest lecturer - International Centre of Photography (ICP) New York
2002 Guest lecturer Photojournalism - Yerevan, Armenia,
Reviews & Profiles
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2024 Art Link - Eco Critical issue 44:1, Australia
2024 National Indigenous Times
2021 Art Collector - Australia
2020 Art Guide - Australia
2017 Head On - Australia
2017 Campaign Brief - Australia
2016 Art Review - Australia
2016 ARC Art Review - Caribbean
2015 Pro Photographer - New Zealand
2014 180 magazine - Canada
2013 Kaltblut magazine - Germany
2012 Destricted Revue - Paris
2012 Noovo editions - Spain
2011 HUH magazine - London
2011 Photoshop magazine - Australia
2010 PF Magazine - Holland
2009 PDN Magazine - New York
2008 PDN Magazine - New York
2008 Flakphoto - USA
2007 Dazed & Confused - London
2007 Art Asia Pacific magazine - Hong Kong 2007 Art & Australia - Australia
2007 Dumbo Feather - Australia
2006 Volkskrant - Holland
2006 Identity Matters - Holland
2006 Hot shoe magazine on contemporary photography - London
2006 Australian Photojournalist Magazine, Australia
2005 PF Magazine - Holland
2005 Credits magazine - Holland
2000 Paris Photo book by Christian Caujolle - France
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Publications
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The New York Times magazine
Noema
Art Link
Vogue
Aperture
National Geographic
Art Collector
Rolling Stone
Paris Match
Colors Magazine
The New Yorker
Stern
Newsweek
T Magazine
Sunday Times
Magazine Noema
Atmos
Hotshoe
Asia Art Pacific
HUH magazine
Art Review
Vogue
PDN