Awards
2013
Head On Portrait Prize
Sydney
Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Awards
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Color Awards – 6th Photography Masters Cup
2012
National Press Photographers Association - “Best of Photojournalism”
United States
Kellicutt International Juried Photo Show - “Vibrant”
California
United Nations Media Peace Awards
Melbourne
Nikon-Walkley Photographers Slide Awards
Brisbane
World IFAJ Star Prize for Photo Excellence
Stockholm
The Clarion Awards
Brisbane
The Clarion Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
2011
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Sydney
Head On Portrait Prize
Sydney
Gwangju Design Biennale
South Korea
Queensland Clarion Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Clarion Awards
Brisbane
International Photography Awards (IPA)
International Color Awards - 5th Photography Masters Cup
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
2010
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Sydney
Australia's Top Photographer Awards
International Color Awards - 4th Photography Masters Cup
Queensland Clarion Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Clarion Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
2009
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
Asia Without Borders International Photo Contest
Singapore
International Color Awards - 3rd Photography Masters Cup
2008
Queensland Media Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Media Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
2007
Walkley Awards
Sydney
Queensland Media Awards
Brisbane
Queensland Multi Media Awards
Cairns
2006
Walkley Awards
Melbourne
Queensland Media Awards
Cairns
Queensland Media Awards
Brisbane
2005
Walkley Awards
Sydney
Queensland Media Awards
Brisbane
Telstra Country Wide Media Awards
Cairns
2003
Telstra Country Wide Media Awards
Cairns
2002
NQ Media Awards
Cairns
2001
NQ Media Awards
Cairns
2000
Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography
FNQ Media Awards
Cairns
1999
Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography
1998
NQMedia Awards
Townsville
Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography
FNQ Media Awards
Cairns
1997
FNQ Media Awards
Cairns
1990
Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards
1989
Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive (AIPS)
1988
Rothmans National Press Photo Awards
Adelaide
CUB Australian Horse Racing Picture of the Year
Kodak/adidas Australian Press Photo of the Year Awards
1987
Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards
Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive (AIPS)
1985
Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards
Melbourne
2013 Head On Portrait Prize - Sydney - WINNER of 2nd Place Prize - "Stockman"
2013 Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Awards - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Finalist - "Roustabout"
2013 International Color Awards – 6th Photography Masters Cup - Honorable Mention in "Photojournalism" - "Homeless in Seoul" - Finalists in "People" and "Sport" - "Chook" and "The Seventh Second"
2012 National Press Photographers Association – “Best of Photojournalism” - United States - WINNER - Portraits - “This Woman Should be Dead”
2012 Kellicutt International Juried Photo Show – “Vibrant” - California - WINNER - “Carol - Burns Survivor” - and THIRD Prize - “Rajasthan Dancers”
2012 United Nations Media Peace Awards - Melbourne - Finalist - Photojournalism “Life in a Coffin: Hong Kong”
2012 Nikon-Walkley Photographers Slide Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - “Life in a Coffin: Hong Kong”
2012 World IFAJ Star Prize for Photo Excellence - Stockholm - WINNER - People Category
2012 Australian Star Prize for Rural Photography - Melbourne - WINNER - People Category
2012 Queensland Rural Press Photography Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - People Category
2012 The Clarion Awards - Brisbane - Finalist - Best Photo Essay - “Soulless in Seoul”
2012 The Clarion Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Sports Photograph - “The Seventh Second”
2012 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best Environmental Story - “Soulless in Seoul”
2012 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best News Photograph - “Seoul”
2012 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best Sports Photograph - “The Seventh Second”
2011 Walkley Awards - WINNER - Nikon/Walkley Portrait Award - "Carol - Burns Survivor"
2011 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Sydney - Runner Up - "Rebecca Comes Home"
2011 Head On Portrait Prize - Sydney - Finalist - "Carol - Burns Survivor"
2011 Gwangju Design Biennale - South Korea - Selected to exhibit - "Cage Homes of Hong Kong"
2011 Queensland Clarion Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Photographic Essay - "Yasi"
2011 Queensland Clarion Awards - Brisbane - Finalist - Best News Photographs - "Cyclone Yasi"
2011 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mentions - “Carol - Burns Survivor” (Portraits) - “Rebecca Comes Home” (Photojournalism)
2011 International Loupe Awards - Silver Award in "Sport" - Bronze Awards in "Photojournalism" and "Portraits & People"
2011 International Color Awards – 5th Photography Masters Cup - Honorable Mention in "Portrait" - "Carol - Burns Survivor" - and Finalist in "Sport" - "Wheelbarrow Race"
2011 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Photographic Image - "Carol - Burns Survivor"
2011 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Editorial Image/Photograph - "Carol - Burns Survivor"
2011 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best News Photograph - "Rebecca Comes Home"
2011 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best Sports Photograph - "Hewitt at a Stretch"
2010 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Sydney - Finalist - "Hedda"
2010 Head On Portrait Prize - Sydney - Shortlisted - "Hedda"
2010 Australia’s Top Photographer Awards - "Top Ten" finalist in both Photojournalism and Editorial Categories - as Voted by Peers
2010 International Color Awards – 4th Photography Masters Cup - Honorable Mention and Finalist in "Photojournalism" , Honorable Mention in "Wildlife", Finalist in "People"
2010 Queensland Clarion Awards - Brisbane - Finalist - Best News Photograph
2010 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalist - Best News Photograph
2010 Queensland Clarion Awards - Brisbane - Finalist - Best Photographic Essay - "The Great Wheelbarrow Race"
2010 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - Finalists - Best Photographic Image
2009 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Photographic Image
2009 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Editorial Image/Photograph
“When This Man Dies ….. ” – Tommy George from Laura is the last of his clan – the Kuku Thaypan – and the last speaker of his ‘language’.
2009 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Sport Photograph
“Gone To The Dogs” – from a photo essay on the threatened demise of the Cairns Greyhound Racing Club.
2009 Asia Without Borders International Photo Contest - Singapore - Finalists in "Faces of Asia" and "Wild"
2009 International Color Awards – 3rd Photography Masters Cup - Finalists in "Photojournalism", "People" and "Sport"
2008 Queensland Media Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Photo Essay
2008 Queensland Media Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best News Photograph
2008 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Photographic Image
2008 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Editorial Image/Photograph
2008 Gordon Parks International Photo Contest - USA - Finalist
2008 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Editorial Feature (with journalist John Van Tiggelen)
2007 Walkley Awards - Sydney - Finalist - Best Feature/Daily Life Photography
A series of five photographs of indigenous Queenslanders 40 years after the referendum that recognised them as ‘Australians’ – depicting the issues of homelessness, community conditions, indigenous life expectancy and juvenile crime.
2007 Queensland Media Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Coverage of Indigenous Affairs Across All Media
Indigenous Affairs dominate the Australian media during the year – the Cameron Doomadgee (Mulrunji) death in custody, riots in aboriginal communities, continued debate over 3rd world conditions and the unprecedented action by the Federal Government and more, amongst the issues featured.
2007 Queensland Multi Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Sport Photograph
Players battle the torrential tropical downpour that fell throughout the Brisbane Lions V St Kilda AFL match at Cairns 24th February 2007.
2006 Walkley Awards - Melbourne - Commendation - Best News Photography
Category 5 Cyclone Larry devastated the Innisfail area Australia, around daybreak 20th March 2006. Miraculously no lives were lost, however, it left many of the population with shattered homes, business’s and lives. These photographs span the period from the moment Cyclone Larry hit to the continuing turmoil 3 months later.
2006 Queensland Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Sports Photograph
Thrown saddle bronc rider David Loffel curls under the hooves of his flying mount during the Mt Isa Rodeo 14th August 2005. Loffel escaped injury.
2006 Queensland Media Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Freelance Journalism Across All Media
2006 Queensland Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Coverage Of Environmental Issues Across All Media
Category 5 Cyclone Larry devastated the Innisfail area Australia, around daybreak 20th March 2006. Miraculously no lives were lost, however, it left many of the population with shattered homes, business’s and lives. These photographs span the period from the moment Cyclone Larry hit to the continuing turmoil 3 months later.
2005 Walkley Awards - Sydney - Finalist - Best News Photography
2005 Walkley Awards - Sydney - WINNER - Nikon Walkley Award for Best Regional/Suburban Photographs
Australia’s worst air crash in 40 years claimed 15 lives at Lockhart River on Cape York 7th May 2005. A memorial service in Cairns saw huge outpourings of grief as families came to terms with the tragedy. Amongst the victims was young police officer Sally Urquhart . Her fiance Trad Thornton – and family – mother Elizabeth, dad Shane, brother Brendan and sister Natalie – are inconsolable.
2005 Queensland Media Awards - Brisbane - WINNER - Best Freelance Journalism Across All Media
2005 Telstra Country Wide Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best All Media Coverage Of Environmental Issues
The Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Asia decimated countries bordering the Indian Ocean, claimed almost three hundred thousand lives and left many millions homeless. This collection of photographs culled from my short journeys to Banda Aceh Indonesia, Phuket and Khoa Lak Thailand and southern Myanmar won two awards “across all media”.
2005 Telstra Country Wide Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
One year old Alhamdee sheds a tear in a refugee camp in Banda Aceh Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami brought massive devastation. One of countless homeless with insufficient food and water in Aceh’s refugee camps, Alhamdee also lost his father, brother, grand parents and uncle and is left with only his mother.
2003 Telstra Country Wide Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
Badly injured Laurie Kerr walks unaided into Royal Darwin Hospital Australia 13th October 2002 – just a day after the Bali Indonesia terrorist bomb blasts. Kerr was on the first airlift out of Bali to Darwin along with others severely injured.
2002 NQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Sports Photograph
Australian World record holder Liesel Jones powers to a win in a 100 metres breaststroke Grand Prix event in Cairns on the 25th May 2002.
2001 NQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
Ethnic Indian farmers Sapaya and Gayn Datt weep over the destruction of their house in Muaniweni, west of Suva Fiji 2nd August 2000. The home was one of many torched by supporters of George Speight’s coup in race related violence.
2000 Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography - NEWS - THIRD
An elderly refugee, one of the first airlifted from East Timor, sheds tears as she seeks the comfort of a nun on arrival at the Darwin refugee centre 14/09/1999 – the day the United Nations compound in Dili was evacuated. The UN compound had been under siege from armed militia since the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence from Indonesia.
2000 FNQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
A young refugee, one of the first airlifted from East Timor, clutches a statue of the Virgin Mary as her mother sheds a tear at the Darwin Australia refugee centre 14/09/1999 – the day the United Nations compound in Dili was evacuated. The UN compound had been under siege from armed militia since the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence from Indonesia.
1999 Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography - NEWS - MERIT AWARD
86 year old Arthur Stanley Brown was arrested and ordered to stand trial in Townsville for the brutal murder of the Mackay sisters, Judith (7) and Susan (5) 29 years previously. The photo of Brown and his wife Charlotte was taken during a break in proceedings from outside the court. All charges were dropped due to Brown’s deteriorating state of health. He died a year later and was never found guilty of the murders.
1998 NQMedia Awards - Townsville - WINNER - Best Newspaper Photograph
1999 FNQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best Photograph
On 17th July 1998 three ten metre waves slammed into the coast of the West Sepik province of Papua New Guinea, wiping entire villages off the map. I was amongst the first to reach the remote Sissano Lagoon disaster area – and this photo of Coretta Yorenti, suffering a fractured skull, was transmitted to Associated Press by sat phone and was the first image to reach the outside world.
1998 Hurley Awards for Outstanding Press Photography - NEWS - MERIT AWARD
On 17th July 1998 three ten metre waves slammed into the coast of the West Sepik province of Papua New Guinea, wiping entire villages off the map. I was one of the first to reach the remote Sissano Lagoon disaster area – and this photo of a young boy calling for his mother as he is taken aboard an evacuating aircraft, transmitted to AP by sat phone, was amongst the first to reach the outside world.
1998 FNQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
The murder of Japanese girl Michiko Okuyama in Cairns Australia sent media into a frenzy. Her body was found dumped in a Cairns swamp and a 16 year old youth was arrested for her murder. Despite police assurances that the accused had already been sent to Brisbane detention I staked out the police air wing for days – before being rewarded with the only photographs of the accused – in some obscuring his face so the photo could be published in Australia.
1997 FNQ Media Awards - Cairns - WINNER - Best News Photograph
6 year old Tjandamurra O’Shane was doused with petrol by a stranger in his school playground and set alight. He was rushed to Hospital with burns to 70% of his body. Paul Wade Streeton was arrested and charged with attempted murder. On the day Streeton was found guilty at the Cairns Court months later Tjandamurra’s father stopped his car briefly outside the court. Tjandamurra, with burn scars still evident, faced the scene where his attacker was being judged.
1990 Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards - SECOND Place
Cairns sail boarder Peter Clifford competing in the WindToys Slalom at Trinity Beach Australia.
1989 Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive (AIPS) - Worlds BEST Sport Photographs
1988 Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards - Commendation
A wet Kangaroos V Ivanhoes rugby league match in Cairns left the halfback contemplating more than just the ball.
1988 Rothmans National Press Photo Awards - Adelaide - PHOTO SEQUENCE Merit Award
1988 CUB Australian Horse Racing Picture of the Year - Commendation
Cairns jockey Bernie McAuliffe falls after his mount burst through the barrier at a Cairns race meeting. 3 pics out of the full sequence of 6.
1988 CUB Australian Horse Racing Picture of the Year - Commendation
An ordinary race meeting at the Cairns Jockey Club – but one horse decides not to wait for the start.
1988 Kodak/adidas Australian Press Photo of the Year Awards - Fourth Place
Australian legend Dawn Fraser competes in a Masters event at the North Queensland Games in Cairns – moments after hearing the news that she had won the NSW seat of Balmain.
1987 Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards - Commendation
Townsville’s Edith Tibbs gesticulates to Cairns opponent Kitty Evans during a bowls match at the Stratford Bowls Club Cairns.
1987 Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive (AIPS) - Worlds BEST Sport Photographs
Ivanhoes Colin Moore against Mareeba in a Rugby League match at Parramatta Park Cairns 1986.
1985 Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards - Melbourne - WINNER
The inaugural year of the Kodak/adidas Australian Sports Photo of the Year Awards. Cairns slalom water skier Steve Hook on Trinity Inlet Cairns.