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    Trent Parke

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    Trent Parke is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press Photo awards; and his photographs are held in numerous public and private collections. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

    Early life

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    Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle, New South Wales. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack.[1]

    Career

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    Parke has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian newspaper.[1]

    In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer Narelle Autio, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's books Minutes to Midnight[2] and The Black Rose.[1]

    Parke became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2001.[3] He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.[4][5]

    Selected publications

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    As author

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    • Dream/Life. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. ISBN 0-646-37991-7.
    • The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback ISBN 0-646-39747-8. Paperback ISBN 0-646-39746-X. With Narelle Autio. Includes an essay on the beach in Australian culture by Robert Drewe.
    • Minutes to Midnight. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, 2005. 32 pages, 20 plates, paperback. ISBN 978-2-35046-041-3.
    • Bedknobs & Broomsticks. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-37550-2.
    • The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. ISBN 978-3869302065.
    • Minutes to Midnight. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
      • Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
    • The Black Rose. Adelaide, Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2015. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 14 March – 10 May 2015.
    • Crimson Line. London: Stanley/Barker, 2020. ISBN 978-1-913288-13-6.
      • Second edition with subtle changes. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-13-6.
    • Cue The Sun. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-37-2.

    As contributor

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    • So now then. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006. ISBN 9781872771656. Edited by Paul Seawright and Christopher Coppock. Photographs by Parke, Shelby Lee Adams, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chien-Chi Chang, Weng Fen, Julio Grinblatt, An-My Lê Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Massimo Vitali and Michael Wesely. Essays by David Campany, "Straight pictures of a crooked world"; Martha Langford, "What use is photography"; and Jan-Erik Lundström, "Look and tell: some further thoughts on the documentary genre". An anthology of international documentary photography commissioned by Hereford Photo Festival. Edition of 1000.
    • A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive. Munich: Prestel; New York, Paris, London, Tokyo: Magnum Photos, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7913-4435-5.
    • 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9563322-1-9.
    • Magnum Contact Sheets. Edited by Kristen Lubben.
      • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 9780500544129.
      • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0500544310. Compact edition.
      • Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 978-0500544143.
    • The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke.
    • The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-20716-3. Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff.
    • Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 9780500544341. Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.
    • 100 Great Street Photographs. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2017. By David Gibson. ISBN 978-3791383132. Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke.
    • Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018. ISBN 978-4-9909806-0-3.

    Films

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    Films by Parke

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    • The Summation of Force – eight channel film directed by Parke, Autio, and Matthew Bate[6][7]

    Documentaries about Parke

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    • Dreamlives (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio. OCLC 701130326
    • Trent Parke: The Black Rose (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and Geoff Dyer. Broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015.[8]

    Recognition and awards

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    Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that Parke's first book Dream/Life is "as dynamic a set of street pictures as has been seen outside the United States or Japan".[9]

    Awards include:

    • 1996–1998: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee.[10]
    • 1999: Second prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award (for "Bathurst Car Races").[11]
    • 2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave").[12]
    • 2000: Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards.[10]
    • 2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Narelle Autio (for "Australian Roadkill" series).[13]
    • 2003: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.[14]
    • 2005: Third prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award 2004 (for "Wiluna").[15]
    • 2007: Exhibiting Finalist – Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize.[16]
    • 2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program.[17]
    • 2014: Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2015, Gold medal, Konzeptionell-künstlerische Fotobildbänd (Conceptually-artistic photobook) category, went to Steidl for Minutes to Midnight, along with three other winners.[18]

    Exhibitions

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    • 2000: The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.[4]
    • 2002: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam.[4]
    • 2002: Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please) (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.[19]
    • 2002: Sydney Treasures, Art & About, Sydney.[4]
    • 2002: Dream/Life & Beyond – Stills Gallery, Sydney.[19]
    • 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle.[4]
    • 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York.[4]
    • 2004: Suspended States, Sydney Arts Festival.[4]
    • 2004: Minutes to Midnight – Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany.[4]
    • 2005: Minutes to Midnight, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.[20]
    • 2005: Colour Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney.[21]
    • 2006: Minutes to Midnight, Wollongong City Gallery[22]
    • 2007: Welcome to Nowhere, Stills Gallery, Sydney. Part of New Blood, Magnum Photos 60th anniversary exhibition. With Antoine D'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Mark Power and Alec Soth.[23][5]
    • 2008: Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney.[4]
    • 2009: Minutes to Midnight, Children's Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia.[4]
    • 2009: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Sydney Opera House.[4]
    • 2010: Survey Show, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.[24]
    • 2013: To the Sea with Narelle Autio, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.[25]
    • 2013: The Christmas Tree Bucket, National Gallery of Australia, 20 December 2013 – 23 February 2014.[26]
    • 2014: The Camera is God, The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.[27][28][29]
    • 2014: The Camera is God, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.[30][31]
    • 2015: The Black Rose, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 March – 10 May 2015. Part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival.[1][32][33]
    • The Crimson Line, Hugo Michell Gallery, 31 October – 23 November 2019[34][35][36]

    Collections

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    Parke's work is held in the following public collections:

    • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra[37]
    • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: 7 prints (as of November 2018)[38]
    • National Library of Australia[39]
    • Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
    • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 1 print (as of November 2018)[40]
    • University of Sydney Union, University of Sydney, Sydney

    References

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    1. ^ a b c d Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (8 March 2015). "The photographer who made Australia his canvas". BBC News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    2. ^ "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008; ISBN 978-0-500-41094-3), n.p.
    3. ^ "Trent Parke". In-Public. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
    4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Trent Parke", Stills Gallery. Accessed 14 August 2009.
    5. ^ a b McFarlane, Robert (21 August 2007). "Magnum uncorks champagne moments". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
    6. ^ Buckmaster, Luke (6 October 2017). "If virtual reality is film's next big thing, how long will it take to get right?". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    7. ^ "Trent Parke and Narelle Autio's The Summation of Force - The Adelaide Review". The Adelaide Review. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    8. ^ Hunter, Catherine (22 April 2015). "Trent Parke: The Black Rose". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
    9. ^ Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume III. London: Phaidon. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7148-6677-2.
    10. ^ a b "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos. Accessed 14 August 2009.
    11. ^ "1998, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
    12. ^ "1999, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life stories". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
    13. ^ "2000, Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, 1st prize, Nature stories". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
    14. ^ "2003: Recipients: Trent Parke". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
    15. ^ "2004, Trent Parke, 3rd prize, Daily Life". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
    16. ^ "National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, NPPP2007". portrait.gov.au. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
    17. ^ "Trent Parke (Australia)". Parallel Contemporary Art. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
    18. ^ "Die Sieger 2015". Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
    19. ^ a b Exhibition notices, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
    20. ^ 2005 events Archived 7 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Centre for Photography. Accessed 15 August 2009.
    21. ^ Exhibition notice, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
    22. ^ Events page Archived 26 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
    23. ^ "Magnum Photos: New Blood". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
    24. ^ "2010 Survey Show". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    25. ^ "Narelle Autio & Trent Parke – To the Sea". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
    26. ^ "Photography Gallery: Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
    27. ^ "2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    28. ^ Needham, Alex (14 March 2014). "Trent Parke lets his camera play God in inspired new street portrait series". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    29. ^ "2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    30. ^ "The Camera is God". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    31. ^ "Trent Parke's The Camera is God at Hugo Michell Gallery, 2014". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
    32. ^ "Trent Parke: The Black Rose". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
    33. ^ "Trent Parke: The Black Rose, Adelaide festival of arts". The Guardian. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    34. ^ "Through the 'holy grail' – a simple black box – light ignites life in Adelaide's sky". CityMag (InDaily). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
    35. ^ "Event: Trent Parke: The Crimson Line". The Adelaide Review. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
    36. ^ "Trent Parke - The Crimson Line". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
    37. ^ "Collection search". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
    38. ^ "Trent Parke". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    39. ^ "Search Results". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
    40. ^ "Trent Parke". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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