CV | Dean Sewell
Dean Sewell
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2010 |
Terra Australis Incognita, Oculi exhibition, Manly Gallery, Sydney |
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2009 |
Blake Prize for Religious Art, National School of Art, Darlinghurst |
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2009 |
Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery |
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2009 |
Art and About, Hyde Park, Sydney |
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2008 |
Reportage Photojournalism Festival |
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2008 |
Tumut: An Exhibition of Visual Art, Engaging Visions Project |
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2007 |
Sydney Now - New Australian Photojournalism, Museum of Sydney |
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Ingenuity, Photography and Engineering 1846-2006, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Homes In The Sky - Apartment Living in Sydney, Museum of Sydney |
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Engaging Visions Project - Your Place in Fine Art, St George, Queensland |
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Finding Our Way to the End, Hill End Art Gallery, Hill End, NSW |
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Art and About, Hyde Park, Sydney |
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5 x 7, Unload Gallery, Annandale, Sydney |
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2006 |
Exhibition of Protest, projection installation, Kurnell Sand Dunes |
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Finding Our Way to the End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery |
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Sudan Emergency Appeal Photographic Auction, The Atrium, Melbourne |
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Gala Re-opening of The Chauvel Cinema, Paddington |
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2005 |
Random, Oculi exhibition, Customs House, Sydney |
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Absolut Cut Artists Project, Absolut Cut Bar, Sydney |
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Art & About, Hyde Park Sydney |
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Cross Projections- Aceh - The Day the Sun Rose in the West, Kings Cross Arts Festival |
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Mekarnivale Masquerade Ball, Mekanarky Studios |
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Dagwood Dogs & Dust - Country Shows series, Dubbo Regional Gallery |
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Five Vignettes, Blender Gallery, Sydney |
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Disobedience - An International Response to the Brutal Excesses of Economic Globalisation and Social Injustices, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington |
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Tsunami: An exhibition by Australian Photojournalists, Mori Gallery, Sydney and The Australian National University, Canberra |
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2004 |
Art & About - Sydney Life, Hyde Park, Sydney |
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Selected Artists Exhibition, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
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Domain - The Felling of Moreton Bay Figs, Sydney Town Hall |
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Barking Up The Wrong Tree - A Response to the Styx Valley, Artspace, Melbourne |
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The Greens Art Auction, Mori Galleries, Sydney |
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Reportage, Photojournalism Festival |
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2003 |
Barking Up The Wrong Tree, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
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Art and About, Hyde Park, Sydney |
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Reportage Photojournalism Festival |
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2002 |
Sydney’s Black Christmas Bushfires, Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France |
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Representing the Real- Documentary Photography, Stills Gallery and the Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney |
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Witness - Australian Photojournalism, Australian Centre for Photography |
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Sydney or the Bush, New Contemporaries Gallery, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney. |
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2001 |
Cave Clan, Australian Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and Stills Gallery, Sydney |
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Reportage Photojournalism Festival |
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2000 |
Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France. |
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1999 |
Reportage Photojournalism Festival |
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Awards |
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2009 |
Winner, Moran Photographic Prize, with ‘A Dry Argument’, finalist with ‘Fallen Angels’ |
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2008 |
Finalist in the ‘National Photographic Portrait Prize 2008’ with ‘Common Ground’ |
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Voted by peer and industry groups in the top 10 of the ‘Australia’s Top Photographer’s Awards’ in the ‘Art’ and ‘Photojournalism’ categories - Capture Magazine |
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2007 |
3rd Place in the ‘Australia’s Top Photographers’, Photojournalism category |
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Runner-Up in the ‘Australia’s Top Photographers’, Editorial category |
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Australian Centre For Photography ‘Head On’ photographic portrait prize finalist |
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2006 |
1st Place in the Australia’s Top Photographers, Photojournalism category |
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Nominee in the Australia’s Top Photographers, Editorial category |
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2005 |
Awarded 1st Place - Spot News Stories Category - World Press Photo Awards for coverage of the Tsunami Aftermath in Aceh |
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Awarded an Artist Residency by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the remote historical gold-mining village of Hill End, NSW |
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Highly Commended Photograph ‘Hillsdale’ in Art & About, Hyde Park, Sydney |
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Finalist in the ‘Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture’ Tweed River Art Gallery for ‘Golden Gumboot Princesses’ |
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2004 |
Finalist for the Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize with "Lara’ |
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2003 |
Finalist - The Energex Arbour Contemporary Art Prize, Southbank, Brisbane. |
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Finalist in the ‘Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize’, Tweed River Art Gallery for works ‘St Kilda’ and ‘Yehlee’ |
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Finalist - Gold Coast Ulrich Schubert Photographic Art Award, Queensland |
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Finalist - Agfa, Das BildForum 7th International Prize for Young Photojournalism |
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2002 |
3rd Place - Nature and the Environment, Stories - World Press Photo Awards for coverage of Sydney’s Black Christmas Bushfires |
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2001 |
Highly commended for work on the "Cave Clan" in the ‘3rd Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award’ |
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2000 |
2nd Place - People in the News, World Press Photo Awards for coverage of East Timor |
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1998 |
Nikon Australian Press Photographer of the Year |
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1995 |
Best Series - Nikon Australian Press Photographer of the Year Awards |
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1994 |
Nikon Australian Press Photographer of the Year |
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Artist Residences |
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Both awarded by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the historical gold mining village of Hill End, NSW. |
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2008 |
Murray’s Cottage |
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2005 |
Haefliger’s Cottage |
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Professional Highlights |
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2007- 10 |
Photographer for the ‘Engaging Visions Project - Your Place in Fine Art’, Australian National University (ANU) The School of Art, the Murray-Darling Basin Commission and Murray-Darling Basin communities working together to create visual art exhibitions that refer to community environmental values and concerns. |
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2004 |
Affiliate with ‘Agence Vu’, Paris |
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2001 |
Founding member of Oculi Photos |
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1996 - 97 |
Based in Moscow covering the Chechen War, Russian Federal Elections and social issues throughout the former Soviet Union |
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