Education
Gerrit Fokkema attended the NSW public system primary and secondary schools in Queanbeyan, NSW. graduating with a Higher School Certificate in 1972. Fokkema's formal photographic education was at Canberra Technical College, Canberra, ACT from 1974 to 1977 , Photography Certificate.Career
Fokkema worked as a news photographer from 1975 to 1984. He began as a cadet photographer withPhotography
Gerrit's living was made producing images for first newspapers, (Exhibitions
Individual exhibitions
• 2018 Wilcannia Photographs 1983 to 2016 - River Meeting Gallery, Queens Head, Wilcannia • 2000 Otherdaze - Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney • 1995 Family - Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney • 1983 Somedaze II - Images Gallery, Sydney • 1979 Gerrit Fokkema - The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney • 1978 Somedaze I - Susan Gillespie Galleries, CanberraGroup exhibitions
• 2021 Finalist and Highly Commended in The Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed Regional Gallery. • 2020 Paper Tigers : Australian Photojournalists. - HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney • 2019 Untitled & Unfinished - HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney. • 2017 Wilcannia Stories HeadOn Photo Festival, Sydney. • 2016 Demolished Sydney - Museum of Sydney. • 2015 Finalist - Bowness Photography prize MGA, Victoria. • 2014 The Road : photographer on the move 1970 - 1985 - MGA, Victoria. • 2014 Australian Vernacular Photography - Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. • 2008 Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Shubert Photography Award, Gold Coast, Queensland. • 2007 Sydney Now : New Australian Photojournalism, Museum of Sydney. • 2007 Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Shubert Photography Award, Gold Coast, Queensland. • 2006 In Transit - Alliance Franciase, Sydney. • 2006 Finalist Josephine Ulrick & Win Shubert Photography Award, Gold Coast, Queensland. • 2005 Wastelands - A Poetic Legacy The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. • 2005 Eye 4 Photography - The State Library of NSW, Sydney. • 2004 Australian Postwar Photodocumentary - The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney • 2002 Re Presenting The Real - Documentary Photography 2002 - Stills Gallery, Sydney. • 2002 The Home Front - Canberra Contemporary Art Space. • 2002 Reporting The World - John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. • 2001 Belonging : A century Celebrated - The State Library of NSW, Sydney • 2000 My City of Sydney - Art gallery of NSW, Sydney. • 1999 4th Birthday Exhibition - Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney. • 1999 Signature Works, 25th Anniversary Exhibition - The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. • 1999 Living In The Seventies - Canberra Museum and Gallery. • 1999 Site : The Parliament House Construction Photography Project - Parliament House, Canberra. • 1997 Econtros da Imagem - Braga, Portrugal. • 1994 Sydney Photographed - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. • 1988 Shades of Light - Photography and Australia 1839 to 1988 - The Australian National Gallery, Canberra. • 1987 Living in the 70's : Australian photographs - The Australian National Gallery, Canberra. • 1976 10 Viewpoints - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. • 1975 18th Sydney International Exhibition of Photography, Sydney Town Hall.References
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