Steven Siewert is an Australian

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

and art

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in oth ...

. Siewert's photographs have appeared in the ''

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...

'' and the book, "The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget" with the author Tony Stephens. He was twice a recipient of the Nikon/Walkley Portrait Prize, winning in 2008 for “Waiting for Wanda Jackson”, published in the Good Weekend. In this same year he won a

Walkley Walkley is a suburb of Sheffield, England, west of Burngreave, south of Hillsborough and north-east of Crookes. The area consists mainly of Victorian stone-fronted terraced housing and has a relatively high student population. It also has a ...

for his series on Australian rockabillies, from which the portrait was drawn. The series was subject of an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. In 2001, Siewert was also awarded an Asialink fellowship to work in Bangkok, Thailand for Asian newspaper,

The Nation ''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper t ...

. Siewert's photography has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Leica gallery in Solms, Germany, the

Museum of Sydney The Museum of Sydney is a historical collection and exhibit, built on the ruins of the house of New South Wales' first Governor, Arthur Phillip, on the present-day corner of Phillip and Bridge Street, Sydney. Description The original house, ...

, the

Centre for Contemporary Photography The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, is a venue for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary pract ...

in Melbourne, the State Library of NSW and Albury Regional Art Gallery.Agence VU
/ref> He is a former member of the Australian Oculi collective

Books

* ''The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget'', Tony Stephens (Author) and Siewert, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (April 2003)

Exhibitions

, Melbourne Australia, 2005 * ''Rockabilly: living the 50s'',

, 2008

References

External links

Gallery of Siewert's photos at The Sydney Morning Herald

Siewert's portfolio
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