Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of

Narelle Autio Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she ...

, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four

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awards; and his photographs are held in numerous public and private collections. He is a member of

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Life and work

Parke was born and brought up in

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle ( ; Awabakal: ) is a metropolitan area and the second most populated city in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas, and is the hub of the Greater Newcastle area, w ...

; he now lives in

Adelaide, South Australia Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater A ...

. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack. He has worked as a photojournalist for ''

The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...

'' newspaper. Martin Parr and

Gerry Badger Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer. In 2018 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Life and career Badger was born in 1946 in North ...

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". In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer

, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's books ''Minutes to Midnight'' and ''The Black Rose.'' Parke became a member of the In-Public

street photography Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...

collective in 2001. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.Trent Parke
, Stills Gallery. Accessed 14 August 2009.

Publications

Publications by Parke

* ''Dream/Life''. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. . * ''The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches''. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback . Paperback . With

. Includes an essay on the beach in Australian culture by

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. * ''Minutes to Midnight''. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, 2005. 32 pages, 20 plates, paperback. . * ''Bedknobs & Broomsticks''. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. . * ''The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album''. Göttingen:

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, 2013. . * ''Minutes to Midnight''. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. . **Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. . *''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. . **Second edition with subtle changes. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. . *''Cue The Sun''. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. .

Publications with contributions by Parke

*''So now then.'' Cardiff:

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, 2006. . Edited by

Paul Seawright Paul Seawright (born 1965) is a Northern Irish artist. He is the professor of photography and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (previously Executive Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Belfast School of Art) at Ulster University in Belf ...

and Christopher Coppock. Photographs by Parke, Shelby Lee Adams,

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Adam Broomberg (born 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (born 1971) are artists living and working in London. Together they have had numerous international exhibitions. Their work is represented in major public and private collections. They were awarded th ...

, Chien-Chi Chang, Weng Fen, Julio Grinblatt, An-My Lê Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov,

Simon Norfolk Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. His photographs are held in over a dozen public museum collections. Life and work Norfolk was b ...

, Paul Shambroom, Massimo Vitali and Michael Wesely. Essays by

David Campany David Campany (born 8 October 1967) is a British writer, curator, artist and educator, working mainly with photography. He has written and edited books; contributed essays and reviews to other books, journals, magazines and websites; curated pho ...

, "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:

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; New York, Paris, London, Tokyo:

, 2010. . * ''10 – 10 Years of In-Public''. London:

Nick Turpin Nick Turpin (born 1969) is a British street photographer and advertising and design photographer. He is based in London and near Lyon, France. Turpin established the first international collective of street photographers, In-Public, in 2000 and ...

, 2010. . *''Magnum Contact Sheets.'' Edited by Kristen Lubben. **''Magnum Contact Sheets.'' London:

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, 2011. . **''Magnum Contact Sheets.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . Compact edition. **''Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition).'' London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. . *''The Street Photographer's Manual.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke. *''The World Atlas of Street Photography.'' New Haven and London:

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, 2014. . Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by

Max Kozloff Max Kozloff (born 1933) is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at ''The Nation'', and Executive Editor of ''Artforum''. His essay "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular im ...

. *''Photographers' Sketchbooks.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals. *''100 Great Street Photographs.'' Munich, London, New York:

, 2017. By David Gibson. . Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke. *''Home.'' Tokyo:

Tokyo, 2018. .

Films

Films by Parke

*''The Summation of Force'' – eight channel film directed by Parke, Autio and Matthew Bate

Documentaries about Parke

*''Dreamlives'' (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio. *''Trent Parke: The Black Rose'' (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and

Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer (born 5 June 1958) is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Personal background Dyer was born and raised in Cheltenham, England, as the only child of a ...

. Broadcast on

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, 21 April 2015.

Awards

*1996–1998: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee.Trent Parke
, Magnum Photos. Accessed 14 August 2009. *1999: Second prize, Daily Life category,

Award (for "Bathurst Car Races"). *2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave"). *2000: Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards. *2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Narelle Autio (for "Australian Roadkill" series). *2003: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. *2005: Third prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award 2004 (for "Wiluna"). *2007: Exhibiting Finalist – Australian

National Photographic Portrait Prize The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia. The major sponsor of the prize in 2022 is the gallery itself, which awards to the winner, while Canon ...

. *2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program. *2014: Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2015, Gold medal, Konzeptionell-künstlerische Fotobildbänd (Conceptually-artistic photobook) category, went to

for ''Minutes to Midnight'', along with three other winners.

Exhibitions

* 2000: ''The Seventh Wave'' (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney. * 2002: ''Dream/Life'' and ''The Seventh Wave'' (with Narelle Autio) – Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam. * 2002: ''Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please)'' (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.Exhibition notices
Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009. * 2002: ''Sydney Treasures'', Art & About, Sydney. * 2002: ''Dream/Life & Beyond'' – Stills Gallery, Sydney. * 2004: ''Dream/Life'' and ''The Seventh Wave'' (with Narelle Autio) – FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle. * 2004: ''Dream/Life'' and ''The Seventh Wave'' (with Narelle Autio) – Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York. * 2004: ''Suspended States'', Sydney Arts Festival. * 2004: ''Minutes to Midnight'' – Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany. * 2005: ''Minutes to Midnight'', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. * 2005: ''Colour Work'', Stills Gallery, Sydney. * 2006: ''Minutes to Midnight'', Wollongong City Gallery * 2007: ''Welcome to Nowhere'', Stills Gallery, Sydney. Part of ''New Blood'', Magnum Photos 60th anniversary exhibition. With

Antoine D'Agata Antoine d'Agata (; born 1961) is a French photographer and film director. His work deals with topics that are often considered taboo, such as addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, and prostitution. D'Agata is a full member of Magnum Photo ...

, Jonas Bendiksen,

Mark Power Mark Power (born 1959) is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton.Alec Soth Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. ''New York Times'' art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic care ...

. * 2008: ''Christmas Tree Bucket'', Stills Gallery, Sydney. * 2009: ''Minutes to Midnight'', Children's Art Gallery,

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. * 2009: ''Please step quietly everyone can hear you'', Sydney Opera House. * 2010: ''Survey Show'', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. * 2013: ''To the Sea'' with Narelle Autio, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. *2013: ''The Christmas Tree Bucket,'' National Gallery of Australia, 20 December 2013 – 23 February 2014. * 2014: ''The Camera is God'', The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. * 2014: ''The Camera is God'', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. * 2015: ''The Black Rose'', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 March – 10 May 2015. Part of the 2015

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. *''The Crimson Line,'' Hugo Michell Gallery, 31 October – 23 November 2019

Collections

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

, Canberra *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

, Melbourne: 7 prints (as of November 2018) *

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

Australian National Maritime Museum The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is a Australian government, federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a nation ...

, Sydney *

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), located on George Street in Sydney's The Rocks neighbourhood, is solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting, and collecting contemporary art, from across Australia and around the world. It is ...

: 1 print (as of November 2018) *

University of Sydney Union The University of Sydney Union (USU), established in 1874, is the student-run services and amenities provider at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. The USU's key services include the provision of food and beverages, retail outlets ...

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

, Sydney

References

External links

Parke's profile at Magnum PhotosParke's profile at In-PublicParke discusses Minutes To Midnight
(video)
'Trent Parke – Dreamlives (2002) – Australian Story'
(video)
Parke at Hugo Michell Gallery
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