Trent Parke is an Australian photographer.

Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

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 (NSW); he now lives in Sydney. He started photography when he was twelve. In 2003 he and his wife the photographer Narelle Autio made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in the series and book "Minutes to Midnight". He has won numerous national and international awards for his photography including four World Press Photo

World Press Photo

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 Awards. He has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian

The Australian

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newspaper.

Parke's photographs are held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

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 (Canberra), the National Gallery of Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria

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 (Melbourne), the Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum

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 (Sydney), the Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

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 (Sydney) and the University of Sydney Union

University of Sydney Union

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. He is the only Australian to be represented by Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos

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and his series "Welcome to Nowhere" was included in their 60th anniversary exhibition "New Blood".

Awards

• 1996/98 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee
• 1999 World Press Photo Award (for “Bathurst Car Races”)
• 2000 World Press Photo Award (for “The Seventh Wave”)
• 2000 Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards
• 2001 World Press Photo Award (for “Australian Roadkill” series)
• 2003 Eugene W. Smith Award for humanistic photography
• 2005 World Press Photo Award ( for “Wiluna”)

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
• 2002 Sydney Treasures, Art & About, Sydney
• 2002 Dream/Life & Beyond - Stills Gallery, Sydney
• 2004 Dream/Life & the Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) - FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle
• 2004 Dream/Life & 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
• 2008 Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney
• 2009 Minutes to Midnight, Children's Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia
• 2009 Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Sydney Opera House

Books

• Dream Life. Hot Chilli Press, 1999. ISBN 0646379917.
• The Seventh Wave. Hot Chilli Press, 2000. ISBN 0646397478; ISBN 064639746X (pbk).
• Minutes to Midnight. Filigranes, 2005. ISBN 978-2-35046-041-3.
• Bedknobs & Broomsticks. Little Brown Mushroom 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-37550-2.