Trent Parke

Trent Parke is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press Photo awards; and his photographs are held in numerous public and private collections. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Early life

Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle, New South Wales. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack. ^[1]

Career

Parke has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian newspaper. ^[1]

In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer Narelle Autio, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's books Minutes to Midnight ^[2] and The Black Rose. ^[1]

Parke became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2001. ^[3] He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join. ^{[4] [5]}

Selected publications

As author

• Dream/Life. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. ISBN   0-646-37991-7.
• The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback ISBN   0-646-39747-8. Paperback ISBN   0-646-39746-X. With Narelle Autio. Includes an essay on the beach in Australian culture by Robert Drewe.
• Minutes to Midnight. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, 2005. 32 pages, 20 plates, paperback. ISBN   978-2-35046-041-3.
• Bedknobs & Broomsticks. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. ISBN   978-0-615-37550-2.
• The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. ISBN   978-3869302065.
• Minutes to Midnight. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN   978-3869302058.
  • Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN   978-3869302058.
• 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. ISBN   978-1-913288-13-6.
  • Second edition with subtle changes. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN   978-1-913288-13-6.
• Cue The Sun. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN   978-1-913288-37-2.

As contributor

• So now then. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006. ISBN   9781872771656. Edited by Paul Seawright and Christopher Coppock. Photographs by Parke, Shelby Lee Adams, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chien-Chi Chang, Weng Fen, Julio Grinblatt, An-My Lê Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Massimo Vitali and Michael Wesely. Essays by David Campany, "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: Prestel; New York, Paris, London, Tokyo: Magnum Photos, 2010. ISBN   978-3-7913-4435-5.
• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. ISBN   978-0-9563322-1-9.
• Magnum Contact Sheets. Edited by Kristen Lubben.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN   9780500544129.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN   978-0500544310. Compact edition.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN   978-0500544143.
• The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN   978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke.
• The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN   978-0-300-20716-3. Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff.
• Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN   9780500544341. Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.
• 100 Great Street Photographs. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2017. By David Gibson. ISBN   978-3791383132. Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke.
• Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018. ISBN   978-4-9909806-0-3.

Films

Films by Parke

• The Summation of Force – eight channel film directed by Parke, Autio, and Matthew Bate ^{[6] [7]}

Documentaries about Parke

• Dreamlives (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio. OCLC   701130326
• Trent Parke: The Black Rose (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and Geoff Dyer. Broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015. ^[8]

Recognition and awards

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger 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". ^[9]

Awards include:

• 1996–1998: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee. ^[10]
• 1999: Second prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award (for "Bathurst Car Races"). ^[11]
• 2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave"). ^[12]
• 2000: Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards. ^[10]
• 2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Narelle Autio (for "Australian Roadkill" series). ^[13]
• 2003: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. ^[14]
• 2005: Third prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award 2004 (for "Wiluna"). ^[15]
• 2007: Exhibiting Finalist – Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize. ^[16]
• 2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program. ^[17]
• 2014: Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2015, Gold medal, Konzeptionell-künstlerische Fotobildbänd (Conceptually-artistic photobook) category, went to Steidl for Minutes to Midnight, along with three other winners. ^[18]

Exhibitions

• 2000: The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney. ^[4]
• 2002: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam. ^[4]
• 2002: Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please) (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney. ^[19]
• 2002: Sydney Treasures, Art & About, Sydney. ^[4]
• 2002: Dream/Life & Beyond – Stills Gallery, Sydney. ^[19]
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle. ^[4]
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York. ^[4]
• 2004: Suspended States, Sydney Arts Festival. ^[4]
• 2004: Minutes to Midnight – Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany. ^[4]
• 2005: Minutes to Midnight, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. ^[20]
• 2005: Colour Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney. ^[21]
• 2006: Minutes to Midnight, Wollongong City Gallery ^[22]
• 2007: Welcome to Nowhere, Stills Gallery, Sydney. Part of New Blood, Magnum Photos 60th anniversary exhibition. With Antoine D'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Mark Power and Alec Soth. ^{[23] [5]}
• 2008: Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney. ^[4]
• 2009: Minutes to Midnight, Children's Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia. ^[4]
• 2009: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Sydney Opera House. ^[4]
• 2010: Survey Show, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. ^[24]
• 2013: To the Sea with Narelle Autio, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. ^[25]
• 2013: The Christmas Tree Bucket, National Gallery of Australia, 20 December 2013 – 23 February 2014. ^[26]
• 2014: The Camera is God, The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. ^{[27] [28] [29]}
• 2014: The Camera is God, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. ^{[30] [31]}
• 2015: The Black Rose, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 March – 10 May 2015. Part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival. ^{[1] [32] [33]}
• The Crimson Line, Hugo Michell Gallery, 31 October – 23 November 2019 ^{[34] [35] [36]}

Collections

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

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ^[37]
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: 7 prints (as of November 2018) ^[38]
• National Library of Australia ^[39]
• Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 1 print (as of November 2018) ^[40]
• University of Sydney Union, University of Sydney, Sydney

References

1. Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (8 March 2015). "The photographer who made Australia his canvas". BBC News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
2. "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008; ISBN   978-0-500-41094-3), n.p.
3. "Trent Parke". In-Public. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
4. "Trent Parke", Stills Gallery. Accessed 14 August 2009.
5. McFarlane, Robert (21 August 2007). "Magnum uncorks champagne moments". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
6. Buckmaster, Luke (6 October 2017). "If virtual reality is film's next big thing, how long will it take to get right?". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
7. "Trent Parke and Narelle Autio's The Summation of Force - The Adelaide Review". The Adelaide Review. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
8. Hunter, Catherine (22 April 2015). "Trent Parke: The Black Rose". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 23 April 2015.
9. Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume III. London: Phaidon. p. 168. ISBN   978-0-7148-6677-2.
10. "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos. Accessed 14 August 2009.
11. "1998, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life". World Press Photo . Retrieved 20 January 2015.
12. "1999, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life stories". World Press Photo . Retrieved 20 January 2015.
13. "2000, Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, 1st prize, Nature stories". World Press Photo . Retrieved 20 January 2015.
14. "2003: Recipients: Trent Parke". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund . Retrieved 15 October 2015.
15. "2004, Trent Parke, 3rd prize, Daily Life". World Press Photo . Retrieved 20 January 2015.
16. "National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, NPPP2007". portrait.gov.au. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
17. "Trent Parke (Australia)". Parallel Contemporary Art. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
18. "Die Sieger 2015". Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
19. Exhibition notices, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
20. 2005 events Archived 7 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine , Australian Centre for Photography. Accessed 15 August 2009.
21. Exhibition notice, Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
22. Events page Archived 26 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Stills Gallery. Accessed 15 August 2009.
23. "Magnum Photos: New Blood". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 23 March 2014.
24. "2010 Survey Show". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
25. "Narelle Autio & Trent Parke – To the Sea". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
26. "Photography Gallery: Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket". National Gallery of Australia . Retrieved 23 April 2015.
27. "2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
28. Needham, Alex (14 March 2014). "Trent Parke lets his camera play God in inspired new street portrait series". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 30 November 2020.
29. "2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
30. "The Camera is God". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
31. "Trent Parke's The Camera is God at Hugo Michell Gallery, 2014". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
32. "Trent Parke: The Black Rose". Art Gallery of South Australia . Retrieved 22 April 2015.
33. "Trent Parke: The Black Rose, Adelaide festival of arts". The Guardian. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
34. "Through the 'holy grail' – a simple black box – light ignites life in Adelaide's sky". CityMag (InDaily). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
35. "Event: Trent Parke: The Crimson Line". The Adelaide Review . 24 October 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
36. "Trent Parke - The Crimson Line". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
37. "Collection search". National Gallery of Australia . Retrieved 23 April 2015.
38. "Trent Parke". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
39. "Search Results". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
40. "Trent Parke". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

External links

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