Welcome to my Year in pictures. I have been doing this for 3 years now and find it's a great way to let people know what I have been shooting. Most of the time with news images they are behind paywalls and sometimes appear only in print (gasp) so sharing here let's me display them as part of my output. Also with client work it's not always public or even used, so again a chance for me to display them all in one place.
A strange start to the year after 2020, not knowing with any certainty if we could vaccinate ourselves out of the pandemic. We didn't. What follows is a pictorial view of what went down in Canberra in 2021.
Enjoy! Martin
Press Conference, Parliament House Canberra, Australia
Nominees reception - National gallery of Australia
Australian of the Year Awards 2021
Australian of the Year 2021
Leader of the Opposition of Australia
Minster for Health and Aging
Secretary of the Department of Health of Australia
Press Conference, Parliament House, Canberra
Canberra, Australia
Portrait for Kambri
National Gallery of Australia
Australia’s Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020
Wildbear Productions
ACT Government Offices
Canberra Balloon Spectacular
Parliament House Canberra
Make It Australian launch Parliament House, Canberra
Government House, Canberra
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Women
Good Folk, National Folk Festival, Queanbeyan
Shine dome - new roof completion
National Museum of Australia
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
2021 Youth Influencer of the Year by The Martin Luther King Jr Center
playing at aMBUSH Gallery / ANU, Canberra
ACT Government - Eat Local
Vietnam Requiem
Kambri, ANU
Barnaby Joyce
National Press Club
Defence Senate Estimates, Parliament House Canberra
Majura, Canberra
Federal Parliament, Canberra
ACT Government
Attorney-General of Australia
Valley Inhabitants is a multi-disciplinary arts project documenting untold stories from residents and iconic businesses in the Woden Valley. The project celebrates Woden’s rich history by exploring stories about relationships, place making and what defines a community and it’s culture.
Weekly Times
Southern Space Symposium - National Press Club, Canberra
Stephen Dupont, aMBUSH Gallery
Out of Lockdown and borders opening up
Resumption of flights
20th anniversary commemoration of David Branson AKA Señor Handsome
Alexey Pavlovskyle
Australian visit, Canberra
Treasurer of Australia
Emotional farewell to Federal parliament.
Scanned some old negatives this year. The Ramones, Steve Tyler and the Bee Gees
Keeping 200 "things" in working order is an ongoing struggle :-)
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