BRISBANE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

Location: Brisbane, Australia.
Experience: 33 years
Glenn Hunt is a Brisbane Professional Editorial and Commercial Photographer.
Mentored and encouraged by an uncle who was a wedding and portrait photographer he soon found himself working for his local rural newspaper in the Adelaide Hills. After completing his cadetship he moved to Sydney to take a staff position at The Australian newspaper.
In 1996, after working as an intern at National Geographic and Reuters-Washington, he started his freelance career working for such magazines as Good Weekend, The Bulletin, The Australian Financial Review Magazine and the Weekend Australian Magazine.
In 2000 he became one of the founding directors of Oculi, an Australian based collective of award-winning visual storytellers offering a narrative of contemporary life.
Also in 2000, Hunt returned to Adelaide for three years where he trained his focus on the worldwide documentation of horse culture, which has been a major personal project to date. After his time in Adelaide, Hunt spent 3 years in Melbourne again working for a number of magazines, news agencies and corporate clients. In 2006 Hunt moved to Brisbane where he was the head photographer for Fairfax Media until 2014.
Hunt now works across the photography spectrum in media, corporate, advertising, fashion, portraiture, event, wedding and sport photography.
Awards/Exhibitions/Achievements:
1997/98/99 – State Library of NSW – Acquisitions
2001 – Panorama magazine, Australian Photographer of the Year – Award
2001 – Reportage Festival – Screening
2002 – Reportage Festival – Screening
2003 – Witness – An Exhibition of Australian Photojournalism – The Australian Centre for Photography – Exhibition
2003 – Photographer of the Year awards (POYi) – 1st Place – Award
2004 – 7th International Prize for Young Photojournalism – Finalist – Award
2004 – Trierenberg Super Circuit – 2 X Gold Medal – Award
2004 – Silver Camera Award – Award
2004 & 2006 – Humanity Awards – 1st Place – Award
2006 – EQUUS – Who Controls the Present? – Blender Gallery, Sydney – 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne – Exhibition
2007 – EQUUS – Horses of the World – Blender Gallery, Sydney – 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne – Exhibition
2008 – EQUUS – Horses of the World – book – Publication
2009 – Reportage Festival – A Retrospective 1999 -2009 – Screening & Exhibition
2009 – Reportage – A Retrospective 1999 -2009 – book – Publication
2009/10 – EQUUS – Horses of the World – Queensland Arts Council – OnTour – Exhibition
2013 – The Clayton Utz Art Award – Finalist – Award
2016 – The Australian Photography Awards – 1st Place – Award
2015/17/18 – Moran Prize Semi-Finalist – Award
2018 – Hasselblad Masters Finalist – Award
2019 – Martin Kantor Portrait Prize – Dual Finalist– Award
2019 – Australian Photography Awards – 2nd Place – Documentary, Highly Commended – Film Analogue, 2 x Honourable Mentions – Portrait, Honourable Mention – Travel/Street – Award
2019 – Brisbane Portrait Prize – Dual Finalist– Award
2020 – Brisbane Portrait Prize – 1st Prize – Digital – Award
2020– The Clayton Utz Art Award – Finalist – Award



Commercial Clients:
- The Australian Newspaper
- The Australian Financial Review
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Good Weekend
- The Weekend Australian Magazine
- New York Times
- The Guardian
- Forbes Magazine
- Art Guide Australia
- Women’s Day
- New Idea
- OnEarth Magazine
- Investment Magazine
- Australian Associated Press
- Getty Images
- Fairfax Media
- News Corp Australia
- Engage Media
- Glencore
- Anglo American
- QIC
- Flight Centre
- Griffith University
- Bluesky
- Data3
- Professional Pharmacy Services
- Canon Australia
- Bates Australia
- Horseland
- Weatherbeeta
- Fritz Frames
- Australian Red Cross
- Fernwood Fitness
- Petrofac
- GHD
- Freelancer
- Expose Media
- eBay Australia
- Rebulic PR
- Student One
- HMG Hardchrome
- Air Asia
- SoHo Media Group
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Canberra Writers Festival
- Noosa Jazz Festival
- Staging Connections
- Queens Wharf Brisbane
- Pepper
- Prime Creative Media
- Mushroom Group
- Jack Nimble
- Coates Hire
- Antec Engineering
- Pictura Creative
- Aspire Facades
- Intrim
- Stella Artois
- 3 Degrees
- Toohey Reid
Photographic services include:
- Corporate Photography
- Advertising Photography
- Portrait Photography
- Headshot Photography
- Annual Report Photography
- Public Relations Photography
- Personal Branding Photography
- Industrial Photography
- Fashion Photography
- Event Photography
- Studio Photography
- Music Photography
- Magazine Photography
- Newspaper Photography
- Documentary Photography
- Wedding Photography
- Sports Photography