The world loves Trent Parke … who?

He is the only Australian photographer admitted to the prestigious Magnum fraternity. Parke’s Adelaide exhibition gives us a hint why.
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Trent Parke, Cockatoo backyard, Newcastle 2011 © Trent Parke/Magnum Photos

Trent Parke is obsessed with telling a story through images; with seeking out locked memories and with the magic of light and dark captured in film – not digital photography. He likes to shoot by moonlight or a breaking sun, to record nature’s most fragile and fleeting moments. But his deepest passion is to make books, collections of his work that create a whole out of multiple images.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina