Trisha Dixon

Trisha Dixon is a photographer-author who lectures on the art of photography both within Australia and abroad. The National Library of Australia has made a number of acquisitions of Trisha’s images for their collection,  have exhibited her work and published a number of books of her photographs. Trisha's latest project has taken her to foreign fields but it is the Australian landscape where she draws greatest inspiration from - particularly the surreal spare naturally treeless plains of Monaro at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains where Trisha lives on an historic grazing property.  Trisha is on the Board of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and travels extensively photographing and documenting, researching and consulting. Photography, she believes, is all about the light and 'the eye'.

Alasdair Foster

Alasdair Foster is director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney – Australia’s longest running contemporary art space – and Managing Editor of Photofile magazine. He was formerly the founding director of Fotofeis, the award-winning international biennale of photo-based art in Scotland. Alasdair is currently a member of the photomedia research cluster at Monash University Department of Theory of Art and Design, and was formerly President of the Contemporary Art Organisations of Australia. He has contributed to a number of books including: BLINK (Phaidon, 2002); Ray Cook – Diary of a Fortunate Man (QCP, 2007); Erwin Olaf (Aperture 2008).

Miranda Lawry

Miranda Lawry is a photographer and an academic based in Newcastle. Currently she is a senior lecturer in photomedia and convenor of the Bachelor of Fine Art Honours program in the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at the University of Newcastle.
Miranda has served executive roles at Newcastle University that have included Head of School for Fine Art and Assistant Dean – International and is a founding member and researcher in the Arts/Health Research and Practice Centre. Miranda’s recent work includes a major commission for the Royal Newcastle Centre Medical complex for Hunter New England Health and a touring exhibition that she curated entitled The New Adventures of Mark Twain: Coalopolis to Metropolis that was shown in New York in 2007. She has been an executive member of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) a member of the Sydney Children Hospital Art Advisory Committee, a committee member of the Newcastle Civic and Cultural Precinct Advisory Group and regularly curates exhibitions, supervisors post graduate students and participates in community cultural engagement on a regional and national level. Miranda is currently completing a PhD investigating intersections of art and medicine.

Robyn Stacey

Robyn Stacey is a Sydney based photographer, whose work is held in the collections of Artbank, the Australian National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, all State galleries, most University collections, numerous corporate and private collections. She is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney. A member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council (2006 -2008), and photographer/author with Ashley Hay of Herbarium, 2004, and Museum, 2007, both published by Cambridge University Press. Stacey is represented by Stills Gallery.

Brad Franks

Brad Franks is the manager of the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. He attended art school majoring in photography, and has participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions, winning a number of prizes along the way. His photographs have appeared in major publications including Rolling Stone and Australian Photography. After working at the Mitchell Library, Rex Irwin Gallery, Nicholson Street Gallery, Brad found himself in the late 1980’s in the Upper Hunter working in the community sector with disadvantaged people including teaching art and illustrating and editing a comic book on drug awareness. By the 1990’s he was involved with the Muswellbrook Regional Gallery as a volunteer and regular contributor to group shows and since 2003 he has been employed at what is now the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre currently as the Arts Centre Manager.

Sandra McMahon

Originally from Sydney, Sandra has lived in Regional NSW for the past 26 years and has raised three children.  She has worked in the Arts for the past 23 years. Prior to her current position as Director Tamworth Regional Gallery, she was Curator at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Gallery Assistant at Helen Maxwell Gallery in Canberra and Administration Officer at Southern Tablelands Arts Goulburn, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery as the Education/ Public Programs Officer, and was a part-time visual arts teacher at TAFE NSW at Moree, Quirindi and Tamworth Campuses. She has a Diploma in Visual Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Art History and Curatorship from ANU.

Leslie Wand

Leslie Wand has pursued a career covering both photography and video production after completing a BA in photography and printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the late 60’s. In the 80’s, in addition to working for a number of major film and television studios in Europe and in Israel, he reviewed Photographic exhibitions for several newspaper and magazines. Since moving to Australia in the 90’s, he has worked for ABC and SBS television, and helped in the initial stages of TropFest. He has won numerous awards for his work in all three countries for video production, documentaries, and garnered praise for his skill as a commercial photographer. At present he teaches digital photography and continues to work on a variety of video and photographic productions, for private, corporate and regional art galleries.