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 National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina