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Experience Timor - Leste with internationally renouned underwater and documentary photographers Belinda Pratten and Pamela Martin.
Belinda has had an extensive career as a photojournalist with
the Fairfax Group, a freelance photojournalist/photographer
and a teacher of photography. Assignments have included; travelling with Prime Minister John Howard to South Africa
and New Zealand, covering drought stricken Australia,
Federal election campaigns, documenting the rehabilitation
of orang-utans and their release into the Meratus Forest, Borneo, and covering the first days of the UN Peacekeepers
in Dili, East Timor, in September 1999.
Some personal work includes documenting behind the scenes
of a war in Kabul, Afghanistan 1995 and one year in Bourke
and Brewarrina, western NSW. Working in Aboriginal communities is an ongoing interest for Belinda, who now works as a volunteer with Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV)
and is writing a feature length script based on her experience
in Western NSW.
She has worked for Greenpeace, spending a week on a ship,
the Esperanza, during a campaign to draw attention to the expansion of the coal export facilities in North Queensland.
This trip culminated in a touring photographic exhibition to further tell this story. Belinda has also exhibited personal work, and has work collected in The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Museum and Gallery CMAG, The War Memorial collection, ACT Legislative Assembly Art Collection, and private collections.
She has had 9 years teaching experience, with Canberra Institute of Technology, PhotoAccess and as a volunteer with ICV.
Pamela Martin
Belinda Pratten
Pamela Martin is a multi award winning freelance photographer and Australian University Photography Lecturer. She has been published in numerous articles and feature stories for her photojournalist work including: The Sydney Morning Herald,
The Melbourne Age, The Guardian, The Star and ABC Online. Pamela currently works as a freelance photographer for Getty Images, covering the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections of Timor - Leste and the 2013 catastrophic Australian Bushfires.
Her love of the ocean and diving has lead Pamela to a successful career as an underwater photo journalist, documenting the Humpback Whale populations of the South Pacific, The Sperm Whale population of the Azores and the Shark populations of
the Galapagos Islands. This has seen Pamela’s stills photography published in Ocean Geographic and videography work published
in the David Suzuki 'Force of Nature' DVD box set.
Pamela is the Ocean Geographic, 'Conservation Ambassador' Award Winner and the United Nations, Biodiversity Competition, Overall Portfolio Winner. She is also a multi-award winning photographer in the Australian Institute of Professional Photography awards.