Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press Photo awards; and his photographs are held in numerous public and private collections. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Life and work

Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle, New South Wales; he now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack.^[1] He has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian newspaper.^[1]

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that Parke's first book Dream/Life is "as dynamic a set of street pictures as has been seen outside the United States or Japan".^[2]

In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer Narelle Autio, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's books Minutes to Midnight^[3] and The Black Rose.^[1]

Parke became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2001.^[4] He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.^[5][6]

Publications

Publications by Parke

• Dream/Life. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. ISBN 0-646-37991-7.
• The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback ISBN 0-646-39747-8. Paperback ISBN 0-646-39746-X. With Narelle Autio. Includes an essay on the beach in Australian culture by Robert Drewe.
• Minutes to Midnight. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, 2005. 32 pages, 20 plates, paperback. ISBN 978-2-35046-041-3.
• Bedknobs & Broomsticks. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-37550-2.
• The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. ISBN 978-3869302065.
• Minutes to Midnight. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
  • Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
• The Black Rose. Adelaide, Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2015. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 14 March – 10 May 2015.
• Crimson Line. London: Stanley/Barker, 2020. ISBN 978-1-913288-13-6.
  • Second edition with subtle changes. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-13-6.
• Cue The Sun. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-37-2.

Publications with contributions by Parke

• So now then. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006. ISBN 9781872771656. Edited by Paul Seawright and Christopher Coppock. Photographs by Parke, Shelby Lee Adams, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chien-Chi Chang, Weng Fen, Julio Grinblatt, An-My Lê Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Massimo Vitali and Michael Wesely. Essays by David Campany, "Straight pictures of a crooked world"; Martha Langford, "What use is photography"; and Jan-Erik Lundström, "Look and tell: some further thoughts on the documentary genre". An anthology of international documentary photography commissioned by Hereford Photo Festival. Edition of 1000.
• A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive. Munich: Prestel; New York, Paris, London, Tokyo: Magnum Photos, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7913-4435-5.
• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9563322-1-9.
• Magnum Contact Sheets. Edited by Kristen Lubben.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 9780500544129.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0500544310. Compact edition.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 978-0500544143.
• The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke.
• The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-20716-3. Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff.
• Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 9780500544341. Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.
• 100 Great Street Photographs. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2017. By David Gibson. ISBN 978-3791383132. Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke.
• Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018. ISBN 978-4-9909806-0-3.

Films

Films by Parke

• The Summation of Force – eight channel film directed by Parke, Autio and Matthew Bate^[7][8]

Documentaries about Parke

• Dreamlives (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio. OCLC 701130326
• Trent Parke: The Black Rose (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and Geoff Dyer. Broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015.^[9]

Awards

• 1996–1998: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee.^[10]
• 1999: Second prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award (for "Bathurst Car Races").^[11]
• 2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave").^[12]
• 2000: Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards.^[10]
• 2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Narelle Autio (for "Australian Roadkill" series).^[13]
• 2003: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.^[14]
• 2005: Third prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award 2004 (for "Wiluna").^[15]
• 2007: Exhibiting Finalist – Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize.^[16]
• 2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program.^[17]
• 2014: Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2015, Gold medal, Konzeptionell-künstlerische Fotobildbänd (Conceptually-artistic photobook) category, went to Steidl for Minutes to Midnight, along with three other winners.^[18]

Exhibitions

• 2000: The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[5]
• 2002: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam.^[5]
• 2002: Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please) (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[19]
• 2002: Sydney Treasures, Art & About, Sydney.^[5]
• 2002: Dream/Life & Beyond – Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[19]
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle.^[5]
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York.^[5]
• 2004: Suspended States, Sydney Arts Festival.^[5]
• 2004: Minutes to Midnight – Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany.^[5]
• 2005: Minutes to Midnight, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.^[20]
• 2005: Colour Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[21]
• 2006: Minutes to Midnight, Wollongong City Gallery^[22]
• 2007: Welcome to Nowhere, Stills Gallery, Sydney. Part of New Blood, Magnum Photos 60th anniversary exhibition. With Antoine D'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Mark Power and Alec Soth.^[23][6]
• 2008: Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[5]
• 2009: Minutes to Midnight, Children's Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia.^[5]
• 2009: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Sydney Opera House.^[5]
• 2010: Survey Show, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[24]
• 2013: To the Sea with Narelle Autio, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[25]
• 2013: The Christmas Tree Bucket, National Gallery of Australia, 20 December 2013 – 23 February 2014.^[26]
• 2014: The Camera is God, The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.^[27][28][29]
• 2014: The Camera is God, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.^[30][31]
• 2015: The Black Rose, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 March – 10 May 2015. Part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival.^[1][32][33]
• The Crimson Line, Hugo Michell Gallery, 31 October – 23 November 2019^[34][35][36]

Collections

Parke's work is held in the following public collections:

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra^[37]
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: 7 prints (as of November 2018)^[38]
• National Library of Australia^[39]
• Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 1 print (as of November 2018)^[40]
• University of Sydney Union, University of Sydney, Sydney