Exposure

Exposure: Belinda Mason

By Alexandra Savvides on 31 October 2008
Exposure is a series of photo galleries showcasing photographic talent in Australia. Our featured photographers share their best shots and give us an insight into both their creative and technical processes. If you are interested in being featured in Exposure, or know any photo buffs who might be, contact us at cnet@cnet.com.au.

Photographer: Belinda Mason

Equipment: Canon 1DS Mark III and whichever lens fits the bill.

Belinda Mason is an award-winning Sydney-based photographer. She worked as a News Ltd Press photographer in the late 1980s before becoming a freelance photographer.

Her work focuses on taboo social subjects that explore the very personal and sometimes difficult subjects of grief, body image, identity and family. Belinda is the 2008 winner of the richest photography prize in Australia, The Moran Prize. Her winning image is entitled "Four Generations".

Belinda was recently awarded "Most Emotionally Intense Image" at the CCP 2008 Kodak Salon. This same image of a burn survivor won the Perth 2008 PCP Iris Award. Her work has been exhibited at the NSW Art Gallery as part of the Shoot The Chef exhibition, and she has participated in exhibitions such as Head On, Josephine Ulrick and Olive Cotton Awards, the Alice Prize, Iris Awards.

Her work is exhibited on her website www.belindamason.com.

Maningrida series

Charlie & Jonno
Charlie and I met in 1983 in Adelaide when he was studying at Adelaide University and I was working with the Kaurna community in Adelaide on an exhibition called "The Plains People". I travelled to Maningrida to see Charlie over the years, but it wasn't until 2003 that we decided to exhibit any of the images that I shot. For me these images were very personal "holiday snaps". To assist with the rebuilding of the town, 80 per cent of the proceeds of sale of the work is given to the indigenous community of Maningrida after the largest cyclone in Australian history destroyed the town.

(Credit: Belinda Mason, www.belindamason.com)

Topics: exposure, belinda mason, 1ds, photography, credit, image, burn, exhibition, award, disability

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