Trent Parke Explained

Trent Parke 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.

Early life

Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle, New South Wales. He started photography when he was twelve. At age 13 he watched his mother die from an asthma attack.^[1]

Career

Parke has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian newspaper.^[1]

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^[2] and The Black Rose.^[1]

Parke became a member of the In-Public street photography collective in 2001.^[3] He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.^[4]

Selected publications

As author

• Dream/Life. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. .
• The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback . Paperback . 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. .
• Bedknobs & Broomsticks. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. .
• The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. .
• Minutes to Midnight. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. .
  • Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. .
• 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. .
  • Second edition with subtle changes. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. .
• Cue The Sun. London: Stanley/Barker, 2021. .

As contributor

• So now then. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006. . 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. .
• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. .
• Magnum Contact Sheets. Edited by Kristen Lubben.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. .
  • Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . Compact edition.
  • Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. .
• The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke.
• The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. . Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff.
• Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. . Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.
• 100 Great Street Photographs. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2017. By David Gibson. . Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke.
• Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018. .

Films

Films by Parke

• The Summation of Force – eight channel film directed by Parke, Autio, and Matthew Bate^{[5] [6]}

Documentaries about Parke

• Dreamlives (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio.
• Trent Parke: The Black Rose (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and Geoff Dyer. Broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015.^[7]

Recognition and awards

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".^[8]

Awards include:

• 1996–1998: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee.^[9]
• 1999: Second prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award (for "Bathurst Car Races").^[10]
• 2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave").^[11]
• 2000: Canon photo essay prize, Sasakawa World Sports Awards.
• 2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Narelle Autio (for "Australian Roadkill" series).^[12]
• 2003: W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.^[13]
• 2005: Third prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award 2004 (for "Wiluna").^[14]
• 2007: Exhibiting Finalist – Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize.^[15]
• 2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program.^[16]
• 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.^[17]

Exhibitions

• 2000: The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.
• 2002: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam.
• 2002: Dva Pivo Prosim (Two Beers Please) (with Narelle Autio) – Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[18]
• 2002: Sydney Treasures, Art & About, Sydney.
• 2002: Dream/Life & Beyond – Stills Gallery, Sydney.
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle.
• 2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) – Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York.
• 2004: Suspended States, Sydney Arts Festival.
• 2004: Minutes to Midnight – Part One, Leica Gallery, Germany.
• 2005: Minutes to Midnight, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.^[19]
• 2005: Colour Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney.^[20]
• 2006: Minutes to Midnight, Wollongong City Gallery^[21]
• 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.^{[22] [23]}
• 2008: Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney.
• 2009: Minutes to Midnight, Children's Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia.^[4]
• 2009: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, Sydney Opera House.^[4]
• 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

External links

• Parke's profile at Magnum Photos
• Parke's profile at In-Public
• Parke discusses Minutes To Midnight (video)
• 'Trent Parke – Dreamlives (2002) – Australian Story' (video)
• Parke at Hugo Michell Gallery

Notes and References

1. News: Clarissa. Sebag-Montefiore. 2018-11-16. The photographer who made Australia his canvas. BBC News. 8 March 2015.
2. "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008;), n.p.
3. Web site: Trent Parke . 11 February 2015 . . dead . https://archive.today/20130126005959/http://www.in-public.com/TrentParke . 26 January 2013 . dmy-all .
4. "Trent Parke", Stills Gallery. Accessed 14 August 2009.
5. Web site: Luke. Buckmaster. 2018-11-16. If virtual reality is film's next big thing, how long will it take to get right?. 6 October 2017. The Guardian.
6. News: 2018-11-16. Trent Parke and Narelle Autio's The Summation of Force - The Adelaide Review. The Adelaide Review. 20 June 2017.
7. Web site: Trent Parke: The Black Rose. Catherine . Hunter . Catherine Hunter (filmmaker) . 22 April 2015 . 23 April 2015 . .
8. Book: Martin Parr . Gerry Badger . Martin Parr . Gerry Badger . The Photobook: A History, Volume III . London . Phaidon . 2014 . 168 . 978-0-7148-6677-2 .
9. "Trent Parke", Magnum Photos. Accessed 14 August 2009.
10. Web site: 1998, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life. 20 January 2015 . World Press Photo.
11. Web site: 1999, Trent Parke, 2nd prize, Daily Life stories. 20 January 2015 . World Press Photo.
12. Web site: 2000, Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, 1st prize, Nature stories. 20 January 2015 . World Press Photo.
13. Web site: 2003: Recipients: Trent Parke. 15 October 2015 . .
14. Web site: 2004, Trent Parke, 3rd prize, Daily Life. 20 January 2015 . World Press Photo.
15. Web site: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, NPPP2007 . portrait.gov.au . 13 September 2012.
16. Web site: Trent Parke (Australia). 22 January 2014 . Parallel Contemporary Art .
17. Web site: Die Sieger 2015 . 19 November 2014 . Deutscher Fotobuchpreis . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150222151115/http://www.deutscher-fotobuchpreis.de/html/sieger.htm . 22 February 2015 . dmy-all .
18. http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/2002/index.php?obj_id=2002_03&nav=3 Exhibition notices
19. http://tmp.acp.org.au/news/2005.php 2005 events
20. http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/2005/index.php?obj_id=2005_11&nav=3 Exhibition notice
21. http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/news/2006/index.php?obj_id=09&nav=9 Events page
22. News: Magnum Photos: New Blood. 23 March 2014 . .
23. News: Magnum uncorks champagne moments. 21 August 2007 . 23 March 2014 . Robert . McFarlane . .
24. Web site: 2010 Survey Show. 2020-11-30. Hugo Michell Gallery.
25. Web site: Narelle Autio & Trent Parke – To the Sea. Hugo Michell Gallery. 9 May 2015 .
26. Web site: Photography Gallery: Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket. 23 April 2015 . .
27. Web site: 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart. 2020-11-30. Hugo Michell Gallery.
28. News: Needham. Alex. 2014-03-14. Trent Parke lets his camera play God in inspired new street portrait series. en-GB. The Guardian. 2020-11-30. 0261-3077.
29. Web site: 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart. 2020-11-30. AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. en.
30. Web site: The Camera is God. 2020-11-30. Hugo Michell Gallery.
31. Web site: Trent Parke's The Camera is God at Hugo Michell Gallery, 2014. 2020-11-30. Hugo Michell Gallery.
32. Web site: Trent Parke: The Black Rose. 22 April 2015 . .
33. Web site: 2018-11-16. Trent Parke: The Black Rose, Adelaide festival of arts. 4 December 2014. The Guardian.
34. Web site: 2020-11-21. Through the 'holy grail' – a simple black box – light ignites life in Adelaide's sky. 28 October 2019. CityMag (InDaily).
35. Web site: 2020-11-21. Event: Trent Parke: The Crimson Line. 24 October 2019. The Adelaide Review.
36. Web site: 2020-11-21. Trent Parke - The Crimson Line. Hugo Michell Gallery.
37. Web site: Collection search. 23 April 2015 . .
38. Web site: 2018-11-16. Trent Parke. www.ngv.vic.gov.au.
39. Web site: 2018-11-16. Search Results. catalogue.nla.gov.au.
40. Web site: 2018-11-16. Trent Parke. www.mca.com.au.