About Dean McCartney: Photographer

RECENT AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS 2007 ADMA AWARDS: Winner - Grand Prix Campaign: Pimp Our Ads, Agency: Lavender, Client: Roads & Traffic Authority 2009 Head On alternative portraits: 'Short list' Australian Centre for Photography 2008 Spaces & Objects, China Heights Gallery, Surry Hills 2007 Head On alternative portraits: 'Finalist' Australian Centre for Photography Dean McCartney has been working as a professional freelance photographer for Australia's highest profile magazines and a broad range of commercial and Government clients over the past 12 years. His folio demonstrates a flexible approach that allows him to tell a pictorial story, interpret a creative direction or deliver on a technical brief. Committed to delivering on time and on budget, Dean McCartney will personally manage much of the pre-production required prior to each shoot. Negotiating talent fees, sourcing the perfect location and hiring the best crew where needed. His portraits include celebrity profiles for high-circulation magazines, along with more socially focused government publications. Whether it's an artistic black and white interpretation for a gallery wall, a gritty image for a political journal or a straight corporate shot of an executive, Dean McCartney looks forward to every opportunity to shoot people. Dean McCartney has recently developed an impressive portfolio of auto work shooting luxury European cars, Smart Car, HSV Holden and police cars for Singleton Oglivy & Mather. Along with his commercial work Dean McCartney has a longstanding personal and professional interest in shooting places. His folio covers a range of places and spaces, including old and new buildings, interiors, inner city ally ways, art galleries and lunar landscapes. Qualifications: Batchelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts 93-96