Gary R.
Canberra ACT, Australia
$600 - $1900
LITERALLY, there are things the Australian public would not see if Gary Ramage did not photograph them.
Ramage, a triple Walkley Award-winning photographer, is one of Australia’s leading news and documentary photojournalists, with more than 30 years experience in the industry.
From Shapelle's Corby through to the Christchurch massacre and most recently the Australian bushfires that ripped through last summer, Ramage has been there behind the lens capturing history.
As the Chief Photographer for News Corp, Ramage was the first photographer deployed by the national news desk for assignments that needed complex problem solving, social perceptiveness, critical thinking and most importantly, the shot.
There are some assignments that all a photojournalist has to work with is one hundredth of a second, and Ramage never failed to deliver.
He has travelled extensively around the world on news assignments and is the complete package: he can think on his feet, work in the field, has the technical skills for print and digital imagery - and has excellent knowledge of current affairs.
Before joining News Corp, Ramage spent 20 years as a military photographer, latterly serving as the Australian Army’s Chief Photographer.
He has documented conflicts all over the world including Somalia, Bougainville, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ramage is a passionate photographer who is dedicated to maintaining high standards. He is an exceptional logistician and planner. He also has strong communications skills and an outgoing personality which endears him to the people he photographs.
His most recent feature work involved turning that lens on himself.
"From the shallow graves of Kosovo to bloody battlefields in Helmand province, this has been by far the hardest photographic assignment of all — documenting the day my father Joe moved into a full-time care facility for people with stage-four dementia," Ramage, wrote for a pictorial essay featured across News Corp publications.
"Whether to photograph the event at all was a struggle, but my father raised me always to tell the truth.
How could I continue to crash into people’s lives with my camera when they are at their most vulnerable and yet not to have the courage to do it with my own family?"
Ramage's work has appeared NEWS CORP editorial network - reaching 10 million readers every week across print and digital platforms for the past 16 years.
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
The Shot - Harper Collins 2016
Afghanistan - Australia’s War - Harper Collins 2014
Through Aussie Eyes - The ADF in Somalia 1993
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Fixer
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Event Photographer
- Portrait Photographer
- Drone Operator