Name Dean Sewell | Role Photographer | |
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Awards World Press Photo Award for Spot News |
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Dean Sewell (b 1972) is an Australian documentary photographer. He has won a number of awards. He lives in Sydney.
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Life and work
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Sewell grew up in Sydney and started his career as a news photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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His first major award was in 1994 when he received the Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year.
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Based in Moscow in 1996 and 1997, Sewell covered the First Chechen War and Russian Federal Elections as well as documenting social issues in the Post-Soviet states.
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Sewell's series on The Block, an Aboriginal community in Redfern, an inner suburb of Sydney, was showcased at the Visa pour l'image festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France.
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In 2001, Sewell was a co-founder of the Australian documentary photography collective Oculi.
In 2004, Sewell flew to Aceh just after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and photographed the aftermath. His work won a World Press Photo award.