Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer. 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 and represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide and Stills Gallery, Sydney.
Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle (NSW); he now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He started photography when he was twelve. He has worked as a photojournalist for The Australian newspaper.
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".
In 2003 he and his wife, the photographer Narelle Autio, made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in Parke's series and book Minutes to Midnight.
Parke became a member of the In-Publicstreet photography collective in 2001. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2002 and a member in 2007; the first Australian invited to join.
Publications by Parke
Dream/Life. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 1999. ISBN 0-646-37991-7.
The Seventh Wave: Photographs of Australian Beaches. Kirribilli, N.S.W, Australia: Hot Chilli Press, 2000. Hardback ISBN 0-646-39747-8. Paperback ISBN 0-646-39746-X. 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. ISBN 978-2-35046-041-3.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks. St. Paul, Minnesota: Little Brown Mushroom, 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-37550-2.
The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parke's Family Album. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. ISBN 978-3869302065.
Minutes to Midnight.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 96 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-3869302058.
So now then. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2006. ISBN 9781872771656. 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. ISBN 978-3-7913-4435-5.
Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 9780500544129.
Magnum Contact Sheets. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0500544310. Compact edition.
Magnum Contact Sheets: Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave, 2000 (Collector's Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 978-0500544143.
The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Parke.
The World Atlas of Street Photography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-20716-3. Edited by Jackie Higgins. With a foreword by Max Kozloff.
Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 9780500544341. Edited by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formhals.
100 Great Street Photographs. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2017. By David Gibson. ISBN 978-3791383132. Contains a commentary on and a photograph by Parke.
Documentaries about Parke
Dreamlives (2002). Directed and produced by Jennifer Crone. Includes Trent and Autio. OCLC 701130326
Trent Parke: The Black Rose (2015). Directed by Catherine Hunter. Includes Parke, Autio and Geoff Dyer. Broadcast on ABC, 21 April 2015.
Awards
1996/98: 5 Gold Lenses, International Olympic Committee.
1999: Second prize, Daily Life category, World Press Photo Award (for "Bathurst Car Races").
2000: Second prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo Award 1999 (for "The Seventh Wave").
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).
2014: Winner of Photography category, Prudential Eye Awards by Global Eye Program.
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.
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.
2005: Colour Work, Stills Gallery, Sydney.
2006: Minutes to Midnight, Wollongong City Gallery
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.
2008: Christmas Tree Bucket, Stills Gallery, Sydney.
