Queensland College of Art has been offering programs in photography for more than 20 years. We are recognised globally for our innovative approaches to education in this area, and our teaching staff posses both academic and photography industry experience. Some continue to work in senior roles within the industry, ensuring relevant and up-to-date courses. All academic staff are committed educators who take pride in being accessible to students, and our large number of support staff means that help is never far away.
Griffith's Photography educators have many years teaching and professional experience.
Earle Bridger
Earle Bridger’s areas of specialisation include the political, sociological, educational, informative, promotional and entertainment value of press images, and the quality of photojournalism in Australia.
He has worked as a news photographer in Queensland, England and the United States, where he completed a Master of Arts (Photography) at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.
Associate Professor Marian Drew
Visual artist Marian Drew specialises in photography and video installation. After completing an undergraduate degree in photomedia at the Canberra Institute for the Arts, she received a German Government Scholarship (DAAD) for postgraduate studies in experimental photography at Kassel University, Germany.
Representing Australia in the first Asia Pacific Triennale in 1992, her work is held in the Australian National Gallery, as well as other state, public and private collections. Exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1983, she has also received several major public art commissions.
Her video work was included in an international video art exhibition in Germany in 2002, and in 2006 published her first monograph Marian Drew: Photographs and Video Works. In 2010, Lorikeet with Green Cloth (2006) was acquired by the prestigious Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and was exhibited at the museum as part of the exhibition “In Focus: Still Life”.
David Lloyd
David Lloyd specialises in social documentary photography. His particular interests are concerned with the analysis, explanation and interpretation of social order through the politics and aesthetics of the visual medium.
He argues that meaningful documentary practice has been a forerunner to the new ethnographic methods finding scholarly acceptance today. Further, the visual alone, or combined with other communicative media, provides a more holistic method of inquiry that it is that it is able to convey the ever-changing patterns, the complexities and the intricacies of the human experience.
Dr Charles Page
Dr Charles Page’s practice as a documentary photographer spans more than 40 years. He has traveled extensively and photographed in more than 60 countries.
He has undertaken commissioned work for local and state galleries, local, state and national governments, the International Red Cross and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. His work is held in numerous national and international public and private collections.
His practice has addressed a variety of social and political issues ranging from war zones to the Antarctic and is informed by an understanding of the issues being addressed and an awareness of the contemporary trends in the discourse of documentary photography.
Peter Wanny
Peter Wanny’s academic interests address the technological process and advances within the medium of photography, and the subsequent effect on the industry.
He has extensive experience in creative advertising and commercial photography in Sydney and Brisbane.
Jay Younger
Jay Younger is a practicing artist and curator. Her research interests focus on the body, gender and space, and find form in photomedia, public art and site-specific installation.
A survey exhibition of Jay's works entitled Glare was held at the University of Queensland Art Museum in December 2002 and a significant monograph on her practice was launched on this occasion.
Jay has been awarded Australia Council artist residencies in New York, Florence and Manila. In 1993, she was awarded the Arts Queensland Creative Fellowship. Her artworks are exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in the Australian National Gallery, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery.
Jay completed her PhD studies in the arena of art in public spaces.
Siegfried Manietta
Siegfried entered tertiary photo-education in 1978, having worked for 10 years in the photographic industry in Germany and Australia.
He holds the title of Guest Professor of Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, where he developed and taught the first international-venture Master of Arts program approved in mainland China. In 1998, Siegfried received a Friendship Award – the Chinese Government’s highest recognition for the work of visiting “foreign experts”.
His research interests include photographic education, quantitative photographic materials performance, display holography and photographing the Australian landscape. Siegfried is a member of the holography working group of International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), the Australian Commercial and Media Photographers (ACMP), the Institute of Photographic Technology (IPT) and the Photo Imaging Education Association (PIEA).
Dr Joseph McDowall
Dr Joseph McDowall’s research and practice concentrates on the iconic and symbolic incorporation of the nude in the visual arts and the media – within a photographic framework and from an historic and contemporary perspective.
He has an interest in technical and scientific photography, and enjoys photographing the human form. Joseph also has provided articles and illustrations for numerous psychology journals and texts. He is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
Angela Blakely
Angela Blakely has established a substantial record as a photo documentist. During her career, Blakely has worked to combine the traditions of documentary practice with qualitative research methodologies and, as such, she has developed an in-field expertise in visual ethnography.
Angela has completed several significant documentary projects, including issues surrounding eating disorders, sexual abuse, and suicide and grief. She continues to work on projects (in collaboration with David Lloyd) documenting aspects of the Rwanda crisis and, within Australia, substance misuse in the Aboriginal communities of Queensland’s far north.
Angela’s work has been widely exhibited throughout Australia.