Colin Beard will be exhibiting at KaRI

Colin Beard the well known photographer will be exhibiting at KaRi from June 2nd 2013. This will be a major event for the gallery. The opening is at 11.00am on June 2nd at the KaRi Gallery.

Over his long career Colin Beard has worked in many fields of photography always at the highest level. He began photography in the mid sixties as a founding member of Australia’s first Rock’n Roll Magazine, ‘Go-Set’ and subsequently worked in UK and USA.

He is one of Australia’s most prominent Fashion and Advertising Photographers with his work appearing in Vogue’, ‘Dolly’, ‘Cleo’, ‘Pol’.etc. He is also a highly regarded photojournalist, working extensively for The Sydney Morning Herald,  The Bulletin magazines and he was the first photographer to be commissioned for Australian Geographic magazine.

He began teaching in 1977 at ‘The Sydney College of the Arts’, The University of Technology, Sydney, introducing many new courses in photography including digital photography.

He has produced a series of large format books with writer, James Cowan, including ‘The Mountain Men’, The River People,’ Starlight’s Trail’ and ‘Sacred Places in Australia’ plus other books including ‘Women of Power’ with Gael Knepfer, ‘Australia the Beautiful’, with James Granville and ‘Australia the Beautiful; Cookbook’.He has received numerous awards for his work, and exhibited in all major cities in Australia and internationally.

He is currently the principal teacher at the Sunshine Coast School of Photography.

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