Glenn Campbell is a freelance photographer based in Darwin,the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory.Although he has spent 5 career making years in Sydney as a staff photographer for the Australian newspaper,remote Australia is his natural domain,having been born and bred in the outback mining town of Mount Isa.
From his base facing the Arafura Sea, he is regularly assigned work in Indonesia,East Timor and the Pacific Rim for editorial clients such as the Age and Sydney Morning Herald Newspapers.In the aftermath of 9-11 he has also completed difficult assignments in Pakistans North West Frontier,terrorist hit Bali and the Jihadi havens of central Java.
His Portrayal of life on Australia’s northern frontier is rooted in his deep understanding of the tensions between economic,environmental and indidgenous interests.While a major focus of his work focuses on highlighting the difficulties,hopes and dreams of those who live in remote aboriginal communities,he has also documented life in the Mining camps from West Australia’s Pilbara to the coal fields of Queenslands Bowen Basin,the cattle stations of the interior and the highways and byways that intersect the nothern half of the Australian continent.
He has also amassed a vast body of personal work which is stamped by a drive to capture and evoke the isolation,harshness and unique qualities of the Australian interiordirectly as he has experienced it.
His work has won numerous awards and has been published widely in many of the worlds most respected publications.