Rob Walls

Current

contributor at AGE fotostock
Documenting at This Working Life
Photojournalist at 42 Degrees South

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Past

Stills Photographer at Northway Productions
Contributor at Alamy
Photojournalist at 42 Degrees South

Photo Editor at Endangered Species Magazine
Co-founder and director at Rapport Photo Agency
Photographer at Rob Walls Photography
Freelance photojournalist at United Press International
Press photographer at The Australian
Assistant Photographer at Australian News and Information Bureau

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Education

CBHS St Marys Cathedral

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Connections

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Industry

Media Production

Websites

Rob Walls’s Summary

Worked on assignment for major international publications including Newsweek, The New York Times and Time Magazine. Have also written travel stories for airline in-flight publications and traveled extensively throughout the world on editorial, corporate and travel assignments.

Founding member and director of the highly successful Australian photographers' co-operative, Rapport.

Now living in Tasmania, Australia's island state, shooting stock photography and working on assignment for mainland clients.

Rob Walls’s Specialties:

Corporate, editorial, travel and stock photography and the production and design of corporate audio-visuals.

Rob Walls’s Experience

contributor

AGE fotostock

(Media Production industry)

March 2010 — Present (1 month)

Now contributing stock photography to the Barcelona-based photo agency, AGE
Documenting

This Working Life

(Media Production industry)

January 2010 — Present (3 months)

A long-term, self-generated assignment to document modern working life in Australia with a view to publication and exhibition in 2012.
Photojournalist

42 Degrees South

(Media Production industry)

September 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

Worked on assignment for Australian Geographic, New York Times, Time Magazine, BRW, the Qantas in-flight magazine, Australian Way.

Began developing stock photo collection, predominately with www.alamy.com, but also with Auscape International and Gekko Images. Pictures licensed on a world-wide basis for editorial, commercial and advertising purposes.

Moved into producing, shooting and designing audio-visual productions for corporate clients.

Guest lecturer in the School of Journalism at the University of Tasmania.
Stills Photographer

Northway Productions

(Media Production industry)

July 2009 — December 2009 (6 months)

Shooting publicity and production stills on the children's television series "Castaway-Trapped II" on location in Broome, Western Australia.
Contributor

Alamy

(Privately Held; Photography industry)

2002 — 2009 (7 years )

My stock photography with Alamy publishes regularly throughout the world. I presently have just over 6,000 pictures online. They can be searched from the link on this profile.or by visiting www.alamy.com
Photojournalist

42 Degrees South

(Media Production industry)

May 1990 — September 2002 (12 years 5 months)

Moved to Tasmania, Australia's island state working mostly for mainland editorial and corporate clients.

Co-author with Dr Nick Harris of The Freelance Bible-a guide to freelance journalism and photojournalism in Australia

Senior Lecturer in photojournalism with the Australian College of Journalism (distance education) for 12 years. Taught a course unit in photojournalism in the School of English at the University of Tasmania.
Photo Editor

Endangered Species Magazine

(Media Production industry)

January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Contracted photo editor to Endangered Species, a high-quality wildlife magazine, produced in Tasmania, printed in Canada and sold and distributed worldwide.
Co-founder and director

Rapport Photo Agency

(Media Production industry)

January 1980 — March 1990 (10 years 3 months)

Founding member and director of Rapport Photo Agency, a photographers' co-operative assignment agency in Sydney, Australia, coordinating the work of a number of photographers from a Sydney-based office/studio.

Worked on assignment in Papua New Guinea for Newsweek covering the elections and Pope John Paul II's visit.and on various travel writing and photography assignments. Shot tourism campaigns for Garuda Indonesian Airways.

Consultant to Polaroid Corporation and The Australian Museum
Photographer

Rob Walls Photography

(Media Production industry)

November 1971 — January 1980 (8 years 3 months)

Moved from Amsterdam to Sydney to work in editorial, fashion, corporate and travel photography. Lectured extensively in this period at The Australian Centre for Photography. Became a founding member of the New South Wales freelance section of the Australian Journalists Association (now Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance).
Freelance photojournalist

United Press International

(Privately Held; Writing and Editing industry)

March 1967 — May 1971 (4 years 3 months)

Full-time freelance with UPI London, covering the full gamut of news and feature assignments including US presidential visits, rock and roll tours, fashion events, politics, anti-Vietnam demonstrations. In 1968 traveled on gun-running planes into the breakaway Republic of Biafra to cover the Nigerian civil war.

Began shooting corporate assignments for UPI's New York based commercial pictures division Compix, shooting annual reports for companies such as Carrier Air Conditioning, Phillips Petroleum, Singer Corporation.
Press photographer

The Australian

(Media Production industry)

July 1964 — July 1966 (2 years 1 month)

Member of the founding staff of Australia's first national daily newspaper, working first in Canberra and then for a year in Melbourne.
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Working in Melbourne for a year as The Australian's only staff photographer, was superb experience, as I had to compete with newspapers such as The Age, with a dozen or more photograhers on staff.
Assistant Photographer

Australian News and Information Bureau

(Media Production industry)

January 1962 — July 1964 (2 years 7 months)

Began training as an a photographer with the ANIB in Canberra. After twelve months I was seconded to the Department of Information in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for three months. During this period scored my first publication in Time Magazine with coverage of the first elections leading up to the political independence of PNG.