The Image Makers Association Australia (IMAA) was established to support members of the photographic community whether professional, emerging, student or assistant practitioners.

Connecting with all levels of photographers, IMAA is particularly interested in promoting those members who are starting out on their professional journey and last year introduced a Mentorship program to help.

The 2024 IMAA Mentorship program is now open to all emerging, student and assistant photographers who would like the opportunity to be mentored by some of Australia’s top photographers.

Strategic partner to the INDE.Awards, the Image Makers Association Australia presents a curated offering from its I SHOT 23 exhibition at Craftworks and it’s guaranteed to be a thought-provoking feast for the eye.

Strategic partner to the INDE.Awards, the Image Makers Association Australia presents a curated offering from its I SHOT 23 exhibition at Craftworks and it’s guaranteed to be a feast for the eye as well as a thought-provoking experience.

In Melbourne, the Image Makers Association Australia (IMAA) presents a selection of images from the I SHOT 23 exhibition HOME / AWAY at Craftworks in Abbotsford, Victoria.

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1 SHOT 23 – HOME / AWAY, the second exhibition and book launch celebrating the work of Image Makers Association Australia members, has opened.

Officially opened on October 25 Sydney, October 26 Melbourne and November 02 Perth in Stylecraft showrooms, the exhibition uses the curatorial theme of Home / Away to explore the close and intimate to the distant and unfamiliar, featuring 45 photographs from Australia’s pre-eminent photographers presenting their interpretation of Home / Away

From the close and intimate to the distant and unfamiliar, 1 Shot features 45 captivating photographs from Australia’s pre-eminent photographers presenting their interpretation of the curatorial theme titled “Home / Away”.

In partnership with Stylecraft, the exhibition will be displayed alongside a stunning collection of both local and international brands and products, exclusive to Stylecraft – in line with the theme.

Discover Dianna Snape, an architectural photographer expertly framing design essence in “The Photographers” series.

Integral to architecture and design is capturing the finished project through the lens and the expert eye of the photographer.

”I have always been interested in the built environment and natural landscape, so photographing architecture and landscape architecture was a logical career choice. Tailoring my craft for something I was passionate about has served me well. I have always had an innate compositional ability that I explored personally through travel and this drove me to study photography. It’s been an incredible privilege to work with Australia’s talented community of architects and designers, they have been, and still are, my continual education on all things architecture and design based.”

Stylecraft hosts a feast of photography with I SHOT 23

This year, the Image Makers Association of Australia has expanded its offering with three exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

Having been launched last year, the 2023 I SHOT exhibitions and book launch explore the theme of Home / Away. The exhibitions opened nationally on 25th October in Sydney, 26th October in Melbourne and 2nd November in Perth – they are set to close on 19th January 2024.

I became a professional photographer much later than most and after a career in the urban development space. I have no formal education as an architect or photographer, though I have for as long as I can remember had a strong interest in both. I did not choose architecture as a profession for whatever reason when such life decisions need to be made – despite being in a somewhat average rock band with two architecture students at the time!

I am instead doing a George Costanza: ‘You know I always wanted to pretend I was an architect!’ To photograph architecture and ‘hang around’ with architects was the next best thing for me.

“It was a photograph of the Barcelona Pavilion that I found in my high school library that really drew me to architecture and design.” Sydney and Canberra-based architecture photographer Anne Stroud shares her journey into the profession, as well as the ins and outs on shoot, the gear she never does without and the inspirations that have stuck.

Integral to architecture and design is capturing the finished project through the lens and the expert eye of the photographer. In a new series, The Photographers, we present those whose professional life involves photographing all manner of commercial and residential architecture and design.

The art of the photographer with Shannon McGrath

The men and women profiled belong to the Image Makers Association of Australia, an organisation that has partnered with the 2023 INDE.Awards in two new categories this year, The Photographer – Commercial and The Photographer – Residential.

INDESIGNLIVE explore what makes each of these photographers tick, how they began their careers and why they chose to pursue architecture and design as their subject, as well as finding out a little more about them and their craft.

The Image Makers Association Australia is continuing its multi-pronged advocacy strategy by representing photographers at a recent Copyright Roundtable, as well as drafting a submission for an upcoming Government consultation on AI.

The Roundtable’s purpose is to continue discussion on three copyright policy reform issues: quotation of copyrighted material; usage of copyrighted content in remote learning; and most pertinent to photographers, Orphan Works.

The IMAA might just be the voice that the Australian pro photo industry desperately needs, with the new professional photography association achieving all the milestones it set out in its initial roadmap.

IMAA is a new national photo association for commercial photographers with a strong focus of advocacy and education. The event, running online from 730pm, is free for IMAA members, and is $27 for non-members.

As well as running a successful business, Chris served as an Australian Copyright Council director for eight years, and has continuously gone into bat for professional photographers when there are reviews of copyright law. His copyright advocacy efforts through the ACMP and AIPP were crucial for photographers, and without his input the industry’s voice may not be heard.

For several years prior to forming the IMAA, a number of Australian architectural photographers were in regular talks with each other about copyright issues. In some instances, they worked to pressure various architect/design awards and publications to change their dubious rights-grabbing terms and conditions.

After the AIPP’s demise left the photo industry without a representative body, and with copyright conditions noticeably worsening, the group saw an opportunity to formalise their lobbying efforts.

The Australian Institute of Architects and Image Makers Association Australia are pleased to announce a new partnership to enhance our national built environment.

The three-year partnership will formalise collaboration, training and education programs between the two peak bodies, and encourage Image Makers Association members as the preferred photographers for Institute members.

The Australian Institute of Architects, as the nation’s peak body for architects, is committed to demonstrating the value of architecture to the public and improving the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

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The recently founded Image Makers Association of Australia represents an extensive collective of professional and emerging photographers who specialise in architectural design, interiors and commercial products.

1 SHOT 22 – DEFINING MOMENTS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT is an exhibition of work by many of Australia's pre-eminent and emerging photographers, exhibiting for the first time as a collective.

All contributing artists are members of the newly founded Image Makers Association Australia, and the exhibition features an extensive collection of work by many of Australia's leading Architectural and Interiors photographers. The theme has asked contributors to consider what that 'one shot' is that defines a place, a building, or their practice. Reflecting its diversely talented membership it has been interpreted in numerous ways. 1 SHOT 22 is a rare opportunity to not only view a stunning collection of photography but the opportunity to purchase prints by some of the top photographers working in Australia today.

A new exhibition at Sun Studios in Melbourne showcases the work of Australia’s foremost architecture and design photographers. Titled 1 SHOT 22 – Defining Moments in the Built Environment, more than 40 members of the newly established Image Makers Association have contributed their work and it’s glorious.

Pre-eminent photographers such as John Gollings, Dianna Snape, Rhiannon Slatter, Nicole England, Peter Clarke, Brett Boardman, Peter Bennetts and Shannon McGrath (to name but a few) are exhibiting images alongside emerging talent and the group has come together to present the diversity of the built environment and their own prodigious talents.

1 SHOT 22 – DEFINING MOMENTS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT is an exhibition of work by many of Australia’s pre-eminent and emerging photographers, exhibiting for the first time as a collective.

All contributing artists are members of the newly founded Image Makers Association Australia, and the exhibition features an extensive collection of work by many of Australia’s leading Architectural and Interiors photographers. The theme has asked contributors to consider what that ‘one shot’ is that defines a place, a building, or their practice. Reflecting its diversely talented membership it has been interpreted in numerous ways. 1 SHOT 22 is a rare opportunity to not only view a stunning collection of photography but the opportunity to purchase prints by some of the top photographers working in Australia today.

1 Shot 22: Defining Moments In The Built Environment is an exhibition of work by many of Australia’s pre-eminent and emerging photographers, exhibiting for the first time as a collective.

All contributing artists are members of the newly founded Image Makers Association Australia, and the exhibition features an extensive collection of work by many of Australia’s leading architectural and interiors photographers. The theme has asked contributors to consider what that ‘one shot’ is that defines a place, a building, or their practice. Reflecting its diversely talented membership, it has been interpreted in numerous ways.

Capturing Moments – 1 Shot 22 by Sun Studios

1 Shot 22 is an exhibition of still works by pre-eminent and emerging Australian photographers that capture built environments in defining moments of time. A rare opportunity to view one-of-a-kind photography, the exhibition will be held in partnership with Sun Studios Melbourne for a limited time.

Held at Sun Studios Melbourne until the 16th of December, the 1 Shot 22 exhibition will include members from the recently established Image Makers Association Australia – a new organisation that represents local photographers. With an extensive array of captured moments from Australia and around the globe, the collection of work is the first of its kind and reflects on the buildings that surround and house us.

In this issue the Australian Design Alliance (ADA) announce their affiliation with Image Makers Association Australia.

Launched in June 2022, it has over 70 paid Founding Members, the majority coming from an architectural background. As such, the initial focus will be on issues facing photographers working in that segment of the market.