Jack Atley
{{short description|Australian photographer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}}
Jack Atley is an Australian photographer.
Life
Atley is a self taught photographer, teaching himself how to develop and print photography as a child.{{cite web|title=Work Hard, Get Lucky|url=http://www.photoreview.com.au/stories/profiles/work-hard%2C-get-lucky|website=Photo Review}} Atley starting shooting photos professionally in 1987 after winning a cadetship for the Sydney Morning Herald, selected as one of two people out of 2000 applications. In his second year he won Australian Sports Photographer of the Year After moving back to Melbourne and working with the Melbourne Age, Atley was the overall individual winner of Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 1995,{{cite web|url=http://www.photolinks.com/photographer_details.html?p_id=2002091409305062|title=CrawlWall Monitoring Service CWMSZZ-3494943026|website=photolinks.com}}{{cite web|title=Jack Atley Photographer|url=https://www.theloop.com.au/jackatley/portfolio/Photographer/Sydney|website=The Loop}} and in 2008 he was named as the runner up winner in Australia's richest Photographic/Art Portraiture Award – The Moran Portraiture Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.australianphotography.com/news/jack-atley-wins-2011-moran-contemporary-photographic-prize|title=2011 Moran Prize – Winners Announced – Australian Photography}} In 2010 he was listed as a top ten finalist in the Sony World Photography Competition judged out of 37,617 entries.
After shooting the news he then spent the next 12 years covering major sporting events for Australia's leading daily newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/sailing/aussies-set-to-dominate/2008/07/25/1216492680814.html|title=Sailing – Sports – Olympics – theage.com.au|website=theage.com.au|date=25 July 2008}}
More recently, he received the award as 2010 Volunteer of the Year by The Steve Waugh Foundation, the charity established by former Australian Test Cricket captain Steve Waugh that aids youths with rare diseases.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lpx.com.au/ambassadors/jack_atley/index.html |title=Loweprofessionals Xtras – Lowepro Ambassador Jack Atley |access-date=9 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329050022/http://www.lpx.com.au/ambassadors/jack_atley/index.html |archive-date=29 March 2013 |url-status=dead }} In 2011, he was awarded the contract as The Official Photographer to document photographically the most significant changes to The Sydney Opera House site since it was first built.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com.au/exposure-pro-jack-atley-339326293.htm|title=Exposure Pro: Jack Atley}}
In May 2011 he won the Open Section First Prize in The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize – for an image taken on World Rare Disease Day.{{cite web|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/jack-atley-wins-moran-photo-prize-20110503-1e5uj.html|title=Jack Atley wins Moran photo prize|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}{{cite web|title=2011 Photographic Prize : Open – winner {{!}} Moran Prizes|url=http://www.moranprizes.com.au/competition/2011-photographic-prize-open/winner|website=moranprizes.com.au|accessdate=26 July 2017|language=en}}
Atley has taken many photos of famous people including George W Bush, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI, Vladimir Putin, Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Sting and The Rolling Stones.
Photographic awards
References
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External links
- [http://www.jackatley.com/ jackatley.com], photography studio
- {{Official website |url=https://blog.lowepro.com/2011/09/21/profile-of-jack-atley/ |name=Profile of Jack Atley}}
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Category:Australian photographers