George Fetting Go to George Fetting's Gallery
George Fetting is as a professional photographer who works mainly in editorial, travel and portrait photography as well as completing various commissioned work. He studied at Queensland College of Art in Australia and went on to work for the press starting as a freelancer in the UK during the 90s for various London publications after which he worked for The Australian & The Sydney Morning Herald. He now lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
He is a regular entrant in various portrait and photography prizes and has won a number of Australian prizes. Some of these include the Liverpool Art Prize 2009, the Australian Travel Photographer of the Year 2008, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2008, and various Olive Cotton Portrait Prizes from 2005 to 2008. George has also had a piece of work displayed at the 2008 Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize.
George has had many solo and group exhibitions throughout his career, some of which include the NYC Return at the Street Photographs and Portraits Blender Gallery, Sydney in 2005, the Photographic Portrait Prize in the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as in Canberra in 2008, and the Only Human exhibition at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, 2007.
He has 5 portraits hanging in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra in addition to other works in various private collections.
This year, George has been approached by the Royal Australian Mint asking permission to use one of his portraits of the world renowned eye surgeon Professor Fred Hollows for use on their collectable $1 uncirculated edition currency.
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