LFI | Trent Parke

Photo: © Narelle Autio

Born in 1971 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is a full member of Magnum Photos and has won four World Press Photo Awards, among others. In 2003, he received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His work is exhibited internationally and is in major institutional collections. Parke has published eight books prior to Monument (2023), including Dream/Life (1999), The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio, 2000), Minutes to Midnight (2005), and The Christmas Tree Bucket (2013). He lives in Adelaide, Australia.

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Photo: © Narelle Autio

Publications

Magazines

LFI 06.2023

Trent Park: Echoes, Marion Péhée: Iron Lifeline, Borges & Kurth: We Share the Meal, Tomeu Coll: Sardinia’s Heartland, Russell Melcher: Leica Classic, Leica Q3

STORIES | October 3, 2024

Trent Parke at the Bristol Photo Festival

Trent Parke

The Australian Magnum photographer’s project, Monument, is currently on view at the Martin Parr Foundation, and was recently collated into a book.

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STORIES | August 11, 2023

Echoes

Trent Parke

In his newest publication, Monument, the Australian photographer deals with his relationship to the real world. With his Leica M6 and the possibilities of the medium, he channels his thoughts, feelings and perceptions before condensing them into a subjective reflection of reality. On the philosophical roots and visual ciphers of his truly monumental oeuvre.