About Michael Amendolia - Photography

Michael Amendolia Photographer

Visual communication through photography is both my passion and a profession. I have twenty five years experience in journalism photography. The first thirteen years on staff at News Limited and the rest as freelancer working for Australian and International magazines and organisations.

I have worked for editorial clients in USA, United Kingdom, France and Germany. Today, more often than not I applying these story telling skills to marketing and advertising materials for companies and organizations.

My core work is found in portraits, photo documentary, and landscape. Journalism photography has taught me to apply himself visually to what ever is required to meet a clients brief which some times cross a number of genres and certainly across the spectrum of life.

I was fortunate to be awarded first prize in 1999, 2001 at the World Press Photo Awards two firsts in Science and Technology and third in Nature and Environment in 2003.

My first real break as a freelance was to be the principal photographer for the book "Seeing is Believing" based on the work of Professor Fred Hollows. The Fred Hollows Foundation has been using my images made for that book for 15 years in their advertising and marketing.

Back in 1999 myself and three other founding members created what is now the Bi-Annual Reportage festival based on documentary photography and photojournalism. 

Sydney is my base and when I am not working I love to throw myself in the ocean, cook up some Indian curry and hang out with my wife and two young daughters.