Sam Ferris Email & Phone Number

Born in Melbourne, Australia, 1985, Ferris completed an Honours degree in the Arts, winning the Vice Chancellor’s university medal, and an Australian post-graduate scholarship to research and work at The University of New South Wales in the school of English, Media, Performing and Fine Arts, This precipitated his relocation to Sydney where he started to seriously photograph around 2010. He organised and co-founded the Aussie Street Festival in 2018-19 and joined Burn My Eye Collective in 2021.His work has been exhibited across the globe and featured in ‘100 Great Street Photographs’ by Prestel Publishing, Internationale, The Guardian, Lonely Planet, The Sydney Morning Herald, and many other leading periodicals. Ferris was a prize winner at StreetFoto San Fransisco (2017), finalist in the Head On Photo Festival Prizes in the categories of Portrait and Landscape (2020 and 2021), finalist in the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (2019) and a two-time finalist in the ‘Australian Life’ Photographic Prize (2015 and 2021). Ferris was named 'Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer' in 2019 in the category of documentary/ photojournalism by a panel of over 30 local and international judges. In 2020, he was profiled for the Australian Photographers’ Journal 'Why Photograph?' series. 2021 saw Ferris publish his first monograph, In Visible Light, which has since sold out in both its first and second printing.

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