Bio
Charlie Barker is a Melbourne based photographer with a design background. The rise of mobile photography, started Charlie on a photographic journey leading to the need to pick up a camera.
A singer, musical saw player and tikiphile, Charlie is currently expanding an artistic profile, with the intention of building projects for exhibition.
Charlie completed a Certificate IV in Photography and Photo Imaging in 2018 and Diploma of Photography in 2022, both at Melbourne Polytechnic.
Charlie's been forever obsessed with worlds gone by and currently covets shopping trolleys and men in high vis!
(IG @thetrolleyproject, @men_in_high_vis)
Awards
2021
- Best Portfolio, Diploma of Photography,
Melbourne Polytechnic
2020
- Finalist, Australian Photography Awards,
Landscape
- 3rd prize, Australian Photography Awards,
Student
- Finalist, William & Winifred Bowness Prize, MGA
2018
- Folio of the Year, Cert IV Photography & Photo Imaging,
Melbourne Polytechnic
- Semi-Finalist - Moran Prize
- Finalist, Lens Mist Prize
2017
- Finalist, Australian Photography Awards, Mobile
- Winner, Provocaré Art Prize, Student
2016
- Finalist, William & Winifred Bowness Prize, MGA
AASPI Member
Group Exhibitions
2021
- Shot in the heart of Melbourne,
Australian Association Street Photographers Inc.
Unexposed Collective series "Tops and Tails",
Victorian Artists' Society, East Melbourne
2020 - William & Winifred Bowness Prize
Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill
2018
- 24 hour project, Melbourne
2017
- Lens Mist: G3 Artspace, Parkdale,
Melbourne
Mordialloc Wine & Music Festival,
Melbourne
DFO Moorabbin, Melbourne
- Provocaré Festival, City of Stonnington,
Melbourne
- 24 hour project, Melbourne
2016
- William & Winifred Bowness Prize
Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill
- 24 Hour Project Travel Exhibition,
Centro Querétaro de La Imagen, Mexico
- Head On Festival, Contact Sheet Gallery,
Sydney
-24 hour project, Melbourne
Work with Me
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