Dean Sewell, born in 1971 grew up in Sydney where he began his career working as a news photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2005 Sewell was awarded 1st Prize, Spot News Stories category of the World Press Photo Awards for his work on the Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia. In 2002 and 2000 Sewell won World Press Photo awards for his work on the Australian Bushfires and East Timor respectively. His series on "The Block" in Aboriginal Redfern and coverage of the Sydney Bushfire Crisis of 2001 were showcased at the prestigious Visa Pour L'Image Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France. In 2001 Sewell co-founded the Australian Photographic Collective ‘Oculi’.
Annually from 2000-2005 Sewell's work was screened at "Reportage"- Australia's Leading Festival of Photojournalism. Sewell was awarded Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 1998 and 1994. In 1999 he covered the lead-up to the East Timor elections and its violent aftermath. In 1996 Sewell was based in Moscow where he covered the Russian federal elections, the Chechen war and other social issues. Sewell’s work is regularly exhibited in leading Australian and International Galleries and his works are held in private collections. In 2005 and 2008, Sewell was awarded an “Artist Residency” by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the remote historical gold-mining village of Hill End in NSW, Australia.
Mungo Man, The Last Voyage of A 40,000-year-old Ancestor (2017)
Photographer Dean Sewell has cut across all over Australia to follow the last journey of the first Aboriginal ancestor.
In 1974, a young geologist by the name of Jim Bowler, while on expedition for the Australian National University, was riding his bicycle around the edge of Lake Mungo, an ancient lake system in the far south west of New South Wales, Australia. There, he discovered something glowing, jutting out of the sand and clay.
What Jim Bowler discovered would change our scientific understanding of human kind and set back to almost 20,000 years the period in which we thought Australian aboriginals roamed the continent. The ancient remains would later be known as Mungo Man (LM3)...
Australia, Backburn - The art of fighting fire with fire (2013)
In Australia, some 60 fires have broken out across the state of New South Wales. Three major fires are burning in and around Sydney's Blue Mountains and holding the region in a heightened state of emergency.
The fires, which started mi-October, have already burnt out nearly 50,000 ha of bush land and destroyed some 200 properties. Burning largely in inaccessible terrain, the fires have remained defiant to the efforts of some 90 water fighting aircraft.
Throughout the night, when conditions are right for firefighting, the men and women of The Rural fire Service – known for being one of the world’s largest volunteer fire fighting forces in the world- use the Backburning, a firefighting...
The small Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu is more than ever threatened by the climate change effects and the human activities impact on its environment.
With a population of 12 177, and 40% of which live on the capital island of Funafuti, the archipelago lost in Pacific Ocean has fewer resources and a shattered lifestyle.
Pig breeding is the main cause of dangers, which weight heavy on Tuvalu. The effluent is discharged directly into the lagoon, which is killing the surrounding reef, essential element of the archipelago’s ecosystem survival.
As the fishes living in the coral reef are dying, atolls are not protected anymore against tides and population lost their lands, destructed by...
Years of prolonged drought combined with over regulation and water allocation has left the Murray/Darling basin - Australia's most important series of rivers, water courses and wetlands in a state of crisis. Farmers in some areas have used the downturn in production to further clear native vegetation in preparation for better times ahead. Irrigators have been delivered zero water allocation by governments as rivers run dry, dams stagnate at unprecedented lows and majestic gum trees, reliant on food cycles begin to die. Soil erosion has depleted native grasses forcing graziers to hand-feed livestock and as ground water has moved towards the surface increasing salinity levels along...
Less than a month after the terrible bushfires that reduce to ashes the forests of the state of Victoria, Australia realized the importance of the disaster.
Australian photographer Dean Sewell takes pictures of his own country’s landscape…But these stories offer us paradoxically a detached look, almost absent on what it is represented. The fury of the flame seems to have redrawn a crepuscular landscape that its own inhabitant can’t recognize.
Facing the huge demand from India and China for gold and nickel, the mining companies are rushing towards Western Australia, in Kalgoorlie. The city has turned back into the eldorado it already used to be a century ago. Except for the Aborigines.
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