Cameron Herweynen photographer
Member of The Wideangle photo agency
Available for Assignment WorldwideEditorial Clients:
Sunday Times Travel
Contact Guides
MorningCalm
Outdoor
Australian Geographic
Les Explorateurs
Etihadinflight
Focus Extra
Australian Traveller
Capture
L’agenda
Digital Photography
Heidelberg Weekly
Commercial:
Kodak Professional
World Nomads
CT Creative
Lily & Lulu
Maxwellsmart design
Melbourne Fashion Week
S.A. Construction
QFF | Dreaming Festival
Humanitarian | NGO’s | Not-For-Profit Organisations:
Orbus Orphan Care Malawi
Angkor Wat Children’s Hospital Cambodia
Mulanje Hospital Malawi
Boots for Africa - Campaign image
Melbourne Homeless World Cup
Suryani Institute for Mental Illness Bali
Yothu Yindi Foundation YYF
Garma Festival official photographer
Awards
2011 - Finalist - Sony PROJECTIONS Documentary
2010 - Shortlisted - Head On Portrait Prize
2008 - Finalist - Muswellbrook Award
2007 - Winner - World Nomads Travel Photography Award
- Finalist: Leica Gallery Award and Exhibition
2004 - Finalist: ACMI’s Diegesis Photography Award
Exhibitions
2011 - Sony PROJECTIONS Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane screenings
- Kodak Salon CCP Melbourne
2010 - Kodak Salon CCP Melbourne
- Head On Portrait Prize
2009 - Kodak Salon CCP Melbourne
2008 - Muswellbrook Photographic Award
- Kodak Salon CCP Melbourne
2007 - 'Transit' NMIT Graduate Exhibition
- 'Life in a changing world' Leica Gallery Melbourne
2004 - ACMI's Diegesis Photography Award
2003 - International Photographic Expo Melbourne
Cameron Herweynen is an international award-winning freelance Travel & Documentary Photographer
Traveling the world, capturing the human condition through powerful beautiful moments of life, exploring the rich diversity in our humanity, bringing us closer together.
Cameron’s images have been published internationally, photographing feature articles on assignment for some of the world’s finest media.
Cameron won the World Nomads Travel Photography Award, judged by National Geographic Channel, and his work was exhibited in the Leica Gallery as Finalist of the prestigious Leica Award 2007 entitled ‘Life in a changing world’, judged by Magnum Photos.
Cameron is enthusiastic about social issues, and humanitarian development, working with NGO’s in Africa, South East Asia, and remote Australia; working with the Yothu Yindi Foundation, to help preserve and nurture Australian aboriginal culture through his photography.
- -Sydney in September
- -India in November
- -Philippines in December
Available for Assignment anywhere in our amazing world.
About Cam
Born in 1986 in Darwin, Australia, photographer Cameron Herweynen has had some pretty awesome and outrageous experiences to date, from running through landmine fields in Cambodia, to hanging from a helicopter over Sydney, from dancing with the children in Arnhem Land to shooting world famous chef Tetsuya Wakuda and surviving a kidnapping in India.
His love of photography was ignited after a one-month stint to Poland during the winter, his first experience of snow, with his first SLR camera and a bag of film. “I felt so empowered with this new way of seeing things,” he says. “I was excited by everything I saw and wanted to capture it on film.”
Specializing in social documentary and travel photography, Cameron shoots for editorial, commercial, and humanitarian aid clients throughout Australia and is rapidly building his international client base.
Cameron completed a Diploma of Photography in Melbourne at the Fairfield Institute of TAFE in 2007. During which time he was a finalist in the Leica Award and won the World Nomads Travel Photography Award, which sent him on his first assignment with photographer Mark Rogers to Arnhemland to photograph the Garma Festival, a celebration of Yolngu culture for the Yothu Yindi Foundation.
“It was such a profound experience, a great privilege to be invited into their community to photograph their rich culture. Its always the highlight of my year.”
It was these images that caught the attention of his agent at The Wideange photo agency, which sent him on his first solo assignment in 2008 photographing the top restaurants of Sydney for a feature for Morning Calm Magazine, a South Korean publication.
“My ultimate goal is to be represented by Magnum Photos, or National Geographic,” Cameron says. “That’s my dream. But as long as I can keep shooting, keep doing what I love, the joy I get from being a photographer, from being able to communicate to the world, and meet awesome people along the way is my reward. I’ll just take it one photo at a time.”
Published in Australia’s Capture Magazine