Exposure Pro: Jack Atley

This year's winner of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize showcases his diverse portfolio of photos, including sports, landscapes and portraits.

Lexy Savvides

Lexy is an on-air presenter and award-winning producer who covers consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She's won two Gold Telly Awards for her video series Beta Test. Prior to her career at CNET, she was a magazine editor, radio announcer and DJ. Lexy is based in San Francisco.

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Lexy Savvides

Nov. 15, 2011 10:35 p.m. PT

Sydney Opera House

Name: Jack Atley

(Credit: Jack Atley)

Biography: Jack began shooting professionally at 18 years of age at the Sydney Morning Herald. He has photographed subjects including US President George W Bush, HRH Queen Elizabeth, Pope Benedict XVI, multiple Australian Prime Ministers, Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Michael Schumacher, Valentino Rossi, Richard Branson, Sting and The Rolling Stones, to name a few.

Jack started off covering hard news, and then spent the next 12 years covering major international sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, Formula 1 and the Rugby World Cup. Between 1999-2002, Jack worked as Official Photographer to the Australian Cricket Team, and toured directly with the side. In late 2009, he was invited to shoot the interior of the Sydney Opera House's new Western Wing foyer for the Sydney Opera House Trust. In 2010, he was invited to complete a full documentation of the world heritage-listed building and its surrounds, and then, in 2011, he was appointed by the Sydney Opera House Trust to document their Vehicle Access and Pedestrian Safety Project (VAPS) for the next three and a half years. The project (2011-14) will see the largest architectural changes to the Sydney Opera House site since it was first built.

Selected Awards List

Winner Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (2011), Top 10 Finalist in The Sony World Photography Awards (2010), Australian Press Photographer of the Year (1995), Agfa World Photographer of the Month (2002), AFL Photographer of the Year (1995 and 1997).

More of Jack's work can be viewed on his website. Jack is an ambassador for Lowepro bags.

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