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About Luke
Luke David Kellett is a documentary photographer born in England, now based in Australia. His large-scale projects have been acquired by major institutions, including This City Speaks to Me (State Library of Victoria, 2011) and Newcastle (State Library of NSW, 2021). He has exhibited at the State Library of Victoria, Newcastle Museum, and Newcastle Art Gallery, where he co-curated We Can Be Heroes (2021), a celebration of Australian music photography. In 2024 his work Newcastle was published by GOST books in the UK. He continues to work on long term documentary projects that capture different parts of Australian life.
Awards:
2011 - Winner Melbourne design awards - Photography for design for photographic work with the Newcastle Museum.
2013 - Winner - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Multimedia category for the toys exhibition campaign.
2015 - Finalist - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Exhibition Catalogue (Small) - Photographic campaign.
2016 - Winner Highly commended - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Multimedia category - This is Not Art Festival promotion.
2017 - Finalist - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Multimedia category - This is Not Art Festival promotion.
2018 - Winner Highly commended - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Multimedia category - This is Not Art Festival promotion.
2020 - Winner - Museum Australia Multimedia and Publications Awards (MAPDA), Poster Photograph.
2021 - Finalist - Photography for design AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) photography for design category.
2023 Winner Distinction - AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) Commercial and advertising photography for This is Not Art festival.
2024 - Winner Merit Award - AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) - photography for album artwork (Emily Barker)
Exhibitions:
2014 - Newcastle Museum - “Newcastle Earthquake” portrait exhibition 25 year anniversary (Solo exhibition)
2015 - State Library of Victoria - “Bohemian Melbourne” exhibition - Melbourne (Joint exhibition).
2019 - Newcastle Museum - “Newcastle Earthquake” portrait exhibition 30 year anniversary. (Solo exhibition).
2020 - Newcastle Museum - “Newcastle” portrait exhibition (COVID-19 stories). (Solo exhibition).
2020/21 - Newcastle Art Gallery - “We can be heroes: a backstage pass” music photography exhibition (curator and exhibitor)
2022 - Future never exhibition portraits of Daniel Johns - Melbourne (Joint exhibition).
Acquisitions:
2011 - State Library of Victoria acquire the entire photographic collection “This City Speaks to Me”
2022 - State Library of NSW acquire the entire photographic collection “Newcastle”
Publications.
2011 - This City Speaks to me photographic book self published.
2024 - Newcastle Book published by photographic publisher GOST.