About Gavin Jowitt

Over the last 20 years I have built a reputation for capturing outstanding corporate, commercial and editorial photography. Photographing people and places has become my passion. Whether it’s taking portraits of company directors in the boardroom, working out of the back of my Land Rover at a mine site, or shooting aerials of Sydney Harbour, you name it, I’m a photographer who's likely to have shot it.

My versatility requires keen planning, organizational and logistics skills. I’m a believer in Murphy’s Law, so make it my business to anticipate the unexpected and plan for every possible contingency. I also consider myself the ultimate diplomat and capable of working with any number or diversity of stakeholders. You’ll find I have the communication and customer service skills to put even the uncomfortable subject at ease, and translate your brief into everything and more than you imagined.

As a photographer based in Sydney photographing people and places throughout Australia provides me with the depth of experience to handle any kind of corporate or editorial assignment.

Industry leadership and contributing to the wider commercial photography community is also high on my agenda. I am a member of the Australian Commercial and Media Photographers and a keen blogger on all subjects photographic, from old school techniques to the newest of technologies.

My career in photography has run in parallel with my career as a designer and creative director. Working predominately on corporate and stakeholder communications I fully understand communication objectives and the need to deliver authentic shots that are true to the culture of an organisation.

My passion for photography started when, as a kid, I was handed a dusty old copy of one of The Royal Photographic Society Annuals. It was full of the work of Don McCullin, David Bailey and their contemporaries... all in black and white of course. My father saw that I was inspired and bought me my first camera, a Cosmic Symbol. I soon converted the store room next to my bedroom into a darkroom which is where I spent the later years of my childhood... that is, when I wasn’t out and about shooting.

Leaving school at 16, I went straight to art college and studied photography and design for the next four years. The early years of my career were spent working in London until 1992 when I moved to Australia. Sydney is now my home and where I still divided my time between photography and design.