Growing up in Australia with Greek parents has given photographer Heather Dinas a unique cross-cultural perspective.

John Tsiavis is a commercial portrait photographer who began his career as a movie stills photographer. He has worked on some of Australia's best known films including Head On, Ned Kelly, Chopper and, more recently Animal Kingdom. His image of Eric Bana as Chopper is one of his earliest and most memorable images.

In his years in the movie business, Australian-born New Zealand film director Roger Donaldson has always maintained his love of still photography.

Maggie Diaz arrived in Melbourne from the US in 1961 with a one-way ticket given to her by her ex-husband as a divorce gift. As an award-winning photographer in the US, it did not take her long to establish herself as one of Melbourne's leading commercial photographers.

Cynthia Karalla works between the modern backdrop of New York City and the rural south of Basilicata, Italy. She has exhibited around the world and her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Yokohama Museum in Tokyo, and Daniel Katz gallery in London.

Husband and wife team Michael Larsen and Tracy Talbert are well known for their celebrity portraits and their images have appeared in publications such as <i>Esquire, InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Playboy</i>, and <i>People</i>.

Ben Ali Ong is quickly making a name for himself on the Australian art scene. Born in Singapore in 1982, the Sydney-based artist has exhibited widely with recent solo shows at Tim Olsen Gallery, the Queensland Centre for Photography and the Powerhouse Museum in Brisbane.

Chris Searl is one of Australia's leading youth lifestyle photographers. He has shot national and international campaigns for Corona, Levis, Bonds, Stussy, Myer, Insight and a number of magazine titles, including <i>Monocle, Intersection, Harpers, Grazia, Oyster and Nylon</i>.

Advertising photographer Chris Budgeon has made <i>Archive</i> magazine's "Top 200 Advertising Photographers Worldwide" list three times, and last year was named one of <i>Capture</i> magazine's top 10 advertising photographers.

Gee Greenslade describes herself as a visual story teller. Sometimes dark and macabre, sometimes bright and humorous, her work shows a constant evolution of ideas, characters and moods.

Toby Dixon began taking photos as a way of documenting his nomadic upbringing, and soon found he was drawn to the unconventional individuals and landscapes that still make up his subject matter today.

Richard Bennett's images are synonymous with the Sydney-Hobart yacht race. He's photographed every race since 1974 and in 1999 he won the Nikon-Kodak Australian Press Photographer of the year award for the best sports photograph with his images of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race tragedy.

Sonja de Sterke is happiest being outdoors, getting up before sunrise to Photograph the magic of the Australian landscape.

David Evans' landscapes have a distinctive style, which he calls "slow photography". The images have an ethereal and painterly quality, a result of using slow film and even slower shutter speeds. Exposures can take anywhere from seconds to hours.

Over the past two decades, Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalised people captured in some of the world's most dangerous places.

David Knight has carved out a near 20-year professional photographic career that has taken him on assignment to some of the world’s most interesting places. His camera has captured everything from keyhole surgery on a racehorse belonging to Dubai’s Sheik Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to intimate, often melancholy and very distinctive portraits of people and landscapes.