Profiles
The project was founded by photographers Karen Donnelly, Raimond de Weerdt and Tony Nott and since 2002 they have worked directly with more than 2,500 individuals in regional and metropolitan sites.
Karen Donnelly was born in 1955 and is based in Albury, New South Wales. For the past twenty years Karen has lectured in photography at Charles Sturt University and now divides her time between coordinating Facing Australia and exhibiting. She is currently completing a book on 19th Australian photography with an emphasis on indigenous representation and identity.
Raimond de Weerdt was born in Holland in 1963. After completing a BA at SCA and a Masters at COFA he joined Charles Sturt University in 1997 and worked there teaching Photography till 2005. He now works as an artist exhibiting both here in Australia and abroad.
Tony Nott BSc,BA, MA was born in 1954 in Adelaide. Before turning to photography he worked as a geo-physicist in remote Australia and abroad. He has been a photography educator for over twenty years in Sydney, Melbourne and Albury. He is also currently working in video on a series of digital story telling projects.