Belinda Morgan Pratten (BEc)
Belinda Pratten has been working as a professional photographer for seventeen years. She is currently working with freeswimmers as a photographer and producer, and as a casual photography teacher at Canberra Institute of Technology.

Her first film as director/producer/writer was a half hour arts/culture film titled Eclectic Blues, exploring what is unique about Aussie blues music. It broadcast on ABC1 in 2008 and ABC2 in 2009. 

In 2008 Belinda was appointed as an adviser to the board of PhotoAccess. She is a member of the ACMP (Australian Commercial and Magazine Photographers), PhotoAccess, The Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace and was a foundation board member of the ACT Film and Television Council (2004). She is a volunteer with Indigneous Community Volunteers (ICV).

Belinda began her career in Sydney with a cadetship at Eastern Suburbs Newspapers and studied photography at Sydney Technical College (placed 3rd in 1992).
Prior to this she completed an Economics degree at the University of Sydney (majoring in Government and Economics), spent one year in Paris studying
french at Alliance Française and photography with Pierre Mahe Yves. In 1994 Belinda was appointed photographer/deputy picture editor at The Australian
Financial Review and in 1997 managed the photography department in the Melbourne Financial Review office.

In 1998 she moved to Canberra as a photojournalist with the Fairfax Group, in the Press Gallery. Belinda has travelled extensively within Australia and overseas, including covering Prime Minister's visits to South Africa and New Zealand in 1999, and the first days of the peacekeepers in Dili, East Timor. Her non-commissioned work includes trips to India, Afghanistan and Borneo, and one year sabbatical in Bourke and Brewarrina, western N.S.W.

Belinda completed a short course in documentary production management at The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2002. She also completed a script writing course with Linda Aronson. In 2010 she is working on a feature drama script, with the ScreenACT run workshop ProjectPOD and script developer Stephen Cleary.

In 2005 Belinda was a nominee for the international Black and White Spider Awards and in 2008 gained 2nd place in the Canberra Living Artist's week photographic prize

Belinda's front page credits include:
ANU Reporter, Eastern Suburbs Newspapers, Discovery, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Bulletin, The Opera House In House Magazine, and
The Sydney Morning Herald. Other journals in which she has been published; Australian Geographic, Australian Property Investor Magazine, ANU Reporter,
Black and White Spider Awards calender, BRW magazine, CFO magazine, JMAG, MIS magazine, Qantas Magazine, The Australian Financial Review
Magazine and The Independent (London).

Collections:

Private Collections

The Portrait Gallery - Old Parliament House

(Belinda is currently in the process of an acquisition of photographs by the National Library of Australia)

Moving film:
Belinda also works as a film producer. She is currently working on a documentary film with Eleanor Gilbert on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy titled Embassy (working title). The film is being co-produced with Michael Donovan, HalifaxFilm, and has received seed funding from the Australian Film Commission (2004), Arts ACT (2005) and HalifaxFilm. Eleanor and Belinda were finalists in the 2004 SPAA Holding Redlich pitching competition with Embassy. ScreenACT supported Belinda to attend the 2006 and 2010 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
Embassy is in production, and Belinda and Eleanor continue to apply for funding for its completion.