Belinda Morgan Pratten (BEc)
Canberra photographer Belinda Pratten has been working as a professional photographer for fifteen years. She is currently working with freeswimmers
as a photographer and a producer.

Her first film as director/producer/writer was on ABC television on January 27 2008. It is an arts/culture film titled Eclectic Blues, featuring
singer-songwriter Merri-May Gill who takes us on a journey to the Thredbo Blues festival to find out what is unique about Aussie blues music. On the
way she gathers tips, from some Aussie blues legends, about how to write the next number 1 true blue blues song.

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),
SPAA (Screen Producer's Association of Australia), the ACT Filmmaker's Network, Photoaccess, The Australian Conservation Foundation and was a foundation board member
of the ACT Film and Television Council (2004).
View her ACMP online portfolio;
http://www.acmp.com.au/Joomla/index.php

View Published and Produced Work here

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 to take up a position as a photojournalist with the Fairfax Group in the Press Gallery. Belinda has travelled extensively with the Fairfax
Group within Australia and overseas, including covering the Prime Minister's trips 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.

In 2005 Belinda was a nominee for the international Black and White Spider Awards.

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).

Exhibitions include:
2008 - Strength for Today, Hope for Tomorrow, solo exhibition to celebrate Anti-Poverty Week
           and the work of the carers and people at Anglicare.
2008 - Hang It Yourself - part of Vivid Photography Festival, group show at PhotoAccess,
           Manuka
2008 - Signature Exhibition - group show, ACMP, Canberra VIVID festival
2008 - Member's Show at Photoaccess Arts Centre, Canberra
2007 - Plastic Fantastic - Group exhibition at Photoaccess Arts Centre, Canberra
2007 - Signature Exhibition - group show, ACMP, Melbourne
2006 - Animals in Focus - International group touring exhibition for WSPA, World Society for the Protection of Animals. Commencing June 2006 London, and then Denmark,
NZ, Tanzania, Brazil, Costa Rica and Canada. Take a look;
http://www.wspa-international.org/exhibition/
2006 - Visage - Canberra Contemporary Art Space - Group Exhibition
2006 - Wildside - Group Exhibition - PhotoAccess
2005 - AIPP Group Exhibition - Canberra Centre
2005 - Photo Access Members' Show - Group Exhibition - Photo Access
2001 - East Timor through the eye of the lens - Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Currently on permanent display in Dili, East Timor - Group exhibition
2000 - Leave Your Hat On - black and white images of rural Australia, which toured NSW with singer-songwriter Merrimay Gill
1999 - Images of Our Elders Retrospective - at the Portrait Gallery Old Parliament House - Group exhibition
1998 - Brewarrina Faces - solo exhibition of portraits from Brewarrina NSW in the council chambers at Brewarrina and in 1999 exhibited for five months in Correlli's
Cafe King Street Newtown
1996 - Images of Our Elders - solo exhibition at the Sydney Opera House

CD Covers:
Merrimay Gill - One Mixed Bag - 1999
Merrimay Gill - This is Merrimay Gill - 2001
Tony Haley - Little Ol' Wine Drinker Me - 2005
The Funny Green Smelly Things - 2006

Film Stills:
2006 - Embassy (working title)/Director - Eleanor Gilbert
2006 - Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre - National Gallery/Director - Darren Murphy
2005 - The Milkman/Director - Duane Fogwell
2003 - Colour/Director - Duane Fogwell

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). This film has received seed funding from the Australian Film Commission (2004) and has been funded by Arts ACT (2005). Eleanor and Belinda were finalists in the 2004 SPAA Holding Redlich pitching competition with Embassy. ScreenACT supported Belinda to attend the 2006 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
Embassy is in production, and Belinda and Eleanor continue to apply for funding for its completion.
Belinda is working on another documentary on the blues in Australia, and she also has a short film at second draft script stage.