Robin Sellick

Robin Sellick (born 1967) is an Australian portrait photographer, widely regarded as "Australia's leading celebrity photographer".

Early life The son of a miner, Sellick was born in Broken Hill in outback NSW, Australia, where, as a teenager, he gained a reputation as a "dog photographer", taking portraits of people's pets for free, through the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, a feat he was to repeat the following year.

In 1992, Sellick was awarded a perfect score at the prominent 101st International Exhibition of Professional Photography in Chicago, where he would subsequently work as an assistant for Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger and Mary Ellen Mark.

Career Returning to Australia in 1994, Sellick rose to commercial prominence in the burgeoning Australian magazine market, his portraits appearing regularly in magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Who Weekly and Australian Style. He was instrumental in developing a new visual aesthetic for Who Weekly as it transformed into a glossy, full-colour magazine, and his style became influential as Australia's magazine market became more sophisticated.

Sellick's next book, Life & Times in the Republic of Broken Hill, a collaboration with author Jack Marx released in 2011, was something of "an antidote" to his career as a celebrity photographer, the subjects of the portraits being ordinary people from the historic mining town.

Awards Australian Institute of Professional Photography's Don Taylor Award and Townsend Award - 1990 and 1991. Sellick was the first to win both awards at the same time. 101st International Exhibition of Professional Photography perfect score - 1992. Sellick's was the first perfect score in four years, and he was the first Australian to achieve this result.