Earle Bridger

Earle began his photojournalism/ teaching career with ten years at the Brisbane daily The Courier Mail newspaper (1972-1982). This was followed by 15 years freelancing for dozens of Australian newspapers and magazines and contracts for two books, ‘Brisbane 82’ and ‘The Twelfth Commonwealth Games, The Official Pictorial History’.

In 1988 he worked in England as a photojournalist and lecturer with Sandwell College of Further and Higher Education, West Midlands. During 1996 he worked in the United States for the Athens News as a photojournalist and the Columbus Dispatch as an assistant picture editor. Earle also worked as an assistant photo editor for Reuters during the Sydney Olympic Games and as a Photo Manager for the Brisbane Goodwill Games. Most recently he spent 18 months as the Pictorial Editor of The Sunday Mail, Australia’s second largest circulation newspaper (650,000).

He began his teaching career with an appointment as photographic instructor with TAFE (1983) and moved to Griffith University in 1994 where he spent 8 years as head of the Department of Photography. Earle is now the Queensland College of Art Deputy Director of Development.

 

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