Lead Photographer and Studio Manager

Fulcrum | Canberra | On site

We have partnered with a major Australian cultural institution on a newly designed role leading their photography studio. They hold a collection of national significance, only a small part of which is ever on display, so photography is how most of it reaches the public. The studio is heading into a period of real investment and unusually high access to the collection, which makes this a good moment to take it on.

The role

This is a player coach position. You will lead a small in house studio team, and you will also shoot.

Object and studio photography makes up the bulk of the work. The rest of your time goes to the things that make a studio function: the standard the team photographs to, the priorities you agree with curatorial and exhibitions colleagues, and the judgement about where the studio's effort is best spent when the requests exceed what a small team can deliver.

You will also set the direction on capture. Stills remain the core of the work, and there is appetite to develop 3D and emerging imaging approaches where they earn their place.

What you will do