Dan O'Day

Dan O'Day is a Canberran Professional Photographer and is the current Pro Photographer of the year. He started as a fashion photographer for Brit in the early days, now does weddings and fine art photography.

O'Day uses medium format for his fine art photography,  in particular a mamiya rz pro 2.

During O'Day's talk he showed us a power point presentation which included the following:

Shoot for yourself 
- make to do/to buy lists
- maintain your CV and have an online profile
- Some good online networking lists include flickr, red bubble, humblevoice, deviantart

Online Publications to get you work on
- Blanketmagazine.com
- noise.net
- WATIM.com
- melbournepixel.com

Hard Copy Magazines
- Capture; particularly the Hotstuff/Exposed Challenge
- KURV
- Monster Children
- Frankie
- Oyster

Get Representation from a gallery
Have low editions - higher prices. Gallery gets 40% cut. Dan is represented by a VIC Gallery, Catherine Asquith, and has had 3 shows so far.

Avard Card Competitions
Artsct - arts.gov.act.au
Moran Contemporary Art Prize
Off The Wall

Some examples of Dan's work

Image ref http://www.danodayphotoblog.com/