Chris Round is a landscape photographer based in Sydney, Australia. He studied at both Canterbury College of Art and the School of Communication Arts in the UK, and also Sydney College of Art in Australia. Chris has also had a successful career in advertising, winning many international accolades including a coveted Grand Prix at Cannes.
Chris’s work primarily investigates our dynamic relationship with the contemporary environment, with a focus on landscapes that bear the imprint of direct human intervention. His work engages with the complex interplay between place, memory, and identity, inviting viewers to reconsider their own relationship to the natural and built environments that surround them. Through his careful and methodical approach, Chris seeks to capture the visual impact of these landscapes in a way that is both compelling and authentic. Rather than relying on manipulation or exaggeration, he allows the inherent qualities of the scene to speak for themselves, producing images that are both aesthetically striking and conceptually nuanced.
Chris’s work has been awarded both locally and internationally highlights include: Lucie Foundation IPA Film Photographer of the Year; Shortlisted, World Photo Awards and Winner Australia National Award; Grand Prize winner, PDN Exposure Award; Prize Winner & multiple Finalists, HeadOn Landscape Prize; Exhibitor, Royal Photographic Society IPE prize; PhotoCollective 'Stories' Winner; multiple Prize Winner, Kodak Salon, CCP Melbourne; Selected Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Prize; Prize Winner & multiple Finalists Perth Centre for Photography CLIP award; FotoFilmic Shortlist & exhibitor; Moran Prize Semi-finalist.
Parliament NSW Collection, Macquarie Group Collection, Powerhouse Museum Library, National Library of Australia, and private collections in Australia, UK, USA and Italy.
RECENT AWARDS
2023 - HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize, Finalist.
2023 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) 1st Place - Book/Self-published, 'The Grand Scheme'
2023 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) 2nd Place - Film/Landscape
2023 - Australian Life Photographic Prize - finalist
2023 - IRIS portrait Awards, Perth Centre for Photography - finalist
2023 - Belfast Photo Festival (Open Call) - Highly Commended
2022 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Judges Commendation Prize
2022 - HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize, Finalist
2022 - PhotoCollective Stories Award - Winner
2022 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) 3rd Place - Film/Landscape
2022 - Royal Photographic Society - IPE Shortlist
2021 - Australian Photography Awards - 3rd place & 3 finalists
2021 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards - Analog / Film Photographer of the Year
2021 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) 1st Place - Film/Landscape
2021 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) Jury Top 5 selection
2021 - HeadOn Festival Landscape Prize - finalist
2021 - IRIS portrait Awards, Perth centre for Photography - finalist
2021 - Royal Photographic Society - IPE shortlist
2020 - Chromatic Awards - Honourable Mention
2020 - HeadOn Landscape Prize - semi-finalist
2019 - Royal Photographic Society - IPE Exhibitor
2019 - LensCulture Art Photography Awards - Finalist
2019 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Finalist
2019 - HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize - Winner, Parliament NSW Landscape Prize
2019 - Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Semi-finalist
2018 - Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize, finalist
2018 - Chromatic Awards - 2nd Place Architecture
2018 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) 2nd Place - Industrial Architecture
2018 - PDN Exposure Award - Grand Prize winner
2018 - Royal Photographic Society - IPE Exhibitor
2018 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Finalist
2018 - Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Semi-finalist
2018 - HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize - finalist
2018 - World Photo Awards - Winner, Australia National Award
2018 - World Photo Awards -Commended, Architecture
2018 - FotoFilmic- '18 Shortlist & exhibitor
2017 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - Winner Best Composition.
2017 - HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize - Winner 'Speaker's Prize' (NSW Parliament acquisition)
2017 - HeadOn Festival, Mobile Prize - Finalist.
2017 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Finalist.
2017 -FotoFilmic '17 Shortlist
2016 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - Winner Best 'In-Camera' image
2016 - Lucie Foundation International Photo Awards (IPA) Honorable mention - Travel/Tourism
2016 - FotofFilmic '16 Exhibition winner
2016 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Finalist
2016 - FotoFilmic '16 Shortlist
2015 -Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - winner Best Composition
2015 -International Photo Awards (IPA) Honorable mention - Architecture
2015 -Exposure Award 2015, Architecture Honourable Mention
2015 -Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize, selected
2015 -HeadOn Festiva l, Landscape Prize - Finalist
2014 -International Photo Awards (IPA) Honorable mention - Fine Art, still life
2014 -International Photo Awards (IPA) Honorable mention - Architecture x2
2014 -Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth - Finalist
2014 -HeadOn Festival, Landscape Prize - Finalist
2014 -Queensland Festival of Photography, 3rd Place, 'Space & Place', Queensland Centre for Photography
2014 -World Photo Awards, Australia National Award, 3rd place,
2014 -World Photo Awards, Commended
COLLECTIONS
Parliament NSW Collection, Macquarie Group Collection, Powerhouse Museum Library, National Library of Australia, and private collections in Australia, UK, USA and Italy.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - The Grand Scheme - PhotoAccess Canberra
2022 - The Grand Scheme - Featured Exhibition, HeadOn Festival
2016 - 'In Two Places' - Barometer Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
2015 - 'In Two Places' - The Colour Factory, Melbourne
2014 - 'Inversion' - Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
2014 - 'Transient Realities', 'featured' exhibition, HeadOn Festival , X88 Gallery,
2013 - 'Evidence' - Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
2012 - 'Evidence' - ArtHere Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Australian Life Photographic Prize - finalist
2023 - Perth Centre for Photography - IRIS portrait awards
2023 - Speculative Horizons, CAP Kuwait
2022 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition
2022 - International Photography Awards Best of Show Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
2022 - 'Legend' series, Royal Photographic Society IPE , Museum of Gloucester (January-June)
2021 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition
2021 - 'Legend' series, Royal Photographic Society, IPE - Various locations across the UK
2021 - Perth Centre for Photography - IRIS portrait awards
2020 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition
2020 - 'Legend' series, Royal Photographic Society, IPE - Various locations across the UK
2020 - FotofFilmic '18 Touring Exhibition - The Reference Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Observations In The Ordinary, Subjectively Objective Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA
2019 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2019 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth
2019 - Royal Photographic Society, IPExhibition - Various locations across the UK
2019 - FotofFilmic '18 Touring Exhibition - Polygon Gallery Vancouver and SF Camerawork San Fransisco.
2018 - Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize, HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
2018 - Auckland Festival of Photography - HeadOn Landscape Awards touring exhibition
2018 - Palm* Photo Prize - House of Vans Gallery, London
2018 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2018 - World Photo Awards, Somerset House, London
2018 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth
2017 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2017 - Pingyao International Photography Festival - Best of HeadOn Landscape Prize
2017 - 'Black Lines 2017', Architecture group show, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2017 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2017 - HeadOn Festival - Mobile Prize exhibition, Museum of Sydney
2017 - FotofFilmic '16 Exhibition, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2017 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth
2017 - FotofFilmic '16 Exhibition, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
2016 -Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2016 -FotofFilmic '16 Exhibition, DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2016 -HeadOn Landscape Prize retrospective, GkJE Gallery Sydney
2016 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, PCP, Perth
2016 -'Black Lines', Architecture group show, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2015 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2015 -'Unforeseen - ArtHere group show, Catherine Clayton Gallery, Paddington Sydney
2015 -'Island - Australia', Photo Festival Ireland, Copper House Gallery, Dublin.
2015 - Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize, Gold Coast Gallery, Queensland
2015 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2014 - 'October Unseen' - ArtHere group show, 10x8 Gallery Sydney
2014 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, Perth Centre for Photography
2014 - HeadOn Festival - Landscape Prize exhibition, Parliament House, Sydney
2014 - World Photo Awards National Award, Somerset House, London,
2014 - 'Space & Place', Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2014 - 'The Human Environment' - Climate Council, Glue Society studios, Sydney
2014 - Black Eye Gallery/ArtHere Summer Show, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2013 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 - 'Lost In Place', ArtHere group show, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2013 - Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Projections '13
2013 - Exposure 2013 Exhibition, New York.
2013 - HeadOn Festival - HeadOff Landscape Prize exhibition
2013 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, Perth Centre for Photography
2013 - World Photo Awards, Somerset House, London
2012 - Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2012 - Contemporary Landscapes In Photography, Perth Centre for Photography
2012 - World Photo Awards, Somerset House, London