About
T W Baker is an emerging photographer based on the Coal Coast of NSW, Australia.
His work is guided by a genuine and unending curiosity to the people and world around him and “perhaps my incomplete anthropology degree”. Baker’s humanist approach to photography elevates the stories of his subjects whilst encouraging viewers to challenge their own perspectives.
Always carrying a camera and a penchant for taking back roads usually leads to surreal and absurd scenes playing out right in front of him.
Baker’s works have hung in; The National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Wollongong Art Gallery, NERAM Armidale and the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
2025 has seen Baker land on the shortlist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize, The Olive Cotton Award, The Martin Kantor Award & The Galah Regional Photo Prize.
e: gday@twillbaker.com or the form below
Darkroom Prints available on request
Artist CV
PRIZES
2025 - National Photographic Portrait Prize - Finalist
2025 - Olive Cotton Award - Finalist
2025 - Martin Kantor Award - Finalist
2025 - Galah Regional Photography Prize - Finalist
2024 - PHOTO24 - Best Pre-Press Photobook - Finalist
Residencies
2024 - Creative Studios, Wollongong City Council
Solo Shows
2025 - I heard a river coming down the cliff - Ballarat International
Foto Biennale (Open Program)
2025 - I heard a river coming down the cliff - Clifton School of Arts, Clifton
2024 - There’s Sunscreen in the Holy Water - Clifton School of Arts, Clifton
2024 - There’s Sunscreen in the Holy Water - Goodspace, Chippendale
Group Shows
2025 - National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2025 - Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2025 - Martin Kantor Award, Ballarat International Foto Biennalle, Ballarat
2025 - Galah Regional Photo Prize, NERAM, Armidale
2025 - Connections, Wollongong Art Gallery
2024 - Scarborough Art Fair, Scarborough, NSW
2023 - Metropolis Locale, Yours & Owls Festival, October, Wollongong
2022 - Laneways Live, Society City, May, Wollongong
2021 - ONE | Gudinski, Ballarat International Foto Bienalle
2019 -The Paper Salon, aMBUSH Gallery, 29-31 March, Sydney
2018 - Group Show, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale
