11.00AM Speaker Session
Tony Hewitt
Travel

Biography
APP-L, G.M.PHOTOG. 1PB, FAIPP, HON. FAIPP, FNZIPP. TRIPLE MASTER WPPI
Tony Hewitt’s photographic journey has seen him explore a variety of genres including Fine Art, Aerial, Landscape, Nature, Portrait & Wedding. With an instinctive sense of the moment, he brings a unique combination of creative skills, award winning photographic vision and simple creativity. He is a sought-after mentor and coach, leads a variety of international photography tours, and offers a diverse range of opportunities for learning and inspiration. He presents on subjects as diverse as Photography, Fine-Art, Creativity, Vision, Repoire and Personal Awareness, utilising his amazing images to illustrate various aspects of his message.
His career highlights feature over 400 state, national and international photography awards, including being awarded the AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year in 2013. In 2025 he was awarded 1st place in the Landscape Category in both the Asia Pacific Awards and the Societies of Photographers Awards in the UK. More recently he was awarded the International Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2024. In 2023 Tony received the IIC Mentorship Award, open to mentors and teachers internationally. In 2021, Tony received the ‘Bill Hurter’ Award at WPPI in Las Vegas, USA, and in January 2020, Tony won the Nature, Landscape, Wildlife and overall Photographer of the Year at the SWPP 20×16 Print Awards in London UK.
As an internationally recognized Fine-Art Photographer, Tony has exhibited both within Australia and Overseas sharing his vision through regular solo exhibitions, while more of his work features in the incredible collaborative 100 piece ‘Girt by Sea’ collection, captured during a 31day circumnavigation of the Australian coastline. He has been invited to judge and chair judging at local, national and international levels for the past 25 years, and also served as ‘Chairperson’ of the Australian Institute of Photography Awards Committee 2016-2020, as well as Chair of Jurors at WPPI/ICON in the USA 2019-2020, 2023-2024
Tony loves travel, the beach, a good conversation and is a ‘Witness to the Dance between the Water and the Light