Jesse Marlow is a Melbourne based photographer. His works are held in public and private collections across Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Parliament House Canberra, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria.
In 2003, he published his first book of photographs, Centre Bounce: Football from Australia’s Heart, (Hardie Grant Books). Images from Centre Bounce have been exhibited and published extensively, both in Australia and internationally. In 2005, he published a book of street photographs, Wounded, (Sling Shot Press). In 2006, he was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. While in 2010, Marlow was one of 45 street photographers from around the world profiled in the book, Street Photography Now (Thames & Hudson). He was awarded the International Street Photographer of the Year Award in 2011, and in 2012 won the Monash Gallery of Art’s Bowness Prize. Marlow released his third monograph, Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them in 2014. In the same year, he was profiled in the Thames & Hudson book, The World Atlas of Street Photography.
Marlow is a member of the international street photographers’ collective UP Photographers.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Second City, Leica Gallery, Melbourne, 2021
Anything Can Happen and Probably Will, Leica Gallery, Sydney, 2017
Jesse Marlow: Street Photographer, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 2016
Wounded, Lamington Drive, Melbourne, 2015
City of Whitehorse 20 Year Anniversary Commission, Artspace, Box Hill, 2014
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them – Part 3 (selected works), Richmond Town Hall, 2012
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them – Part 3, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, 2012
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them – London Street Photography Festival, 2011
OAO (One And Only) – Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, 2011
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them…, Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Melbourne, 2010
Centre Bounce, Alcastan Gallery, Melbourne, 2003
Life: Flinders St Station, Platform2, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, July 2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Breaking Point / Space. Street. Life. Photography, The House of Photography, Hamburg, 2018
Elevating the Everyday, Boroondara Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2017
True-Self Exhibition, Melbourne GPO, 2013
In-Public, Bangkok Design Centre, 2013
Geomorphometries: Contemporary Terrains, Queensland Centre for Photography, 2012
Oculi – Terra Australia Incognita, MGA, 2012
Street Photography Now, Mois de la Photo Festival, Paris, 2010
In-Public, Format Photography Festival, Derby, 2011
Oculi – Terra Australia Incognita , Manly City Gallery, 2010
Leica CCP Documentary Prize, CCP, Melbourne, 2007
Australian Rules: Around the Grounds, Monash Gallery of Art, 2007
Risk – Joop-Swart Masterclass, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, 2006
Crosswalks: Contemporary Street Photography, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, USA, 2006
AWARDS
Finalist – Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, 2023
Finalist – Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, 2022
Winner – Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, 2012
Winner – International Street Photographer of the Year, 2011
Finalist – Moran Contemporary Photography Prize, 2010
Fabrica Scholarship, 1 year, Italy, 2007
World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass Participant, Amsterdam 2006
Winner, Hasselblad X-PAN Masters, 2002
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Parliament House Canberra
MGA: Monash Gallery of Art
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
State Library of Victoria
City of Melbourne
City of Yarra
City of Whitehorse
Performing Arts Museum of Victoria
Trades Hall Council Victoria
The Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra
The Menzies Collection
MONOGRAPHS / BOOKS
Anything Can Happen and Probably Will by Jesse Marlow, Leica Australia, 2018
100 Great Street Photographs, Prestel, 2017
Use This If You Want To Take Great Photographs, Lawrence King Publishing, 2016
The World Atlas of Street Photography, Thames & Hudson, 2014
The Street Photographer’s Manual, Thames & Hudson, 2014
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them, by Jesse Marlow, M.33, 2014
Hijacked, Australia & UK, Big City, 2012
In-Public @ 10, Nick Turpin Publishing, UK, 2010
Centre Bounce. Football from Australia’s Heart, by Jesse Marlow, HGB, Melbourne 2003
Street Photography Now – Thames & Hudson, UK, 2010
Wounded, Sling Shot Press, Melbourne, 2005
Centre Bounce. Football from Australia’s Heart, HGB, Melbourne 2003