ABOUT
Jesse Marlow is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. 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 and Institute Artists.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
2016
2015
2014
2012
2011
2003
2000
Tokyo: Waiting, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
Jesse Marlow: Street Photographer, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Wounded, Lamington Drive, Melbourne
City of Whitehorse 20 Year Anniversary Commission, Artspace, Box Hill
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them – Part 3, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them, London Street Photography Festival
OAO (One And Only), Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran
Centre Bounce, Alcastan Gallery, Melbourne
Life: Flinders St Station, Platform2, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
2017
2013
2012
2010
2007
2006
Breaking Point / Space. Street. Life. Photography, Dichtorhallen, Hamburg
Elevating the Everyday, Boroondara Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, CCP, Melbourne
In-Public, Bangkok Design Centre
Geomorphometries: Contemporary Terrains, QCP, Queensland
Oculi – Terra Australia Incognita, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Street Photography Now, Mois de la Photo Festival, Paris
Oculi – Terra Australia Incognita, Manly City Gallery, Sydney
Leica CCP Documentary Prize, CCP, Melbourne
Australian Rules: Around the Grounds, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Risk – Joop-Swart Masterclass, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
Crosswalks, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, USA
AWARDS
2012
2011
2002
Winner – Bowness Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
Winner – International Street Photographer of the Year
Winner – Hasselblad X-PAN Masters
MONOGRAPHS
2018
2014
2005
2003
Anything Can Happen and Probably Will, Leica Australia
Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them, M.33
Wounded, Sling Shot Press, Melbourne
Centre Bounce: Football from Australia’s Heart, HGB, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Australian Parliament House
BP Australia
City of Melbourne
City of Whitehorse
City of Yarra
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
MGA: Monash Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Victoria
Performing Arts Museum of Victoria
State Library of Victoria
The Menzies Collection
The Museum of Australian Democracy
Trades Hall Council Victoria
CLIENTS
Architectus
Art Guide
Australian Catholic University
Australian Financial Review
City of Boroondara
City of Melbourne
City of Whitehorse
Iglu Pty Ltd
Leica Australia
National Australia Bank
Nike
The Age
The Monthly
Time Magazine
Tourism Victoria
Weekend Australian Magazine
WorkSafe Victoria