BIOGRAPHY

Peter Hendrie is based in Melbourne, Australia. He began studying photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) but left after four months when he had the opportunity to learn more as an assistant at the Newton and Talbot Studio in Melbourne.

From here, he continued working as an assistant for a wide range of photographers in London, Europe and Japan for three years until he returned to Australia to establish his own photography studio.

Over a period of twenty years, he has worked for most of Australia’s leading design firms and advertising agencies, photographing campaigns and annual reports for most of the major corporations. In 1984, he founded The Image Bank Australia, an international photo library. Since 2001, when he sold The Image Bank Australia to Getty Images, he has concentrated on his photographic collection of the Pacific islands and produced his book, Pacific Journeys.