Lisa Maree Williams

Lisa Maree Williams is an Australian photographer. She started out being a photographer's assistant at 21 then she study photojournalism at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She has pursued assignments throughout North America, Europe, Indonesia, Cuba, and her home country Australia. She has covered many news and cultural events including being a host photographer for the 2007 APEC Summit, 2008 World Youth Day, Australian Prime Minister's, and many other events. She has received numerous honors and awards. She was selected as a finalist in the 2009 and 2010 Head On Photographic Competition, named 2009 Sony World Photo Competition, National History winner, her work "Wildlife Warriors" was included in a hard cover book, and many other awards. She is published regularly worldwide and her work has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, The Australian, and other magazines. She has photographed numerous celebrities and also did advertising assignments with the BBC, McDonald, USA, Coca-Cola, and others.

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This picture is from her Wildlife Warriors collection. One of these pictures won the Sony World Photo Competition. There are a lot of great photos. "The Australian Wildlife Hospital is the largest wildlife hospital in the world, situated in Beerwah on The Sunshine Coast, Australia.
The facility is located near Australia Zoo and was founded in 2004 by the late Steve Irwin in memory of his mother Lynn." She was asked to document the workings of the newly built hospital before its official relaunch on Steve Irwin Day, November 15th, 2008.

This is a wonderful picture of a baby kangaroo being bottle fed. This picture tells a story. The kangaroo looks helpless and people are taking care of him/her. The kangaroo looks all cozy bundle up in the blanket. This is a action shot. I can see that he/she is in the middle of drinking from the bottle because the tip of the bottle is bent. This is also a great composition because the kangaroo and bottle are off centered. The colors work well too. The colors look true to real life. It also feels like I'm there. I want to go there and touch and feed this baby kangaroo.

 This picture is from her "After Katrina" collection. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29th, 2005. "This project depicts the Lower Ninth Ward, life along the famous Bourbon Street and a second line jazz funeral in Treme. (2009)"

This picture definitely tells a story. I really like the way she took it. I can see that there are a couple of shredded daisies in the front leaning and past the daisies is this destroyed house that was once a home. I like how the flowers are in focus and the rest of the picture is out of focus. This is a very sad picture. This picture is real though. There are a lot of places in New Orleans that look like this or worse. Someone used to live in that house and now that house is destroyed. The long, brown grass shows that this house has been sitting there for a while and no one has taken care of the lawn.

 

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