Publications

2024
Natural History Magazine: Hanging in the balance

The Big Issue: Where the wild thinsg are

The Guardian: Wildlife Victoria’s Travelling Veterinary Services team – in pictures

Yahoo News: Heartbreaking moment 82-year-old forced to carry out ‘distressing’ ritual

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Wow moment: how Doug Gimesy captured a bat’s high speed dip

ILCP: A Light Touch – Reflections on using additional light when photographing wildlife

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Wildlife smuggling by post: Doug Gimesy’s confronting image from the Nature and Humans Photo Competition

BBC Wildlife: A light touch – the potential impact of using additional lighting when photographing wildlife

Australian Photography Magazine: A review of the Sony 300mm f/2.8

Australian Photography Magazine: A review of the Think Tank FirstLight 46L+

Yahoo News: Aussie swimmers ignore extremely rare marine creature ‘struggling’ nearby

2023
Science Magazine: Light pollution

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Aldana and Maude

National Geographic: Enter the weird world of the echidna – a mammal in a category all its own

Yahoo News: 100 dead ducks dumped in front of Premier Dan Andrews’ office

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Macquarie Island Penguins

National Geographic Kids Magazine: Wild Animal Vets

Australia Post: Platypus image on new Australian $1.20 stamp

2022
The Evidence Project: Contributing photographer

The Big Issue: Dogs detectives

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Conservation detector dogs

Australian Geographic  Eyre not gas: the magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells.

7.30 report (TV): Risking the Rivers (aerial cinematography: flooding)

Australian Photography Magazine: Lake Eyre from the air

Conservation Biology: Cover

Australian Photography Magazine: Telephoto lenses; So much more than getting closer

The Guardian: ‘Absolutely amazing’: Lake Eyre dances with colour thanks to big La Niña rains

London Times: Heavy rains bring Australian desert back to life

Australian Geographic:  Bound, gagged and posted

Australian Geographic: Bound, gagged, posted: investigating Australia’s cruel and corrupt and illegal wildlife trade (on-line version)

Australian Photography Magazine: I see spots

Australian Photography Magazine: Review – Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II

Australian Photography Magazine: Review – Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM OSS II

Australian Photography Magazine: Review – Nikon Z 9

2021
National Geographic: This ‘romantic’ lizard is one of Australia’s most trafficked animals

Australian Photography: Life in the slow lane

The Guardian: Avian eye: how to take photos of birds that stand out from the flock

Ranger Rick: Wild Roommates (wombats)

BBC Wildlife: Behind the image – High-tech trafficking

Australian Photography: Behind the lens – A royal in waiting

BBC Wildlife: The Lost Voice – The Regent Honeyeater, a tiny bird found in Australian forests, has become so rare, it’s forgetting how to sing its own song

The Guardian: Fowl play: duck hunting struggles to stay afloat in Victoria – a photo essay

The Guardian: ER for animals: Inside Australia’s Currumbin Wildlife Hospital – a photo essay

Kids News: The Aussie fish that’s come back from extinction – twice

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Odd one out

Australian Photography: Behind the lens – Josh and the platypus

National Geographic Explorer: Mishmash Mammal (platypus)

Australian Geographic: Beauty on the Brink (Regent Honeyeaters)

2020
National Geographic: Platypuses are increasingly threatened, scientists say

The Big Issue: Penguins on Parade

BioGraphic: Mother load

Audubon: Can This Critically Endangered Bird Survive Australia’s New Climate Reality?

Greenpeace Magazine:  Nach diem inferno

Current Biology: Cover (White and Amber Light at Night Disrupt Sleep Physiology in Birds)

Conservation Biology: Cover

The Big Issue: Wombat Digs

National Geographic: Raising orphaned baby wombats under lockdown

Australian Geographic: An intimate look at the challenges of caring for wildlife amid a pandemic

National GeographicKoalas and other marsupials struggle to recover from Australia’s bushfires

The Guardian (Australia): ‘We can’t blame animals’: how human pathogens are making their way into vulnerable wildlife’

Ranger Rick: Flying foxes (pdf here)

Outdoor Photography Magazine: Koala Rescue – what I learned about photographing an environmental disaster when Australia burned

iLCP: What goes unsaid when habitats burn

iLCP: Winning at What Cost? Ethical Considerations for Wildlife and Nature Photo Contests

The Guardian: Australia’s extraordinary and vulnerable animals – in pictures

BBC Wildlife (April): After the inferno

Discover Wildlife (from BBC Wildlife): Wildlife after the Australian bushfires

Geo.de: Australien nach den Bränden: Die Natur kehrt zurück (Australia after the fires: nature returns)

Australian Photography: Review of Nikon d780

The Guardian (Australia)Drones and thermal imaging: saving koalas injured in the bushfires

The Guardian: ‘Triple whammy’: drought, fires and floods push Australian rivers into crisis

Terre Sauvage: Les Survivants Des Flammes (Flame survivors)

Apu: Palannut Maa

The Big Issue: Call of the wildlife

Australian Geographic: In pictures: evacuating Mallacoota’s koalas

BBC News: Heat stress and the Australian flying fox

National Geographic: Flying foxes are dying en masse in Australia’s extreme heat

National Geographic: How many animals are affected by Australia’s disaster?

2019
Ranger Rick: City penguins (pdf here)

National Geographic: The silent decline of the platypus, Australia’s beloved oddity

iLCP: When words let us down

Victorian National Parks Association: ‘Park Watch’ – Melbourne’s Flying Night Gardeners

Australian Photography: Behind the lens: Into the Dragons Den
*Here I discuss some of the ethical considerations to think about when using additional lighting with wildlife.

Wildlife Australia Magazine: Gardeners of the night

National Portrait Gallery: Portrait of Tim Jarvis

Banksia Bulletin: Help protect our Grey-Headed Flying-fox

BBC Wildlife Magazine (Summer): Stranger than fiction (platypus)

The Big Issue: Climate Changer – Tim Flannery

Pet Industry News: Wildlife Trafficking (Cover +p14)

Australian Photography: Behind the lens

The Big Issue: Fly By Night

Australian Geographic: Plight of the platypus

BioGraphic: Plight of the Platypus

BBC Wildlife Magazine (Spring): Penguin parade

Australian Photography: Before you take that shot

The Big Issue: The State of Platypus

Australian Geographic: Urban battler (Grey-headed Flying-foxes)

Journal of Mammology: Cover

Ranger Rick: Peculiar Platypus

The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’Shane and the sugar gliders

BBC Wildlife Magazine (winter): The Night Gardeners

National Geographic: Around the world in 24 hours (9am)

2018
National Geographic: Meet Australia’s urban flying- foxes and the people trying to help them

Wildlife Australia Magazine: Detecting a paradox

Australian Geographic: Against the odds: How the world’s smallest penguin has made one of Australia’s largest cities it home

Biogeographic: Raising joey

The Biscuit: The mystery of the paradoxical platypus

National Geographic News: Ancient Royal Tomb Yields Strange New Ape Species

Fishing retailers withdraw yabby nets that kill platypuses well ahead of government ban: ABC on-line

Victorian Government to ban nets that threatened platypus: Herald Sun and Geelong Advertiser

Women for Wilderness: Interview with Lizzie Corke

Australian Conservation Foundation: Habitat (April, 18) p,14 

Environment Victoria: Issue 29 Autumn 2018 (back cover)

National Geographic News: As koalas suffer from chlamydia, a new clue for treatment

Victorian National Parks Association: ‘Park Watch’ (March): How can we allow platypuses to drown in Victoria?

Australian Wildlife: Looking for footprints in water – in search of the elusive platypus

Environment Victoria: Issue 29 Autumn 2018

Focus Magazine (Italy): Platypus

2017
The Australian ‘Heart of the Nation’: Platypus reserachers

Australian Geographic: Looking for footprints in water – The platypus

National Geographic: Night Visions – magical photographs of life after dark (p174)

Otway Life: Wild Ecotourism

Australasian Nature Photography: The years best wildlife and landscape photos (p46 &109)

New York Times: Taking the Pulse of the ‘Near Threatened’ Platypus Is a Tricky Task

Sydney Morning Herald: Platypus experts warn of localised extinctions and declining population 

Environment Victoria: Issue 28 Spring 2017

WWF Australia: Caring on the front line

The Australian Newspaper ‘Heart of the nation’: To the bat cave

Australian Conservation Foundation: Habitat (April, 17) 

Sydney Morning Herald: Stray dogs help endangered cheetahs cheat death

Australian Wildlife Magazine: Fast roads, slow deaths

Australian Conservation Foundation 2017 calendar (June)

PetRescue 2017 calendar

Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail Guide (9 images)

2016
Australian Geographic: Caught in the headlights (Kangaroo Island wildlife road trauma)

Australian Conservation Foundation magazine ‘Habitat’: Cover

National Geographic on-line: 12 Photographers Show Us the Food Landscape in Their Cities

New York Times: The Changing Clock of Australia’s Little Penguins

National Geographic Traveler Magazine: 9AM Melbourne

National Geographic Traveler: Melbourne’s Hippest Neighbourhoods

The Australian Newspaper: Heart of the nation – The Joey Invasion

Birds New ZealandCover and page 9

Environment Victoria: Annual Report 2015-16

Ian Potter Foundation Annual Grants Report: Annual report (cover and p13)

2015
National Geographic: Getting your shot – Stunning photos, how-to tips, and endless inspiration from the pros

National Geographic Travel – 365: Campbell Island, New Zealand