Gary Heery, photographer, was born in Sydney, where he studied sociology and psychology at the University of New South Wales. In 1974 he moved to the USA and co-founded India America, a magazine chronicling Native American society and culture in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two years later he moved to Los Angeles where he photographed album covers for Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Ray Charles, BB King and Joe Cocker. He also shot portraits of film and music stars for magazines including Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Interview. In 1981, Heery moved to New York, opening a studio in Soho where he photographed album covers for Madonna and Paul Simon and advertising campaigns for Swatch, Karl Lagerfeld and Sony. Since returning to Sydney in 1987, Heery has worked in advertising and fashion with clients including American Express, Pepsi, Westpac, Telstra, Toyota, Lane Crawford, Qantas and Coca-Cola. He has shot award-winning campaigns for the Australian Wool Board, Trent Nathan, Dove and Sony. He has been a three-time finalist in the CitiBank Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize and selected for the American Photographer Annual. He was the Sony ambassador for the release of the Alpha (D-SLR) 900 camera and is a much sought-after speaker at photographic seminars. His exhibitions and books include Nudes (1994), Zoo (1996), Grandiflora (2000), Twins (2005), Grandiflora Arrangements (2007), Horses (2009), Winged (2011), Undergrowth (2012), Gary Heery: Selected Works (2013) and Bird (2015).
