George Fetting (b. 1964) is a Sydney-based photographer specialising in portrait, travel and editorial work. Fetting has described people – and specifically portraiture – as his 'first love'. His portrait subjects include Australian and international actors, musicians and media personalities. Early in his career, after studying photography at the Queensland College of Art, Fetting undertook a cadetship at the Brisbane Courier Mail. He went on to work for leading Australian and international newspapers and magazines including The Sydney Morning Herald, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Belle, Good Weekend and Gourmet Traveller. He has twice been voted Australian Travel Photographer of the Year and in 2007 his portrait of Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali won the Olive Cotton Award. He was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and the 2007 and 2014 National Photographic Portrait Prize; he was the guest judge of the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2017. In 2010 his portrait of Professor Fred Hollows was embossed on a collectable one-dollar coin produced by the Royal Australian Mint. Fetting's portraits of Lee Lin Chin, George Gittoes, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, David Gulpilil, Tony Bilson, John Waters, Andrew Gaze and Adam Cullen are in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
