Julian Kingma (b. 1968), photographer, began his career in 1988 as a cadet for the Herald newspaper in Melbourne, and later worked for the Sunday Age as Head Features Photographer. After ten years in newspapers, Kingma freelanced for various national and international publications including Gourmet Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, as well as The Australian Magazine and The Good Weekend. He also works with The Australian Ballet and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Kingma has won Quill Awards for Best Portrait in 1998 and, in 2000, won Best Picture Story. He was named the Australian Nikon Photographer of the Year in 1999. In 2001, he was judged to have taken the Best Photograph at the World Food Awards. Hardie Grant produced the book IGNI: A Restaurant's First Year (2017), a collaboration between Kingma and chef/restaurateur Aaron Turner, which received international acclaim and won top honours at the New York Rights Fair Talking Pictures Program. They published their follow-up book, The Hot Chicken Project, in 2020. Kingma has exhibited throughout Australia and his works are held in public and private collections. His own favourites among his ten works in the National Portrait Gallery's collection are his portraits of Robert Dessaix, Philip Hunter and Stephen Heathcote.
