Lead Photographer and Studio Manager

The role

You will lead a small in-house studio team and perform photography. The role involves object and studio photography, setting technical standards, and managing studio workflows and priorities.

What you will do

• Photograph the collection yourself.
• Lead a small team of photographers, covering standards, workflow, priorities and development.
• Set the technical standard the studio photographs to.
• Hold contractors to technical standards when the team scales up.
• Agree priorities with curatorial, exhibitions and collection colleagues.
• Plan how the studio works through periods of high collection access.
• Photograph the institution's significant public events.
• Keep the studio current on capture technology.
• Oversee studio spaces, equipment and environments.

Required qualifications

• Professional photography experience where the image itself is the product.
• Ability to shoot to a studio standard at pace and outside a controlled set.
• Real leadership experience setting standards, managing workload and shaping how a team works together.
• Sound judgement on prioritisation.
• Working knowledge of contemporary capture and imaging technology.

Nice to have

• Cultural or heritage collection experience

Benefits

• Hands on access to a collection of national significance
• Investment going into studio facilities and equipment
• Public sector conditions
• Flexibility
• Long term security

Before you apply

• Initial video screening
• Interview with the hiring team
• Send CV along with a link to your portfolio or website

About the company

Fulcrum has partnered with a major Australian cultural institution that holds a collection of national significance.