Biography
Meg Hewitt was born in 1973 in Sydney, Australia and formally studied sculpture, painting and temporal media. She took up photography in 2010 and since then has been selected as a finalist in the Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography, the Head On Prize, the Lensculture Street Photography Awards and the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women as well as being awarded a gold medal from the Tokyo International Foto Competition 2018 and a silver medal from the Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2016. In 2017 she was named fringe artist of the year at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and highly commended in the Australian Photobook of the Year awards for her monograph ‘Tokyo is Yours’.
Since 2016 since has exhibited in Japan, France, Germany, the USA and Australia. Meg has judged numerous photography competitions including Aussie Street, the Landscape award for Head On and the The Mono Awards
Meg is a member of the Australian photo collective Oculi and international street photography collective UP
Prizes and Awards
2018 Gold medal, Fine Art, Book Category Tokyo International Foto Awards
2018 Commended finalist, Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year awards
2017 Winner of Designscope award for best fringe exhibition at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2017 Finalist, Head On Landscape Prize, Semi Finalist Head On Portrait Prize, Sydney Australia
2016 Finalist in the Lensculture International Street Photography Awards
2016 Silver Medal for 'Tokyo Is Yours', series for a book, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2015 Finalist in the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, Brightspace, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Finalist in the Moran Contemporary Photographic prize, State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Tokyo is Yours at Chaussee 36 Photo Foundation, Berlin, September 17 - January 27, 2024
2019 Tokyo is Yours at Anne Clergue Galerie, Arles, France, July 1 - September 7
2018 Tokyo Is Yours at Kodoji, Shinjuku, Tokyo, April 2 - April 14
2017 Tokyo Is Yours at Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia, November 16- December 9
2017 Tokyo Is Yours at Ballarat International Foto Biennale Fringe, 19 August to 17 September
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, OCULI Laneways
2022 SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY - Arthere booth E13 selection from ‘Tokyo is Yours’
2019 United States at The Tigermen Den, New Orleans as part of Photo NOLA
2020 Sedition Festival Sydney Art Trail with image ‘Rise Early, Work Late, Strike Oil’ from Bakersfield, California 2019
2017 Sobol Studio - Jacob Aue Sobol, Natnada Marchal, Meg Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Riisager
‘A Space for Photography’ as part of Voies Off, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
2016 Lensculture Street Photography Awards at San Francisco Cameraworks
2016 SQ1 at ARO gallery, inaugural group show by Square One Studios, William St, Sydney
2016 Coterie, curated by Sandy Edwards, Head On Photo Festival, Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016 Punctum, Gallery Place M, Tokyo Japan
2016 In Residence Group Show, Depot Gallery, Sydney Australia
2014 October Unseen, curated by Sandy Edwards, 10x8 gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014 Mira Cuba - Group Show, 10x8 gallery, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia
Public Collections holding Artists Book Tokyo is Yours
Victoria and Albert Museum - London
International Centre for Photography - New York
The University of California at San Diego Art Library
Occidental College - Los Angeles
Amherst College - Massachusetts
National Library of Australia - Canberra
Asia Pacific Photobook Archive - Melbourne
Publications and Reviews
2024 Aurum, Spring, Austria
2024 Profifoto, January/February
2024 Schwazweiss Magazine 157
2024 Fotographie.de Debut in Deutschland
2023 Photography in Berlin
2023 Planetario, NO CAMINHO DAS ESTRELAS POR JOÃO PACHECO Portugal, 17 November
2023 Fofpuls - Megacity in Monochom, Germany
2023 The Berliner, Germany
2023 Gloria Glam, December, Serbia
2023 Frankfurter Allgemeine - Tokyo Gehort Dir! by Freddie Langer, 14 Decenber
2023 Photography in Berlin
2023 Rain Magazine - Photographer Meg Hewitt debuts in Germany
2023 LFI Stories - In Between Spaces
2023 French Fries Magazine
2023 Keyi Magazine
2023 Visit Berlin
2021 How to make great portraits - Head On Photo Festival
2020 Cover and feature article in LFI - Leica Fotografie International
2020 Leica Camera Blog - Tokyo is Yours
2019 Loeil de la Photographie - exhibition at Anne Clergue Gallerie
2019 La Quotidien de L’Art - exhibition at Anne Clergue Gallery
2019 Polkas Favorites at the Rencontres d’Arles 2019
2019 Soliel FM Radio interview in Provence with Anne Clergue
2019 La Provence - Focus on the exhibition at Anne Clergue Gallerie
2019 Pacific Exposures, Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship by Melissa Miles and Robin Gerster -
pgs 222-226 - Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understandings: Independent Photography Since the 1980s
2019 Interview with Sam Ferris on Aussie Street
2018 Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine - review by Melissa Miles
2018 A new nothing Efrem Zelony-Mindell / W.M. Hunt
2018 dofoto - Slovakia - interview with Matus Zajac and Nicole Jasakova
2018 Good2b - best photobooks of 2017
2017 Capture Magazine
2017 Art Almanac, Australia - Tokyo Is Yours - book review
2017 Lomography Magazine - A moment when Tokyo Is Ours, An interview with Meg Hewitt
2017 Globetrotter Magazine - A photographers exploration of post tsunami Japan
2017 粗糙、模糊、失焦的美學 Lomography Japan
2017 Lomography Magazine - Are, Bure, Boke
2017 Huck Magazine - Photos that explore the modern juxtaposition of Japan
2017 Mor.bo magazine, Chile - Feature
2017 Manifesto XXI - Meg Hewitt presents Tokyo Is Yours
2017 メグヒューイット Moby Japan
2017 Lomography Taiwan - Tokyo Is Yours review
2017 Hannah Watsons top 5 from Arles - BJP
2017 Guillotine Magazine, France - Feature
2017 Feature on British Journal of Photography - Photobook - Tokyo Is Yours
2017 Good2b - review of the exhibition in Arles - Spanish
2017 FP Magazine - review of the exhibition in Arles - Italian
2017 Lensculture -Seeking Sense through Street Photography
2017 Photodust - Tokyo Is Yours
2017 Royal Photographic Society review of Arles
2017 L'oeil de la photographie - review of the exhibtion in Arles
2016 Feature on LensCulture - Tokyo Is Yours
2016 P3 Publico - Portuguese News - Tokyo Is Yours
2016 东京是你的，也是我的 The Cover - Chinese Newspaper - Tokyo Is Yours
Other Education and Experience
2022- 2022 Event Producer and curator of Oculi Laneway Exhibition, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2016-2017 Assistant to Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol in Copenhagen, Denmark
2012-2014 Founding Director, 10x8 gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011-2012 Certificate IV in Photoimaging, Sydney Institute of Technology
2000-2016 Established and ran Kawa Cafe in Surry Hills, Sydney
1998-1999 Worked at The Groucho Club in Soho London
1995-1996 Electronic and Temporal Media, Sydney College of the Arts
1990-1994 National Art School, major in painting and sculpture, East Sydney