A number of professional photographers allow us to use their remarkable images on this website and in our promotional and educational materials. We thank them for supporting The Fred Hollows Foundation.

You can read about each of these photographers below…

Anne Crawford

Anne Crawford is a journalist and photographer who went to Nepal in 2002 to take photographs at the  Tilganga Eye Centre, (now called the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology) one of The Foundation’s partners, and to write a chapter for Through Other Eyes – a 10^th anniversary commemoration of The Foundation’s work.

“Nepal was a glorious, exhausting, sometimes frustrating, heart-warming and joyous life experience,” says Anne.

“Watching someone regain their sight from blindness always amazes me but the transformation of one woman in particular – an elderly woman who wore her wedding dress to surgery at an eye clinic – from being timid, withdrawn and helpless to exuberant and mobile, was extraordinary.”

Anthony Maturin

Anthony Maturin’s mother gave him a Woolworths camera at the age of seven and he’s been taking photographs ever since.

In 2004, Anthony travelled to Cambodia and documented some of The Foundation's work in Cambodia, visiting eye units and villages with The Foundation’s Country Manager for Cambodia, Sith Sam Ath.

Anthony says he “was taken into people’s lives in the most privileged fashion” and particularly remembers Mak Nan, a single and landless rice planter so affected by cataracts she could only see two metres in front of her, and how quickly and easily her situation changed with the help of The Foundation.

Hugh Rutherford

Hugh Rutherford is a Sydney-based photographer specialising in documentary. Working alongside The Foundation since 2006, Hugh's cinematic style and strong sense of narrative has taken him as far afield as the Samburu District in northern Kenya, to remote provinces in Pakistan.

Lannon Harley

Lannon Harley is a Canberra-based freelance photographer whose first photographs of The Foundation’s work were taken in Eritrea and Kenya.

Since then The Foundation’s newsletters, websites, annual reports and other community awareness and promotional materials have been filled with his photos of patients in Eritrea, Kenya, Cambodia and Pakistan.

“It is just incredible to see a person who may have been blind for 3 months, 5 months, a year or 10 years walk into surgery on Monday morning and by Tuesday morning, when the eye patch comes off…it changes their life completely,” says Lannon.

Michael Amendolia

Photographer Michael Amendolia knew Fred for the last six months of his life and photographed the very early days of The Foundation in Vietnam, Eritrea and Nepal. Many of these black and white photographs appear in the book Seeing is Believing.

“I would photograph the professor each day as he restored the sight of cataract sufferers, trained local surgeons as well as battling his own ill health. In the evening I would process my black and white film in the hotel room toilet and transmit those images back to News Limited using a fax-like machine for images and a telephone line.”

In 2006, Michael worked with The Foundation again, this time photographing the work of Foundation partner Dr Sanduk Ruit and his team on their first trip to North Korea where they screened 2,230 patients and restored sight to 702 people in 11 days.

Peter Carrette

Peter Carrette was an internationally renowned photographer and a long time and dedicated supporter of The Foundation.

We are sad to have lost this member of The Foundation’s family in November 2010, and our thoughts are with Peter’s relatives and friends.

In 2001, Peter made a trip to The Foundation's program in Cambodia, and his moving images of one patient – Moen Som from Cambodia’s Kampong Thom Province – were featured in The Fred Hollows Foundation's monthly giving campaign for many years.

Peter is greatly missed, but his beautiful photographs continue to raise awareness and help The Foundation restore sight around the world – the powerful legacy of a talented and caring man.

Sandy Scheltema

Sandy Scheltema is an award-winning photographer who has taken striking photographs of The Foundation’s work in Samoa, South Africa and Vietnam.

In 2002, Sandy visited The Fred Hollows Foundation’s Eastern Cape Blindness Prevention Program in South Africa at the time it was being established.

“When I arrived in the village the people queried the medical staff at the Frontier Hospital ‘Who do you think you are, God or something, saying you can make blind people see again?’” she says. After the first patient returned to her village, Sandy says thousands of people from miles around came wanting their sight restored as well.

“I feel incredibly privileged to be able to photograph The Foundation’s important work. Photography is all about sight and seeing and that’s also what The Foundation’s work is about,” Sandy says.

Sandy’s photographs appear in the book Through Other Eyes, which commemorates the 10^th anniversary of The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Wayne Quilliam

Freelance photographer Wayne Quilliam was working as a chimney sweep when he struck a deal to be paid in kind with unwanted darkroom equipment. “I set up my bathroom as a darkroom and that’s where it all took off,” says Wayne.

In 2004, Wayne visited communities in the Jawoyn region, east of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia to photograph The Foundation’s work. His photographs capture the depth and beauty of Indigenous culture while documenting the breadth of The Foundation's work in Indigenous Australia.

Wayne’s work is featured in the permanent Bayagul exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, and he has won numerous awards in international photographic competitions.