ABOUT AUSWIP

Australian Women in Photography (AUSWIP) has a mission to develop, promote, and support female and non-binary creatives in the photographic industry. Inspired by the #metoo movement and noticing a gap in the Australian market for a female-focused photographic organisation, AUSWIP immediately began connecting Australian creators and sharing work via social media. AUSWIP maintains a directory of Australia’s top professional female and female-identifying photographers, hosts social events, photographic talks, and maintains a community via social media. At the end of each year, AUSWIP produces a highlight of Australian female work, ‘AUSWIP Time Capsule’.

  • Cassie Trotter Spencer, Co-Founder

    Cassie has 20 years of experience in the media industry across radio, television and photography. As the Director of Editorial for Getty Images Asia Pacific, Cassie works with a diverse team of editors and photographers to deliver high-quality news, sport, and entertainment imagery to its global media customers. A native Canadian, Cassie moved to Sydney in 2010 after working in Press Operations and Photography for the Olympic Organising Committee in Vancouver. Prior to that she worked in earned television and radio media for political campaigns in the United States including the 2008 Obama Campaign, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry’s campaigns and for the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions. Cassie is a graduate of Howard University in Washington DC and holds a degree in journalism.

  • Lisa Maree Williams, Co-Founder & Special Projects

    Lisa Maree Williams is an Australian portrait and documentary photographer. Nurturing a love of visual storytelling, she studied a Bachelor of Photography at Griffith University and over the past two decades has worked closely with leading publishers and agencies such as, Getty Images, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Australian, Huff Post, The New York Times and Fairfax Media. Traversing editorial, commercial and art realms she is known for chronicling issues surrounding gender, environment and shifts in the cultural landscape. Exhibited internationally and widely travelled, her work is also held in private collections and has been recognised by industry awards such as; The Sony World Photography Awards, POYi, The Walkley Awards, Head On Portrait Prize, Moran Photographic Prize, Australian Photojournalist Association Documentary Award and the (IPA) International Photography Awards.

  • Michele Mossop, Special Projects

    Michele Mossop began her photojournalism career at an Italian daily in Florence, la Città, in January 1983 and feels lucky to have worked continuously since that time. With a career spanning more than two decades, Michele has vast experience as a photo editor, illustrator and a photojournalist, covering breaking news stories, the arts and economy. Working briefly with News Ltd and then with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review between 1989-2013, her photography has been recognised as a finalist in the Moran Photography Prize and Head On photographic portrait prize. Michele remains based in Sydney and now regularly freelances across corporate, editorial and arts assignments.