Photographers

Brisbane born and raised, Dane Beesley is one of Australia's most celebrated music photographers. Over a decade shooting for Rolling Stone magazine, Dane has documented the full sweep of Australian rock and roll — from sweaty pub stages to festival main stages. His 2011 book Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer's Journal is the definitive visual document of a generation of Australian music. In 2025 he won the Olive Cotton Award People's Choice for his portrait of Eamon Sandwith of The Chats — a photograph that strips away the larrikin stage persona to reveal something more considered beneath. Also a co-founder of Text & Image, the West End street press magazine that ran out of the Absoe Building until the wrecking ball came.