ABOUT
Harriet Pratten is a Sydney-based photographer and creative director working internationally, exploring identity, belonging, and the intersections of culture and place.
Her practice grew from more than a decade documenting communities across southern and eastern Africa, where she co-founded Ginkgo Agency and produced award-winning documentary projects including 21 Icons and Beautiful News. She co-authored 21 Icons: Portrait of a Nation and co-produced the National Geographic documentary Europe’s Last Leopard — each celebrating resilience and humanity through story.
Harriet currently works on assignment for ActionAid Australia in Vanuatu, serves on the board of Poetry in Action, and is Director of Community at Arts-Matter. She continues to explore how kinship manifests in its many forms around the world.
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Acknowledgement Of Country
With gratitude, I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and seas where I live, make and learn. I honour Indigenous peoples everywhere, whose enduring relationships to place, culture and story shape our understanding of belonging. Their deep care for Country — land, water, sky and community — informs my own approach to image-making and the shared responsibility we hold to each other and to the planet.
