Hayley Anderson is based in Sydney, Australia.
Her main interest is travel photography, with her lifelong passion for new places and experiences preceding her career as a part time photographer. Hayley began taking photos seriously when she was unexpectedly left for ten days in the capital of Yemen. She had been given the loan of a SLR camera as compensation for being ‘deserted’ and with any form of night life inaccessible as a lone female, set about exhausting herself during the day with a relentless pursuit of ‘Yemeni Life’ images. Since then she has visited many countries and has built up a portfolio of images taken in unusual places as well as images of everyday Australian life.
Hayley also worked in New Zealand, South Africa, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Andorra, France, Greece, Turkey and the UK before settling in Australia. She is now working for travel companies taking tours to Africa, Indochina, Canada and Europe as well as around Australia and NZ.
She also works as a freelance tour guide around Sydney/Australia and will take private or group tours – with or without a photographic option or day tours to experience Sydney from a local perspective!
Hayley has been to a total of 88 countries exploring the continents of Africa (extensively), Europe, North America, Central America, most of Asia, as well as several Pacific Islands and the Antipodes. Two of her favourite destinations are Mongolia and Madagascar.
As well as travel photography, she has undertaken several pro bono photography assignments for Sydney charities and non-profit organisations and many of her images have featured on the covers of annual reports, bill board advertising, print ads, promotional banners and in travel magazines. She has won national awards for the International Year of People with Disabilities and has participated in several successful exhibitions.
She was a guest lecturer (on photography) for art students at a Sydney Graphics College, and had a series of her images selected by The Christchurch Art Gallery for use in promoting their workshops.
She won the STA’s Travel Photography Competition with the image published in ‘Paperplane’ magazine. Several of her images have been published both online and in print magazines including front covers for promotions, annual reports and advertising for businesses.
She was also the overall winner of the 2012 Australian Geo Science Photography Award and was highly commended in the 2015 Awards. Her images of the Sydney Opera House were show cased in an online British architecture magazine One of her images has been selected as for the promotion of the ESA (Ecological Society of Australia) conference to be held in 2016. Four of her ‘aerial’ images have just been selected for an ‘Australian’ exhibition at the contemporary art gallery – Galleria Guilia in Rome, at the Australian Cultural Centre, Italy and at an exhibition in Assisi.