Greg Weight

Greg Weight is a Sydney-based photographer who grew up in Dee Why. He opened his own studio in 1968, taking advertising and magazine photographs and working with the Australian Opera and the Australian Ballet. In 1970 he was invited to work in the creative venue the Yellow House with Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, George Gittoes and Peter Kingston, photographing its artists, installations and activities and there mounting his first exhibition, a series of photographs of the Cronulla sand dunes. Over the next three decades he photographed artists and their works for catalogues and books, assembling a collection of portraits published as Australian Artists: Portraits by Greg Weight in 2004. Weight won the inaugural Australian Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003 for a photograph of Jim Conway, and the Head On photographic portrait prize for his photograph of Jaiwei Shen in 2006. In 2011 Weight was a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize. The Manly Art Gallery and Museum commissioned him to photograph Northern Beaches artists in their studios in 2020, which were exhibited as the Portraits Project. Weight's photographs are held in the collections of the National Library, the National Gallery of Australia and state and regional galleries. The National Portrait Gallery acquired 101 of his photographs by gift of Patrick Corrigan in 2004.