Introducing Jackie Ranken, Artist Series Member
About Jackie Ranken
Jackie has over thirty eight years’ experience within the visual arts. Exhibiting nationally and internationally.
She combines her art practice with teaching and is a presenter in workshops and seminars internationally. A long time lover of monochromatic photography and creator of multi-layered narratives via in camera multiple exposures and intentional camera movements.
She learnt her craft by working within the photographic industry as a darkroom technician, freelance and sports photographer, wedding photographer, commercial photographer and photojournalist. In 1996 after gaining her Associate Diploma in Fine Arts she began working as a teacher of ‘Fine art’ photography.
Since 2001 she has won many prestigious photography awards which have culminated in making her a Grand Master of both the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. She is a Canon Master and EIZO Ambassador and has been an international photography awards judge since 2002.
Currently running small group Creative Photography Workshops with her husband, Mike Langford in New Zealand.