Jennifere Thompson Photography
Portrait Photographer
A Lonely Boy
"If a boy grows up alone,
he can be lonely.
If a monkey grows up alone,
he will be extinct"
©Jennifere Thompson 2020
Jennifere Thompson is a portrait photographer living near Brisbane, Australia.
Jennifere Thompson is an Australian photographer renowned for her evocative black-and-white portraits of wild and endangered animals. She has travelled alone through Africa and Borneo, where she experienced intimate encounters with gorillas and orangutans in their natural habitats. Her work also extends to photographing primates living in sanctuaries and accredited zoological parks.
In 2015, Jennifere founded ICU TOO, an ongoing photographic project whose title carries a dual meaning. ICU TOO is both an invitation and a statement: I see you too. Through close-up portraits of our sentient non-human primate relatives, the project encourages viewers to look beyond species and recognise the shared emotions, intelligence, and individuality reflected in their faces. It asks us to see not only their lives, but also the parallels that connect them to our own.
History:
2025 Black & White Spider Awards Nominations.
2024 Black & White Spider Award Nominations.
2023 Terra Quantum Project, life.terra-quantum.net. Jennifere Thompson ICU Too, Mandrilus sphinx Congo
2022 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Portrait Series, Honorable Mention, Outside Into
2022 Black & White Spider Awards 17th Annual, Honorable Mentions, Beyond Dark and Winners Grin
2021 15th International Colour Awards, Honorary Color Master, Honorable Mention, ICU The Whistler, I am Smiling, 3 nomination
2021 Black & White Spider Awards, 16th Annual, Honorable Mention, Contemplation Saki, Dynamic Due, Nom: Silent Siamang.
2020 14th International Color Awards, Honorable Mention, ICU Bonobos, Prince of Pearls
2020 15th Black & White Spider Awards, Honorable Mention, Alpha Mandril, Nominee Proboscis Monkey, Capuchin Monkey
2020 AIPP Silver Linings Semi Finalist (Mandril) Illustrative Category
2020 13th International Colour Awards, Honorable Mention (forget Me Not), 2 Nominations,(FGN), Gone Fishing
2019 PDN. NY. Winner 1st Place, Professional Animal Portrait, Beyond Dark.
2019 Black & White Spider Award 14th Annual, 2 Honourable mentions and 3 nominations, Wildlife
2019 Capture Magazine Highly Commended "Alone" Portrait
2019 12th International Color Awards nominee for wildlife, Orang-tan Borneo, Silver Leaf Borneo
2018 PDN Faces, First Place winner, Professional, Animal Portrait
2018 Black & White Spider Awards, 1st Prize, Outstanding Achievement, Wildlife, "The Boy"
2018, Black & White Spider Awards, Honourable Mention Wildlife, A Long Call, Orangutan
2018, Matthew Flinders Art Prize, Commended, "Bird in Vines"
2018 Top 20 Portrait, Capture Magazine Emerging Australasian Photographer
2017, The Annual, Capture Magazine "The Boy" Portrait
2017 Finalist, Friends of Monash Gallery Art, Photographic Exhibition
2017 Black and White Spider Award, nomination wildlife .
2017 Capture Magazine Top Emerging Photographer, Portrait , Runner Up
2017 Capture Magazine March/April Issue, People Talent
2016 Finalist Top 10, AIPP Contemporary Photographic Art Prize Exhibition
2016 Finalist Capture Magazine Emerging Photographer of the year ,Portrait
2016 Epson AIPP VIC Finalist Emerging Photographer of the year
2016 Winner Pfeiffer Wines Peoples Choice award "The Vines"
2016 Prix De La Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention ICU TOO
2015 Canon AIPP 2015 Australian Emerging Photographer of the year
2015 AIPP Luminous Collection, "Waiting Time, ICU Too"
2015 Finalist Maggie Diaz Photographic Prize for Women Exhibition, "Beyond Dark"
2015, Winner, Epson AIPP VIC Emerging Photographer of the year,
2015 Winner, AIPP Ian Hawthorne Perpetual Trophy
2015 Winner, The Ministers Art Exhibition, Parliament Melbourne "Malu"
2015 Encouragement Award, Ficafolia Festival Art Show, “The Lighthouse New Castle”
2014 Winner, Corowa District Landcare Photographic Prize, NSW. “The Wren”
2013 Winner, Other section, Federation Art Show, Corowa NSW, "Lighthouse Split Point"
2013 Joint Winner, Greater City Dandenong, Community/Architectural Change
Exhibitions: Solo
2021 McCloy Family Dentist, Revolving Exhibition ICU TOO
2020 September 1st - 30th, Woodford Regional Libriary
2020 ICU TOO, The Hub Gallery, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries & Museums, 4th August - 29th August 2020
2020 ICU TOO, The Hub Gallelry, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries & Museums, 31 March - 02 May Cancelled COVID-19
c2019 ICU Too, Bribie Island Community Arts, Artist of the Month Sept
2016 ICU Too, Vox Populi Art Gallery, Ballarat
2016 ICU Too, Jindi Tavern Art Space, Jindivick, Gippsland, Victoria
2014 ICU Too, The J Space Gallery, Contemporary Art Centre, Dandenong
Exhibition: Group
Coming Event, Winners FotoNostrum Gallery Barcelona Italy, April -May 2023 Portrait
2019 Bribie Island Matthew Flinders Art Prize Exhibition
2018 Bribie Island Matthew Flinders Art Prize Exhibition
2017 Monash Gallery Art, Friends of MGA, Group
2016 AIPP Contemporary Photographic Art Prize Exhibitiion, South Australia Top 10 Australia
2015 The Ministers Art Exhibition, Parliament Melbourne "malu"
2015 Pfeiffer Wines Inaugural Art Exhibition
2014 Voice of Three, Heritage Hill Gallery, Dandenong.
2014 Encryption, "Outside Into" The Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
2013 Community Change, Greater City of Dandenong, (Architecture Change)
Published in print or online
2023 Terra Quantum, Jennifere Thompson life.terra-quantum, ICU TOO Mandrillus sphinx
Jennifere Thompson Published magazine, online and news
https://www.moretondaily.com.au/news/the-eyes-have-it , August 6th 2020
2020 14th Annual Black and White Spider, videos are short digital publications featuring curated
collections of the award-winning photography
2020 https:issuu.com/visitmoretonbayregion/docs/moreton_bay_region_gallery_museum_guide_2020_jan_j, pg13
2020, www.thespiderawards.com Black and White Spider Awards,
Winners Book. (Vol. 1 is out now and Vol. 2 April 2020)
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/14th/professional/wildlife
2020, https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Galleries-Museums/Events/CRAG/ICU-TOO
2020, https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/14th/professional/wildlife
2019, thhps://allevents.in/banksia%20beach/icu-too-exhibition-artist-talk-byjennifere-thompson/200017911855422
2019 13th Annual Spider Awards, https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/13th/professional/wildlife
20 19 Winners Book. (Vol. 2 pg 324-325, 354-355) Lonely Boy, Long Call
2018 https:www.shutterloveonline.com/contest_galleires/faces/2018/d#main&gid=18&pid=9
28 March 2017, www.capturemag.com.au/profiles/jennifere-thompson
16 June 2017 https://www.billyblue.edu.au/blog/entry/jennifere-thompson
2017, Australia's Top Emerging Photographers Award 2017, www.capturemag.com.au/atep-2017
2016 https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2016/1-64249-16/
Canon AIPP National Awards,
2015 Epson AIPP State Awards 2015, http://stateawards.aipp.com.au/VIC/2015-vic-awards
2014 Billy Blue, CATC Design School, http://www.thehalloffame.com.au
2013 Dandenong
AIPP Australian Institute Professinal Photographer
2020 Semifinalist, Silver Lining Awards AIPP Mandrill Illustration
2019 APPAS Silver x 2
2019 Queensland AIPP State awards 2 Silver
2018 APPAS Silver x 2
2018 EPSON AIPP VIC Silver Distinction x 1, Silver x 2
2017 AIPP Associate Member Honour Medal Award
2017 AIPP NATIONAL Silver x 2
2017 EPSON AIPP VIC Silver Distinction x 2, Silver x 4
2016 EPSON AIPP VIC Gold x 1, Silver Distinction x 3, Silver x 1
2015 CANON AIPP NATIONAL Gold x 2, Silver Distinction x 1,
2015 EPSON AIPP VIC, Gold x 1, Silver Distinction x 3, Silver x 1