SOME PICTURES by Adrian Cook

© Adrian Cook. Gurrumul - Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Print.
© Adrian Cook. Gurrumul - Selenium toned silver gelatin print.

Adrian Cook's latest exhibition, SOME PICTURES, features a series of hand-printed silver gelatin prints and wet plate collodion images. The exhibition runs until 26 June at Sydney's Disorder gallery.

Click here to attend opening night cocktails & canapés from 6pm on 10 June.

© Adrian Cook. Lockdown Landscapes #5.
© Adrian Cook. Lockdown Landscapes #5.

About the artist

Adrian Cook is an award-winning portrait and documentary photographer and has worked for major advertising agencies and magazines around the world for the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited worldwide and has picked up awards at Cannes and D&AD, amongst others. In Australia, he has been a finalist in Head On, Art & About, The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, and the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

In early 2015, uninspired by the predictability and monotony of digital photography, he began taking photographs using the wet plate collodion process in an effort to recreate the aesthetic qualities and characteristics lost with the demise of film. He now works on personal projects using wet-plate techniques, both in the studio and on-the-road from his mobile darkroom.

© Adrian Cook. Rowland S. Howard.
© Adrian Cook. Rowland S. Howard.
© Adrian Cook. Elizabeth.
© Adrian Cook. Elizabeth.
© Adrian Cook. Nya.
© Adrian Cook. Nya.
© Adrian Cook. Harries Place - 5x4 Black Glass Ambrotype.
© Adrian Cook. Harries Place - 5x4 Black Glass Ambrotype.

Upcoming Events Submit an Event

February

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

April

Sydney: 9 April event 6-9pm. Unfinished is a free event to show/see photo-based work in progress or recently completed personal projects run by photographers for photographers.

Sydney: 15 April – 9 May 2026. An exhibition of fine art photography celebrating the intersection of maritime history and the human form.