Steven Siewert

Steven Siewert is a multi-award winning Australian photojournalist and art photographer with more than three decades experience in the Australian media.

Steven Siewert was named winner of the Nikon Portrait Prize in October 2026 for a pensive image of the late Richard Scolyer published in the Sydney Morning Herald in December 2025. "Steven Siewert’s great strength as a photographer is zooming in to the essence of a person and bringing humanity to an image," judges said.

It is Siewert's third such award, having also collected the national prize in 2008 for Waiting for Wanda Jackson, published in The Good Weekend. In this same year, he won a Walkley for his series on Australian rockabillies, from which the portrait was drawn. The series was exhibited at the Museum of Sydney.

Siewert's photographs have also appeared in "The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget", a 1996 book documenting the life stories of 18 surviving Gallipoli veterans in a seminal collaboration with author and journalist, Tony Stephens.

In 2001, Siewert was awarded an Asialink fellowship to work in Bangkok, Thailand with The Nation. Siewert's photography has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Leica gallery in Solms, Germany, the Museum of Sydney, the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, the State Library of NSW and Albury Regional Art Gallery. He is a former member of the Australian Oculi collective.

Siewert was a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2014 with a portrait of Reg Mombasa. In 2025 he was nominated as Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year.

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