Gary Heery has spent five decades building one of the most distinctive careers in photography — shooting album covers for Madonna, Roy Orbison and Paul Simon, running a studio in 1980s Soho, New York, and going on to shoot more than three decades of major Australian advertising campaigns for clients including Qantas, Coca-Cola and American Express. He's a three-time finalist for the Citibank Portrait Prize and a National Portrait Prize finalist — recognition built on exactly the eye this master class is designed to help you develop.

This isn't a lecture or a fixed curriculum. Gary works directly with your portfolio, one-on-one, helping you see what's already distinctive in your work and sharpen how you shoot it, refine it, and talk about it — the same clarity of vision that's carried his own career from Sydney to Los Angeles to New York and back again.

Sessions are best suited to photographers who already have a defined style and a body of work to bring to the table; Gary's focus is on sharpening a clear point of view, not building one from the ground up.