Jackie Ranken

Jackie Ranken is an Australian born, multi-award winning landscape art photographer now living in New Zealand.  She has over thirty five years’ experience within the visual arts and has been an international awards judge since 2002.

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.

She combines her art practice with teaching and is a presenter in workshops and seminars internationally. Exhibiting and instructing nationally and internationally. Her passion is the creation of multi-layered narratives via in camera multiple exposures and intentional movement.

She is a Grand Master of both the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. A Canon Master and EIZO Global Ambassador.

Awarded AIPP Photographer of the Year, three times AIPP Landscape Photographer of the Year, runner up in the World Press awards for documentary Photography, NSW AIPP Photographer of the Year, twice the NZIPP Photographer of the Year, NZIPP Creative Photographer of the Year, NZIPP Illustrative Photographer of the Year, Creative Portrait Photographer of the year, Travel Photographer of the Year and four times NZIPP Landscape Photographer of the Year. First Place in AIPP Silver Linings Awards - Abstract Category

Now living in Twizel (near Mount Cook National park) is also co director of the Creative Photography Workshops (formerly Queenstown Centre for Creative Photography) in New Zealand with her husband Mike Langford.