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James Brickwood

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@jamesbrickwood
Staff photographer at The Sydney Morning Herald & Australian Financial Review and member of the Oculi collective. Sydney, Australia.
  • Photography & Video
  • Following 2.8K
  • Followers 9.4K
  • Engagement 7.81%
  • Avg comments 26

About James Brickwood

James Brickwood (@jamesbrickwood) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. The account has 9,430 followers and 891 published posts. Recent posts average 602 likes and 26 comments, an engagement rate of 7.81%.

James Brickwood belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. James Brickwood follows 2,818 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.3 times the size of the list followed. James Brickwood uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files James Brickwood under Photographer, with Photography & Video as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for James Brickwood runs to 18 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for James Brickwood dates from June 2026.

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Of the 10 most recent posts shown for James Brickwood, 6 are carousels and 4 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. James Brickwood has built a substantial archive of 891 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 11 followers for each post published. James Brickwood also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 124 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include photo, australia, sydney, which and last. The captions tag #shotoniphone.

For Daniel Mateo and his eight siblings, sport reigned supreme at home. “My family are all sporty. My mum played tennis, my dad played football, and all my siblings played football. I thought I had to take the football route, but that wasn’t for me,” says the 25-year-old.

When Mateo’s year 11 teacher encouraged him to attend a dance workshop, in 2018, he followed a path that led him to become a professional dancer... and his family’s “black sheep that left for the arts”.

“I did [the workshop] for a week … and they said, ‘Oh, you should go to NAISDA’, the dance college which Bangarra stemmed from … I went to the audition, and couldn’t touch my toes, didn’t know any dance vocab and miraculously got in. From there I fell in love with dance,” he says.

Born to Gomeroi and Tongan parents in Orange, in central-western NSW, Mateo grew up learning about the negative stereotypes that beset his community – as well as facing them. It’s what inspired Mateo’s short film Brown Boys, which is the second of three performances in Indigenous dance company Bangarra’s latest program, Sheltering.

“So many stereotypes and stigmas fall onto my family by default, and my family is riddled with all the atrocities of suicide, of incarceration, all of these kinds of heavy things,” he says.

“I wanted this film to really be a beacon of hope for brown boys who had the same lived experiences that I had, and hopefully, they can be able to … start the conversations to define themselves.”

Brown Boys  is a dance film directed by Mateo and Cass Mortimer Eipper that blends dance, narrative and cinema. Along with the other two shows in the program, Keeping Grounded and Sheoak, the performance will honour the late David Page, acclaimed composer and musical director of Bangarra Dance Theatre.

The full story by my colleague Kayla Olaya can be found in my bio link

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Bangarra’s Sheltering will be at the Sydney Opera House from June 3 to 13, and at Melbourne’s Arts Centre from June 18 to 27.
Ukrainian agricultural scientists from the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Plant Breeding (VNIS) Svitlana Omelchuk, Canola breeding department and Maryna Dzuh - head of Department Molecular biology. Photographed at Hyde Park, Sydney a few years back in September 2023.

They were guests to Australia with the Australian Academy of Science as part of an assistance package to allow them to continue their work while the war continues. Much of their visit focused on canola production and research for this crop, which is the No. 2 oilseed crop grown globally. Both Australia and Ukraine are significant global players in the production of canola. Ukraine is a major supplier of canola to the EU.

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volunteers mop up the last of a grassfire blaze which spread across Mummel, a town west of Goulburn. They were assisted by two water bombing helicopters.

Mummel, NSW

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Detective Superintendent Jayne Doherty, head of NSW Sex Crimes squad.

Parramatta, NSW, Australia

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From our last summer at Freshwater beach, NSW.

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#shotoniphone
Vale Dr Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist, considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.

Her ground-breaking work changed the field of primatology. Her research in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in the 1960s shone a light on the secret world of chimpanzees. She discovered that humankind’s closest relatives have pronounced personalities, minds and emotions and can form significant and complex relationships.

“Chimps, like us, are very aggressive but are also quick to make peace and make sure the rift is healed. We could learn a lot from that,” she once said.

Last year she visited where she visited participants of the Youth At The Zoo and Roots and Shoots programs.

All three photographs were made at the chimpanzee’s enclosure. The last Dr Goodall is pictured with Richard Buzzas, supervisor of Primates at the zoo.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Back in April/May I covered the then Liberal-National (Coalition) opposition leader Peter Dutton’s 5 week campaign to become the 48th elected Prime Minister.

It was not meant to be. The public chose Anthony Albanese, delivering him a second term. Not only did the Coalition lose the election but Mr Dutton lost his seat of Dickson which he’d held since 2001. Labor secured 94 seats in the House of Representatives—the highest number of seats ever won by a single political party in an Australian election.

As writer describes the ex Queensland copper turned politician in his 2024 Quarterly Essay ‘Bad Cop’, Peter Dutton is someone who “… views the world with the pessimism of a Russian novelist.”

It was this pessimism that ensured Dutton’s failure to unite the nation, or to form a narrative that was good enough to give him a chance to lead.

Photographs made by me during along Mr Dutton’s campaign trail for, and newspapers

A massive shout out to my colleagues in the Canberra bureau for the constant support and knowledge. A massive thanks to the Sydney and Melbourne offices as well. Support for such long news events is incredibly expensive and resource intensive. We pay our own way for everything. There’s no handouts.

🙏🙏🙏

A massive thanks to my colleague who is based full time in Canberra for his wealth of knowledge and willingness to share it.

and 💪💪💪 Mick you kept me sane over the 5 weeks.

Love a good debate, a rant, but I’d ask if the name calling can be kept as a minimum 🤝
Palaeontologist, environmentalist and former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery photographed last winter at home in Austinmer on the south coast of New South Wales

Austinmer, NSW, Australia

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Australian comedian with son George at home in Marrickville.

I made this series of portraits back in March for the prior to Becky’s ‘Things Have Changed, But the Essence Remains the Same’ tour. Her first tour since becoming a mum.

Below is an excerpt from Nick Dent’s feature in The Herald’s Spectrum arts section.. Link to the full piece is in my bio

“My lovely little son was born with quite a complex heart defect that was picked up in utero, the 20-week scan. And so, my pregnancy, my first child, the journey was quite different. There’s so much about it that was normal and joyful, but there was just a lot of terror and anxiety around it.”

In August 2024, when George was five months old, he underwent five hours of open-heart surgery and spent 11 days recovering at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

“I was so sad and so scared that I just thought, ‘Oh, I guess I can’t ever do comedy again.’ How can I marry these two parts of myself, like, being silly and irreverent, and then dealing with the heaviest, saddest thing possible?’

“This show was written in the times when things were improving. And now, he’s recovered fully, he’s doing so well. I’ll always worry, but life is pretty good. And returning to stand-up feels like things are normal again.”

Marrickville, NSW, Australia

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March for Humanity, organised by

Over 90,000 (police numbers…) Pro-Palestine supporters marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this afternoon protesting the Israeli government’s ongoing actions in Gaza, where a humanitarian crisis continues to grow.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

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James Brickwood's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.81%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 602 likes and 26 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

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Who is James Brickwood?

James Brickwood (@jamesbrickwood) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. James Brickwood uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for James Brickwood runs to 18 words.

How many followers does James Brickwood have?

James Brickwood has 9,430 followers on Instagram (9.4K). James Brickwood follows 2,818 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.3 times the size of the list followed. James Brickwood has built a substantial archive of 891 posts.

What is James Brickwood's engagement rate?

James Brickwood's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.81%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 602 likes and 26 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

What does James Brickwood post about on Instagram?

Flinque files James Brickwood under Photographer, with Photography & Video as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for James Brickwood, 6 are carousels and 4 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for James Brickwood repeatedly use the words photo, australia, sydney, which and last. James Brickwood's captions carry hashtags such as #shotoniphone. James Brickwood writes those captions mainly in English. James Brickwood keeps 2 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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