Michael Currie Photographer

11/09/2026

NLF GAME✅
ON AN AFL GROUND✅
IN AUSTRALIA✅
IN VICTORIA✅
ON FILM✅
MCG❌
HOW IS THE POSSIBLE?

10/09/2026

RUOK or are you alone?

In the last 12 months there have been many days where I have not been ok.

I have been lucky, close groups of friends who I can reach out to for support and the knowledge of my own self and confidence to seek professional help.

I am grateful to all of those people in my life and in the world who are ready to help when someone says "I am not ok"

You aren't alone, people do care and will help, just let them.

Photo taken in South Australia on a very long drive home from Darwin!

02/09/2026

A little disappointed I can’t make it to the Rural Press Club of Victoria Awards tomorrow night. I’m currently stuck in Alice Springs, which is a story for another day.

Pleased to be finalist for both Best News Photograph and Best Local/Sport Photograph, from my work with AAP .

Best of luck to fellow finalists Paul Carracher, Kate Healy, Darren Howe , Rechelle Zammit, Lachlan Bence and Jack Colantuono.

Very good photographers on those lists, so I’m pretty happy just to have my name amongst them.

Have a great night everyone. Sorry I can’t be there to share a b**r and celebrate with you.

25/08/2026

A journey of 4000km sometimes starts with a miss step!
I have been stuck in Katherine since Friday night when Nessy the Navara decided to have a little rest about 180km from Darwin!

My tip If you are going to break down
A: do it next to an abandoned roadhouse!
B: listen to your mum and get RACV EXTRA CARE!!! They paid for the towing and the accommodation!

So thanks to RACV and some local Katherine business I have been looked after and Nessy is up and going again!
Also thanks to those who stopped to help on the highway and the friends on the chat groups who stopped me going mental!!
Onto the next leg!!!

19/08/2026

On world photo day I shot my last sunset in Darwin.

I heading home, there is a story as to why to be told at another time. Powers beyond my reckoning do not share my view of what matters to me.

I will walk away with this quote that a true and great friend shared with me “credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms” Teddy Roosevelt

On to the next chapter! I am ok 👍

13/08/2026

Proud of the result, conflicted about an image that records violence and hate. These moments still need to be witnessed and documented.

Third place and Silver with Distinction in the Documentary category at the 2026 Australian Photographic Prize

Thank you to AAP for supporting my work documenting the extremes of Australian politics and showing what is happening, and to the Australian Photographic Prize for recognising the image.

11/08/2026

Hawthorn RSL means a lot to me and my family, please help if you can.

Someone there recently hugged me and told me, “We are here to support you, whatever you need, mate.”

I looked across the room at my son and realised that was exactly what they were already doing. They had given him somewhere to belong, people who know him, and a community to be part of.

Hawthorn RSL is raising money to restore its home so it can continue supporting veterans and their families in very real ways.

If you can, please help them keep doing it.

I'm Eamon, the Vice President of Hawthorn RSL and an Iraq and Afghanista… Eamon Hale needs your support for Help Restore Hawthorn RSL for the Next Generation!

08/08/2026

FLEX 💪 Lol

31/07/2026

I had no idea this was the Buck Moon!

The morning before I'd tried photographing the moon over Darwin Harbour, but I didn't have my tripod.

I had rested the camera pillow on the balcony railing and the results weren't what I wanted.

I grabbed my tripod home from work and tried again next day.

As I had breaky I set up the tripod and got my settings sorted and went inside to make a coffee. Every few minutes I'd wander back out to check on the light. Then I saw the ship. I had just enough time to reframe before it passed beneath the moon.

A few seconds later it was gone. It wasn't until the following day that I realised I'd photographed the Buck Moon. At the time I just thought the smoke over Darwin had created some beautiful light.

Has anyone else just gone for it and got something special?"