MEDIA RELEASE    March 8, 2010
The Ferris wheel of fortune just keeps revolving for Lane Cove’s Chloe Ferres.
The Raffles College of Design and Commerce graduate has just had one of her photographs published in Dance Australia’s February/March magazine. It depicts Daniel Gaudiello - a principal dancer with Ballet Australia.

This most recent success comes on the back of an award-laden 2009 for the 20-year-old, who was then in her final year of a Bachelor of Arts where she majored in photography. Chloe was a finalist in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Shoot the Chef Competition and she won both first and second place awards in the Ilford Tertiary Students Photographic Competition. Chloe also took out the People’s Choice Award in the Breast Cancer Awareness photography competition and won Raffles College’s Greg Parsons Award.

Chloe put her most recent success down to the old adage of doing what you know best. Outside of her photography, Chloe has a passion for dance and felt by combining the two it would result in more deeply felt images.

“I like to work with things I know and with what I enjoy,” she says. “Dance is a beautiful artform. The aesthetics are already there. It just relates so well to photography.”

Chloe says it is becoming harder to stand-out as a photographer with the onset of digital cameras seemingly allowing anyone to take great images.

She puts her successes of last year and of late down to wanting to overcome that. “You must challenge yourself. To have a go and strive to be better,” she says.

Another reason Chloe is striving to be better is in honour of her former teacher and the namesake of one of her recent award wins.

Greg Parsons was a project leader in Raffles College’s photography department. Sadly, he passed away suddenly last year.

“Greg was an amazing photographer,” she says. “His still life set-ups were elaborate and his attention to detail, perfect. There’s no other way to describe him. He was perfect.”

The Greg Parsons Award is an ongoing prize in honour of his dedication and professionalism towards Raffles College students.

Raffles College of Design and Commerce in North Sydney specialises in programs in Design,
Visual Communication, Commerce and Accounting (from Certificate to Masters level). Study
specialisations include: Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Games Design, Animation,
Moving Image (TV & Film), Graphic Design, Interior Design, Multimedia Design, Photography,
Design Management, Marketing, Accounting, Tourism, Finance, Hospitality and Management.

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