Russell Perkins

Russell has over a decade's worth of experience in digitisation with some of Sydney's most prominent cultural institutions. He has broad experience across a multitude of disciplines including 2D and 3D objects, art reproduction, glass plate and film negatives, photogrammetry, and reflected infrared and ultraviolet imaging. Russell spent his formative years in commercial photography, working with well-known brands to provide advertising, catalogue and corporate imagery.

Russell spent time on various digitisation projects within the Powerhouse, before moving to the State Library of NSW, where he spent seven years as an Imaging Officer on the Digital Excellence Program, a multi-year program dedicated to the digitisation of heritage objects for preservation and public accessibility. Russell provided tens of thousands of images to public record, handling some of the most fragile, unique and cherished objects under the Libraries stewardship.

Most recently, prior to moving to the First Nations Community Access to Archives Project, Russell worked for two years in the Australian Museum as a Digitisation Officer, providing high-quality imaging of the museum’s First Nations, Pasifika and World Cultures collections as a team member of the Cultural Collections Enhancement Project.

• BA Arts (Macquarie University)
• Diploma Photography (TAFE NSW)
• Cert IV Photo-Imaging (TAFE NSW)
• Diploma Project Management (TAFE NSW)

• ‘A Colourful Past’, SL Magazine, Winter 2019, State Library of NSW
• ‘Call History’, Openbook Magazine, Summer 2022, State Library of NSW
• ‘The Shelf Life of Zora Cross’, Cathy Perkins, Monash University Publishing, 2020 (Digital Art)
• ‘Reading the Rooms: Behind the Paintings of the State Library of New South Wales’, UNSW Press, 2023 (Images supplied)