About Cyclops Productions.
MANY STORIES, MANY PLATFORMS.
Cyclops Productions is a Sydney-based production company that offers a broad range of storytelling services across different media platforms.
Cyclops helps clients tell their stories in a visually stunning, strategic, and authentic way.
Our team work directly with their clients from concept development to delivery. Clients we have partnered with include brands like TedX, Hyundai, and Nike.
With their vast range of skillsets and experience across changing media platforms, the Cyclops team offers:
PUBLISHING: CyclopS Press – the publishing arm of the company – offers 25-years experience in independent publishing: including fiction and non-fiction, artbooks, hand-made books, and distribution.
FILMMAKING: The Cyclops team is experienced in multiple genre of filmmaking: drama, documentary (both short and long-form), music videos and commercials.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Cyclops offers services in all aspects of photography
EDUCATION: from class tutorials to workshops
OTHER SERVICES:
Oral history interviews and pod-casts
Curation and exhibition production
Obtaining grants, sponsorships and partnerships, with both private and cultural bodies.
Cyclops Productions collaborates with a trusted team of experienced creatives: designers, stylists, composers, marketing and media specialists, editors, print managers, and master printers.
Meet The Team
JOHN OGDEN, ACS
John Ogden is a respected writer, publisher, educator, cinematographer and photographer. John’s career began as a photojournalist in Southeast Asia during the early seventies. In 1978 he graduated from the Western Australia Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) having studied literature, anthropology and filmmaking – majoring in film & television and photography.
FILMMAKING: John is an accredited member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) and has received many awards for his cinematography. Over the last four decades he has worked as a Director of Photography over a broad range of genres: long-form drama, short films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials.
PUBLISHING: In 1999 Ogden established Cyclops Press as a vehicle to publish books that promote the work of Australian authors and photographers. Cyclops Press has also collaborated with other independent publishers and authors to help realise their projects.
EDUCATION: John has a Cert 4 and current WWC certificates. He has taught cinematography at AFTRS, NYFA, and the Sydney Film School. He also worked as a mentor for the Gamarada Aboriginal Mens Healing Group 2006-2016.
John is the author of 10 books and has given author talks at various art galleries, municipal libraries and schools, including: Manly Selective School and Cheltenham Girls High School.
John has mentored many youth with work experience and advised young filmmakers on their films.
LOUISE WHELAN, MArt
Louise is a visual artist with photomedia base, her interdisciplinary approach spans photography, projection, video art, curation, socially engaging art projects and installation. Much of her practice draws inspiration from environmental and humanitarian issues, and her interest in the aesthetic of memory.
Louise has a Master of Art in Photomedia graduating with excellence from UNSW Art and Design. She is widely published and exhibited, with more than 30 national and international awards to her name. Louise photographs for the state libraries of New South Wales and Western Australia and the National Library of Australia.
Louise complements her photographic collections at the State Library of NSW with the oral history discipline, some of which have been collected by the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.
You can view some of Louise’s work here:
https://australiansall.photoshelter.com/portfolio/G0000Ami2bC7GVSc
Other Members
ANNETTE OGILVIE
Annette Ogilvie - stylist, artist, art director and production designer. Nettie is devoted to all things sustainable and vintage.
JULIAN SUDEK
Former drummer and percussionist for the band Mercy Arms, Julian has since become a sought after composer and arranger.
SAXON DUKE
With his art and design background, Saxon's goal is to work with a thriving team within an exciting and creative organisation. With over fourteen years experience working within the arts across multiple disciplines he values very highly being able to collaborate with and support talented creatives.
Waterproof
– Australian Surf Photography Since 1858
This stunning book features the work of Australia’s leading surf photographers from the first known photograph of the Australian surf zone through to 20th century boom in surfing and the contemporary scene.