Photographs, Film, Sound and Multimedia
Head Photographs, Film, Sound and Multimedia - Stephanie Boyle
Stephanie Boyle joined the Memorial in 2006, having worked as an audio-visual archivist since 1997, including time with the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Archives. She has deployed to the Middle East, as well as to military bases around Australia, to conduct oral history interviews with current serving Defence Force members and to develop the Memorial's National Collection. She has delivered research papers at major national conferences with a particular emphasis on oral histories and amateur film. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma (Information Studies) from University of Canberra.
Senior Curator of Photographs, Film and Sound - Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg has been at the Australian War Memorial since 2012. While at the Memorial he has worked in various curatorial and collection management roles for the Photographs, Film and Sound section and is the lead curator of the touring exhibition Action! Film and War. He has worked previously at the National Library of Australia, the National Archives of Australia and studied and taught film history at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. He has published work on Australian Westerns, the city of Sydney in film, history of film and war and the origins of the Memorial’s film collection.
Curator of Photographs - Lauren Hewitt
Lauren Hewitt has a background in photography and fine arts having completed a Bachelor of Arts (Photomedia with Honours) at the Australian National University in 2003. Lauren has always worked in collecting institutions, starting her career at the National Library of Australia (NLA) where she worked with important photographic collections including those of Frank Hurley and Wolfgang Sievers; she has also worked at the National Museum of Australia (NMA); and at the Australian Institute of Australian and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). In 2010 she joined the Memorial’s curatorial staff and was assistant curator on the Remember Me: The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt exhibition.