{{Short description|Australian photojournalist (1934–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Jim Fenwick | birth_name = James Fenwick | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|10|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|11|16|1934|10|11|df=yes}} | death_place = Redcliffe, Queensland | occupation = Photojournalist | relatives = Marsha Waggoner (sister) Billie Fenwick Kruithof (sister) }}
'''Jim Fenwick''' (11 October 1934 – 16 November 2021) was an Australian photojournalist. He is best known as the chief photographer for The Courier Mail from 1974 to 1994, and winner of the 1965 Walkley Award for Best News Picture.
==Photographic career== Fenwick was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1934 and moved to Margate in 1942, where he attended Humpybong State School from 1942 to 1948.<ref name="a">{{cite web|url=http://facesofredcliffe.redcliffe.qld.gov.au/display.php?faceID=41|title=Faces of Redcliffe|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20080719175113/http://facesofredcliffe.redcliffe.qld.gov.au/display.php?faceID=41|archivedate=19 July 2008|accessdate=2007-11-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Fenwick began his photographic career at the age of 16 as a cadet at The Courier Mail, eventually rising to become that newspaper's chief photographer in 1974, a position which he held until his retirement in 1994. He was also their pictorial editor for eight years (1984–1991). As a representative of News Limited newspapers, Fenwick covered the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, and the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and subsequently also became a war correspondent with the Australian Army in Somalia in 1992. He also contributed the foreword for the 1990 book ''Brisbane, Our Town – A Century of Photographs'' by Helen Dash.<ref>[http://biblion.co.uk/books/5511684.html]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Synopsis. Accessed 5 November 2007.</ref>
In 2006 and 2007, Fenwick was chosen to judge the Australian Council for Agricultural Journalists' Australian Star Prize for Rural Photography.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ruralmediasa.com/Star%202007%20Winners.doc |title=2007 Winners of the ACAJ Australian Star Prizes. |access-date=5 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830023035/http://www.ruralmediasa.com/Star%202007%20Winners.doc |archive-date=30 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.farmersinfo.com.au/pages/news/2006_june/news049.html |title=2006 Winners of the ACAJ Australian Star Prizes. |access-date=5 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906221614/http://www.farmersinfo.com.au/pages/news/2006_june/news049.html |archive-date=6 September 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also in 2007, the Redcliffe Museum presented a retrospective exhibition of his photos, the first time his work has been exhibited as a complete collection.<ref name="b">[http://svc026.wic027p.server-web.com/MEDIA%20RELEASES/An%20Amazing%20Life%20in%20Pictures.pdf Media Release from Redcliffe City Council – "''An Amazing Life in Pictures''"]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Accessed 5 November 2007.</ref>
==Awards== Fenwick won many awards during his career, including the prestigious Walkley Award for Best News Picture in 1965, for his images of the vessel ''Kaptajn Nielsen'' as it lay capsized in Moreton Bay in September 1964.<ref name="a"/> He was also awarded Australian Photographer of the Year (1980), Nikon's International Best Series of Pictures, and the International Sports Press Association's World's Best Black and White Picture (1977).<ref name="b"/> In addition, Fenwick received a special Walkley Award in 1994 in honour of his years of service to Australian photojournalism.<ref>[http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00000268/01/nmcasj4.pdf Turner, G. ''News media chronicle: July 1994 to June 1995'', p.246-247.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904143351/http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00000268/01/nmcasj4.pdf |date=4 September 2007 }} Accessed 5 November 2007.</ref>
==Personal life== In 1957, Fenwick married June Enchelmaier; together they had three children.<ref name="a"/> Jim was the brother of noted professional poker player Marsha Waggoner.
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