About Andrew

Australian-born Andrew Maccoll has made a name for himself as a sought-after Director, Cinematographer, Creative Director and Photographer, having worked with some of the world's biggest brands and celebrities. Career highlights include working with Apple, IBM, Dior, NBCU, and more recently Rolls Royce, and Lamborghini. He has captured photographs of Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, P!NK, Seth Rogen and many other people we know and love.

Andrew's family holds a legacy that spans generations, dating back to the early 20th century. His great-great-grandfather E.E. Farmer was an Australian photographer in North Queensland in the early 1900's. Andrew spent much of his childhood in Sydney running between darkrooms and edit suites. His father, a Walkley and UN Peace Prize for Media honoured press photographer, and his mother, a producer for the ABC and manager at the AFTRS, undoubtedly influenced his love for the visual arts.

Andrew earned a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts & Photography, majoring in Multimedia. He worked for News Ltd and its stable of news and magazines for over a decade before thriving in the fashion and advertising industry. Three of his portraits have earnt a place in the Australian National Portrait Gallery. He has also been honoured as one of the top ten photographers in his field by the prestigious Hasselblad Masters and has been recognized as one of Australia's top ten photographers in both fashion and advertising by Capture Magazine.

As a Design Director Andrew has been named Australian + Queensland Designer of the Year by the Print Industry Awards. He has been awarded two Good Design Awards one being the Gold Accolade for his place-making and region impacting brand strategy and identity work with his team at Saturate. Andrew's contribution to the look and feel of entire regions in Queensland includes driving economic growth with brands and campaigns for Port Douglas, Sunshine Coast, Norfolk Island and Noosa.

In 2020 Andrew studied directing at the AFTRS.  Since then he has filmed 5 short films which have been featured at over 30 international film festivals. He took out Best Cinematography at the Brisbane Indie Film Fest in 2024. His most recent camera work was featured in 'The Hoist' at Flickerfest in 2025 and his latest film with Jon Coghill of Powderfinger is set to release this year.
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When not in Sydney you can find him on a longboard surfing the points in Noosa. Andrew is available for D.O.P & Campaign roles by way of his agent Helen Doick in Sydney. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Instagram.

From the National Portrait Gallery

“One of the great pleasures of standing before a work in the portrait gallery is being able to lock eyes with another person, for as long as you like. You can’t do that in everyday life; nearly all of us shy away, like the animals we are, from the aggressive or sexual potency of eye-to-eye engagement. That’s why teenagers wear hoods or grow their hair, so they don’t catch anyone’s eye… My observation is that for men and women alike, it’s a visceral thrill to look at photographs such as your very ‘manly’ images of Mick Molloy and Mick Fanning and return the subjects’ unflinching gaze, frankly and unselfconsciously. It’s not any old photographer who can get that undiluted look out of a portrait subject; it’s a gift, or a skill, that you have, if you can elicit that look from them, and I think you’ve got that.“ 

- National Portrait Gallery Curator Sarah Engledow.

From Andrew

"I am deeply bound by a love of light… the way it falls, the way it colours everything, the way it is. I love how I can be a part of it’s journey by capturing an artistic expression that can be felt emotionally. We surround ourselves with light at night and are illumninated by the Sun every day. To me it doesn’t just enable us to see beauty, light is the purest form of beauty. Through it I see all things, experience all things, and capture my life from behind my lens. I am continuing to build a legacy that began with image makers long ago. A shared vision to leave a trace of our passage on this earth."

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