About IRID
Photography with presence, context and longevity.
IRID Gallery is a contemporary photography gallery operating in Australia. We represent five Australian photographers and release their work as signed, limited-edition prints for collectors, designers and institutions.
A Romance in Reverse, triptych · Guy Little
Established
2026
Operating in
Australia
Represented photographers
Five
Collectors in
24 countries
The name
Iridescence
noun. A play of colour that shifts as the light, or your angle, changes.
IRID takes its name from iridescence. Think of oil on water, or the inside of a shell. The surface changes each time you move.
The photographs we represent behave the same way. You see one thing on the first day. Weeks later, in a different light, you find what you missed.
We look for that quality in every body of work. It gave us our line: images that reveal themselves over time.
Why IRID exists
In a culture of constant images, IRID makes room for the ones that stay.
Most photographs now get a second on a screen. The work that matters asks for the opposite: time, attention and return.
IRID gives that work a home. We bring together fine art, documentary, wildlife, landscape and conceptual practices, and we judge each one on a resolved body of work and the quality of its print.
We would rather show five photographers well than fifty in passing.
01 · Attention
Work that rewards looking.
Images that hold you, give up their detail slowly and ask for a second look.
02 · Context
Presentation with purpose.
We plan each edition and each placement around the artist, the work and the room it goes into.
03 · Longevity
Relationships built to last.
Long-term support for our photographers, careful production, and editions that hold their value.
How we work
A gallery relationship built around the life of the work.
Four kinds of people work with IRID. Each gets the same thing from us: the right context, honest production details and a direct line to the gallery.
Collectors
Guidance before and after you buy.
Advice on artists, edition sizes, scale, framing, placement and the care of your print.
Designers and trade
Work specified for real spaces.
Sizing, framing and lead times for residential and commercial projects, with trade pricing for approved businesses.
Photographers
Representation with depth.
Long-term work on bodies of work, editions, print practice and market development. We review submissions periodically.
Press and institutions
Partnerships with purpose.
Editorial requests, acquisitions, loans, commissions and collaborations.
What every IRID work carries
A limited edition
Signed, numbered and never reprinted once the edition sells out.
Archival production
Pigment inks on museum-grade cotton rag, colour-managed and checked by hand.
A certificate of authenticity
Embossed with the IRID seal. We verify any certificate we issue.
Collector care
Framing in three finishes, tracked delivery and advice on hanging and care.
Recognition
Awards and press
Each photographer on the IRID programme has been recognised by an international or national award.
Hasselblad Masters, finalist
Dani Watson · 2026
The Independent Photographer People Award, finalist
Guy Little · 2025
International Loupe Awards, winner
John Wiseman
APP Gold Award
Simon Ray
The Portrait Conference, Silver Award
Gianluca Carretta
As featured in · Australian Traveller · Home Beautiful · Capture Magazine · Australian Photography
Continue through IRID
The work, the photographers and the writing.
Collect
Explore available works.
Limited-edition prints by IRID’s five photographers, from $175.
Photographers
Meet the represented photographers.
Five practices, from aerial abstraction to wildlife and black and white.
Begin a conversation with the gallery.
Collector guidance, trade, press, institutional and partnership enquiries. Write to us at hello@iridgallery.com.au.