AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS:


Australian Geographic Society 'Pursuit of Excellence' Award 2004. This Award was created in Jason’s honour "For his extreme efforts and absolute commitment to obtaining rare and amazing photographs.”

Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival, Perpignan France, 2003. National Geographic presents Jason's Alang Ship breaking story “Where Ships and Workers go to Die”

BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Finalist 7 times.

BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Semi-Finalist 20 times.

Travel Photographer of the Year 2006, Magnum Photos Judges Favourite Award

Highly Commended, ANZANG Nature and Landscape Photographer of the Year 2006

Travel Photographer of the Year 2006, Iconic Portfolio Ranked 17th Internationally

Highly Commended, New Scientist Eureka Prize for Photographic Journalism 2005

African Safari Magazine Canon Award 1992

London, The Henries 2006, Award for the Best Photographic Selection of Greeting Cards by National Geographic

Jason Edwards photographed the four most successful fund raising stories the Australian Geographic Society has ever operated.

2008 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography, Highly Commended


EXHIBITIONS:

"Vanishing Icon's," World Bank, Washington, DC, April 2010

Trinity Wall Street, Picturing an Ethical Economy, New York, April 2010

Parakeet Pointe, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2010

"Human Origins", Norway, March 2010

British Airways, Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom, February 2010

"Human Origins", Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins (NMNH), January 2010

Search Gallery, Science World British Columbia, March 2009

"Climate Change" American Museum of Natural History, New York, October 2008

"Whales: From the Depths of the National Geographic Collection," Washington DC, October 2008

The Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, May 2008

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, March 2008

National Geographic Explorers Hall, Washington DC, August 2007

Defence Intelligence Agency, Bolling Airforce Base, Washington DC

Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery Tasmania, TEMPO rhythms of life, 2007-2008

Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival, Perpignan France, 2003. National Geographic presents Jason's Alang Ship breaking story “Where Ships and Workers go to Die”

Daylesford Foto Biennale 2007 by Directors invitation 'Life is Motion'

Daylesford Foto Biennale 2007 'Known'

Museum Victoria’s National Science Week 2006

Centre for Contemporary Photography Kodak Salon 2006

Defining Melbourne ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) 2005

National Geographic Society Wildlife Museum, Dec 2005 Washington DC, USA

Australian National Museum New Scientist Eureka Prize for Photographic Journalism 2005

Zoological Board of Victoria, November 1995 Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens

Zoological Board of Victoria, October 1997 Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens

Zoological Board of Victoria, September 2000 Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens

Australian National Museum Australia's Lost Kingdoms, National Museum Sydney

National Geographic Society “Wild about Otters”, March 2007

Travel Photographer of the Year 2006, London January 2007

PMA (Photographic Marketing Association) Conference 2007 Guest Exhibition

Centre for Contemporary Photography Kodak Salon 2007

Australian National Museum 2008 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography



SPEAKERS BUREAU:

The following is a partial list of clients that have used or commissioned Jason as a Guest Presenter.

-National Geographic Channels International

-ABC Television / Big Ideas

-The Australian Museum

-National Geographic Photography Seminars

-Photo Marketing Association International (PMA)

-Australian Geographic Society

-The President's Circle, Australian Museum

-Daylesford International Foto Biennale

-GAP Adventures International

-Zoological Board of Victoria

-Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

-Melbourne Aquarium

-The Melbourne Camera Club

-Museum Victoria National Science Week

-CAE (College of Adult Education)

-The Institute of Photographic Technology (IPT)

-Photographic Studies College (PSC)

-Monash University Diners Club

-The Field Naturalists Organisation

-Zoo Peru Inc.

-Melbourne High School Old Boys Association

-Melbourne High School Luncheon Circuit

-FOTZ (Friends of the Zoos)

-Wesley College Prahran