Siewert has spent the past decade documenting stories of daily life in the Asia-Pacific region from Thai boy boxers to cargo cults. More recently, he has concentrated on portraiture and little-known Australian subcultures including pigeon racing and the Australian rockabilly scene.
His work has garnered many overseas and Australian awards including Pictures of the Year and he was the inaugural winner of the Centre for Contemporary Photography Documentary Photography Award.
He has twice been a recipient of the Walkley-Nikon portrait prize, and earned a Walkley in 2008 for his acclaimed series on Australian rockabillies, the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Sydney in the same year.
His photographs were showcased in France’s Arles Photography Festival in 2009 and have been exhibited at the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany, Galerie Polka, Paris and the Muséum of the Chateau de Clervaux in Luxemburg.
In Australia his work has been shown at the Art Gallery of NSW, the State Library of NSW, the Museum of Sydney, the Albury Regional Art Gallery and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
Siewert co-authored The Last ANZACS, a black and white portrait study of veterans from the 1915 Gallipoli campaign published by Allen and Kemsley.
His work has appeared in the Good Weekend, Geo Italy, marie clare, Russia, Estonia, Mexico and The Guardian newspaper, London.
Siewert lives in Sydney and joined Oculi in 2006.
