Background
Sewell grew up in Sydney and started his career as a news photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Sewell grew up in Sydney and started his career as a news photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
His first major award arrived when he was a very young photographer in 1994 when he was awarded the Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year. Based in Moscow in 1996 and 1997, Dean covered the Chechen War and Russian Federal Elections as well as documenting social issues in the former Soviet Union. Dean"s series on The Block, an Aboriginal community in Redfern, an inner suburb of Sydney, was showcased at the Visa pour L"Image festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France.
In 2004, Dean flew to Aceh just after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and photographed the aftermath.