Gary Sauer-Thompson 
Gary is a photographer, blogger and director of the online Encounters Gallery. He is based in Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor, on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia.
Gary has an M.Com in economics (Canterbury University, New Zealand) and a PhD in Philosophy (Flinders University of South Australia). After migrating to Australia he studied photography at the Photography Images College in South Melbourne whilst working on the Melbourne trams. He then had a photograhic studio in Bowden, Adelaide whilst studying for a B.A in visual arts and philosophy at Flinders. He has worked as an economist, a tramways conductor, an academic, and a political and policy advisor. He left full-time paid work in Canberra to become a independent photographer.
Books
Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee 2019
Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee 2018
Edgelands, (Thoughtfactory, Adelaide 2014)
Those co-authored with Adam Jan Dutkiewicz:
Abstract Photography: Re-evaluating Visual Poetics in Australian Modernism and Contemporary Practice, Moon Arrow Press, Adelaide 2016.
Adelaide Art Photographers c.1970–2000, Moon Arrow Press, Adelaide, 2019.
Those co-authored with Joseph Wayne Smith include:
Beyond Economics: Postmodernity, Globalization and National Sustainability, (Avebury Series in Philosophy, 1996);
The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project, (Avebury Series in Philosophy, 1997);
Healing a Wounded World: Economics, Ecology, and Health for a Sustainable Life, (Praeger; 1997);
The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999).
Exhibitions
Solo
2016 Fleurieuscapes, Magpie Springs, Willunga, South Australia
2015 Australian Abstractions, Light Gallery, Richmond, Adelaide, South Australia
Group
2020
Adelaide Art Photographers 1970-2000, Royal South Australia Society of Arts, Adelaide, South Australia
2019
Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Murray Bridge , South Australia
Swatch, Fabrik, Lobethal, South Australia, SALA Festival
2018
Collaborations: Industrial Melbourne, Atkins Photo lab, Adelaide, SALA Festival
Mallee Routes : Photographing the Mallee, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria
PhotoForum Members Show, Studio 541, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
2016
Abstraction x 5, Light Gallery, Richmond, Adelaide, South Australia
Weltraum, Magpie Springs, Willunga, South Australia, Shimmer Photographic Biennale
Mallee Routes: Photographing the Mallee, Atkins Photo lab, Adelaide
2015
Time, Atkins Adelaide Artists, Fringe Festival, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria
Fairfield Farewell, Photonet Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Photography Competition, Magpie Springs, Willunga, South Australia
2014
Open Prize 2014, Photonet Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Light, Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, Shimmer Festival, South Australia
Unsensored 14, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne Silver Mine, Melbourne, Victoria
Concrete, Space, Light: 4 Adelaide Architectural Photographers, Light Gallery, Richmond, Adelaide
Photography Competition, Magpie Springs, Willunga, South Australia
2013
Dark, Atkins Adelaide Artists, Fringe Festival, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria
Unsensored 13, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne Silver Mine, Melbourne, Victoria
Awards
2015
Atkins Photographic prize for the 2015 SA Living Artists Festival (SALA)
Winner, Magpie Springs, Photography Competition.
2014
Finalist, The Fleurieu Four Seasons Prize forLandscape Photography
Second place, Magpie Springs, Photography Competition.