Steve Parish Publishing

Raoul Slaterwas born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1966. His father, Peter, is a wildlife artist. His mother, Pat, authored many books about horses and nature and also wrote extensively for Steve Parish Publishing. Together they wrote The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, one of the country’s seminal bird texts. Raoul also wrote Photographing Australia’s Birds.

He began photographing birds at the age of twelve with his father and, at eighteen, became interested in large format landscape photography. Since graduating from the University of Queensland as a physiotherapist in 1989, he has worked in Hobart, Kyogle, Broken Hill, Darwin, Moruya, Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Gympie and Pomona, recording the wildlife and landscapes around those areas. Raoul’s photos can be seen in many nature diaries, books and calendars. He is represented by Lochmann Transparencies in Australia and Woodfall Wild Images in Europe. Recently his photos have been used in large architectural projects by Queensland Health.

He is a regular columnist in Birds Australia’s Wingspan magazine and was the winner of the BBC Wildlife Magazine Travel Writer of the Year 2005. Raoul won the prestigious Qld Premier’s Multicultural Photo Award in 2006, as well as a Whitley Best-illustrated Award in 2008 for Growing Up with Australian Birds. He is a sought-after public speaker on the photography circuit and lives in Pomona, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, with his wife, Michelle, and son, Sam.