Photographic Portraits of Winemakers

Written By Campbell Mattinson

In an ideal world I’d get to take a picture of every winemaker and indeed every wine-related person in the world. I clamber and snatch at every opportunity that I get – which is, admittedly, seldom. Meanwhile, here is a collection of work and, where appropriate, some background information to the image(s). The background information could be wine related. It could be photography related. It could just be an anecdote. I’m a writer. I’m a photographer. This is a series of people photography work, in the area of wine.

All the “WINEMAKER PORTRAITS” are here.

This is also photography work, in the area of wine, in an era when the photographic documentation of wine people is at historically low levels. No one commissions photographers to take images of wine people anymore. In that context, by sad accident rather than by design, this ongoing series has its own (small) importance.

There are only 21 images in this collection. A few more will be added and, with luck, many more taken in future.

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Winemaker Portraits by Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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