Anthony Dawton is an award winning photographer, who works in the commercial sector to fund his fine art work. He was photographer in resident for the iconic arts magazine Funoon Arabia and in 2010 was one of six photographers to be featured in the Australian CCP exhibition that toured South East Asia for twelve months. His images from a UNICEF/Al Madad project in Niger were selected to show at the 2009 Sony World Photographic Awards, in Cannes. He has been a contributing photographer to the The Silent Witnesses book series including, Kashmir's Children The Silent Witnesses of the Earthquake and Desert Faces, The Silent Witnesses of the Niger Children. He occasionally lectures on the importance and integrity of photography and counts Lewis Hines, Eugene Smith, Michael Duane and Jim Goldberg as important influences on his work.