Richard Stringer (architectural photographer)

He married his wife Marguerite in 1966 and in 1967 began his photographic practice, working to document historic and modern buildings.

He has documented the majority of exhibitions at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art and in 1984, was made an honorary life member.

In 2002, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Queensland in 2003.

[5] With more than fifty years of professional photography experience, well-known architectural photographer Richard Stringer has been widely recognised for his skill, ability, and coverage of many major urban and regional architectural features in Queensland.

There are also business records, exhibition prints, transparencies, albums, proof sheets, family photographs and some 63,000 negatives.

Architectural photographer Richard Stringer with State Librarian and CEO Vicki McDonald . Photographer: Leif Ekstrom, State Library of Queensland.