[5] In 1992, Sellick was awarded a perfect score at the prominent 101st International Exhibition of Professional Photography in Chicago,[5] and, that same year, used funds from a Young Achiever Award and a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Grant to travel to New York,[6] where he would subsequently work as an assistant for Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger and Mary Ellen Mark.
[1] Sellick's work has also been published internationally, appearing on the cover of magazines such as Q, NME and German Rolling Stone.
[3] A notable campaigner against what he refers to as "the vigorous pursuit of mediocrity" in Australian photography and its commercial industry (in 1995, he notoriously told Nancy Pilcher, then editor of Vogue Australia, that her magazine was "an international embarrassment", and never worked for Vogue again),[1] Sellick is outspoken on the "lack of identity" in Australian photography.
Sellick's first book, Facing, was published in Australia in 2004 and launched at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
[9] Sellick's next book, Life & Times in the Republic of Broken Hill, a collaboration with author Jack Marx released in 2011, was something of "an antidote" to his career as a celebrity photographer,[10] the subjects of the portraits being ordinary people from the historic mining town.