This is Oz

This Is Oz is an online photo gallery where people can help fight discrimination against Australia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community. Part art project, part human rights campaign, This Is Oz is all about making Australia a place where everyone belongs.

We'll be updating our homepage and photo gallery daily with our favourite images and pics of our celeb friends, so come back and visit soon!

How to Participate

Simply upload a picture of yourself with a message that challenges homophobia and/or celebrates diversity.

You’ll then be part of a campaign to improve services and opportunities for all Australians.

Click here to upload.

A bit of story

My interest in photography was nurtured by my parents who always had a camera handy to record and document our family life. In recent years I have taken an interest in digital photography and have been recording community gatherings and events in Brisbane.

My images have been published in print and online by Brisbane City Council, the Australian Democrats, the Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association, Queensland Peace Network, various University Student groups, The Catholic Leader, Kiaros Magazine, St Philip's Church Annerley, Junction Park The Annerley Primary School, Oxfam Australia and Senator Andrew Bartlett's web.

Use the menu on the sidebar to explore some of my work and learn about photographers that inspire me.

The Australia Post, Our Community Photo Bank Awards

The Community Photo Bank is open to any community group that needs to illustrate some aspect of the life of the community. You can plug these photos freely into your own projects, making it simpler to show how we work together and care for each other.

This gallery provides community groups with a growing library of photos that they can use in developing marketing materials. All photos are available free for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license.


Aboriginal people should be aware that this gallery may contain the names and pictures of deceased Aboriginal people and/or images of their art work.

Photographic Solidarity With The People of Haiti

 Mwen Pa Fou

Over a year ago, the association of L'Arche communities in Quebec (AAQ - Association des Arches du Québec) and L'Arche Canada-Communications began to work together to create a photo exhibit that would illustrate life in L'Arche in Haiti and in Quebec through the artistic eye of photographer Jonathan Boulet-Groulx.

Jonathan Boulet-Groulx is a young reporter-photographer who has been involved with L'Arche as a volunteer and an assistant for more than five years. He has been living in Chantal, Haiti, since May 2009. When he isn't busy with L'Arche Chantal's work-expansion project, he might be nestled in his hammock, or he might be taking photographs that illustrate the living conditions of people with intellectual disabilities in this, his adopted country. He intends to continue this work of photo-documentation indefinitely, in order to paint a portrait of intellectual disabilities in the world ...