Naarm/Melbourne-based photographer  Jodie Hutchinson_Grillmeier works across commercial portraiture, theatre photography, and environmental photojournalism. Jodie began her career working for major Australian networks including ABC, Channel 9, Channel 10, and Channel 7, on shows such as Neighbours, Stingers, Wilfred, and MasterChef, before specialising in theatre and rehearsal photography, performance documentation, and the creation of promotional imagery for Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Finucane & Smith, the Lyric Opera, and a range of independent theatre companies.

A graduate of the Master of Fine Art at RMIT University, Jodie is a photographer with Vets for Compassion, documenting search and rescue and veterinary care. Her work explores human–animal relationships and responds to the ongoing crisis of species extinction. She is a three-time finalist in the Olive Cotton Portrait Prize (2013, 2015, 2025) and a finalist in the Australian Professional Photography Awards (Animal category, 2021).

She is currently developing a major exhibition with Museums Victoria examining loss and extinction in Australian wildlife. The first series from this project, Remembering the Thylacine, will be exhibited in November through the City of Melbourne.