40 Facts About Jarrad Seng

Jarrad Seng was born on 2 February 1988 and is an Australian photographer and filmmaker.

Jarrad Seng has toured with American band Matchbox Twenty and Australian folk singer Stu Larsen.

Jarrad Seng received international media coverage in December 2014 after a prank video, in which he walked around a music festival disguised as American DJ Steve Aoki, went viral.

In 2013, Jarrad Seng was a finalist in the Propel Youth Arts Award category at the 2013 WA Youth Awards.

Jarrad Seng competed in season four of Australian Survivor, which began airing in late July 2017.

Jarrad Seng was born in the rural Western Australian mining town of Newman.

Jarrad Seng's father, Kim, is Malaysian and his mother, Alice, is a Christmas Islander of Chinese descent.

The family moved to Mandurah when Jarrad Seng was three years old.

Jarrad Seng attended primary and high school at Frederick Irwin Anglican School, graduating in 2005.

From 2008 to 2011, Jarrad Seng worked in a range of roles at St George's College, the residential college he was living at, including Arts Representative on the College Club Committee, Student Director of Music and as an Arts Tutor in 2011.

Jarrad Seng began his photography career in 2009 while he was the music editor and writer for Pelican, the UWA student newspaper.

Jarrad Seng borrowed a friend's camera and researched how to take photos on the Internet.

The photos turned out decently, leading Jarrad Seng to buy his own camera and continue pursuing photography.

Jarrad Seng soon found photography could further his interests in music, travel and volunteering.

Jarrad Seng says he "fell in love with the idea of capturing the beauty of the world on film" while volunteering at a school in Nepal in 2009.

In 2009, Jarrad Seng started a marketing internship at the Perth International Arts Festival, allowing him to photograph events and begin to get his work noticed.

Since 2012, Jarrad Seng has served as a tour photographer for a number of musicians and bands.

Jarrad Seng has been the tour photographer for English singer Passenger on seven tours between 2012 and 2015.

In 2013, Jarrad Seng toured with American rock band Matchbox Twenty on their Australian tour.

Jarrad Seng toured with Australian folk singer Stu Larsen on his 2014 European tour.

In 2013, Jarrad Seng was a finalist in the Propel Youth Arts Award category at the 2013 WA Youth Awards.

Jarrad Seng placed 32nd in the 2017 Australia's Top 50 Influencer Awards.

Jarrad Seng was the subject of an episode of the ABC program On Assignment which was released on ABC iview in September 2015.

Jarrad Seng was featured in a video released in March 2017 promoting the Microsoft Surface Book.

In 2011, Jarrad Seng travelled to Tanzania to volunteer at a school and orphanage.

Jarrad Seng travelled to Iceland in 2012 to take aerial photographs of the country's volcanic river systems.

Jarrad Seng hired a two-seater plane and photographed out the plane's window.

In 2013, Jarrad Seng returned to Tanzania to help film a short documentary about the orphanage and shoot more portraits, this time focusing on the Maasai children.

Jarrad Seng returned to Iceland in 2015 to take a series of self-portraits against the country's landscape.

In December 2016, together with Perth-based artist Amok Island, Jarrad Seng held his first collaborative exhibition, Parallels.

Since 2013, Jarrad Seng has participated in the Perth Fashion Festival's annual Windows of the City competition which sees Perth creatives partnered with a local business to create a store window display.

In 2013, Jarrad Seng worked with artist Annabelle Gordon on a paper cut display for the Sneaky Monkey Cafe at Raine Square.

In 2015, Jarrad Seng created a photo installation for The Flour Factory, a bar on Queen Street.

In 2014, Jarrad Seng created The Hidden Sound, a planned series of music gigs where the artist and venue remained secret until the last minute.

Jarrad Seng received international media coverage in December 2014 after a prank video he uploaded to YouTube and Facebook went viral.

The video depicts Jarrad Seng walking around the Stereosonic music festival in Perth disguised as American DJ Steve Aoki, whom Jarrad Seng is occasionally mistaken for.

In May 2015, following earthquakes in Nepal, Jarrad Seng raised $10,000 for the Australian Red Cross by fulfilling various requests from individuals and businesses over a 24-hour period including taking photos, giving a talk to photography students and streaking through Hay Street in the Perth CBD.

Jarrad Seng competed in season four of the reality game show Australian Survivor, which was filmed in Samoa and began airing on 30 July 2017.

Jarrad Seng was the 13th contestant voted out, making it to day 36 and becoming the first member of the jury.

Since 2015, Jarrad Seng has been dating Rebecca Williams, a former Miss Universe WA finalist.