Experience

SecAlerts

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder, SecAlerts

  • Mar 2019 - Present



Freelance

• Public Speaker

  • Mar 2000 - Present

  I have spoken and lectured at more than 150 clubs, organisations, festivals, universities and schools about my life and experiences as a photographer, including my hitchhiking journey around Australia, which has been described as "inspiring": www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/giulio-sagginReviews: "Giulio was recommended to me as an engaging speaker with a very interesting story supported by wonderful photographs – we were not disappointed. I rate Giulio amongst the best presenters our Club has seen ... you will be inspired" - Rotary Club of Brisbane Mid-City."Giulio is an articulate and funny presenter, with an ability to convey his unusual and varied experiences extremely well, taking the audience with him on his journey" - Maureen Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet Publications.

• Marketing

  • Oct 1999 - Present

  Used the knowledge and experience gained from my career in the media to publicise and market my books, blogs, exhibitions, public speaking and SecAlerts to local, national and international audiences.



ABC News Online

• Senior Photo Editor and photojournalist

  • Feb 2007 - Jun 2016

  Running a national photo desk and establishing, developing and maintaining relationships with photo agencies, organisations and the public (citizen journalists), as well as creating photo & story features for ABC News Online. During my time at the ABC, my book, "You, The Citizen Photographer: Telling Visual Stories", was published by Strictly Literary. Running a national photo desk and establishing, developing and maintaining relationships with photo agencies, organisations and the public (citizen journalists), as well as creating photo & story features for ABC News Online. During my time at the ABC, my book, "You, The Citizen Photographer: Telling Visual Stories", was published by Strictly Literary.



Self-employed

• Photojournalist

  • Jan 1999 - Feb 2007

  Worked as a freelance press and PR photographer in Brisbane. During this time (1999), I self-published my first book, ... so I did, recounting in words and photos my hitchhiking journey around Australia. To coincide with the launch of my book, I held an exhibition of my hitch portraits - several of which were purchased by the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane to be displayed as 'art' throughout the hospital - and led all marketing and publicity for the book, getting national TV, print and radio coverage.



Personal project

• Hitchhiker / author

  • Apr 1998 - Dec 1998

  Sometime around the end of 1993, while living in Scotland, I came up with the idea to hitchhike around Australia photographing everyone who gave me a lift and writing about each hitch. Sitting in my flat in Edinburgh, I often wondered what I was doing uprooting myself and moving back to Australia to do this. I'd never hitched before and had no idea where to begin or what to do. The fear of the unknown was scary enough but, if I didn't do it, the image of me as an old man looking back on what might have been, scared me even more. In February, 1998, I packed up my life in Scotland and returned to Australia to embark on what I knew would be the most challenging, apprehensive, amazing time of my life - and I was right. My journey lasted eight-and-a-half-months and more than 23,000km. I loved every moment of it. As my final hitch approached Melbourne on the afternoon of December 11, 1998, the emotions brewing inside me were a mixture of sadness and satisfaction. Sadness, because it was all over. Satisfaction for the same reason. Eventually these paled into insignificance as an over-riding sense of contentment swept through me. I'd done it! I could get hit by a bus the next day and go out with a smile of my face.



Freelance

• Photojournalist

  • Jul 1992 - Feb 1998

  Worked as a freelance photographer, occasionally writing stories. Had work published in every major Scottish newspaper and London-based tabloid and broadsheet.

• Photojournalist

  • Jan 1990 - Jul 1992



The Canberra Times

• Australia
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Photojournalist

  • Jan 1989 - Jan 1990