Grace Costa
Grace Costa is a commercial photographer, photography business coach, and host of The Photo Diaries podcast. Based in Canberra, she’s spent over two decades shooting and mentoring, combining creative development with practical business systems. As a mentor, Grace helps photographers step into confidence while building booked-out businesses that deliver freedom, profit, and respect in a saturated industry. She also supports photographers with technical foundations, such as photo editing, image management, and lighting skills.
In 2017, Grace presented a TEDxCanberra talk based on her most successful body of work. She’s a two-time finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, a multiple Head On finalist and exhibitor, and her personal work has been exhibited in galleries around Australia and in 2020 taught and won a Canberra Critics Award for the Portfolio to Exhibition workshop/exhibition at photo access.