The Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP) seeks to promote a community of practitioners within the professional and academic worlds. The mission of the CDP is to connect photojournalists and documentists (seasoned or emerging) from across the world creating a shared space from within which our practice will be nurtured and promoted. 

The CDP seeks to provoke debate about issues pertinent to journalism and documentary practice and act as a resource for research and storytelling by providing exemplars to this community through its publication, The Australian PhotoJournalist and website. The publications aim to give a voice to the marginalised and the vulnerable, to celebrate our successes and reveal our excesses. The CDP exists under the auspices of Griffith University in Australia.