2024 Photo Awards winners

International runner up

Hadas Motro – Invaders in the sky

The image depicts a troubling phenomenon spreading worldwide: the infestation of monk parakeets. These colourful, exotic birds have become unwelcome guests, threatening the delicate balance of nature. Originally brought in as exotic pets, monk parakeets have rapidly multiplied, displacing native species, damaging agricultural fields and infrastructure, and altering the ecological fabric. This image serves as a wake-up call: we must act swiftly to curb the spread of these feathered invaders and protect our rich biological diversity.

Australian Runner up

Sarah Cusack – PPE Conflict Portraits – Overlay B&W

“Digital Photograms of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) similar to those worn by healthcare and aid workers in recent conflict zones. Violence against workers or obstruction of healthcare reported in conflict zones reached record high. Detailing arrests, kidnappings, killing of workers and damage to or destruction of health facilities. PPE provides protection from infectious particles but not from these dangers and varying psycho emotional states suffered over time.

Using a digital process also allows for an inverse of luminosity and colour while maintaining a likeness to medical imaging.”

Winner

Antonio Denti – NOTES FROM THE EDGE OF A PRIMORDIAL FUTURE.Nightfall at Sea.

Kids from the generation alpha – rightly called so as they really are growing in a world exponentially different from anything known by their predecessors – play with technology while night falls in a primordial stretch of coast by Mount Etna’s volcano, on the Mediterranean sea.

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International runner up

Tony Mcateer – From Sand

Al Ain, UAE. From my series ’From Sand’ which looks at the unprecedented urbanisation that has taken place in the Middle East over the last few decades.

Australian runner up

Frances Suter – Cheer in the Chill

Kinga Wrona

Found view of the house in la Palma (Spanish Canary Island) after the eruption of volcano Cumbre Vieja. La Palma, only exists because of volcanic eruption built this land long time ago, forming the archipelago known as the Canary Islands. In 2021, during 85 days the volcano Cumbre Vieja on La Palma has been active. The eruption was the longest in the history of the island and the most destructive of last century in Europe. Photographs comes from project ”85”.

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International runner up

Melinda Blauvelt – Yvon & Yvette, Brantville

This portrait was made in the Acadian fishing village of Brantville NB Canada.

Australian runner up

Nathan Dyer– Anne (2023)

Anne Clarke is a young Miriwoong woman from far north Western Australia. She grew up on a small farm with her mum and sister, just outside the remote town of Kununurra. This portrait shows Anne in spurs and a LeBron James basketball singlet. A complex mix of the past and present. Anne’s dream to work in the pastoral industry reflects a long tradition of Aboriginal stockwomen; her LeBron James singlet a nod to the growing influence of American culture. Both have good and bad aspects. Nothing is ever black and white.

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Drew Gardner – Deanne Stanford Walz descendant of Harriet Tubman

Deanne Stanford Walz descendant of Harriet Tubman, former slave turned activist, sits to recreate a recently discovered photograph of Tubman. The image was a culmination of 3 years research to recreate photos of civil war participants with their descendants. Costume was specially made, the set was painstakingly reconstructed using as many original items as possible. Photo was taken in a daylight studio in New York, the sitter had to stay still for the 40 second exposure supported by period body rests to help her keep still. The photo was taken on a 5×7 inch TinType camera from the 19th century.

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