1st Prize $5000 (non-acquisitve)
 $1000 People's Choice Award

Now in its second year, the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women  is seeking entries from women photographers of all ages,
backgrounds and career levels. The only requirement is that they must only use available light.

A shortlist will be decided by a panel of 3 judges, with the finalists exhibited at BRIGHTSPACE in early September.
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MDPPfW  Judges

Hoda   afshar

Visual artist/ researcher/ educator
Hoda is an exhibiting artist and currently a lecturer at Photography Studies College and a PHD Candidate at the Department of Art at Curtin University. She won the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2015.

Robert    Imhoff ​

Robert Imhoff is one of Australia's leading commercial photographers. He studied photography at RMIT in the 1960s and launched into a career that saw him receive prestigious awards for his work as a photographer and film-maker.

Julie  Millowick

Julie Millowick achieved early recognition for her photojournalism when she exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and Centre for Photography in 1977.  She has exhibited and published regularly since then, with work held in major Australian and international collections.
 
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