2019 Finalists
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1st Prize $5000 (non-acquisitve) $500 People's Choice Award (non-acquisitve) Now in it's third 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 photographers must only use available light. A shortlist will be decided by a panel of 3 judges, with the finalists exhibited at BRIGHTSPACE in early August 2019 |
JUDGES 2019
Dr Judith Crispin.Dr Judith Crispin is a creative director for cultural heritage projects, an academic, photographer and writer. Currently she directs the Kurdiji 1.0 Aboriginal suicide prevention project. Until 2016, she led the Australian Catholic University's Julfa project, which reconstructed a destroyed Armenian cemetery as a large scale virtual reality presentation. She specialises in bringing new and emerging technologies into the service of cultural heritage and the empowerment of Indigenous communities.
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John GollingsJohn Gollings is a photographer specialising in the built environment including the documentation of both ancient and modern cities around the world.
In 1976 he received private tuition from Ansel Adams in his darkroom at Carmel, California. He has taught the use of large format cameras, and lectured on architecture and advertising photography at Prahran College, Melbourne and Sydney universities and Philip Institute. |
Amanda FordyceAmanda Fordyce has been living in between Barcelona, Melbourne, London, and India for the past three years searching for the place she is supposed to be. Through her travels, Fordyce forms meaningful connections with subjects resulting in a portrait of her singular experience and interaction with the places she investigates. Photography is what gets her out of bed every morning.
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