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WINNER 2005
Title: Sand in my face
Photographer: Wayne Harlech-Jones
Location: Long Reef Beach, Sydney
Date: December 2004
Camera: Canon G2
The inaugural Photo Review Portrait Prize competition attracted more than 200 entries. We were gratified at the number of images, but what really impressed us was the uniformly high standard of the work submitted. Our instinct that Photo Review readers were a talented group of people was borne out in unequivocal fashion! Reducing the field to a manageable number of entrants for our final round of judging was not easy, but deciding the winner from among those select images was more difficult still.
In the end, the majority decision came down in favour of Wayne Harlech-Jones's 'Sand in my Face'. This is one of those photographs that leaves an after-image in the viewer's mind. It isn't just the tactility of the sand and the fine hairs across the subject's face, although those are important. It isn't the striking contrast of the subject's pale, delicate skin and those green eyes either... and it isn't just the subtle expression ever so faintly playing on her face... but taken together, this image has an 'X' factor that we think puts it over the line in what is a very strong field.
Thank you again to all who participated. We were dazzled and we're already looking forward to next year's competition.
FINALISTS
Title: Smile!
Description: This is a man I met at a party recently. He had lots of
interesting stories to tell. When I asked to take his picture he started
clapping his hands he got so excited!
Photographer: Jeremy Kinstlinger
Location: Bondi
Date: 3 March 2005
Camera: Canon EOS 300D
Subject/Title: Oda
Photographer's name: Cate Gray
Location: ACP photography studio, Paddington
Date: 24 March 2004
Camera: Minolta Dimage 7i (5.0 mega pixels)
Title: Thought
Photographer: Melissa Grimley
Location: Leichhardt, NSW
Date: May 2004
Camera: Canon EOS 300D
Title: Nana was here
Photographer: Zoltan Klinger
Subject: The photographer's 88-year old grandmother
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: December 2003
Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5F
Title: Freres
Photographer: Pascal Renoux
Location: Bouin, France
Date: 2003
Camera: SONY F-707
Title: Zillah
Photographer: Adrian Tuazon
Subject: Zillah McDonald
Location: Subject's home in Preston, Victoria
Date: June 2004
Camera: Hasselblad 501CM, 80mm
The winning entry receives a fantastic prize package valued at $2,000 from Lexar™ (www.lexar.com.au).
The prize package comprises one each of:
1GB CompactFlash™ Professional Series with Write Acceleration (80X)
512MB CompactFlash™ High Speed Series with Write Acceleration (40X)
512MB CompactFlash™ High Speed Series (12X)
USB 2.0 Multi-Card Reader (7 in 1)
512MB JumpDrive™ Photo
Image Rescue 2.0 Software
Photo Mechanic™ Software
Professional CompactFlash Card Wallet
We are gratified to report that in its second year, the Photo Review Portrait Prize competition attracted more than 300 entries. That's 50 percent more than were submitted for the inaugural contest, despite the fact that the acceptance period was shorter. Our winner is 'Ian and Yosi' by Kim Hunter. ... [more]ENTRY IS NOW CLOSED for Photo Review Portrait Prize 2006. ... [more] |