Photo Challenge

The My Nightworld challenge was inspired by Mark Kimber’s moody night locales, drawn from his Adelaide childhood. Featured in issue 54, Mark’s photographs inspired us to set a challenge that we hoped would encourage participating photographers to produce their own nocturnal studies. And encouraged they were. Indeed, such was the uniformly high standard of our entries, that we’ve dedicated extra space to the Challenge this issue.

Waves. They’re all around us. Sometimes they’re obvious and sometimes they’re very subtle indeed. And, once again, our loyal Photo Challengers tackled the topic with their usual enthusiasm and creativity.

The ‘One…’ challenge arose from an exercise photographer Paul Gummer (Photo Review, Issue #52) often sets for his students; namely to photograph a single object against a plain background.

For our Portals and Thresholds challenge, we asked photographers to capture an opening that might provoke a viewer to wonder where looking or even stepping through might lead.

The idea of the Summer Postcard challenge was for photographers to create imagery that would in some way capture the feeling of summer – in a postcardy sort of way.

Our ‘Tools of the Trade’ challenge was inspired by the editor’s encounter with a well-worn old brace-and-bit, and in particular with how evocative it was of his long dead grandfather.

THIS COMPETITION HAS ENDED.
Camera House and Photo Review photo competition for kids 12 and under.

The habitat challenge asked photographers to go out into the world and photograph people in, as we said at the time, what might be described as their native environment.

At the time we set this Photo Challenge Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria were all experiencing terrible floods. Natural disasters were therefore much in our minds and we thought the power of nature would make a great challenge. To our surprise though, entries were down on their usual numbers. Were people all disastered-out? Was the basic concept just too vague? We’ll never know the answer, but happily we still received some fine work from our creative contributors.