February-March 2023

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The Photographer Of The Year Issue
Well, here it is – a year’s work by hundreds of photographers, the results of careful decision making from a crack team of judges, and the product of many late nights at our end as we’ve come together to shortlist, curate, double-check, and finally s
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Quick Snaps
DRONE manufacturer DJI has announced the DJI Mini 3, a stripped down version of the Mini 3 Pro that loses that drones forward and rear obstacle detection, the company’s ActiveTrack following system and the higher-end video specs of its big brother, b
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New Book Shines Light On Pioneering Melbourne Photographer Joyce Evans
THE work of pioneering photographer, gallery director, collector and lecturer Joyce Evans OAM is set to be celebrated in a new self-titled book. Evans had an active presence in the Melbourne photography scene from the 1970s onwards, as a photographer
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Om System Set To Retire Olympus Name In Its Entirety
OM System has confirmed plans to drop the ‘Olympus’ name across its entire current product lineup. In a press release published on the OM System Japan website in November, the company confirmed the change will impact all products in its line-up, incl
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ABC Photographer Wins Walkley Press Photographer Of The Year
THE winners of the 67th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism have been announced, with ABC photographer Brendan Esposito named Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year for 2022. Esposito’s entry spanned the civilian impact of war in Ukrain
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Your Best Shot
Whether you freeze the action, or blur it, shutter speed is key when it comes to capturing a sense of speed in your photos. Here are this month’s top picks. Atlas Marie Goldsworthy’s Your Best Shot winning image is one of those great moments that mak
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Photographer Of The Year 2022 10 Years
PRESENTED BY Camerahouse Running for the last decade, the competition is the largest of its kind for amateur photographers in Australasia and for 2022 had a prize pool valued at more than $22,000. Vearncombe’s series was captured in the deep south of
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Winner landscape
@susanvearncombe Captured in the Maniototo, Otago, New Zealand, Kiwi-born but Perth based Geologist Susan Vearncombe says this evocative location in the deep south of the country is known for its wonderful light. Her landscape category-winning series
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Runner-up landscape
@stephane.thomas French-Australian photographer Stephane Thomas may be based in Sydney, but he says he much enjoys spending time in nearby Newcastle where life feels simpler and quieter. His Landscape category runner-up series was captured at the por
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WINNER ANIMAL & NATURE
30-year-old PADI divemaster Raphael Giraud has spent the last four years backpacking around Australia, and has used this time to also hone his underwater photography skills. Since then, he says he has tried to dive everywhere in Australia, from the t
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RUNNER-UP ANIMAL & NATURE
@bsteeve By day, Melbourne’s Steeve Body is a music composer, sound engineer, and educator, but by night he looks to the sky, dedicating his spare time to the challenging art of astrophotography. It’s something he says he fell in love with during the
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Winner people
@whoisgeorgechan Sydney public relations officer George Yu Pang Chan may have only started his photography journey in 2020, but his work is already turning heads – starting with his beautifully captured documentary series Starring as Elvis, the winne
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Runner-up people
@ubucher2 Having recently retired and rediscovered his childhood love for photography, Udo Bucher’s series Mum is a moving series that explores a day in the life of his 92-year-old mum Inge. A German immigrant to Australia who arrived in 1960, Bucher
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Winner aerial
A full-time firefighter from Canberra, Tim Burgess says he only started learning aerial photography at the start of the pandemic. And although he may live in a landlocked city, he says his passion is to travel to the coast with his family and drone -
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Runner-up aerial
@mattfieldes_photog Norfolk Island-born chef Matt Fieldes now calls Western Australia home. For the last few years, he’s been working aboard the Kimberley Quest, cruising the spectacular Kimberley coastline, which he says has given him an extraordina
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WINNER BLACK & WHITE
@sadsoftphotos Self-taught Melbourne photographer Steve Day is no stranger to these pages, with the passionate architecture and black and white shooter a top 10 finalist in the 2021 Photographer of the Year. This year, he turned his lens to London, w
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RUNNER-UP BLACK & WHITE
Self-confessed introvert Alan Coligado has been wowing us with his vast repertoire of photographs for some years now, and his runner-up winning series Boxed Irregularities continues his love affair with urban spaces found around his hometown of Sydne
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Winner travel
@whoisgeorgechan George Yu Pang Chan’s Travel category winning portfolio marks his second win in the competition this year, after the Sydney-based photographer also won the People category. For the series The Last Fishermen in Hong Kong, he chose to
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Runner-up travel
@imlukemackenzie 31-year-old Brisbane photographer Luke McKenzie says he originally planned a trip to Nepal to solo trek the Annapurna Circuit, as a challenge to himself to see what he was capable of after overcoming several surgeries over the past t
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Winner single Shot
@juliemullock Originally from the United States, Julie Mullock grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, before relocating in 2012 to Sydney with her husband. Her stunning Single Shot category winning image for 2022 was captured on a trip to Iceland in Feb
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Runner-up single Shot
@hummerstonnneil For the past seven years, Neil Hummerston has been working in remote Northern Territory and far north Queensland communities, which he says has given him an opportunity to access areas not generally available to others. “This has all
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Winner creative
@stephane.thomas Already a runner-up in the Landscape category for 2022, Stephane Thomas is no slouch with image editing either, creating this wild shot of Sydney’s Macquarie Lighthouse on Old South Head road. “The concept of Suspended came to me aft
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Runner-up creative
@adriandonoghue Melbourne-based clinical psychologist Adrian Donoghue’s runner-up in the Creative category seeks to leave the viewer asking questions while also blurring the line between a ‘straight’ capture and an imagined creation. The result is a
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Winner junior
17-year-old Newcastle student Cian O’Hagan has chosen to explore a subject with real weight and personal significance for his Junior category winning series this year – his grandfather’s experience suffering from dementia. “Tony II explores the compl
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Runner-up junior
Bellbridge, Lake Hume, photographer Jordana Cicarello is the second youngest of five children and the only girl. “I used to be really sporty but I started to develop a muscle condition when I was 12,” she says. “That means I had to try find different
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Experiences
When I was young, my father encouraged me to always observe the world. He taught me ‘to see’. He would stop suddenly and say, ‘Look at that!’ The colour of one leaf, texture on a rock, or the shapes of the clouds. At school, I selected art and art hi
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Failure Is A Better Teacher Than Success
During the pandemic I began entering international exhibitions to try to achieve ‘Honours by Exhibition’ with APS – a daunting prospect. I wrote about that process back in April 2021’s issue of Australian Photography and was lucky enough to achieve t
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Image Doctor
Justin is one of a growing number of photographers who are not only shooting film again, but who are also exploring the larger film formats. This image was shot using a 4” x 5” large format camera that was once standard kit for most commercial photog
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Win
Congratulations to Justin Reeders who has won a 12-month subscription to either Australian Photography or Capture magazine for taking out Image Doctor this month! Here at AP we’ve been celebrating the work of Australian photographers for more than 70

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