The Wilson/Ryan/Grose Photographic Competition has now been judged. Congratulations to the winners:

	18 yrs and Over ($800) Danielle Leslie, for her photograph of Richard Gillespie's The whole town is talking
	Under 18 yrs ($200) Elisa Ernst, for her photograph of MJ Ryan Bennett's Gifts from the Sea

Over 70 photographers entered over 250 images in total – a record number of entries for the competition. Frances Thomson, Manager of Gallery Services, said the competition “certainly encouraged a lot of photographers and we had a really great selection and high standard of works, which can be seen on Flickr and in a slideshow at the Gallery presently.”

Adam Brown, a Lecturer in Photography at James Cook University, judged the competition and was impressed by the overall standard and diversity of images. He said Ernst’s photo was “outstanding, just a really striking photograph.

“Danielle Leslie has presented a photograph that is quite dynamic. Her response to Richard Gillespies’s sculpture has been to merge a traditional photograph with some subtle Photoshop techniques in a way that accentuates the essence of the sculpture. I really like that the effects have been used in such a minimal way and it is the sculpture that takes centre place.”

 

View entries submitted to date on our Flickr website Photographic Competition Set, or in a slideshow on the Gallery's First Floor.

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Top Image: Winning entry in Strand Ephemera 2009 Photographic Competition (detail). Image features Alison McDonald's artwork The Bather. Photo by: Letitia Thirapathi Appadu