6th August - Exhibition

Weathered/Aged

Images of items aged by time or weather.

3rd September - Exhibition

Photojournalism

Photojournalism implies story-telling photographs such as are seen in the

news media and periodicals, which may include documentary, contemporary

life, illustrative, sport news or human interest.

In the interest of credibility, contrived situations or

photographic manipulations which alter the truth are not acceptable. The

story telling value of the photograph shall be weighed more than the pictorial

quality.

President’s Trophy awarded to best subject image

1st October - Exhibition

Infrastructures at Night

Images need to include streets, docks, industrial areas etc taken after sunset.

5th November - Exhibition

Photography as Art

The purpose of this award is to encourage photographers to lift their thinking beyond traditional photographic criteria such as sharpness towards the qualities that characterise Great Art. This is easy to say but hard to define. Ideally the image should capture something eternal, beautiful, noteworthy, striking or unusual. It would be a rare image that achieved all of these!

People looking for examples should look to the all-time great art works for inspiration. Clearly these paintings will include but not be restricted to: portraits (such as Rembrandt, Leonardo), landscapes (such as Constable, van Gogh), abstracts (such as Rothko, Kandinsky), human form (such as Ruben, Rodin), and expressionism (such as Munch, Monet).

Any amount or method of photo manipulation is acceptable, however the original image must have been taken by a camera or some other photographic process (e.g. a scanner).

The aim should be to produce an image that one would not be surprised to find hanging in the Perth Art Gallery.

Phil Deschamp Trophy awarded to best subject image