7th May - Exhibition

Portrait

Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward

capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses.

4th June - Exhibition

Unusual Shadow(s)

 Shadows are everywhere if you look.  Images could be of inanimate objects, people, building, animals - anything.

2nd July - Exhibition

Landscape

Any scape that people or animals are not a prominent part of.

Landscape photography is capturing an image that embodies the

spirit of the outdoors. It carries a sense of being there to see

something incredible. When viewers look at your work, their

hearts should jump. You want them to feel the

same emotions that you felt when taking the image.

President’s Perpetual Trophy awarded to best subject Print

Alf White Perpetual Shield awarded to best subject Projected image

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