We’re delighted to announce the primary members of our esteemed judging panel for Photographer of the Yr 2023 offered by Ted’s cameras.
Keep watch over this web page as we replace it with extra judges over the following few weeks.
Petra Leary
petraleary.com
Petra Leary is an award profitable New Zealand born aerial photographer. Her means to seize her topics from distinctive views is hanging and ground-breaking.
She has an innate design sensibility, mirrored in her distinctive course of all the best way from conception to post-production. An intrepid world traveller, she hunts out uncommon landscapes, captures them from unexpected angles resembling her signature hen’s eye angle from above, and manipulates and accentuates colors in post-production to create her remaining work.
Her work is easy but daring in association and composition. Belying this effortlessness are deeply honed technical expertise, and a figuring out iconoclastic eye for popular culture. Amongst many different awards, she is the Webstar Journal Media Awards 2019 Greatest Photographer, and a finalist in the New Zealand Photographer of the Yr 2018 Aerial Class.
Sally Brownbill
thebrownbilleffect.com
A educated photographer, by way of The Brownbill Impact, Sally Brownbill connects inventive expertise from all corners of the business. She gives profession management and recommendation and likewise consults on the design and enhancing of images portfolios and web sites. This allows creatives in any respect ranges to current themselves as the perfect they are often. She’s the go-to individual for these on the lookout for or in search of to fill a contract or everlasting position within the business.
Over time Sal has constructed a status based mostly on an unrivalled degree of expertise and the flexibility to encourage and join all creatives. That is the results of a powerful need to assist individuals, in addition to a love for creativity of all types.
Sal can be a mentor, choose and visitor lecturer throughout a wide range of academic establishments, an Adjunct Business Fellow throughout the School of Well being, Arts and Design at Swinburne College and a member of a number of course Advisory Boards.
Douwe Dijkstra
monochromevisions.internet
Douwe Dijkstra is knowledgeable senior graphic designer based mostly in Sydney. Born and raised in The Netherlands, he relocated downunder in 2003 and now calls Australia residence. Pictures is a powerful ardour for Douwe and he picked up his first digicam on the age of 12.
Over time his interest has advanced from taking household snaps together with his grandfather’s digicam, to creating black and white effective artwork within the digital age. Since 2015 his focus has been on iPhone avenue images, marking a brand new chapter in his images journey.
Douwe prefers to shoot in monochrome as he merely finds it simpler to seize the essence of a scene in black and white: color is only a distraction. He gained the black and white class of the 2015 Photographer of the Yr.
Anthony McKee
anthonymckee.com.au
Anthony McKee is a Melbourne-based author and social documentary photographer. In 2014 he was named AIPP 2014 Australian Documentary Photographer of the Yr. He has additionally gained awards for his panorama images.
He has judged skilled and beginner images awards on either side of the Tasman and in 2013 was made an Honorary Fellow of the NZIPP for his companies to images. He’s an everyday contributor to Australian Pictures journal.
Ann and Steve Toon
toonwildlife.com
Ann & Steve Toon are a UK-based, husband and spouse workforce of award-winning, skilled photographers with a specialist curiosity within the wildlife and wild locations of southern Africa the place they spend a number of months every year photographing and operating photographic safaris.
Their work is revealed in a variety of magazines and nationwide newspapers, each within the UK and overseas, and they’re reprepresented by a number of main photographic libraries. They’ve additionally written three books, two on wildlife images and one on rhinos. You’ll be able to see extra of their work on their web site at toonwildlife.com and and toonphotosafari.com.
Doug Gimesy
gimesy.com
Doug is knowledgeable conservation and wildlife photojournalist who focuses on Australian points. A 4 time finalist within the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Yr and the inaugural winner of the WildScreen Panda Photograph Story Awards, he’s a Senior Fellow of the Worldwide League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and his purchasers embrace Nationwide Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Australian Geographic, as properly numerous mastheads like The Guardian.
Initially educated as a zoologist and microbiologist, he later accomplished a Masters of Setting and a Masters of Bioethics. Collectively, these two {qualifications} helped form his considering as what kind of points he needs to be specializing in and why – conservation and animal welfare points.
Believing individuals ought to concentrate on the problems they care about and people which can be near residence, his latest work has centered on the conservation and animal welfare points going through the platypus and the Gray-headed Flying-fox – having not too long ago facilitated the platypus being listed as threatened species in his residence state of Victoria, in addition to launching a youngsters’s ebook (together with his associate) about Gray-headed Flying-foxes titled ‘Life Upside Down’.
Present on-going tasks embrace a collection of portraits titled ‘Wildlife warriors, conservation champions and animal advocates’, paperwork wombats and the usage of language to raised body environmental and conservation communication. He’s additionally co-authoring a college examine to assist higher perceive how wildlife pictures affect each emotional engagement and drive individuals’s behaviour.
His hope is that the photographs and data he shares, will encourage individuals to cease, suppose, and deal with the world extra kindly.
Lisa Michele Burns
thewanderinglens.com
Lisa Michele Burns is a journey and panorama photographer and OM SYSTEM ambassador who focuses on areas of environmental significance and pure magnificence. Lisa bought her begin in images while working as a journalist for Lonely Planet again in 2007 and now publishes The Wandering Lens, a number one journey information for photographers that lists photogenic locations and experiences alongside inventive ideas.
Internet hosting journey images excursions in locations like Japan, Iceland and France, she now additionally affords on-line sources and self-study programs for these eager to pursue a profession in freelance journey images.
