Egypt in Focus
The 2011 EGYPT IN FOCUS competition was a great success as we had 84 entries.
The winners were announced at the annual Egyptography Awards Dinner held at the gallery on the 20th April.
The overall winner of the competition was Morland Smith for his photograph, Giza Rider. The landscape award was shared by David Sargeant and Jock Muir as was the portrait award by Merise Hocking and Carol Vaughan. Clive addison, Robert Strzelecki and Carrol Dunford all were recognised for highly commended landscape. Tania Stamatis and Carrol Dunford were chosed for highly commended portrait photographs.
The award night was a great success again and was enjoyed by all those who came.
The judges were Lyn Whitfield-King, Grand Master photographer and Judith Hugo, Art Curator of the Central Institute of Technology Art Collection (Central TAFE).
The Winners for the 2011 Egypt in Focus photography comeptition was as follows:
Overall Winner: “Giza Rider” by Morland Smith
Landscape Winners: “Fisherman” by Jock Muir and “Alexandria Library Roof” by David Sargeant
Portrait Winners: “Companionship” by Carol Vaughan and “Rhythm” by Merise Hocking
People’s Choice Award: “Serving Coffee” by Clive Addison
The winning photographs are shown in order below
There were five highly commended photographs which were also acknowledged
“View in Nubia” by Tania Stamatis
“Bab Zuweila Gateway” by Robert Strzelecki
“Village Life” by Carrol Dunford
“Anytime Anywhere” by Clive Addison
“Onions” by Carrol Dunford
These highly commended photographs are shown in order below
Please click here to view the winners of the 2010 competition