Competitions
Competitions
the 2023 AUSSIE STREET
Festival Awards
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
Congratulations to the following finalists.
Their images are now printed and installed at our exhibition space
at Comber St. Studios, Sydney.
Leica Australian Image
Andy Xie
Anita Davidson
Ayesha Farooq
Ben Greenslade-Stanton
Bryce Waters
Catherine Matthys
Drew Hopper
Flavio Brancaleone
Gavin Libotte
Gerrit Fokkema
Graham Cordery
Simon Ross
Jeremy Piper
Linda Maclean
Lou Gilbert
Matthew Mu
Luke Della Santa
Mark Davidson
Matthew Venables
Reuel Santos
Sally Coggle
Claire Edwards
Louis Mitchell
Yolafi Shaw
International Single Image
Arez Prod - Italy
Aristide Economopoulos - USA
Bernard Kalu - Nigeria
Brad Jones - USA
Bryce Waters - AUS
Chloe Kerleroux - France
Chris Harrison - UK
Cristina Embil - Spain
Dan Fenstermacher - USA
Didier Vanderperre - USA
Emre Cakmak - Turkey
Graham Cordery - AUS
Guille Ibanez - UK
Irina Panferova - Russia
Juan Rodríguez Morales - Spain
Liliana Ranalletta - Italy
Marco Sconocchia - Italy
Maria Rodrigues - Portugal
Massimiliano Faralli - Italy
Michele Bartalini - Italy
Nina Tberg - China
Olesia Kim - Russia
Ora Buerkli - Switzerland
Oscar Bolanos - Switzerland
Radka Dolinska - UK
Sachin Chauhan - India
Sakulchai Sikitkul - Thailand
Samuel Lintaro Hopf - Germany
Sonia Granata - Italy
Subhran Karmakar - India
Szymon Lewinski - Poland
Series
Argus Paul Estabrook USA
Cedric Roux. France
Cenk Erdogan Turkey
Enrico Markus Essl Austria
Forrest Walker USA
Kristian Leven United Kingdom
Oscar Bolaños Switzerland
Sally Coggle Australia
Spiros Loukopoulos Denmark
Thomas Woodruff USA
JudginG
Aussie Street is proud to have assembled a world-class judging panel to curate the finalists exhibitions of its competitions and award the 2023 prizes in three categories: International Single Image, International Series, and Aussie Image
MAtt Stuart
Matt Stuart has been shooting the streets of London for over 20 years and taken his craft around the world, making compelling images and passing on his passion for street photography wherever he travels. He is a long-time member of the street photography collective UP-Photographers, is a member of MAPS Images, and has taught workshops for Leica across Europe, America, and Asia.
Stuart's book of street photography, All That Life Can Afford (2016), includes photographs made in London from 2002 to 2015. His work has also been published in a number of survey publications on street photography, and exhibited in solo exhibitions in Britain and the US.
Narelle Autio
Narelle Autio is a multi-award winning photographer whose artistic career spans more than 30 years and portrays Australia's quintessential connection to nature.
In 2002, she became the first, and remains the only Australian to win the internationally recognised Leica Oskar Barnack Award for 'The Coastal Dwellers' photo series, where her sophisticated use of colour, light and composition create photographs that evoke the complex beauty of Australia’s coastline, which is otherwise eroded by postcards and clichés.
Autio has won two World Press awards, an American Picture of the Year award and two Walkley awards. She has twice been a finalist in the Basil Sellers Art Prize and Bowness Prize, and a finalist in both the Fleurieu Art Prize and the Olive Cotton Award. In 2002, she was selected in the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and has published two books, Place in Between and The Seventh Wave.
Jesse Marlow
Jesse Marlow is a Melbourne based photographer. His works are held in public and private collections across Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Parliament House Canberra, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria.
In 2003, he published his first book of photographs, Centre Bounce: Football from Australia’s Heart, (Hardie Grant Books). Images from Centre Bounce have been exhibited and published extensively, both in Australia and internationally. In 2005, he published a book of street photographs, Wounded, (Sling Shot Press). In 2006, he was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. While in 2010, Marlow was one of 45 street photographers from around the world profiled in the book, Street Photography Now (Thames & Hudson). He was awarded the International Street Photographer of the Year Award in 2011, and in 2012 won the Monash Gallery of Art’s Bowness Prize. Marlow released his third monograph, Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them in 2014. In the same year, he was profiled in the Thames & Hudson book, The World Atlas of Street Photography.
Meg Hewitt
Meg Hewitt is from Sydney, Australia. Her series Tokyo is Yours won a gold medal in the Tokyo International Foto awards, silver medal in the Prix de la Photographie, Paris and was named best fringe exhibition at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. In France, she was recently a top pick in Polka Magazine and her series was named one of the top five exhibitions during Rencontres d’Arles in the British Journal of Photography.
Her work is held in many private and public collections internationally, including the National Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Efi Longinou
Efi Longinou is an actress by profession currently living in Berlin, Germany. It all started some years ago in Greece, where she comes from. She discovered photography for herself as a means of artistic expression, which has become her new passion ever since. Taking pictures allowed her to follow her curiosity for people with the same fervency she feels when working as an actress. Acting and photography share mutual roots: curiosity and observation. The street is a stage where she can observe people and freeze a special moment with her camera. In these moments, she follows her instinct. Still, she learns through her way of exploring every day a little more about the seemingly endless possibilities of photographic expression that then flows into her work. She is a member of Burn My Eye Collective. She exhibited her photography work worldwide and published it in books and magazines.
Rammy Narula
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.Rammy Narula is a Bangkok-based street photographer with a passion for learning and exploring. He often credits photography for being his lifeline, allowing him to find meaning as well as a sense of purpose. In 2016, his photobook "Platform 10", a project shot on a single platform at the Bangkok Central Train Station, was published by Peanut Press, a publishing house in New York City. In 2020, he became Thailand’s Fujifilm X Photographer. A member of Street Photo Thailand and the international photography collective Burn My Eye, Rammy mentors several workshops each year and is also regularly invited to speak about his work to encourage self discovery and finding meanings through the creative process.
T.C. LIN
I grew up in the U.S. before immigrating to Taiwan in the late 1980s. My work has been published in various magazines, and I've had exhibitions in Taipei, Hangzhou, London, Cardiff, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Athens, etc. In 2011, I joined up with several other photographers around the world to form the Burn My Eye photography collective. I've penned several articles on the subject of street photography, and conducted photography workshops in Paris, San Francisco, Bangkok and Taipei. I’ve been teaching a course on street photography to students at Zhong Zheng Community College in Taipei since 2015 (minus pandemic interruptions). I've also directed films, published a couple of books, spent a couple of years as a conscript soldier, and performed with a twice-Grammy-nominated band.
Valeria Tofanelli
Valeria Tofanelli is a Roman photographer who dedicates her research to the free interpretation of everyday life. In her photos, she looks for details and situations regarding the relationship between man and the surrounding environment, capturing moments of daily life and creating scenes suspended between reality and fiction. Her photographic work has been exhibited in Italy and abroad, published in books, magazines and online articles.
Together with the Roman photographer Lorenzo Catena she made the photographic project MARETERNO, published by Eyeshot.
Since 2022 Valeria is a member of Burn My Eye collective.
Julie Hrudová
Julie Hrudová (1988) was born in Prague, but now lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has worked with a variety of publications, including The Guardian. Her photography has also been exhibited in numerous shows, on an international scale. Hrudová is a member of Burn My Eye collective and created StreetRepeat account on Instagram, showcasing similarities within street photography. During 2020 en 2021 she was taking a weekly street photo in Amsterdam, commissioned by Het Parool newspaper. Hrudová published the series as a book, called Chasing Amsterdam, chosen as one of the best Dutch photo books of 2022 by the Volkskrant newspaper.
Jack Simon
I am a retired psychiatrist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the past two decades, I have been fascinated by photographing unplanned and un-posed scenes in public life. I am most interested in finding complex, colourful images that transcend the documentary specifics of the moment and hopefully evoke stories in the minds of my viewers. I am a member of the Burn My Eye collective, and my work has appeared in a number of publications.
THE JUDGING PROCESS:
Judging of the AUSSIE STREET 2023 Competition occurs in TWO stages.
In STAGE ONE, a panel of highly accomplished photographers will select Finalist images for the SINGLE IMAGE and SERIES Competitions.
SELECTED FINALISTS images will be printed and exhibited - at no cost to the photographer - alongside the featured exhibitions of AS2023.
In STAGE ONE, all submissions are subject to ‘BLIND JUDGING’ by the aforementioned judging panel. Ie/ judges will view images only without access to entrant’s name or details.
In STAGE TWO, the PRIZE judges will deliberate and select the top three winners from among the Finalist images which will receive the AUSSIE STREET Competition 2023 Prizes.
Winners will be announced at the exhibition opening
Judges decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into with entrants.