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A selection of our top 10 finalists from the 2021 Photogrpaher of the Year
THE SHOWCASE ISSUE
MIKE O’CONNOR, EDITOR
Welcome to the February edition of Australian Photography, and in what has been a tradition now for the last nine years, our Photographer of the Year special issue.
When it launched in 2013—it was just called Land- scape Photographer of the Year back then—we knew people loved landscape photography and figured it would make sense to create a platform to promote Aus- tralian amateur landscape photographers.
Today, Landscape is not even the most popular cat- egory in the competition (that would be Animal and Nature), and the comp has evolved to embrace new trends in photography – Mobile, Aerial and Creative are all genres we never imagined would have been popular enough for people to enter and shows just how far technology has come in nine short years.
At the same time, some of the genres we started with may no longer be fit for purpose. Take Landscape again, which continues to evolve and challenge our ideas of what a ‘Landscape’ is – today it can be inter- preted as seascapes, abstracts, urban environments, cityscapes, astrophotography and probably several oth- er sub-genres as well. Is the blanket term ‘Landscape’ simply too broad to encapsulate all the above? It quite possibly is, and that’s a challenge we know other com- petitions have faced as well.
We’re also conscious that along with appropriate categories, images also need to be appropriately cap- tured. This means for example, ensuring that in the
Wildlife category that animal welfare has been con- sidered by both our photographers and our judges. We hope to have this front and centre as we edge clos- er to the tenth edition of Photographer of the Year later this year.
Ultimately, Photographer of the Year is your com- petition – many of the changes we implement year- on-year are because of reader feedback, so while we’re thinking about what we can do to make the compe- tition more open to the kinds of images people are photographing today, tomorrow and in another 10 years’ time, we’d love to hear from you – email or send us a message about what you’d like to see in the competition.
With all of this, our goal with Photographer of the Year remains the same - to celebrate the best work of amateur photographers in the region and give them a platform to showcase their incredible talent to the world. Over the next 80-odd pages, I hope you see ex- actly that. ❂
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