Smith & Singer People’s Choice Award 2023
Smith & Singer congratulate Zo Damage as the recipient of the Smith & Singer People’s Choice Award for the 2023 Bowness Photography Prize. This year’s exhibition superbly showcases the breadth and depth of contemporary Australian photography and the Museum of Australian Photography’s (MAPh’s) unwavering commitment to celebrating the multi-faceted perspectives and voices of our innovative practitioners.’
Geoffrey Smith, Smith & Singer Chairman
Smith & Singer (previously Sotheby’s Australia) became the proud sponsor of the People’s Choice Award in 2018. Smith & Singer is Australia's premium fine art dealership facilitating the purchase and sale of important historical, modern and contemporary Australian and international art. Their significant philanthropic support of the Bowness Photography Prize reflects the national and historic importance of this prize and the MAPh Foundation is profoundly grateful. The Smith & Singer People’s Choice Award is voted by the public during the exhibition period with the recipient receiving $5,000 to support their practice.
Previous winners of the People's Choice Award include Andrea Francolini's 'Read my lips' (2022), Ali Tahayori's ‘Sisterhood’ (2021), Zoe Arnott's ‘Max at 99’ (2020), Shoufay Derz's other-worldly landscape ‘Under erasure’ (2018) and Hoda Afshar for her ‘Portrait of Behrouz Boochani, Manus Island’ (2018).
Media release
Smith & Singer People's Choice Award | Media Release
