MAPh | 2010 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

EXHIBITION

2010 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

23 September – 24 October 2010

Lee GRANT
Mary with her daughters Aja and Adau
and her granddaughter Nankir 2009
from the series New Australians: Sudanese migrants in suburbia
pigment ink-jet print
60 x 60 cm
courtesy of the artist

2010 WINNER

Canberra photographer Lee Grant won the prestigious $25 000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2010 at Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne.

Lee Grant's family portrait Mary with her daughters Aja and Adau, and her granddaughter Nankir is a formal portrait of a Sudanese migrant family set in their home in Canberra.

Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the annual non-acquisitive William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is an initative of the MGA Foundation. It has quickly become Australia's most important photogaphy prize.

Works by Philip Quirk, Clare Rae and Darren Sylvester received Adobe Honourable Mentions.

Melanie Faith Dove was voted as the winner of the $1 000 Crumpler's People's Choice Award for her work Cowboy kids.

34 artists were shortlisted as finalists in the 2010 prize. All 34 works can be viewed online here.

Judges accomodation kindly provided by Sofitel Hotel Melbourne.

More information on this year's prize as well as it's history is on the Bowness Prize page or through the links below.

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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