Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize 2019 exhibition

Featuring the 30 finalists from over 3,000 entries by judged by Cheryl Newman, Jon Jones, and Stephen Dupont, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize offers a total prize fund of $100,000, with the winner taking home $50,000.The winner in 2019 is Tamara Dean, for her image, Endangered. All finalists receive $1,000.

Endangered. © Tamara Dean. Winner, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Endangered. © Tamara Dean. Winner, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.

The Prize was established in 2007 by the Moran Arts Foundation and it awards and promotes Australian contemporary photography and excellence in all forms of still, photo-based artwork - including analogue and digital photography or staged and directorial photo-media work.

Drought. © Adam Ferguson. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Drought. © Adam Ferguson. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.

Artist Talks

On Sundays during the exhibition, finalists will be discussing their work. Haad on down for a chat and enjoy a drink in the grounds of historic Juniper Hall.

12 May - Brian Cassey and Jason Thomas
26 May - Cassie Sullivan


Where: Juniper Hall, 250 Oxford St, Paddington NSW
When: 2pm
Bookings are not required.
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Death on the Darling. © Nick Moir. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Death on the Darling. © Nick Moir. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Cowboys. © Sean Izzard. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
Cowboys. © Sean Izzard. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
King Street, 2018. © Sam Ferris. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
King Street, 2018. © Sam Ferris. Finalist, 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

Sydney: The images in Bill Henson’s cinematic new body of work, The Liquid Night, derive from work the highly acclaimed artist shot on 35mm colour negative film in New York City in 1989.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.