Nicola Bernardi claims to resemble a thumb with a goatee. If that’s not enough to make him interesting, he is currently working on translating, from Italian, a book about cycling the length of Japan, narrated partly with photos and comics.

The overall winner of the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers is John Feely.

Kelly Tyack is the runner up in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Grace Hobson is the winner in the Wedding category in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Jai Long is the runner up in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Sarah Maslankiewicz is the winner of the Student category in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Kate Bowman is the runner up in the Student category of the Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Samuel Costin is the winner of the Sport category in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Jeremy Ng is the runner up in the Sport category of the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Ribal Hosn has won the Editorial/Fashion category in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Waded is the runner up in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Luke Tscharke has won the Landscape category in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

Robert Salisbury is the runner up in the Landscape category of the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers awards.

The winner of the Australia's Top Emerging Photographers in the Portrait category is Niki Boon.

Brook Ready is the runner up in the Portrait category of 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers.

The runner up in the 2016 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers in the Documentary/Photojournalism category is Niki Boon.