Hot..Portraits of Australian indigenous women wins photo prize

vostok

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Photographer David Prichard has won this year's coveted Taylor Wessing Prize for his portraits of Australian indigenous women.

His series, Tribute to Indigenous Stock Women, captures those who have spent most of their working lives on cattle stations in northern Queensland. Prichard thanked the subjects for their trust, saying he was "only the vehicle for the women to tell their stories".

He was awarded the £15,000 first prize at London's Cromwell Place on Monday.
The Sydney-based photographer, 55, said he wanted to shine a light on a community that had been mostly unrecorded.
He was commissioned to create the series by Queensland's Normanton Council following a 2019 exhibition on First Nation rodeo riders in the region.
He said: "I have always been respectful of cultural and social sensitivities and subsequently built trust with the community, which led me to be invited to photograph the women."

Prichard beat off competition from fellow nominees Pierre-Elie de Pibrac and Katya Ilina, who were awarded second and third places respectively.


The Taylor Wessing Prize, now in its 14th year, is recognised as one of the most prestigious photography awards of its kind.

The winning portraits will be displayed at Cromwell Place in South Kensington, London, as part of the prize's annual
exhibition from Wednesday until 2 January.
The photographs are usually exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, but that is currently closed for major redevelopment works until 2023.

 

Roger A. Shrubber

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wtf..
Why, on earth, would you start this thread?
An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
~ R. Heinlein via Jubal Harshaw, speaking about on 'La Belle Heaulmiere' in Stranger From a Strange Land.
 

vostok

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wtf..
Why, on earth, would you start this thread?

more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
-R. Heinlein
 

Boatguy

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more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
-R. Heinlein

You misunderstand my post, just as i your thread
 
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