The Walkley Foundation presents events throughout the year to encourage excellence in press photography, including workshops, exhibitions and slide nights.
Geraghty, Drewitt honoured at 2009 SlideNights
2009 has been a big year for our photographers' SlideNights, held in Melbourne for the first time as well as Sydney. Both events saw crowds of photography enthusiasts turn out despite the late-winter chill; perhaps the free pizza and beer helped!
In both Sydney and Melbourne our sponsor Nikon donated a Coolpix P6000 camera to the photographer whose work was voted "best in show" by the audience.
In Sydney Kate Geraghty was voted "Best in Show" for her moving black-and-white photoessay on the displaced people of wartorn Democratic Republic of Congo. The win turned out to be well-timed, as Kate's camera had just been stolen as she returned from Africa! Also popular with the audience were Torsten's extraodinary body of work from the South Pacific; Bob Barker's images of the birth of his daughter "Amelie Belle"; Onur Karaozbek's delicious "Stage Women"; and Krystle Wright's gorgeous black-and-white shots of "Ocean Swimming".
Meanwhile in Melbourne, Andy Drewitt's documentary series on a "Donkey Shelter" was voted the best.
We'll be featuring the work of our SlideNight photographers in our online galleries, so keep an eye out for those. And listen out for the call for SlideNight submissions in early 2010, and your work could be on show next year...
