Monthly Archives: October 2010

Ampersand editors and guest judge Bill Henson are very pleased to announce the winners of our inaugural photography competition, Capture The Fade.

The photographs will be reproduced in the Capture The Fade spread in the next issue of Ampersand, ‘The Fade’, due out in February 2011. They will also be exhibited at the Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney, opening on the 17th November 2010 and running for two weeks. Mr Henson will be speaking at the opening on ‘The Fade’  and announcing the overall winner.

There was a tremendous response to our call for submissions, in both number (almost a thousand entries from around the world) and in the quality of entries.

Congratulations to all who entered the competition – we are extremely proud of the collection. The works are emotive, personal, funny, stark and immensely creative. They offer an insight into contemporary trends in photographic art, and function as a kind of archive of current thought.

There are 15 winners as chosen by Bill Henson and 17 photographs, with two photographers gaining two winning shots. There are also 9 Highly Commended works as chosen by Ampersand editors.

So without further ado, the winners.

Tony McRae, Horse and Rider

Robin Cracknell, Memory

Lucy Parakhina, Untitled 1

Sergei Sviatchenko, Less 3

Sergei Sviatchenko, Less 4

Andreas Stelter, 2

Craig Reynolds, Untitled 19

Dominique Staindl, Free Fade

Victor Wiebe, Snowfall

Gene Hart-Smith, Untitled Landscape

Eleanor Weber, Joe

Tyler Morgan, Reflection

Tyler Morgan,  Aza Blue

Michelle Whitehead, Enigma 04

James Harney, Honolulu 2007

Anna Shelton, Untitled 04

Samantha Hawker, Boy in Versailles

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Ampersand editors are also delighted to announced the Highly Commended photographs. These shots will be exhibited at the Capture The Fade exhibition.

Justin James King, And we gather with infinite momentum 2

Simon Greiner, Black Backed Jackal

Ingvar Kenne, Election Day

Ryan Kenny, Field Day

Levi Mandel, Hair

Mclean Stephenson, Outer Woman 1

Jun Ahn, Self Portrait 1

Kate Stone, Western Gorilla

Jack Jeweller, Late-Crap-it-all-ism

Congratulations again to all our winners, and please continue enjoying the full collection on the blog, Capture The Fade.

A couple of fun things are popping up as we broach the end of our beloved International Year of 2010.

Editor Alice Gage will be speaking on a panel at Sydney’s first Emerging Writers’ Festival on 7 November, and will also have a stall at the zine fair, so come say hi.

Check that out here.

Our sister project, I Can Draw You A Picture, is having another live publishing installations as a part of Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival from 10-14 November.

Check this out here.

Stay tuned for breaking news on the Capture The Fade winners and announcement of the exhibition.

Meanwhile…

Carn, dare ya…

alice@ampersandmagazine.com.au