An image first published on Tasmanian Times is a finalist in Australia’s richest Prize for Contemporary Photography .
Hobart photographer Matthew Newton is a finalist in the 2010 Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography with an image of a forest activist first published on Tasmanian Times.
It is Australia’s richest prize Prize for Contemporary Photography with the winner taking away $80,000.
The winner will be announced at an exhibition of finalists work at the State Library of NSW on the 10th August.
Newton is the only Tasmanian to be selected as a finalist from over two thousand photographers nation wide that entered the prize.
This year’s judge, Walkley award winning photographer Stephen Dupont, said that “selecting the finalists was a momentous task, many of the works were of a very high standard, fresh and inspiring”
Link to the TT story, here:
The Flare of Forestry Tasmania: My Cry From the Heart
