Monochrome Photography Awards Judges

Your photographs will be reviewed by a panel of renowned Black and White Photographers.

Meet Monochrome Photography Awards Judges:

ALAIN LABOILE Photographer laboile.com Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of six. In 2004, as he needed to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquired a camera, and thus developped a taste for macrophotography, spurred by his passion for entomology. Later on, he pointed his lens towards his growing family which became his major subject: a life on the edge of the world, where intemporality and the universality of childhood meet.

CÉSAR ORDÓÑEZ Photographer cesarordonez.com César Ordóñez, photographer and video-artist, develops his activity mainly between Tokyo (his city lab) and Barcelona (his hometown). He uses the universality of visual language as a tool to reflect on today’s world, the beauty of existence and its fragility. Exploring how our thoughts and attitudes influence our environment, and the daily evolution of the societies in which we live, and vice versa. With a vital, intimate and often introspective style, his works move between the reality and the metaphor, between the lived moments and the dreamed ones.

FRANCOISE HOLTZMACHER Photographer otherpix.com Francoise Holtzmacher is a Belgian photographer currently based in Sydney, her main interests are documentary photography, photojournalism and street photography.

TURI AVOLA Photographer turiavola.carbonmade.com Turi Avola - peculiarity is to represent women in surrealistic and dreamy contest. He’s working a Black and White photo session projects, where he has the intent to analyze the multiple game of personality that is living inside each one of us; the interior fight and our ego.

LEE ATWELL Photographer leeatwellphotography.com Lee Atwell - In street photography, the lightness and the darkness around us fascinates her - how our outer world can reflect our inner world and can somehow be intuitively an extension and expression of ourselves.

PHIL PENMAN Photographer philpenman.com Phil Penman during his time in New York, he has covered the biggest entertainment and news stories in America, including the September 11th World Trade Center terrorist attacks - for which his work won worldwide recognition. Penman has spent the past 15 years cycling around the city documenting a broad spectrum of New York life.

TYTIA HABING Photographer tytiahabing.com Tytia Habing lives and works in Watson, Illinois very near where she grew up on a working farm. Having spent most of her adult life living in the Cayman Islands, she moved back to her roots a few short years ago. She holds degrees in both horticulture and landscape architecture and is a self taught photographer. Tytia's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both public and private collections.

ZELKO NEDIC Photographer zelkonedic.com Zelko Nedic current photographic art works, created using the time consuming, process heavy technique of wet plate collodion photography, pays tribute to his energetic career and deep passion for image making. This new work, Dot.com, signifies all Nedic’s previous works be the foundation of what is to follow and positions his current work right at the point of arrival – utilising the places he has travelled in his personal (and public) story.