ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This is an old tower that was used to make lead shot in Melbourne. It now sits frozen in time under glass.

AUTHOR
Annette Willis has been a professional photographer since 2002.

Her photography has gained finalist places and Honorable Mentions in Australian and international photography awards including the Monochrome Awards, Monovisions, Black & White Spider Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women in Photography, Prix de la Photographie (PX3), International Loupe Awards, the International Color Awards and the SALA Festival Awards.

Since 2006 Annette has added portraiture to her visual storytelling. She has been a finalist in many Australian and international portraiture prizes including Head On, Olive Cotton, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Sydney Life: Art and About and the London Photographic Association Portraiture Prize, Let's Face It. In 2006 she won the Wollongong Portraiture Prize.

She has had thirteen solo exhibitions at galleries around Australia and has had work shown in London, New York and at the 3rd and 4th International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography. Annette explores issues and themes through narrative photo essays featuring images that are often deliberate lyrical abstractions. Her photographic style is defined by striking, closely cropped compositions.

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