2024 Youth Photographic Award & Short Film Prize

First Prize: $300
Adaiah Martens, Perspective, Yr 10, Inner Sydney High School

Highly Commended: $150
Victoria Karigiannis, Women's work, Yr 11, Ascham School

Highly Commended: $150
William Anstis, Watching Over Me, Yr 10, Waverley College

First Prize: $300
Joshua Hasanoff, Broken Birthday, Yr 8, Reddam House

Highly Commended: $150
Aidan Quinlan, Where Am I?, Yr 8, Reddam House

Highly Commended: $150
Candy Du, Celestial Ascent, Yr 8, Kambala

First Prize: $300
Neeah Taylor, The Twin Effect, Yr 10, Inner Sydney High School

Highly Commended: $150
Georgina Smith, Will never forget, Yr 9, Ascham School

Awarded by the Mayor of Woollahra, Councillor Sarah Swan

Junior category

First Prize: $300
Luca Holdcroft, Awaken, Yr 7, Reddam House

Highly Commended: $150
Charlotte Guillermo, Untitled, Yr 9, Brigidine College

Senior category

First Prize: $300
Tyler Gruenpeter, Loneliness, Yr 10, Reddam House

Highly Commended: $150
Anqi Zhang, Ornamental Fruit, Yr 12, Kambala

Voted by the public: $150
Adaiah Martens, Perspective, Yr 10, Inner Sydney High School

First Prize: $400
Bianca Rozsa, Tomber to fall, Yr 12, SCEGGS Darlinghurst

Highly Commended: $200
Leah Zipser, Checkmate, Yr 8, Emanuel School

Highly Commended: $200
Tuyvan Mai, Autobiographical Film, Yr 9, Sydney Boys High School

Years 7, 8, 9

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Open category, Years 7-12

Billie Cooper, Mixed media animation of Nick Ward's GIMME, Yr 12, Reddam House

Candy Du, Beneath the Mongolian Sky, Yr 8, Kambala

Constantine Iatrou, The Future is Yours Volume 2, Yr 11, Waverley College

Ebony Kennedy, Our natural realms beauty, Yr 11, Brigidine College

Kelvin Lin, Macbeth, Yr 11, Cranbrook School

Ben Ong, Parallel Paths, Yr 10, Cranbrook School

James O'Rouke, Splash, Yr 10, Cranbrook School

Bianca Rozsa, Tomber to fall, Yr 12, SCEGGS Darlinghurst

Jun Shim, Dog Barking, Yr 9, Sydney Boys High School

Tayah Starkey, Surreal Film, Yr 8, Emanuel School

Jared Swinbourne, Countdown, Yr 10, Cranbrook School

Mai Tuyvan, Autobiographical Film, Yr 9, Sydney Boys High School

Anqi Zhang, Twins, Yr 12, Kambala

Leah Zipser, Checkmate, Yr 8, Emanuel School

Alina Gozin'a is a renowned photographer, artist and thought leader, who left a corporate career in banking & finance at PwC, to become a leading global creative. She went on to become a Cannes Lions nominated, award-winning creative, harnessing the innovative powers of photography, film, and art to tell stories for global corporations and her art.

As a photographer, Alina is known for creating photographs of some of the most iconic AFR Magazine covers of notable figures like Frank Lowy, Scott Farquhar, Judith Neilson, Canva's co-founders Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht. Gretel Packer; Oscar winners Alicia Vikander and Emile Sherman, Anthony LaPaglia, Kathy Lette, Kip Williams to mention a few.

Alina has been featured in TEDxSydney 2021 video & article, on ABC breakfast news, AFR magazine, AFR and SMH newspapers, ABC national radio, SBS radio, various podcasts and other numerous media. She has earned numerous awards and nominations for her photography and film work, including a nomination for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions for her directorial debut commercial 3 Fat Babushkas. Her short documentary, Life on the Rocks, received a grant from both The City of Sydney and Screen Australia. International recognition for her work also culminated with a gold prize for Monkey Business (featuring Luke Doolan) at the London Photographic Association Portraiture competition.

Luke Doolan is an Academy Award nominated Director, as well as an Editor and Cinematographer, known for Miracle Fish (2010), and Animal Kingdom (2010), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Gift (2015) and more. He is a member of the Blue Tongue Films collective, and currently lives and works in the USA.