Exhibition Gallery
The Ilford Orloff Awards Exhibition is on display at levels 1 & 2 of the the State Library of WA.
Details: State LIbrary fo WA.
The following can be used at the exhibition to find details of prints exhibited.
Details: State LIbrary fo WA.
The following can be used at the exhibition to find details of prints exhibited.
Photographer: Lexis Goddard
This image received a
Silver PLUS Award
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
Lovers gaze. The idea that someone can completely love you that it feels dizzying and hazy, that the odd things in love can be made beautiful and even the one you love staring into your soul can be confronting even when surrounded by beauty.
Lovers gaze. The idea that someone can completely love you that it feels dizzying and hazy, that the odd things in love can be made beautiful and even the one you love staring into your soul can be confronting even when surrounded by beauty.
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Photographer: Jasmine Skye Smith
This image received a
Silver Award
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
The Dance With Darkness- A self portrait. Photography entered my life through seeking connection. As a paediatric nurse, I was surrounded by people every day. Ironically, the career I love most- actually often leaves me alone at my computer. Behind the photoshoots, awards and social media posts are countless hours spent buildinga business, creating, editing, and carrying the weight of making it all work. As I've grown older, navigating unmedicated ADHD, perimenopause, and long stretches of solitude, I've become familiar with the darkness that occasionally circles the edges. Not depression, but a quiet loneliness, and the effort required to find my way back to the light. This image combines a self-portrait in my favourite place, the water, with a second image of water running chaotically down the lens. Originally added as a layer to disguise imperfections in my pool, it became a metaphor for the overwhelm felt at times.This image is my acknowledgment that creativity and darkness often dance together. To be a portrait photographer is to ask strangers to be vulnerable. I believe we feel deeply in order to truly see what matters.
The Dance With Darkness- A self portrait. Photography entered my life through seeking connection. As a paediatric nurse, I was surrounded by people every day. Ironically, the career I love most- actually often leaves me alone at my computer. Behind the photoshoots, awards and social media posts are countless hours spent buildinga business, creating, editing, and carrying the weight of making it all work. As I've grown older, navigating unmedicated ADHD, perimenopause, and long stretches of solitude, I've become familiar with the darkness that occasionally circles the edges. Not depression, but a quiet loneliness, and the effort required to find my way back to the light. This image combines a self-portrait in my favourite place, the water, with a second image of water running chaotically down the lens. Originally added as a layer to disguise imperfections in my pool, it became a metaphor for the overwhelm felt at times.This image is my acknowledgment that creativity and darkness often dance together. To be a portrait photographer is to ask strangers to be vulnerable. I believe we feel deeply in order to truly see what matters.
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Photographer: Liz Barker
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
One Living World. One Living World imagines land, water, sand, forests, rivers and oceans flowing together as one interconnected system. Suspended above its own reflection, this surreal Earth, created from a single image, feels both enduring and precarious—a reminder that every environment belongs to the same living whole, held in balance and entrusted to our care.
One Living World. One Living World imagines land, water, sand, forests, rivers and oceans flowing together as one interconnected system. Suspended above its own reflection, this surreal Earth, created from a single image, feels both enduring and precarious—a reminder that every environment belongs to the same living whole, held in balance and entrusted to our care.
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Photographer: Lidji Tololeska
This image received a
Silver Award
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
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Photographer: Liz Barker
This image received a
Gold Award
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
Gathering. Like a small community, the mushrooms gather at the feet of the larger forms—sheltered, connected and quietly attentive. With the intimacy of a botanical drawing, the scene imagines spores caught on a breeze, carrying the possibility of new life and new gatherings beyond the frame.
Gathering. Like a small community, the mushrooms gather at the feet of the larger forms—sheltered, connected and quietly attentive. With the intimacy of a botanical drawing, the scene imagines spores caught on a breeze, carrying the possibility of new life and new gatherings beyond the frame.
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Photographer: Liz Barker
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
City in Bloom. Spring arrives in the city as an exuberant interruption, dissolving the boundary between the built and natural worlds. Urban rhythms and botanical forms converge in a multiple exposure creating a pop-art celebration of renewal, colour and the unexpected ways a city can come into bloom.
City in Bloom. Spring arrives in the city as an exuberant interruption, dissolving the boundary between the built and natural worlds. Urban rhythms and botanical forms converge in a multiple exposure creating a pop-art celebration of renewal, colour and the unexpected ways a city can come into bloom.
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Photographer: Lidji Tololeska
This image received a
Silver Award
Caption:
FINE ART CREATIVE
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Photographer: Sharon Jones
This image received a
Silver Award
Caption:
WILDLIFE AND NATURE
A great-crested grebe delivers a meal to its chick, safely tucked away in its partner's feathers.
A great-crested grebe delivers a meal to its chick, safely tucked away in its partner's feathers.
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Photographer: Chinh Nguyen
This image received a
Silver Award
Caption:
WILDLIFE AND NATURE
A Sacred Kingfisher in flight with a freshly caught prey in its beak. This fast and agile bird can spot food from a perch and dive quickly to catch it. Its speed, sharp eyesight, and hunting skill make it a successful predator.
A Sacred Kingfisher in flight with a freshly caught prey in its beak. This fast and agile bird can spot food from a perch and dive quickly to catch it. Its speed, sharp eyesight, and hunting skill make it a successful predator.
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Photographer: Sharon Jones
This image received a
Gold Award
Caption:
WILDLIFE AND NATURE
Arriving at Goegrup Lake on a cold winter morning, a place I had only visited once before, I had no idea what I might find. As the sun began to rise, fog drifted across the water where a family of pelicans quietly preened, creating a scene that felt as magical as it was unexpected.
Arriving at Goegrup Lake on a cold winter morning, a place I had only visited once before, I had no idea what I might find. As the sun began to rise, fog drifted across the water where a family of pelicans quietly preened, creating a scene that felt as magical as it was unexpected.
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