National Photography Prize 2018 Finalists Announced
29 March 2018
Founded in 1983, the MAMA Art Foundation National Photographic Prize is one of Australia’s longest running celebrations of photography, and certainly the medium’s oldest prize.
The acquisitive, biennale award was first staged at Albury Arts Centre, which became the Albury Art Gallery, and is now the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), establishing a strong focus on photography within the museum’s collection.
The 2018 National Photographic Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive first prize, courtesy of the generous support of the MAMA Art Foundation. In addition, the John & Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship offers $5000 to an outstanding emerging Australian artist.
Since the first daguerreotype was produced in the late 1830s, photography’s relatively short history has been one of flux and change, commercial use and critical distance, institutional acceptance and now complete ubiquity.
- Amanda Williams
- Caroline Rothwell
- Ioulia Terizis
- Izabela Pluta
- James Farley
- James Tylor
- Kieran Butler
- Lynne Roberts-Goodwin
- Tim Silver
- Todd McMillan
- Tully Arnot
- Val Wens

Finalist National Photography Prize 2018
Izabela Pluta
Stone (reversal), 2017
pigment prints on vinyl and aluminium
Image courtesy of the artist
Finalist National Photography Prize 2018
Tully Arnot
Surfaces (1-8), 2016
Installation view
483 digital photographs, automated Photomerge, automated Content-Aware fill, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle 305gsm photo rag, styrene, tension, assorted mounts.
Image courtesy of the artist
The 2018 National Photography Prize finalist exhibition will be open to the public from 10 May, with the prize announcement and gala celebration taking place on the evening of Friday, 18 May.
The 2018 National Photography Prize will be awarded by guest judge, Isobel Parker Philip, Curator Photographs, Art Gallery of NSW.