WINNER
Peter Barnes
After studying basic photography and darkroom skills at the South Australia School of Art, Peter Barnes committed to pursuing a full-time career in photography in 2008. Indulging his obsession with photographing seascapes, buildings, bridges and other “big stuff”, Barnes received his first ever commission in 2010. Recent projects include shooting Adelaide’s new film studios, a 14-storey apartment building and a couple of bridges. Barnes was named South Australian runner-up AIPP Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2009, Illustrative/Fine Art Photographer of the Year in 2010 and South Australian Commercial Photographer of the Year in 2011.
RUNNER-UP
JOHN MADDEN
With a degree in Architecture, Perth-based photographer John Madden has several years experience working as an architect in leading design offices and uses his understanding of contemporary architecture to inform his approach to photography, particularly with regard to conveying conceptual and contextual aspects of a design. In the last 18 months Madden has been attempting the transition from architect to architectural photographer and is beginning to cultivate a client list, with a mixture of commissioned and non-commissioned work.