This year, the contest saw 4,738 photographers from 129 countries enter 78,801 images. The 2019 World Press Photo nominees were from 25 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela. Of these nominees, 14 photographers are women (32%), which means a significant increase from the 2018 Photo Contest, when 12% of the nominees were female photographers.

Developed by The World Press Photo Foundation, the exhibition is viewed by over four million people worldwide and strives to inspire, educate and support visual journalists, storytellers and their global audience with fresh insight and new perspective.

World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Brisbane Powerhouse gratefully acknowledges the support from Brisbane Airport Corporation to help host this exhibition.

World Press Photo Exhibition 2019
12 July – 04 August 2019
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Founded in 1964 and organised and produced by the Natural History Museum, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is one of the longest and most prestigious photography competitions in the world. Now in its fifty-third year, the competition received nearly 50,000 submissions from amateur and professional photographers from more than 92 countries.

Every year, 100 of the best images from the competition are selected to be part of an international touring exhibition, which aims to ensure biodiversity and sustainability remain at the forefront of public awareness.

Featuring images across six categories: Diversity, Documentary, Portraits, Portfolio, Environments and Young Photographers, don’t miss this heartfelt and emotive exhibition from 1 September until 4 November.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by Natural History Museum, London.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
30 August 04 November, 2018
Turbine Studio / Visy Foyer / Exhibition Spaces – Brisbane Powerhouse
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

The annual World Press Photo exhibition profiles the world’s top press photographers who captured an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last year.

In its 60th year, the contest saw 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers from 125 countries.

The prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award was given to Turkish photographer Burhan Ozbilici. Ozbilici’s picture shows how Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, who assassinated the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, at an art exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, on 19 December 2016. Altıntaş wounded three other people before being killed by officers in a shootout. The image also won first prize in the Spot News Stories category.

World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon. Brisbane Powerhouse gratefully acknowledges the support from Brisbane Airport Corporation to help host this exhibition.

World Press Photo Exhibition 2017
30 JUNE – 23 JULY, 2017
Exhibition Spaces – Brisbane Powerhouse
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Through a diverse range of immersive and thought-provoking works, the exhibition explores views of our culture, our identity and our nationhood. Reflecting Australia’s multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-faith nature, this audacious exhibition enables a creative and often very personal exploration of the question ‘is there something new under the sun?’

The 15 artists not only interrogate the social and political implications embedded within this image but also challenge the status of this photograph in our visual culture. Pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, their works will expose the aesthetical complexities at play in discussions around collective identity.

Examining the legacy of the past and questioning the relevance that this image might retain in the future, the project draws on a range of diverse practitioners and creative forms to consider questions of representation and cultural pluralism while also reflecting on the depiction of the idealised body, discussing gender issues, cultural and political ideas relating to immigration and colonisation, and our relationship with the land.

The exhibition features new works by Peta Clancy, Christopher Day, Destiny Deacon, Michaela Gleave, Nasim Nasr, Sara Oscar, Julie Rrap, Khaled Sabsabi, Yhonnie Scarce, Christian Thompson, Angela Tiatia, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Daniel von Sturmer, Justene Williams and William Yang. Curated by Claire Monneraye.

Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker
6 May – 6 August 2017
Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill
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Atong Atem’s works pay homage to West African studio photography in the 1960s popularised by those such as Mallik Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, whose works subverted the ethnographic gaze traditionally seen in colonial Africa. Following this tradition, Atong Atem turns the lens back on herself and her community, reclaiming the very tool that was used to deny black identity.

Critical, sentimental, and visually striking, Atem’s studio series use an array of cultural iconographies, black visual languages and diasporic traditions to return the camera to the colonised subject, and in turn, celebrates the personal and cultural identities of first and second generation Africans living in Australia.

Her self-portraits are equally as bold and just as declarative. As a young black woman, Atem uses both photography and social media as a powerful tool to analyse the world she lives in, her own experience and place in the world. Whether as a Martian, a marble statue, or decadently dressed with plastic flowers, Atem’s self-portraits perform and construct a sense of self and identity.

An exhibition curated by the Australian Centre for Photography and presented at Customs House, Sydney.

Atong Atem Exhibition
13 February – 30 April 2017
Customs House, Sydney
www.acp.org.au

The annual photo contest awards photographers for the best images contributing to the past year of visual journalism. It is the world’s leading contest for professional press photographers, photojournalists and documentary photographers, setting the standard in the industry. Pokemon Go

In it’s 59th year, the contest drew entries from around the globe: 5,775 photographers from 128 countries submitted 82,951 images.

The jury of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest selected an image by Australian photographer Warren Richardson as the World Press Photo of the Year 2015.

Richardson’s picture – which also won first prize in the Spot News category – shows refugees crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary, near Horgoš (Serbia) and Röszke (Hungary). Taken at night on 28 August 2015, this man and child were part of the movement of people seeking to cross into Hungary before a secure fence on the border was completed. Richardson is a freelance photographer, currently based in Budapest, Hungary.

World Press Photo 16
Friday 29 July – 21 August 2016
Brisbane Powerhouse
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Sherman expands on contemporary society’s fascination with aspiration, narcissism and the cult of celebrity, and explores the resulting emotional fragility. Focusing on large-scale photographs made since 2000, this exhibition charts the artist’s return as the central model in her artworks, for which she is also costume designer, make-up artist and photographer.
 

 
The exhibition includes two series made with high fashion houses Balenciaga and Chanel, and an entirely new body of work shown for the first time outside New York.

Cindy Sherman Exhibition
28 May 2016 – 3 October 2016
GoMA, Gallery 1.1 – Brisbane
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

The project was particularly supportive of Queensland photography as all of the photographers involved had been long term residents of Queensland or had strong associations with the state. The photographers involved – Graham Burstow, Lin Martin, Robert Mercer, Glen O’Malley, Charles Page and Max Pam – each travelled to different regions of Queensland where, over a period of about eighteen months, they documented through their work, the lifestyles, attitudes and values of Queensland society in the late 1980s.

Although overall these images present a coherent record of both the natural and social features of the state during this period, significant individuality is evident within and between each artist’s contribution as they each addressed the project’s theme in a way which related to their earlier work and their personal interests. As a result many of these images question attitudes which have long been an accepted part of Australian community life, while others reaffirm the unique difference and richness of the Australian lifestyle, land and environment.

Journeys North Exhibition at QAG
13 February – 3 July 2016
Queensland Art Gallery
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Stacey uses one of the oldest photographic techniques invented more than 1,000 years ago, the camera obscura. She gives this technology a bold and surprising reinvention as her work turns entire rooms into the surface of a photograph, casting the view from the outside in.

Her dreamlike works capture a moment in time, exploring both the history of the location and the personal stories of the subjects featured within these unique landscapes— offering an intimate and provocative look at our city.

Discover the changing nature of Brisbane’s landscape through Robyn Stacey: Cloud Land.

Robyn Stacey: Cloud Land
18 Sep 2015 – 3 Apr 2016
Museum of Brisbane,
www.museumofbrisbane.com.au

Museum of Brisbane’s latest exhibition will offer an amazing visual portrait of a lost city – Brisbane at the turn of the 20th century – through a rare collection of photographs, all shot by a single resident, Alfred Elliott.

Opening on 13 February, The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott 1890 – 1940 will showcase his life’s work, offering a fascinating story of the places he visited, major events he witnessed and intimate glimpses into his family life. This was a significant time of change, population growth, advances in technology and significant global events and social change. Elliott’s work also captures significant moments in Brisbane’s history, including the Duke and Duchess of York’s visit in 1901 and the farewell of the troops aboard SS Cornwall from Pinkenba in 1899.

The historic collection of glass-plate and film negatives remained stored in cigar boxes under a house in Red Hill until they were uncovered in 1983 and acquired by Museum of Brisbane.

This significant discovery has allowed the Museum to further piece together fragments of the passionate amateur photographer’s past. The collection provides a window into both his life and the life of a quickly changing city.

The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott Exhibition
13 February 2015 — 30 August 2015
Museum of Brisbane
www.museumofbrisbane.com.au