Judges 2010

Isobel Crombie

Dr Isobel Crombie has worked as a Curator of Photography since 1979.  She began her career at the National Gallery of Australia and, since 1988, has been Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Victoria.  She regularly curates exhibitions on the history of Australian and International photography and has published over sixty articles and books on aspects of the medium.  Recent publications include, ‘Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture, 1919-1939’ (2004); ‘Shashin: Nineteenth-century Japanese studio photography’ (2005); ‘Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australia photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund’ (2006); ‘Body Language: Contemporary Chinese photography’ (2008) and Re-view: 170 years of Photography (2009). Isobel was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from University of Melbourne in 2000.

Anthony Browell

Anthony Browell has been a photographer for most of his working life, initially in London for The Times newspaper, then in Sydney since 1969. He has practiced in most areas of professional photography including editorial, advertising, illustrative, portraiture, corporate, and presently architectural photography.
Anthony began working with a large-format pinhole camera in 2005, and has exhibited widely since then, including Sydney Art and About, Cross Projections, and in Hyde Park. He has been a finalist several times in the Moran Photographic Prize, the National Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and was one of the winners of the Head On National Portrait Prize in 2005

Isabelle Rouvillois

Isabelle Rouvillois is the Australian agent for the international photo agency Vu, based in Paris and two French photo collectives Tendance Floue and Argos. She is also the photo editor for the French international current affairs magazine Alternatives Internationales. While based in Paris, Isabelle worked as photo editor for the Magnum photo agency, the French publishing company Albin Michel, and the weekly magazines, Le Nouvel Observateur and Sciences et Avenir.

Moshe Rosenzveig

Moshe Rosenzveig, founder of Head On, is a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning television producer/director, whose career in the visual arts and the media spans 25 years.
Moshe's television work has been screened on SBS TV, ARTE, and other overseas networks. His photographic work has been published in major local and international magazines.
Moshe's recent personal photographic work has been exhibited in Sydney Now at the Museum of Sydney 2008, at the 2004 Sydney Festival, in Art and About 2003, 2005 and 2006, and in Cross Projections 2004 and 2005.
As well as doing photography Moshe is currently teaching photojournalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is also a speaker and a regular contributor to Digital Media World.

Robert McFarlane

For the past 45 years Robert McFarlane has documented social issues and performances in film and theatre. Begining in 1963, Robert McFarlane started a long but intermittent involvement in photographing indigenous Australia with his Walkabout magazine assignment about Charles Perkins.
For the past 25 years Robert McFarlane has written critically on photography first for the Australian and in the last 18 years for the Sydney Morning Herald.
His photographs are held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Gallery of NSW and private collections.

Past Judges

Trent Parke: Magnum photo agency member and a  multi award winning photographer

Narelle Autio: Multi award winning photographer

Judith Love: Past picture editor of Good Weekend

Stephen Dupont: Multi award winning photographer

Sandra Byron: Byron McMahon Gallery director

Sandy Edwards: Past Codirector of Stills Gallery and currently a freelace curator

Dr Gene Sherman: Director of Sherman Galleries

Russell Storer: Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art

Greg Weight: Award winning photographer

Michael Nagy: Director, Michael Nagy Fine Art