Judges

The judges for Projections are drawn from every facet connected to the photography industry that a young photographer might come in contact with. From art directors to designers, curators to art buyers and professional photographers, Trampoline selects the best Judges who are instructed to look for the following criteria in the entries; image quality, originality, artistic merit, style and the success of the images as a series.

ART

Naomi Cass

Curator and writer, Naomi Cass is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP). In 2005 she oversaw relocation of CCP, now in its 25th year, to purpose designed premises by Sean Godsell Architects. In 2009 she initiated Flash a quarterly journal of reviews, interviews and comment on photography and video, published by Centre for Contemporary Photography and developed the first National Indigenous Photographers Forum.

During her period as CCP Director, curatorial projects include Echo: Sounding out Contemporary Photography Deloitte Melbourne (with Rebecca Chew) and Scanned and Drawn 2008 Melbourne Art Fair (with Karra Rees). Her most recent exhibitions are the major touring survey of Simryn Gill’s photography, Simryn Gill: Inland, and In camera and in public, CCPs exhibition for the 2011 Melbourne International Arts Festival, in September this year.

Photography awards judged include: 2004 Citibank Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales; 2005 Albury Regional Art Gallery Photography Awards; 2007 National Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009; 2005 and 2011 CCP Documentary Photography Award; and this years Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery. Naomi Cass regularly gives presentations, contributes to CCP publications, is an external assessor and contributes to public fora on photography and contemporary art.

Mary Meyer

Mary Meyer is a lover of fine art photography and a collector. With a background in television, graphic arts and film production, her duties as an on-board manager for Qantas have provided for her the opportunity to view the best of photographic art in the galleries of the world. This led to the creation of Meyer Gallery, in Sydney, in 2007. As gallery director and curator, Mary pursues a policy based simply on beauty and artistic importance from digital exploration to alternative processes.

Mary has a particular interest in photo art education for photographers and collectors alike, running seminars on collecting, gallery presentation and traditional and alternative processes. Through her subsidiary, Black Mountain Photographic Workshops she conducts the outback workshops, Sense of Vision.
Her first publication, The Australian Photography & Gallery Compendium, which features 95 emerging and established artists and lists 40 galleries, is to be released in July 2011.

COMMERCIAL

Chris Budgeon

Born and educated in Canada, Chris Budgeon became interested in photography while living in London in the late 70’s, during the prolific post punk art and music scene that was exploding there. At the end of a year long sojourn through the Pacific, Chris eventually landed in Australia during the mid eighties. A chance job assisting in an advertising photographic studio in Melbourne has led to a long and flourishing career that continues to this day.

His current work comprises mostly of talent orientated advertising campaigns, with a client list that reads like a who’s who of top Australian and International companies.
Having been selected three times by Archive Magazine to the “Top 200 Advertising Photographers Worldwide” list, last year Capture Magazine also included him as one of the top 10 Advertising Photographers in Australia, while PDN Magazine selected him for inclusion in last year’s 2010 Photo Annual.

A strong belief in personal projects keeps things fresh, and the last year has seen Chris as a finalist in the Schubert and Ulrich Photographic Prize, the Moran Photographic Prize, the Olive Cotton Award, and the National Photographic Portrait Prize in Canberra. He is also one of the core exhibiter’s in this year’s International Ballarat Foto Biennale in August.

Sally Brownbill

Sally Brownbill trained as a commercial photographer at RMIT, worked in the UK and came back to Australia and began her own agency representing some of Melbourne’s top photographers. Following this she began working with Designers, Art Directors and Copywriters. Throughout this time she also lectured photography for 13 years at RMIT in a subject based on the commercial industry.

Now Sally designs folios for photographers who are at all stages of their careers and are looking for an edgy approach to putting a commercial folio together. She equips them with marketing strategies including web design and branding if needed. Sally is often invited to guest lecture at a variety of universities and courses, which she loves to do.

DOCUMENTARY

Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards began his career as a Wildlife and Natural History photographer during an eleven-year career working as a carnivore and primate husbandry specialist for the Zoological Board of Victoria. He has tertiary qualifications in the Animal Sciences and a Postgraduate Thesis in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Scientific Photography. In 1991, he established the Stock Agency Bio-Images as a platform to market and deliver his work to clients globally.

Jason has photographed in dozens of countries, his commissioned assignments having taken him to every continent. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications including National Geographic Magazine, Australian Geographic, Sports Illustrated, BBC Wildlife Magazine, The New Yorker, and Conde Nast Traveller. He is an author of children’s science education books, and his imagery has appeared in everything from environmental campaigns to Hollywood blockbusters. His images are archived in private collections around the world and have been exhibited in the USA, Europe, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

He has documented displaced Pygmy populations in the Congo, the environmental impact by communities on the Amazon rainforest, critically endangered species and those new to science. He was once temporarily blinded when a rainforest insect set up home behind his right eyeball, also spent nine months with a tick infestation and chooses not to count the number of parasites, blood born viruses or fungal infections he has had.

The National Geographic Society represents Jason Edwards, presenting his series on the shipyards of Alang at the prestigious Visa Pour L’Image Photojournalism Festival. As a corporate speaker Jason champions the plight of the environment, indigenous peoples and the art of photography. He is an award-winning photographer and was the inaugural winner of the Australian Geographic Society ‘Pursuit of Excellence Award’. This prize was created in Jason’s honor “For his extreme efforts and absolute commitment to obtaining rare and amazing photographs.”

Wade Laube

After seven years in the Australian army, Wade Laube became a working photographer in 2001, and since then has operated in Central and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific islands, Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia.

He worked on staff for the Sydney Morning Herald from 2003, and has been exhibited nationally and published in numerous Australian and foreign newspapers and magazines.
Wade was based in London during 2007 and 2008, and is now Photographic Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.

His commercial clients have included Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, GIO Insurance and the Australian Federal Police.