Iris Award Winners 2010

From IRIS Awards 2010 | 30 Aug 2010

Iris Award Winners 2010

Claire Martin (WA) ‘Tony’ Winning image

WINNING IMAGE: Tony, a heroin addict of 25 years eats cream pie in his room. Despite losing his wife and twin daughters to AIDS and overdose, he is unable to stop using.

Claire began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work, however, she changed her focus to Photography when she realised that change can also be effected through this medium. Her ongoing documentation of marginalised communities within prosperous nations has recently won her the Magnum Foundation 2010 Inge Morath award for Female Photographers under 30 years of age.
Claire lives in Perth Western Australia where she works as a freelance photographer and socially concerned documentary artist.
 

Narelle Conwell (VIC) ‘One is to one point one six on eight’ part 1 and part 2 Commendation prize winner

Narelle Conwell (born 1967), lives and works in Melbourne as a photographer. Narelle is largely self taught but formally learned to process film and print in the darkroom at PICS College in Hawthorn. Narelle then began photographing people for fashion and advertising campaigns in the mid 1990s, after 12 years on the wrong side of the camera in the fashion industry. In 2005 she stopped shooting commercially and embarked on a fine art degree (photography) at RMIT, reading critical theory and art history. The last 2 years Narelle’s photography practice has included the photographic documentation of surgical procedures in theatre.

Joseph Landro (WA) ‘Solidarity’ Student prize winner
Joseph Landro is a WA artist, currently enrolled in photomedia at Edith Cowan University.