Recently, the Australian Institute of Professional announced the winners of their annual Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA). The awards were presented at a gala dinner in Melbourne at the Pullman Albert Park Hotel. More than more than 450 of the country’s best professional photographers gathered to learn that Melbourne-based Lisa Saad was named the overall winner, 2016 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year. She also won the Advertising category with her series. This year, Saad was also named 2016 Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year.
Apart from being crowned Australia’s Professional Photographer of the Year, Saad has also walked away with the title of Australia’s Professional Advertising Photographer of the Year, She receives $20,000 in cash and prizes, while category winners each receive $1,000 in cash.
To be eligible for the title of AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year, category winners have their work assessed by a panel of experts to determine the overall winner. Innovation, content, creativity, technical excellence and impact are the key criteria when the images are judged at this final stage.
The APPA have been held annually for the past 40 years, and are the only professional photography awards in the country that require physical prints to be submitted for judging. More than 580 entrants submitted a total of almost 2,200 images to be judged as part of the AIPP APPAs. The 2016 awards were peer-judged anonymously over three days by some of Australia’s most recognised photographers. The most poular categoires were Portrait, Landscape, Illustrative, and Wedding.
To enjoy a sample of the winning portfolios, please follow this link.
2016 AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards winners
- 2016 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year – Lisa Saad, RICHMOND, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Advertising Photographer of the Year – Lisa Saad, RICHMOND, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Alternate Process Photographer of the Year – John Ansell, TRARALGON, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Birth Photographer of the Year – Selena Rollason, STAFFORD HEIGHTS, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Newborn Photographer of the Year – Natalie Howe, GLENMORE PARK, NSW
- 2016 AIPP Australian Fashion Photographer of the Year – Jerry Ghionis, DOCKLANDS, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Commercial Photographer of the Year – Jacqui Dean, EPPING, NSW
- 2016 AIPP Australian Sport Photographer of the Year – Delly Carr, FRENCHS FOREST, NSW
- 2016 AIPP Australian Travel Photographer of the Year – Steve Scalone, IVANHOE, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year – Jannick Clausen, MOUNT COTTON, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Science, Wildlife and Wild Places Photographer of the Year – Andrew Campbell, MELBOURNE, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Documentary Photographer of the Year – Peter Blakeman, WAHROONGA, NSW
- 2016 AIPP Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year – Gee Greenslade, RIDLEYTON, SA
- 2016 AIPP Australian Portrait Photographer of the Year – Peter Rossi, CAIRNS, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Pet / Animal Photographer of the Year – Ken Drake, AUCHENFLOWER, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Family Photographer of the Year – Shireen Hammond, TEMPLESTOWE, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year – Dan O’Day, CANBERRA, ACT
- 2016 AIPP Australian Creative Photographer of the Year – Charmaine Heyer, CAIRNS, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Album of the Year Award – Jerry Ghionis, DOCKLANDS, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Photography Book Award – Sam Harris, BALINGUP, WA
- 2016 AIPP Australian Student Photographer of the Year – Tayla Nuss-Soeharto, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Australian Emerging Photographer of the Year – Angie Connell, VIC
- 2016 AIPP Overseas Photographer of the Year – David Edmonson, Texas, USA
- 2016 AIPP Australian Tertiary Photography Institution of the Year – Photography Studies College
- 2016 AIPP Australian Highest Scoring Image Award – Peter Rossi, CAIRNS, QLD
- 2016 AIPP Australian Professional Wedding Video Producer of the Year – Abraham Joffe, NSW
- 2016 AIPP Australian Professional Corporate Video Producer of the Year – Susanto Widjaja
- 2016 AIPP Australian Professional Documentary Video Producer of the Year - Abraham Joffe, NSW
About Lisa Saad
Lisa Saad (APP M.Photog III) is an accomplished advertising, commercial, corporate, and food photographer. She is always on the hunt for unique photographic briefs and is not satisfied unless she has found and exhausted every possible angle to fulfil a brief.
It is Saad's preparedness to flout the rules of conventional photography that has made her a favourite with creative directors, public relations practitioners, magazines, and graphic designers in Australia and overseas, and has secured her numerous local and international photographic awards. She is at the forefront of a new approach to creating imagery and understands that good imagery should be available to everyone.
Saad has photographed high-end advertising campaigns, fashion, lifestyle, location, corporate, food, portraiture, editorial, illustrative work, and automotive assignments. She has shot stills for all the major TV networks in Australia and is a talented camera operator and DOP.
Saad is the Australian Professional Ambassador for Manfrotto and an Ilford Master.