Winner of the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize revealed
Perth-based photographer Johannes Reinhart has been named as winner of the 2016 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize with his photograph, Mermaid Show. A finalist for the prize in 2015, Reinhart won the $50,000 first prize for his image that features Michelle Smith as ‘Tina Tuna’ at Perth’s Fringe World Festival. Each finalists won $1,000 along with the chance to exhibit at Juniper Hall, Paddington.
Established in 1988, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is believed to be the world’s most valuable portrait prize with first place winning $150,000. The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize was introduced in 2007 as a way to celebrate and promote Australian contemporary photography. The judges of this year’s Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize were Jon Jones, Director of Photography at the Sunday Times Magazine in the UK and Alan Davies, Emeritus Curator of Photographs at the State Library of New South Wales.
The 2016 Moran Art Prizes exhibition will be on display at Juniper Hall until February 2017. The exhibition showcases the works of the 30 finalists in the 2016 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the 30 finalists in the 2016 Moran Contemporary Photography Prize (Open section), as well as winning entries in the Student section of the Photography Prize.