Judging panel for major prizes
Joe Castro
Joe has worked as a freelance news and major event photographer for over 25 years. Based in Melbourne, his work has featured in most of the country’s leading metropolitan papers and magazines, including The Age, The Sunday Age, The Herald Sun, The Australian, The Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as online in Australia and overseas.
Carla Gottgens
Carla is a professional photographer and artist. Her photo journalism stories have covered everything from gold mines and glaucoma to wine harvesting and whiskey distilling. When she isn’t travelling around Australia for news organisation Bloomberg, she is creating public artworks that all originate from the photographic form.
Leigh Henningham
Leigh has worked as a professional photographer and photo editor in Melbourne for over 30 years. From 1978 at the Melbourne Herald then more recently the Age (as Pictorial Editor) and now as Domain National Photo Editor. Over that period he has photographed and witness to Melbourne, its seasons, characters, and changing landscape.
Judging panel for the Heritage Award
Graeme Butler
Graeme is a heritage architect who has practiced in Melbourne for nearly 40 years. He has authored many urban conservation and heritage studies and has been described as one of “Australia’s most significant practitioners and researchers in heritage and conservation”. His consulting firm, Graeme Butler & Associates, continues to provide cultural heritage assessments and advice to private property owners and Federal, Local and State Governments regarding architecture, history and landscape.
Community Heritage and Local Studies Team, City of Melbourne Libraries
The Community Heritage and Local Studies Team consists of seven librarians dedicated to collecting, preserving and promoting local history in the City of Melbourne. The team delivers ongoing public programs including monthly talks for Docklands History Group and Night School, and seasonal walking tours. They also provide research assistance and training. Every second year the team delivers the Snapped photography competition.