Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Video Lounge Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions News Catalogues Online Projects How to propose an exhibition Exhibitions for Hire 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 The Nikon Award for ACP student of the Year 2001 November - December, 2001 Foyer \The Nikon Prize for ACP Student of the Year is offered for the best single image submitted by a student who has taken a course in ACP Creative Learning over the preceding year. Over 900 people take courses at the ACP annually, in subjects ranging from basic camera craft to specialist couses such as documentary, portraiture or architectural photography. The 26 finalists are on show in the ACP foyer until Christmas. They were selected by John Swainston, Managing Director of Maxwell Optical Industries who distribute Nikon equipment in Australia and ACP Director, Alasdair Foster. The selectors had been very impressed by the sustained excellence of the entries this year. Many were of a standard equal to that of established professional photographers and it was a credit to the quality of the teaching at ACP and the energy and application of the students that such vivid and engaging images were being produced. The Judges selecting the winning works were Karyn Ashlin, Professional Product Manager for Maxwell Optical Industries representing Nikon Cameras, Phillip George, Head of the School of Media Arts at the College of Fine Arts UNSW, and the respected photographer and co-director of Stills Gallery, Sandy Edwards. Winner of the Nikon Award 2001: Hollye Schumacher Hollye Schumacher won first prize with her image (Untitled 2001), a delightful digital image of a child playing on a swing. She won a Nikon F100 camera (valued at over $3,000). The Judges said of the winning work: A very Aussie image, evoking summer afternoons of childhood. A spontaneous moment cleverly framed and structured. It looks like a snapshot but the position of the child, the lines of the chain-link supporting the swing and the forms of the clouds overhead all come together in a 'Zen moment'. Runner-up of the Nikon Award 2001: Kirstie Rickwood Kirstie Rickwood was the runner-up with a black and white study of her father. She won a voucher for Nikon products to the value of $1,500. In what proved to be something of an imaginative leap, the Judges said of work of the runner-up: A dark, malevolent portrait framed and lit for impact. The subject appears like a character from a movie: confrontational, menacing - the eyes stare out directly at the viewer, but with a look which suggests a darker side. This was ironic, because the subject of the image, the artists father, collected the prize on his daughter's behalf as Kirstie Rickwood is currently overseas. The awards were presented by Karyn Ashlin representing Nikon in Australia. Image Credits: •  Hollye Schumacher, Untitled, 2001 •  Kirstie Rickwood, Untitled, 2001 Terms and Conditions | © Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net | Hosting by Dreamhost