Thank you to everyone who entered the Lions Eye Institute’s inaugural Eye to Eye Photographic Competition. The number and quality of entries were incredibly high, and the judges had their work cut out for them. A total of 85 images were selected as finalists. Congratulations to all of our entrants, finalists, those whose images were highly commended, and our winners.
View all of the finalist images below, and read about each image in the exhibition catalogue. To view each of the finalist images in greater detail, click on the image below and scroll through the gallery for each category.
Congratulations to the People’s Choice Award winner, Christian Horgan, with the image ‘Cloudy with a vision of you’ which was entered into the Seeing with the mind’s eye category.
Seeing through a child’s eye category
This award category aims to encourage young photographers (under the age of 18) to submit their photos of human eyes, animal eyes or unique perspectives on the world through their own eyes.
Winner
Sam Bayes: The eye of a gloomy octopus
Highly commended
Sophia MacKinnon: Doorway to my soul
Georgia Fields: The eyes capture it all
Eagle eye category
This award category is all about animal eyes, with a particular emphasis on animals living within Western Australia.
Winner
Ross Gudgeon: Map pufferfish eye
Highly commended
Tessa Ferraro: Meeting place
Mary Gudgeon: Shark eye
Ross Gudgeon: West Australian seahorse
Donald Chin: A rainbow bee eater’s catch
Human eye, window to the world category
The human eye is the window to the world and this category showcases the human eye, different cultures, different shapes and colours of eyes, with a particular focus on people from Western Australia.
Winner
Mostafa Mozaffari: Worried eyes
Highly commended
Andrea Vose: Broad Arrow Mick
Bryan Freind: Untitled
Seeing with the mind’s eye category
This award category showcases unique perspectives on the world through the eye of the beholder or draws attention to the plight of people who live with vision impairment.
Winner
Beth Baker: A blurred world – beach towel hide and seek begins!
Highly commended
Christian Horgan: Cloudy with a vision of you
People’s Choice Award
Christian Horgan: Cloudy with a vision of you
Staff category
A number of staff at the Lions Eye Institute are keen amateur photographers. Staff and immediate family members of the Lions Eye Institute were invited to enter the competition via the staff category.
Winner
Vaibhav Shah: Estuarine crocodile eye to eye, Broome WA
Highly commended
Jonathan Alexis: Whiskered watcher: A domestic eagle eye amidst the urban wilderness
