The Murray Art Museum Albury has announced the names of the 12 finalists that have been shortlisted for the National Photography Prize 2020.The artists selected for the finalist exhibition represent a breadth of Australian photographic practice. The artists are engaged with photography as it relates to sculpture and painting, documentary methods, narrative explorations, agitating the medium physically, working directly with negatives, altering printing processes and both analogue and digital collage techniques.

The concerns within the artists’ work relate variously to the legacy of colonisation within this country, the relegation of women within dominant art histories, ruminations on systems of record, and of course trajectories of photographic and film based media.

The National Photography Prize is a biennial prize supported by the MAMA Art Foundation with a $30,000 first prize. As the oldest acquisitive photography prize in Australia, it has been instrumental in building MAMA’s strong photography collection. https://www.mamalbury.com.au/who-is-mama/media/latest-news/12-finalists-shortlisted-for-the-national-photography-prize-2020