Youth Photographic Award and Short Film Prize

First Prize: $300
Eva Bourke, Facades, Yr 11, Ascham School

Highly Commended: $150
Boris Zhang, The Uniform, Yr 12, Sydney Boys High School

First Prize: $300
Xiaoxi Hu, Under the Mask, Yr 9, Ascham School

Highly Commended: $150
Daisy Balderstone, Split Between Worlds, Yr 9, Ascham School

Awarded by the Mayor of Woollahra, Councillor Sarah Dixson

Senior category

First Prize: $300
Ralph Deacon, TyTy, Yr 10, Inner Sydney High School

Highly Commended: $150
Annabelle Che, This is Not Your Grandmother's Tea Party, Yr 10, Ascham School

Junior category

First Prize: $300
Charlotte Stewart, On The Cover of Vogue, Yr 9, Ascham School

Highly Commended: $150
Franki Harris, A Moment in Time, Yr 9, Rose Bay Secondary College

Voting for the $150 People's Choice Award is open until 11.59pm on Sunday 14 September 2025, giving members of the public the opportunity to vote for their favourite photo. The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the exhibition.

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First Prize: $400
Edward Green, Hark Back, Yr 11, The Scots College

Highly Commended: $200
Jiekai Miao, 5AM, Yr 10, Sydney Boys High School

Highly Commended: $200
Emma Watts, 12:03, Yr 8, Reddam House

Years 7, 8, 9

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Open category (Years 7–12)

Ashanti Afu, Do you Understand Now?, Yr 10, Inner Sydney High School

Ritaz Alam, Unhooked, Yr 9, Sydney Boys High School

Hugh Anderson, Riding The Wave - The Spirit Of A Surfer, Yr 10, The Scots College

Film Studies Class 2025, The Fluff, Yr 11, Cranbrook School

William Collignon, Biking Through the Bush, Yr 9, Waverley College

Candy Du, Nature's Canvas, Yr 9, Kambala

Jarvis Faulkner, Tides FM, Yr 11, The Scots College

Jaidan Fuchs, Letter Play, Yr 10, Moriah College

Edward Green, Hark Back, Yr 11, The Scots College

Cato Johnson, The Ticking Loop, Yr 10, Cranbrook School

Slade Keating, Doppelganger, Yr 11, Cranbrook School

Kelvin Lin, Matryoshka, Yr 12, Cranbrook School

George McIntosh, One, Yr 10, Cranbrook School

Jiekai Miao, 5AM, Yr 10, Sydney Boys High School

Mihir Shah, Perfection, Yr 9, Sydney Boys High School

Max Millmore, Broken, Yr 10, The Scots College

Weston Rose, George Across The Multiverse, Yr 9, Cranbrook School

Emma Watts, 12:03, Yr 8, Reddam House

Photo: Alfonse Chiu, 2023

Tiyan Baker is an artist who works with installation, photography, video and sculpture. Centring her Bidayǔh culture in her works, Baker is interested in things she has unknowingly inherited. Living far from native lands, culture and family, in the midst of the (re)colonisation of Borneo, she explores all that can be mistranslated or lost, and what can manifest in its place. She has shown her works widely across Australia, and is the winner of the 2022 National Photography Prize awarded by the Murray Art Museum Albury.

She was born and raised on the Larrakia lands known as Darwin and currently lives and works on the Awabakal and Worimi lands known as Newcastle, Australia.

Samuel Lucas Allen is an award-winning writer and director who works in film and theatre. Currently, Sam is in distribution for their film Cut, a coming-of-age drama about Faith, Queerness and the internet alt-right. Cut had its premiere at Vancouver International Film Festival. It won Best Short Fiction Film at Buenos Aires International Film Festival and Best Editing at Canberra Short Film Festival and was nominated for Best Director and Best Short at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Sam’s film After Saturn, a devised family drama, took home Best Short Director at the Kansas Arthouse Film Festival and was nominated for Best Director at CinniFest Oz and Best Score at St Kilda. Plastic was nominated for Best Music Video and Best Experimental Film at the ATOM awards and Best Editing of a Music Video. Only The Beautiful saw Sam nominated for Best Director at Sanford International Film Festival, and their first film, School Night, was nominated for a Robin Anderson Film Award.

They are currently in post-production for a new short and are in development for a TV show and feature film, all focusing on the theme of rebellion in the face of environmental calamity. Sam aims to continue working in theatre and film, focusing on newly devised films and developing new and established theatre work.