IRIS Awards

The IRIS Award is an annual international prize recognising new and outstanding portraiture in photo-based media offering over $4000 in cash and prizes.

The criteria for selection focuses on portraits that are unique, original and engaging whilst maintaining excellence in photography.

Tony, 2010 © Claire Martin. (2010 IRIS Award Winner)

'Laden with ambiguity and uncertainty, the portrait is perhaps the most complex area of artistic practice... Motivations and desires are never really clear and reactions to a portrait can vary enormously. To one it can be exploitative, engaging or ethically uncertain, and to another tender, informed and noble. These tensions make portraiture one of the most compelling of artistic genres and also one of the most popular'.
Susan Bright, Photography Now

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