PHOTOGRAPHIC SHORTLISTING PANEL

Ray Cook was born in the misty depths of 1962. His art practice spans thirty years, with work exhibited nationally and internationally. Cook has been immersed in photographic art and education, as a Director of a photo specific artist run initiative, as a founding member and long-time Vice Chair of the now defunct Queensland Centre for Photography, and as a lecturer at Queensland College of Art. He is currently an academic in the School of Art, RMIT in Melbourne where he manages the Photography Honours Program.

Tara Callaghan is the Gallery and Museum Manager for Broken Hill City Council with full directorship and management responsibilities of the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery and the Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum (GeoCentre). Callaghan comes from an arts management and administration background in Queensland and Northern Rivers, New South Wales, in institutions such as the Queensland Centre for Photography and Retrospect Galleries.

Andrew Rankin has worked as a photographer for over fourty years in Melbourne, Sydney, and North Queensland. Photographic assignments have taken him all over Australia along with New Zealand, Asia, USA, and Africa. He is a passionate supporter of the arts and his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Rankin has also worked as a sessional lecturer at James Cook University and has presented several photographic workshops to the public.