This exhibition celebrates the achievements of Australian photographers across a range of genres, from news and sports to portraiture and visual essays – featuring the winners and finalists from the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

Photojournalism requires a rare blend of skills, meticulous planning and lightning reflexes, technical mastery and aesthetic instincts, intellectual detachment and emotional intuition. This combination of objectivity and empathy allows a photographer to read a subject’s inner world and express it through their setting. A life in a landscape, a narrative in a single frame. In selecting three finalists in each category, from more than 3000 images entered, the Walkley photography judges look for newsworthiness, impact, creativity and technical skill.