2024 Artful Photography Awards
BROUGHT TO YOU BY STORY KEEPER & GALLERY LANE
The Artful Awards celebrate the artistry, skill and creativity of photographic artists across the world who specialise in family, newborn, maternity and couples photography.
Our mission is to provide a platform for professional photographers and emerging artists to showcase their most compelling visual stories in a range of curated categories.
The Categories
The Artful Awards celebrate creativity and impactful visual storytelling through the use of a variety of skills and artistic techniques. Images must fall within the genre of family, maternity and newborn art and can be entered into any of the categories below.
3 images can be submitted free per person.
An additional 3 images can be submitted by Gallery Lane subscribers & another 3 images for Story Keeper Preset users.
You can choose which category/s you would like to submit the images in.
COLOUR
EMOTION
STORYTELLING
CREATIVE
LIGHT PLAY
BLACK & WHITE
STORY KEEPER PRESETS
Gallery Lane & Story Keeper
For extra entires, become a Gallery Lane Subscriber and a Story Keeper customer.
Get anytime access to Gallery Lane Magazine, educational content and complimentary Lightroom Presets. New issues released on the 1st of every month.
Story Keeper
Story Keeper
Artfully designed presets, brushes and creative tools for Adobe LR, LRC, and ACR.
The Story Keeper presets & tools have been created to help you simplify your editing, elevate your art and create work you love!
THE PRIZES
THE PRIZES
Artful Awards Trophy
A Gallery Lane 1-year subscription (value $240)
Story Keeper voucher (value $200)
Seed Studio Co Graphic Design Voucher (value $500)
Photoshop Basics Online Course (value $97)
Tog Loot Cindy Backpack (value $259)
Breath work session to unleash creativity (first of its kind)
35mm Co Reloader Camera (value $120)
Two Creative Handheld Prisms (value $80)
First Place Award
Category Winning Badge
A Gallery Lane 6 month subscription
$50 Story Keeper voucher
7 Honourable Runner Up Awards
Meet the Judges
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Claire Darwish
Founding Co-Director of Gallery Lane Magazine, Claire is a celebrated photographer for her generous approach to education. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
Her years of experience in the lifestyle photography field have landed her where she is today with a success photography business and heading a photography community.
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Bec Zacher
Founder of Story Keeper & family photographer at Bec Zacher Photo & Films. Based on the Gold Coast, Australia.
Bec is a talented photographer and mentor, having an eye for colour and lighting. Through this expertise she offers exquisitely crafted and curated photography presets and photography education through Story Keeper & Feel Good Folk Workshops.
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Celeste Sheils
Motherhood & Wedding Photographer, Queensland, Australia.
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Emma Wand
Family Photographer, Sydney, Australia.
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Teagan Mac
Family Photographer, Melbourne, Australia.
JUDGING CRITERIA
Images will be judged & awarded based on the following criteria:
Story & emotion
How the artist uses a combination of light, creative techniques, composition, editing and story to create an image that moves and/or inspires and is personally identifiable.
Tonality & technical execution
How the artist executes & balances light and shadow, the distribution of colours, the overall harmony of hue, saturation, and exposure of the photograph.
Composition
How the artist uses the elements within the image to compose a visually striking, interesting and well balanced image that draws the viewer in.
Light
How the artist uses light to enhance, technically or creatively, the atmosphere and story within the image.