“Mesmerising”, “subtle” and “fascinating” were words used by judges to describe the award winning image taken by Illawarra Mercury photographer Sylvia Liber.
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On Friday night at a gala function in Sydney, Ms Liber was presented with the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association best regional portrait photography award.
The image captured in black and white a story about Kanahooka mum Carrie Jewell-Dugo who covered her double mastectomy scars with an elaborate corset tattoo.
Host and television personality Andrew O’Keefe read out comments from judges about the image, including “the lighting has a mesmerising effect which is completed by the black and white approach to the image which offers a subtle capturing of the woman’s tattoo’’.
“To execute the shot in black and white understates the tattoo but elevates the photograph and its subject.’’
Ms Liber was also highly commended in two other of the photographic categories at the PANPA awards.
Illawarra Mercury picture editor Kirk Gilmour said readers were ‘’blessed to have Sylvia capturing and freezing those precious, sometimes sensitive moments, of the people in our community whose stories need to be told’’.
“Sylvia’s beautiful images are the visual windows that open, compelling the reader to have a look in.’’
Already a previous PANPA winner, Ms Liber also won the 2014 Nikon-Walkley Portrait.
It was a big, few days for the Illawarra Mercury with the announcement of finalists in the 2015 NSW Regional Media Awards.
Newly-appointed deputy editor Cydonee Mardon was a double nominee, highlighted in the best news report for “Cops In Crisis” and best investigative journalism for “Trio exposed, the lies, the cover-up, the truth’’.
Political reporter Andrew Pearson was also nominated for the best commentary, analysis, opinion and critique while at The Daily Advertiser in Wagga for his ‘‘Personal Perspective: Journo reflects on pain of Hunt family tragedy’’.
Former Mercury journalist Brianna Parkins was also nominated for the PF Adams Young Journalist of the Year for “Sex and drugs in the South”.
