It gives the ACMP great pleasure to announce the winners of the The Bang The Drum Competition. The first competition run through the new website. 

The Non-Commissioned category winner is Melanie Tanusetiawan for her entry "The Child"

The Commissioned category winner in Mark Munro for his entry "Exit"

Melanie says, "The story about my image "The child" is it was a collaboration work with a fashion designer, her clothing pieces was about children trying out oversize adult clothings and play as a grown up. The concept of this image is about a child playing in a puddle,in her own isolated world, looking at her own reflection from a different world and different timeframe; wandered what they look like when they grow up. Before shooting i sketched roughly how the image would look like, the only challenge would be the room where the shot was taken was very small, so we had to adjust the lightings and play around with the limited space to get the right angle and compositions."

Mark says "This image was part of a series I did for one of my designer clients, CHORUS. It was an in-house promotional project titled: "Where did we park the f*@king car?" and the brief was simple - go and shoot whatever you like to fit in with an urbany/transporty/daily life-y sort of theme! Cool... so we drove around Melbourne & surrounds for a few days shooting a range of quirky subjects to fit the loose brief. One part of the shoot led us to Melbourne Airport, which is where I captured this image on the car park ramp. I managed to capture many images in this graphic style during the course of this shoot, several of which grace my portfolio today."

Both winners receive 12 months full membership to the ACMP.

The Judges were leading Sydney's Julian Watt, Melbourne's Lynton Crabb, and ACMP President Gavin Blue.

Thanks to all the participants.

There is still one for more prize for the people's choice award voted via twitter. Vote for your favourite image by title & photographer, tweeting with #acmp. You can see the exhibition at PMA or view the exhibition at this link

Voting is open until Friday June 11

Author: ACMP