National Photography Prize 2024 Writers Program

The National Photography Prize 2024 Writers Program invited Elise Harmsen, Liz McCrystal, Annette An-Jen Liu and Jake Treacy to write experimental responses based on four themes: Archive, Illusion, Process and Terrain.

The written responses were shaped by real-time conversations had between the artists and writers of the National Photography Prize 2024.

Themes

A portrait of a man with buddha statues in the background hanging on a wall painted purple with a yellow diamond pattern

Illusion

Illusion by Liz McCrystal
Izabela Pluta, Ali McCann, and Skye Wagner

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A curved reflective sculpture against a white wall projected with blue, white and red light

Process

On Process by Annette An-Jen Liu
Ali Tahayori, Alex Walker & Daniel O’Toole, and Ioulia Panoutsopoulos

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Three framed artworks of various black and white photographs, there are two or three photographs in each frame

Terrain

(Re)Cruising Utopia: One person’s heaven is another’s hell, and other places I’ve found the devil by Jake Treacy
Kai Wasikowski, Rebecca McCauley & Aaron Claringbold, and Ellen Dahl

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