PCP - Perth Centre for Photography

We are pleased to announce the winning images for the Iris Award 2025 - powered by Ted’s Cameras
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Overall Winner $3000
Su Cassiano ‘Sisterhood’
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Judges Commendation $3000
Jacob Canet-Gibson, ‘This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal’
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Judges Commendation $1000
Mary-Lou Orliyarli Divilli, ‘Lilly Pad Lauren’

Congratulations to the ​Winners and Finalists and a huge thank you everyone who entered the award, guest curator and judges Rachel Ciesla, Brent Harrison and Duncan Wright, our sponsors and event partners.

Presented by the Perth Centre for Photography, the Iris Award is Australia’s most distinctive and uninhibited portrait prize.

Embracing unrestrained approaches to portraiture, the Award celebrates works of nuance, raw emotion, and personal connection — revealing the essence of human relationships and lived experience, whether in love, joy, desire, distance, or disconnection. We are invited into the shifting constellations of human sentiment, a space for reflection and dialogue on intimacy and identity in contemporary life.

The Iris Award gives voice to both the personal and the universal, asking us to consider how we connect and where we fall short — with one another, with ourselves, and in our collective world.​​

Presented by P*P at Cheap Tongue Gallery​ // corner of James and Beach Street, Walyalup
4–18 October
Tuesday–Friday, 10am–3pm or by appointment

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