2020 ACAJ Star Prizes for Excellence in Rural Photography

26/3/2019 The rising stars of the SA wine scene pictured at BK Wines in Basket Range. Top left: Turon White (Turon Wines), Kirstyn and Brendon Keys (BK Wines) , Michael Corbett (Vanguardist Wines, Sanglier Wines), Charlotte Hardy (Charlotte Dalton Wines), Ben Cooke (Cooke Brothers Wines), Nick and Bec Dugmore (The Stoke Wines), Rob Mack (Aphelion Wines) Bottom left: Jono Koerner (Koerner Wines), Louis Schofield (Worlds Apart Wines), Damon Koerner (Koerner Wines), Michael Downer (Murdoch Hill), Craig Viney (Arno Wine Co)Picture MATT TURNER.

The Adelaide Advertiser’s Matt Turner has taken out the top gong in the 2020 Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists Star Prize for Excellence in Rural Photography.

Matt’s shot of a group of young SA winemakers also took out the People Category in the ACAJ’s annual awards.

Jacqueline Curley’s arresting photograph taken after the catastrophic weather event that struck grazing communities in February 2019 appeared in “Graziher” Magazine.

ACAJ President Pete Lewis congratulated Matt on his winning image and the Advertiser for its long-standing commitment to important rural and regional features in South Australia.

“Rural Media SA has helped identify and reward top photography over many years and invariably a lot of that work has gone on to be judged some of the best in the world,” he said.

North Queensland freelance photographers took out the other two award categories.

Jacqueline Curley from Cloncurry in the state’s North West won the Production category for her arresting photograph taken after the catastrophic weather event that struck grazing communities in February 2019 , which was published in “Graziher” Magazine.

While the Best Nature-Landscape award went to Fiona Lake from Townsville for her remarkable aerial image of a bullocky team at a festival at Surat.

The Best Nature-Landscape award went to Fiona Lake from Townsville

All three winners will now represent Australia against the world’s best at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Photography competition, with the winners to be announced in Denmark in June during IFAJ2020.

For more information contact:

Gordon Collie
ACAJ Photography Convenor 0409 473 343

Pete Lewis
Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists President
0408 722 113