WINNER
ZOE WETHERALL
Zoe Wetherall graduated from Photography Studies College in 2006 and received the prestigious award for High Achievement in her Commercial major. After assisting in Melbourne for a couple of years, Zoe headed overseas to spend time working with commercial photographers in New York. On her return to Australia she based herself in Sydney and again worked with top local and international shooters. Since then Wetherall has been building up her own client base and continuing to work on her portfolio.
RUNNERS-UP
JÉRÔME BERBIGIER
French-born photographer Jérôme Berbigier started taking landscape photographs after moving to Australia in 2008. Inspired by the country’s beauty and diversity he started to travel, experience, and record on camera moments and places he wanted to remember and share with others. Growing up in France close to the Atlantic Ocean, he has always had a strong connection with the seas and photography is an extension of this fascination.
PAUL HOELEN
Based in Tasmania, self-taught and travel-hungry, Paul Hoelen thrives on diversity, recently shooting fine art nudes in the Swiss Alps, Steam Punks in the Nevada Desert, Tasmanian wilderness landscapes, World Music bands in New York and music festivals in New Zealand. The current AIPP Tasmanian Professional Photographer of the Year, NZIPP Overseas Photographer of the Year Finalist and Master of Photography (MZIPP), Hoelen has clients including Australian Geographic, Heineken NZ, 10X and Vodafone with recent exhibitions in Cradle Mountain Wilderness and Red Wall galleries in Tasmania and Source Photographica in Melbourne.