2022 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards - City

Presented by Auckland Festival of Photography Trust & Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards at the Ellen Melville Centre, City.

In-Venue: 9am-5pm Mon to Fri
Outdoors: (window TV) evenings 7 days

In a long-standing partnership with the festival, The Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards [KLPA] winners and finalists are back once again - view a daily projection screening of the outstanding portraiture photography featuring the KLPA 2022 winners and finalists selected by an international jury panel.

The KLPA is an annual global portrait photography prize seeking the very best and fresh entries from photographers of all levels in two main categories - Single Image open and a Project-based or themed category. Initiated in 2009, KLPA is recognised as a significant and vital award in the photography calendar, supporting and rewarding contemporary portraiture practice especially in the South East Asian region.

Image: Carole Mills Noronha / Australia / 2022 First Prize - Human/Nature theme

Wonder: This is a portrait of my 89-year-old father. Dad has Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's. He spent most of 2020 and 2021 in lockdown in Aged Care due to the Covid pandemic. After months of window visits, I'm once again permitted to visit dad in his room. As I'm not able to take him out, I instead bring some outside to dad. His face filled with wonder. Dad later released the butterfly in a nearby courtyard.