Fire, ice and family: Australia’s 2026 Bowness photography prize – in pictures

Here are 26 images by the shortlisted artists who submitted works for the 21st William and Winifred Bowness photography prize.

Tamara Dean has been named the winner. The judges says her photograph is ‘operatic and poetic: an opus that is the culmination of a sustained body of work evident not only in its conception and process but also in its exquisite execution and presentation’