12 from 12 for Westlake at AIPP WA Awards

After an absence of a few years, record 4-time winner of the AIPP WA Photographer of the Year, Simon Westlake, entered the awards again this year with a selection of his personal work.

Westlake picked up 12 awards for the 12 prints he submitted – 1 Gold, 4 Silver Distinctions and 7 Silvers. He feels they are some of his best work to date.

“The quality and technology in small cameras nowadays allow photographers to get back to the art of just seeing. These images were all captured in-camera as I wandered around – hand held, uncropped and without any Photoshop work. I love shooting in this unencumbered fashion”.

The AIPP Awards had a record number of entries this year, with 250 more prints than last year being submitted. The Overall WA Professional Photographer of the Year was John Woodhouse.

See the other winners here.