By Charlene Gatt
THESE self-styled snaparazzis are Seddon’s newest artists.
Belinda McNaughton, Justin Pearson and Jocelyn Evans wowed critics with their raw and insightful look into Seddon to become this year’s Snapshots of Seddon winners.
Social worker Ms McNaughton, 24, made a public statement in her photo titled Safe Injecting Facility, which shows a laneway off Victoria St strewn with discarded syringes.
“I find that there’s a lot of escapism and self-medication among the young people I work for, and I just put (the photo in) because I support safe injecting facilities,” she said. “I think human life is valuable and I’m worried about the people that are forced to live on the streets and do that sort of stuff.”
Another one to hit home was Ms Evans portrait Sunday Morning Heatwave, which caught the early morning sunrise from the corner of Gamon and Austin streets the morning after the Black Saturday fires.
Ms Evans said the photo held more poignancy when the extent of the fires was realised.
“I just happened to have my camera with me and there was such a stillness in the street and the sun was just like a massive ball of fire.
“It just seemed to encapsulate everything that we’d experienced.
“I don’t know anyone that wasn’t affected.”
Ms Evans also won the People’s Choice Award in 2007.
Mr Pearson used his brother and long-time barber Doug as the focus of his photo Nuts.
“Because he’s been there so long, it’s kind of brings out that community feel,” he said.
The winners were announced at the Seddon Festival on Saturday.
Kids winners included Grace Stevens (The last traffic light in Seddon), Abraham Bokre (The second best graffiti in Seddon and the best shot of the laneway) and Henry Station (Sedtrain).
