2009 Winners

Coordinators Prize taken by Karla Northcott

1st Prize Grandfather or Older Carer section taken by Christine Jamieson

1st Prize History Section taken by Nadine Dyer

1st Prize Open Section taken by Jamie Boyd

1st Prize Secondary Aged Photographer taken by Hannah Mathewson

1st Prize Open Photo and story by Tina Day (see gallery for larger size to read)

1st Prize Secondary Age Photo and Story by Jeremy Forbes (see gallery for larger size to read)

1st Prize Primary Age Photo and Story by Abigail and Ezra Franklin

1st Prize Primary Aged Photographer by Zoe Oldfield

1st Prize Photo with child 10 - 18 years of age taken by Leesa Wungluck

1st Prize Photo taken with a Mobile Phone by Janelle Peachey

How To Host an Exhibition at a School

Its simple. Take one step at a time.

Step One: Find someone prepared to take responsibility for organising it.

Step Two: Check with principal and appropriate others for approval.

Step Three: Contact us with your details, choose which day suits your school and give us your delivery address. (See popular format of school day below).

Step Four: We send a simple agreement for you to sign which includes your delivery address.

Step Five: We mail/courier/send you the exhbition to use then return

We would love you to also run a local competition at the same time encouraging your students to bring in their own pictures - we can support you with this.

Popular School Format for People's Choice Exhibition

09:00: Set up the exhibition in a very accessible space for students, near canteen or outside main school hall or in popular yard space.

During Recess One and Two: have exhibition attendants encouraging students and teachers to vote for their favourite photo. A $5 canteen voucher for one lucky voter encourages people to vote. You simply hand each voter a raffle ticket after they have voted. Announce raffle winner at next school assembly.

Between recess one and two: This is a great opportunity for students or their parents or carers to use the exhibition to stimulate curriculum or family beneifits through structured workshops or informal discussion. EG visual arts, photography, English, Drama, mentoring etc. Contact us for workshop possibilities.

After Recess Two: Pack up the exhibition or move it to another venue for a parents evening or school concert or graduation.

How to Host

You need to provide:

Display board space. At least ten square metres of carpeted wall or display board space on which to attach the photos. Allow sufficient space for standing room in front of wall or around free-standing display boards for voters to view the photos. Each photo has Velcro on the back which attaches to, then detaches easily from flat carpet-like or firm cloth surfaces. These surfaces are often be found on display stands, partitions or walls in schools & conference centres.
Table for voting box and space for people to fill in voting slips
Attendants - if possible - to give out free people’s choice voting slips to the public. They also act as security that the photos are not taken, or marked with icecream fingers etc. An extra and often very positive role for the attendant is to listen to people’s stories and encourage the positive times of men with our children.
Cover costs of returning the exhibition to us.

Thanks Dad Photos provides:

Solid plastic box (40x20x 30cm) which doubles as the voting box.
Photos are in the above box. Photos are on cardboard backing sheet and vary between postcard and A4 size. Each photo has a small piece of Velcro on the top right and left hand corner on the back.

What is your next step - Contact Thanks Dad Photos with the proposed dates for your local exhibition. Together we will make the arrangements then sign a simple agreement before sending the exhibition to you.