Walkley award-winning image

NIKON PHOTO OF THE YEAR and WALKLEY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

• WINNER: Natalie Grono, The Saturday Paper ‘Peter takes a moment’

Natalie Grono has been named the winner of the 2022 Nikon Photo of the Year Prize and Walkley News Photo for “Peter Takes A Moment”. 

The floods in NSW’s Northern Rivers were one of the biggest stories in Australia in the past year, and the judges thought Natalie Grono’s image captured the story, and our nation, in a standout way.

“Peter is a quintessential Aussie – exhausted and covered in mud, yet stoic and somehow hopeful, he pauses before tackling the mammoth task of resurrecting his life. Natalie Grono encapsulates the aftermath of the floods with the contradiction of palm trees against sunny skies while Peter is still knee-deep in water.”