Fremantle International Portrait Prize Exhibition

2019, the fifth, and final Fremantle International Portrait Prize (FIPP) has been an outstanding success. There were more than 1800 camera and mobile entries from 13 countries and every state in Australia. More than $20,000 was raised for charities through this competition. This exhibition showcases FIPP finalists and winners for 2019.

FIPP 2010 – 2019

All good things must come to an end. The FIPP Committee recently decided that FIPP 2019 would be our last; committee members having spent hundreds of hours voluntarily planning, organising, and conducting FIPP over a decade.

The Fremantle International Portrait Prize (FIPP) ran its first photographic competition in 2012. We staged our Fifth FIPP last year in 2019. In that time FIPP received more than 7,500 photographic entries from 48 countries, awarded more than $50,000 in cash and prizes to entrants and donated over $90,000 to charity. More than 20,000 people visited the five FIPP Showcase Exhibitions in Fremantle, Western Australia.

FIPP is proud to have run one of the world’s foremost and ethical photographic competitions which has helped to put arts in Fremantle on the map. FIPP started in 2010 with zero funds and, after paying our prize money and donating to charity, remains in a strong financial position. In formally closing FIPP has distributed remaining funds to the two charities we have continued to support, namely The Arthritis Foundation of Western Australia and the Kai Eardley Fund.

FIPP is extremely proud of its achievements and its contribution both to the arts and to charity. We are equally proud of the work of our hundreds of volunteers and support from Sponsors. 

In particular, we wish to thank you, the entrants. Each and every one of you for entering FIPP. Some of you are multiple entrants and some have been with us from the very beginning. Without you, the entrants, none of this would have been possible.