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Travelling Eureka Photography Exhibition gives science new meaning
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Eureka Science Photography Exhibition showcases the best of the hundreds of entries that were received in the 2007 NewScientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography.
You can see the exhibition at the following venues during 2008:
The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney from 14 March to 13 April 2008
RMIT Gallery in Melbourne from 2 June to 28 June 2008.
The images were taken by amateur and professional photographers, working scientists, and postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Photographs were taken using a wide variety of methods from digital cameras to x-ray technology - and even attaching a camera to a microscope with a home-made bellows adapter.
From the ‘wave duality' of swimming gold fish to the majesty of arctic landscapes and the ‘colour' of deafness, these amazing pictures show the myriad ways in which science is everywhere in our lives.
"The NewScientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography is an important new national award recognising and rewarding exceptional science photography." says Australian Museum Director Frank Howarth. "We hope this exhibition will make people stop and think about what science means to them."
The 24 images in the exhibition include the works of the six prize finalists: Megan Fabbro, Steven Morton, Barnaby Norris, Ron Oldfield, Rodney Vella, and Tony Nott, Raimond de Weertd and Karen Donnelly.
