Fine Art nominee

Conceptualizing an image from above is one of the greatest challenges in drone photography. This is a photo of my daughter in strife with a shopping cart, her dress, hair and legs giving the impression of motion. It was pointed out to me after the shoot that Banksy had a similar image on a wall that we had no knowledge of, which gave life to the street art and gave us a little creative boost. Shopping Cart-astrophe pays homage to the everyday ordinariness of a person’s life becoming extraordinary.

We are a mother/daughter drone photographic team that first took to the skies of Australia in 2020. Lucy is an architect working at world-renowned architectural firm Foster + Partners in London, and Sarah is an artist currently living in Perth on Australia’s west coast. Sarah has muscular dystrophy and is in a wheelchair. She cannot use a conventional camera, however can fly a drone and take images using a remote control in her lap. They both share a passion for art, architecture, design and photography. Their awards include Boston Drone Film Festival winner, Architectural category 2021; Capture Magazine’s Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographer winner, Single Shot category 2021 and 5th in the Landscape category 2025; MinimalistPhotography Awards Honourable Mention 2023 (3); International Photography Awards Honourable Mention, Minimalism category 2022, 2024. Publications include teNeues Minimalism in Photography 2022 and Beach Life in 2023; The Australian newspaper 2022,2023, and 2026. In February 2024 they had their first very successful exhibition called 'A Take On Minimalism' at the Moores Gallery Art Space in Fremantle, Western Australia, and are in the early stages of organising their next venture.