Australian Life Photography Competition, Finalists

Australian life in 22 prize-winning photographs

From Indigenous cowboys and football matches to Sydney sunbathers and pieshops, the photographs shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Life prize showcase a nation in technicolour – and transition. Top prize went to Georgina Pope’s wry snap of a New South Wales washing line. All 22 winning images go on display in Hyde Park, Sydney until 12 October

Georgina Pope’s winning image, A great day for drying, in Oakdale, Goulburn, New South Wales. ‘She was devoted to her household chores, but somehow, got strung out on the line,’ said Pope.Photograph: Georgina Pope

Runner up Jon Lewis’s image, Farewelling Martin Sharp, Christ Church St Laurence, Haymarket, Sydney. Lewis: ‘Before delivering my eulogy to my dear friend Martin, I made two frames. This one shows his friends celebrating an extraordinary life.’Photograph: Jon Lewis

Paul Lander, 29, and his brother Dylan, 25, frock up for an Australia Day Ute Run, Hidden Valley, Darwin.Photograph: Glenn Campbell

Anzac Day Tribute, Ashfield Park cenotaph, New South Wales.Photograph: Berylouise Mitchell

Saltwater cowboys: Ambrose Dann and Terrence Carter, Broome, Western Australia.Photograph: Tamara Voninski

Children play at the Bentley Blockade, formed to oppose a proposed gas drilling on neighbouring farmland, Lismore, New South Wales.Photograph: Natalie Grono

Dinner time in Botany, Sydney.Photograph: Ivana Jovanovic

An elder of the Mutitjulu people draws the Dreaming in the red earth of the outback, Uluru, Northern Territory.Photograph: Jewels Lynch

For Sale: derelict shops on the main street of Wellington, New South Wales.Photograph: Desmond Kok Hui Ong

Pies: an Australian institution in Brookvale, New South Wales.Photograph: Richard Payne

Cornflour ‘bombs’ showered over participants in the ColourMeRad 5K fun run, Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, Sydney.Photograph: Rob Annesley

I’m a Fire Starter: a protester against the logging of old growth forests in Tasmania.Photograph: Matthew Newton

Pondering the Tent of Wonder: surprise visitors to Rod McRae’s Sculpture by the Sea, Tamarama, Sydney.Photograph: Brent Winstone

Rush hour: a lone face in the crowd at Glebe markets, Sydney.Photograph: Warwick Kent

Icebergs: suspended between sunshine and water, sunbathers at the sea pool, Bondi, Sydney.Photograph: Paul Blackmore

The Doll House: the photographer’s friend Julie in Wyongah, New South Wales.Photograph: Dianne English

Windbreak: two girls have fun with their hijabs on the Sydney ferries.Photograph: John Goodbridge

Match in Ngukurr: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.Photograph: Godelieve Mols

The tradition of the suit-wearing Sapeurs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo makes its way to Blacktown in the western suburbs of Sydney.Photograph: Louise Whelan

Tin City: hidden behind the sand dunes of Anna Bay, New South Wales.Photograph: Andre Martin

Boarding at Garie beach, Sydney.Photograph: Rodney Campbell

Rio station: Nic Walker holds his son Tasman as he walks with daughter Saxony and Stan the emu in Longreach, Queensland.Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams

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