Joshua Holko, 2019 AIPP Epson Victorian Professional Nature Photographer of the Year

The AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography) Victorian State awards, is a favorite of Moab Master, Joshua Holko, because each category he enters is judged in print, not digitally. Joshua Holko is a professional landscape, nature and wildlife photographer specializing in the Polar and sub-Polar regions of the globe. His work celebrates the extreme latitudes of the Polar environment. He is a huge advocate of the print as the finished medium of choice for his own photography.

The AIPP National and State awards remain two of the few remaining competitions to actually judge the finished print and they do so using a panel of judges all deemed experts in their respective genres and accredited as Masters of Photography through their years of success in this arena.

Joshua Holko entered twelve prints spread across the Nature, Documentary and Landscape categories. He took first place overall in the Nature category, what he felt was his strongest point. He also took the Highest Scoring Print award for the Nature Category. As someone who is passionate about print, this was an incredible honor.

All of the prints were printed on Somerset Museum Rag, Joshua Holko’s go-to paper. “Museum Rag has a gorgeous, sensuous texture that is a delight for the senses. No other paper so beautifully captures all of the colour, detail and subtle tonalities that the natural world has to offer. I would not exhibit my work on any other paper."

Epson Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year 2015

The 2015 Epson Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year competition has been running in Melbourne at 1140 studios. Moab Master, Joshua Holko, won multiple categories, the highest scoring print and the overall title of 2014 Epson Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year last year. It is a competition Joshua thoroughly enjoys from the capture to print. 

Congratulations to Joshua Holko for scoring Silver in four landscape photographs and three of his Science, Wildlife and Wild Places photographs in the 2015 AIPP Awards.

All of the prints were printed on Holko's all-time favorite stock for fine art photography prints, Moab Somerset Museum Rag. 

Arctic Fox Snow Storm – 89 Silver with Distinction Award Science, Wildlife and Wild Places Category

Dune on Fire – 86 Silver with Distinction Award Landscape Category

The AIPP National and State awards are two of the few remaining competitions to actually judge the finished print and they do so using a panel of judges all deemed experts in their respective genres and accredited as Masters of Photography through their years of success in this arena. 

Joshua Holko will now be headed to the South Island of New Zealand for his 2015 Masterclass Workshop.

Science, Environment, Nature Photographer of the Year

Congratulations to our Moab Master, Joshua Holko, on winning the 2014 AIPP Canon Professional Science, Environment and Nature Photographer of the Year! At state level Holko's images scored 2 Gold Awards and 2 Gold with Distinctions. He was ecstatic to receive a Silver Award, a Silver with Distinction and two Gold Awards for his four entries this year at APPA. All four entries were printed on his favourite fine art paper - Moab Somerset Museum Rag. 

Watch the judging of the three highest scoring prints here!

Victorian State Print Awards Goes to Joshua Holko

Congratulations to Moab Master, Joshua Holko, who scored 6 highly coveted Gold awards including two even more coveted Gold with Distinction awards. All of these photographs were printed using Moab Somerset Museum Rag Paper and his Canon IPF6350 printer. Joshua also took out multiple category wins, highest scoring print award of the year (also on Somerset Museum Rag) and the top title of Victorian Photographer of the year. View Joshua Holko's blog for all of his amazing award images in his polar and sub polar photography expeditions.