about us.
We are two Gold Coast professional photographers passionate about community!
Our Mission is to celebrate the best Australian photographers, allowing space to also discover new talents and showcase what they have created above and below the Gold Coast.
Lariza Cevallos Oganova is an Ecuadorian/Australian photographer, with more than 15 years photographing Nature around the world. Larisa calls the Gold Coast home since 2009 and enjoys the coastal living with her family, working as a Marketing Executive for brands that care about the Planet and as a freelance photographer and producer for projects linked to the conservation of our Planet. Check her work here.
Blaze Parsons is an Australian/Samoan photographer, half human, half fish, with more than 15 years photographing Nature around the world. A born and bred Gold Coast local with heritage in Polynesia, Blaze loves the ocean like very few do; he also works in construction, as a Freediving Instructor and freelance photographer for land, water and air. His biggest passions are being in the ocean, building community and helping others fall in love with the underwater world and the art of photography.
Check his work here.
the judges
We are incredible honoured and excited to introduce our talented judging panel! Each of them have brilliant expertise and we can't wait for them to revise the best photographies of the Gold Coast that we have ever seen!
Ray Bishop
Ray is an award-winning designer and photographer with over three decades of experience. This creative genius hosts Surfing Life TV (on Garage Entertainment, Fetch, Fuel TV and The Surf Network), Surfing Life Radio with Matt Grainger, Surfing Life Travel (Season one out now) and is a Red Bull Illume global photography judge. A mad-keen surfer for over four decades, Ray loves the “three-foot rule” lifestyle.
Ray will be judging the Surf & Waves category and he will focus on energy, motion, power, and the dynamic relationship between water and its surroundings.
Follow Ray on Instagram @surfinglife
