Fernanda Pedroso
Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographer of the year, Canberra based Photographer, originally from Brazil. She moved to Australia in 2020 where at the age of 40 transitioned from a 20-year career in advertising to photography.
Awards and Recognitions
Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize (2025)
- Finalist
Head on Awards (2025)
- Semi-finalist – Portrait
Iris Awards (2025)
- Silver – 2x – Creative Category
- Silver – Portrait Category
- Silver – Portrait Creative Category
- Bronze – Creative Category
- Bronze – Portrait Category
- Silver – 2x – Portrait Creative Category
The Mono Awards (2025)
- Top 30 and Finalist – People Category
- Commended – 2x – People Category
- Highly Commended – 2x – People Category
Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers (2024)
- Overall Winner
- Winner – Portrait
- Runner-up – Art
- 5th Place – Portrait
- 3rd and 5th Place – Single Shot
Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize (2024)
- Finalist
Head on Awards (2024)
- Semi-finalist – Exposure
- Second Place – Fine Art – Earthly
- Honourable Mention – Conceptual 3x
Australian Photography Awards – APA (2024)
- Shortlisted – 2x – Experimental
- Shortlisted – 1x – Portrait
Asia Pacific Awards (2024)
- Silver with Merit – Landscape Category
- Silver with Merit – Pure Category
- Silver – 3x – Portrait Category
- Silver – 2x – Open Category
- Silver – 2x – Pure Category
- Silver – 1x – Child Category
- Highly Commend – 13x – between Portrait, Pure, Child and Open Categories
The MonoAwards (2024)
- Commended – People Category
- Highly Commended – People Category
The MonoAwards (2023)
- Top 30 – People Category
- Highly Commended – 4x – People Category
- Commended – 2x – Places Category
Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers (2023)
- Highly Commended – Portrait Category
- Commended – Landscape Category
The Monochrome – International Black and White Photography Contest (2023)
- Honourable Mention – Conceptual – Motherboard
- Honourable Mention – Fine Art – Ethereal
- Honourable Mention – Nude – Transcends
- Honourable Mention – Portrait – Black Pearl
- Honourable Mention – Portrait – Dreaming Big
Lens Culture (2023)
- Editors selected to be featured in the Art Photography Awards 2024 Competition Gallery
The Monochrome – International Black and White Photography Contest (2022)
The Monochrome – International Black and White Photography Contest (2021)
- Second Prize – Landscape Category
Australian Photography Awards (2021)
The MonoAwards (2021)
- Highly Commended – Places Category
- Commended – 2x – Animals Category
- Commended – People Category
Exhibitions
- Head On Photo Festival 2025 Open Program – unBECOMING – Solo Exhibition (November – December, 2025)
Local: Grainger Gallery on Geelong (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Contemporary Photographic Prize Finalists – Group Exhibition (July, 2025)
Local: Huw Davies Gallery (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Contemporary Photographic Prize Finalists – Group Exhibition (June, 2024)
Local: Huw Davies Gallery (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Terra (un)Becoming – Group Exhibition (December, 2023)
Local: Huw Davies Gallery (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Metamorfoses – Group Exhibition (February to March 2023)
Local: Espaço Cultural Oscar Niemeyer (Brasília/DF) - Captured! – Group Exhibition (December 2023)
Local: High Court of Australia (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Wild Blue Yonder – Group Exhibition (December 2021)
Local: Huw Davies Gallery, ACT (Australia Capital Territory, AU) - Oh Shoot! – Group Exhibition (December 2021)
Local: High Court of Australia (Australia Capital Territory, AU)
Education
- Photography Postgraduate Program – (Postgraduate Studies in Photography as a Support for Imagination)
- Faculdade Unyleya, on-line (Brazil) – (on going – currently paused)
- Faculdade Unyleya, on-line (Brazil) – (on going – currently paused)
- Photography Diploma
- CIT Canberra, Canberra (Completed – 2024)
- CIT Canberra, Canberra (Completed – 2024)
- Photography Certificate VI
- CIT Canberra, Canberra (Completed – 2022)
