A selection from finalists in the 2019 Sunstudios Emerging Photography awards in news, portrait, fashion, lifestyle and landscape. The winning images are from the Melbourne photographer and poet Cihan Bektas. The Sydney photojournalist Mridula Amin is runner-up for her covertly shot series on offshore detention on Nauru. And the photographer, cinematographer and director Vitor Queiroz, of Sydney, got the highly commended award for his work documenting Young Cairo, a South Sudanese hip-hop artist from the inner west. An exhibition of the finalists’ work is on show from 19 September to 6 October at Sunstudios’ Atrium gallery in Sydney. The exhibition travels to Sunstudios’ Skylight gallery in Melbourne from 7 to 19 November
