Samuel Wong of the School of Architecture and Planning at UoA has won the 2013 Simon Devitt Prize for Photography for his entry Rider.

10 finalists were selected from a record number of entries received. The theme for this year’s competition was Subterranean.

The winner, Samuel Wong, received a certiifcate, prize money and a cup.

The annual Simon Devitt Prize for Photography was established in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland in 2008 and recognises the best student photograph(s) in architecture. It is offered to students in the School of Architecture and Planning.

Simon Devitt’s comments on the winning entry:

The winning entry left me in no doubt. It’s a picture I wish I had made myself. The sense of the uncanny, the surreal and a poetic nod to the theme are all captivating characteristics of the winning photograph. The photo reveals a deceptively, ambiguous narrative that held my attention and begged revisiting. Its success rests uneasily in between the everyday and the otherworldly. I’m left with questioning, what happened before this and what happened after.