Katherine E. Seppings

Art, Photography, Writing

Category: Award

Castlemaine Documentary Festival Awards

Feeling very grateful to have received two awards at Locals in the Castlemaine Documentary Festival for ‘Harcourt Fires’, my six minute documentary that captured the terror and devastation on 9 January 2026, and the following weeks of recovery and renewal. It felt imperative to share what I witnessed, and to honour the impact on our whole region.

Many thanks to the judges for the Courageous Filmmaking Award and to the voters for the 2026 Audience Choice Award!

‘Best Photographic Work’

Best Photographic Work – ‘Fewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal’ by Katherine Seppings

I won ‘Best Photographic Work’ at the Rotary Castlemaine Art Show on 5 June, for a photograph I took of Fewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal, at sunset, 1998, looking across at the Annapurna mountain range.

‘This quiet and serene work captures the atmosphere of the dusk over the water in this remote place so well. You can feel the sense of stillness and cripsness in the air that I felt to be quite meditative. I particularly liked the composition, the water in the foreground, and the subtle tonal shifts in the layers of mountainous landscape. I also like the energy of the cloud hovering across the snowy mountain peak that can be seen towering in the top corner.’
Judge Artist Greg Wood