North Shore-based photographer Chris Melville has, in the same week, picked up two awards: third prize in a World Health Organisation Photo Contest (black and white section) and Photo of the Month on the Auckland Festival of Photography website.North Shore-based photographer Chris Melville has, in the same week, picked up two awards: third prize in a World Health Organisation Photo Contest (black and white section) and Photo of the Month on the Auckland Festival of Photography website.The World Health photo is an image of George Taamaru, NZ Paraolympian, holding his own artificial leg over his shoulder. The brief was to communicate health and disability in the workplace, and since George's workplace is his training ground in the gym Chris asked to photograph him there.

The Auckland Festival photograph is an image of a stiltwalker looking to the sky.

Included in his prize from the World Health Organisation is US$500, which he says he will share with Taamaru.

"The agreement with George (Taamaru) was that money was not the object of the exercise," said Melville. "We were trying to raise my photography profile and his paraolympic profile. This award allows us publicity in our respective fields and a good image of him in front of the world. We set out with an exact goal in mind and we achieved it. So what more can we ask for?"