Competitions

At the beginning of the brief we were asked to look into competitions which would be relevant to participate in relating to our own personal area of photographic practice. We would then work towards the set competition requirements as well as to continue to develop our own technical proficiency within our chosen workflow, guided by influence from the already professional photographers, and show evidence of our trials and errors.

The idea of us as Photography Students competing within photography contests is to allow our work to become more widely known and in the event of either winning or possibly being awarded as the runner up in any National or International Photography Competition, that this would certainly be an achievement to possibly securing more potential future clients within the fierce Photographic Employment Industry.

As I am a subscriber to a number of online photographic newsletter journals and have signed up to receive the magazine for

both sources have become great tools for informing you in regards to a high majority of national and international competitions which are held throughout the current and future years.

Below are some of the competitions I believe that are suitable to enter in regards to the style of photography I have undertaken on this brief. The majority of the competitions sourced are taken from both the Professional Photographer Website and the Photography Competitions Website

http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Competitions

and

http://www.photographycompetitions.net/

The Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2011

The Categories

We have 13 categories for photographers to enter and the titles are generic to encourage as many as possible to take part. There will be a winner and runner-up in each category, plus Best Portfolio winner and the Professional Photographer of the Year title. You may enter as many categories as you like but are limited to one image in each, with the exception of the Portfolio Award.

Category 10: Student of the year

An open category for anyone in full-time education studying a photographic discipline

Sponsored by Light Blue Software

Category 12: Breaking the mould

Another open category for everything weird, wacky and avant-garde – have some fun!

Sponsored by Hahnemuehle

http://london-photographic-association.com

Runs from 2011-09-12 to 2012-01-31 00:00:00

The Brief

The Portrait Award

As always we encourage entrants to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/travel/article848624.ece

The Sunday Times travel photography competition 2012

The Sunday Times Competition is one that I am interested in entering too in the near future, especially after recent talks with a work colleague in the hope of a visit to Pakistan!

Due to this competition also running every month I have also decided to enter a photograph from my collection taken from Cape Town, South Africa