Photography Competition – Free to Enter – Environmental Photographer of the Year
Now open for entries, the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography and film. The competition is free to enter and offers an exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society and a total prize money of £8,000, including awards for young photographers, film and a solo show.
The competition provides an opportunity for amateur and professional photographers of all ages to share images of environmental and social issues with international audiences, and to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change and social inequality.
SELECTION PANEL
Dr David Haley – Senior Research Fellow, Director – Ecology In Practice, Route Leader MA Art as Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University
Brigitte Lardinois – Deputy Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at University of the Arts London
Tim Parkin – Landscape photographer and Editor of On Landscape
Hayley Skipper – Curator of Arts Development, Forestry Commission England
Stephen Vaughan – Photographer and Senior Lecturer, Bath Spa University and Plymouth University
The panel will select entries on impact, composition, originality, creativity and technical ability. They are looking in particular for pictures that show the dynamic link between environmental and social issues in a way that makes us think differently about the world around us. Previous entries have examined issues such as innovation, sustainable development, biodiversity, poverty, climate change, human rights, culture, natural disasters and population growth.
PRIZES
Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year – £5000
Atkins CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of the Year (25 years or under) – £1000
Atkins CIWEM Environmental Film of the Year – £1000
Atkins Cityscape Prize – £1000
Forestry Commission England Exhibition Award – One photographer will be invited to exhibit a solo exhibition at one of England’s public forests.
Photographs selected for exhibition will be displayed at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 22 June – 3 July 2015, followed by a tour to forest venues nationally, supported by Forestry Commission England, beginning with Grizedale Forest in Cumbria from 18 July – 7 September 2015.
HOW TO ENTER
Open to all photographers, professional and amateur alike, the competition encourages entries that are contemporary, creative, resonant, original and beautiful. Entry is free and photographers may submit up to 10 works.
Deadline for entries: 7 April 2015, by 5pm GMT
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
