Photography News 08

Competitions

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After all the mono prints had been marked our helpers laid out the images that got three positive votes. From a large pile we had just 19 prints to consider for the three awards and for the selector’s favourite image. We repeated the yes/no voting process, again with only the images with three yes votes going through to the final judging session. This time the pace was more sedate, but whittling down to the winners can usually take time as the selectors fight for their favourites. Perhaps unusually in our salon deciding the top three was painless as we all agreed and the only sticking point once we got the top three was in which order they should go. This was done by democracy.

Sitting as a panel Abdul saw images first, then Gabi and then it was me. This wasn’t planned, we just sat down in that order. Each picture was judged in a matter of seconds – yes, it was that quick. It seemed to me, being at the end of the queue, that I lingered on some images more often than my two fellow judges. When I say lingered I am talking by fractions of a second just to check print quality, sometimes to see if the image had a message or story that would appear with an extended look. On occasions, I dwelt purely to enjoy the image. I should stress that this wasn’t often and mostly I was as quick as my fellow judges in delivering a verdict.

TOP LEFT Salon 1 examining the mono print entries. LEFT Angelus Dominus by Jackson Carvalho. ABOVE Shelter by Clarissa Jayakumara & Peddy Suryadinata – Will’s selector’s award choice.

It is impossible to overstress how precious little time an image has tomake an impression to get a yes vote. It is the onlyway you can get through the large number of entries

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