Photography News Issue 43

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The Army Photographic Competition has launched a new category for 2017, Operation Camera, which for the first time invites the public to enter. “We’ve got great photographers in the Army,” said command master photographer WO1 Will Craig, “but we realised that lots of other people have fabulous photos of what we do, including members of the public and our colleagues in the Royal Navy and the RAF.” The competition is looking for quality images around the theme of the British Army that can be used to promote the Army in both print and online (check competition T&Cs before entering). Entry is open until 27 September 2017 and images submitted must have been taken between 26 October 2016 and the closing date. Operation Camera

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SonyWorldPhotographyOpen categorywinners revealed

The 2017 Sony World Photography Awards received over 105,000 entries to its Open competition and has revealedthetenwinners.TheyincludeUKphotographer Tim Cornbill who won the Architecture category. Tim, along with the nine other winners, will receive a Sony A7 II and will go on to compete to be named the Sony World Photography Awards’ Open Photographer of the Year. The winner will then receive a trip to the awards

ceremony inLondon, plus $5000. The overall winner, as well as the winner of the Professional competition, will be announced on 20 April. The Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr – 2017 Exhibition will then be open from21 April to 7May at Somerset House in London and then begin its worldwide tour.

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Proud Galleries has launched The Beatles Unseen: Photographs by David Magnus at Proud Chelsea. The exhibition, which runs until 14 May 2017 offers a candid insight into The Beatles recording at the EM1 Studio 1 in Abbey Road and also features previously unseen photographs. TheBeatlesUnseen

Now in its 17th year, World Pinhole Day encourages photographers from all over the world to embrace the unpredictability of shooting with a pinhole camera and be part of something special. The organisation asks photographers to submit one image, taken with a lensless camera and captured on Pinhole Day, Sunday 30 April. WorldPinholeDay

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Last year, 2599 people from 78 countries submitted their shots to the Pinhole Day website, which nowhosts 37,741 images from previous years. To get involved all you need to do is take a pinhole image on 30 April, scan it and upload it to the Pinhole Day website. You can take several images and your submission can be of any subject, but you can only submit one image. If you don’t own a pinhole camera then it’s time to get making one!

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