Photography News issue 27

Photography News Issue 27 absolutephoto.com

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London Life Catch a glimpse of London Life through Colin O’Brien’s lens.

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viewed the street as his stage and all the everyday scenes as plays, capturing them with his Leica 111a and 3.5 Elmar lens. London Life is on the Leica Store City Gallery, London until Tuesday 19 January.

Students Shoot fromtheHip All UK students, whether studying photography or not, are invited to enter the Fujifilm Student Awards 2016. This year’s brief is: Shoot from the Hip. All images must be shot on Fujifilm film. The Awards are a collaboration between Fujifilm Professional, Metroprint, ChooseFilm (an online community dedicated to film) and Fujifilm instax. Entry is free and closes on 31 March. The Student Photographer of the Year 2016 will collect £200 worth of Fujifilm film, a professionally produced folio of prints, a one- to-one printing/consultancy with Metroprint and a selection of instax goodies. The college or university submitting the most prints also wins £500 worth of Fujifilm film. fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk Fujifilmat the SWPP If you are thinking of going to the SWPP Convention (20- 24 January, Hilton London Metropole Hotel), head to the Fuji stand and answer a simple question to be in with the chance of winning a Frontier-S DX100 printer and Shirax Carbon software package worth £3000. The question is how many coloured inks does the Frontier-S DX100 have? fujifilm.eu/uk/ The winning and outstanding photos will be on display as part of the Awards Exhibition at London’s Somerset House, 22 April to 8 May. worldphoto.org See Beyond Expand your horizons and achieve your ambitions with the new Zeiss Photography Award, Seeing Beyond. The Zeiss Photography Award, which is run in cooperation with the World Photography Organisation, “perfectly complements the Sony World Photography Awards” says Scott Gray, CEO of the World Photography Organisation. Each year, the competition will have a different theme and this first year’s theme is Seeing Beyond – Meaningful Places. Photographers can submit three to ten images; entry is free. The closing date is 5 February, with the winner announced in April. The first prize is a Zeiss lens worth up to €15,000 and a flight to attend the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards gala ceremony in London.

O’Brien began taking photos of London in the 1940s, aged just eight, and his shots document working class life of 1950s and 60s London. Reminiscent of the photojournalism published in such magazines as Picture Post , O’Brien

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Leibovitz’s Women on tour Annie Leibovitz’s WOMEN: New Portraits exhibition kicks off in London, January 2016, before touring the world. The exhibition features newly commissioned portraits, continuing the project, Women, which she began more than 15 years ago in collaboration with writer and filmmaker Susan Sontag. This new work reflects the changes in the roles of women today. Both new and old images will be on show at the exhibition. WOMEN: New Portraits is at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London, from 16 January to 7 February. Entry is free.

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Telling tales of science Can you take a photo that tells a science story? If so, enter the International Images for Science competition 2016. Organised by the Royal Photographic Society and supported by global technology company Siemens, the International Images for Science competition will select 100 images to be exhibited at the British Science Festival in Swansea in September 2016. Prizes of RPS Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, plus up to £1000, will be awarded in three age categories. “We want as many people as possible to enter this competition – school or college students, scientists, photojournalists, artists – everyone!” says RPS coordinator, Gary Evans. “Entrants can have Above Entries to last year’s International Images for Science competition included a bubble popping and a bee’s bottom.

Win at The Societies’ Convention Enter The SWPP Convention’s 20x16” Print Competition and you could win a Gemini 500R Tx/Rx kit worth over £950. The top prize is sponsored by Bowens, and there are also prizes and trophies for all the category and sub-category winners. and there are many more sub- categories. Entering a print costs £15 (for non-members). The winners will be announced at the Convention, taking place 20- 21 January in the Hilton London Metropole Hotel. All the merited images will also be on display in the Convention’s reception area.

fancy equipment or use a smartphone, it doesn’t matter.” The competition is free to enter and closes on 1 May.

You’ve got until 31 December to enter your prints into the competition’s six categories,

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