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Bert Hardy: Personal collection
Entry to the Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 contest is now open and you have until 1 October 2016 to get your entries in. Entries can be submitted online or as prints. Entry fees are £8 for the single image categories, £15 for portfolios. Entry for Young TPOTY is free. This year’s TPOTY features three portfolio categories, three single image categories, a smart shot category for images taken on a mobile phone or tablet, a New Talent award, Young TPOTY and an HD video category. The overall winner will be chosen from all entrants who submit at least two portfolios andwill win £4000, a selection of StaaG luxury goods, £500 to spend on Páramo clothing of their choice and a personalised leather portfolio case from Plastic Sandwich. For details of prizes, the sponsors and a major exhibition at Greenwich featuring last year’s winning images, go the website. Time to enter TPOTY
The Prints Sales Gallery of the Photographers’ Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Bert Hardy’s work with images drawn from his personal archive. These rare black & white prints were saved as keepsakes from his work and have been on display before. Hardy is best known for his memorable images produced when
he was the chief photographer on the famous Picture Post magazine during the 1940s and 1950s. Prints on sale are priced from £3000 (includes VAT). Admission is free and the exhibition is on until 3 July. Check the website for opening times.
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image From Bert Hardy's Personal Collection.
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The RPS first collaborative exhibitionshowcasing theworkof students alongside Fellows of the Society features images by Jane Hilton and Rakesh Mohindra. Jane Hilton’s work made using a plate camera, features nude studies of Nevada working girls. Her intimate studies are featured in her latest book, Precious . Rakesh Mohindra is a visual artist andhis exhibition is entitled Possessive and Possessed . The Magic Gallery can be found at the Charing Cross Underground Arcade, on London’s Strand. The exhibition runs until 24 June and is open Tuesday to Saturday afternoons. The RPS at the Magic Gallery
Above TPOTY has a great choice of creatively challenging categories.
The world’s biggest photo contest is now in its tenth year and with the overall winner scooping $25,000 it is well worth having a go. As well as the overall winner, there are national winners too and plenty of categories to inspire. Entries are invited from professional and enthuiast photographers, plus there are sections for students and the young image-maker. Sony 2017
Above Image by Jane Hilton, Sunny Star, Love Ranch North, 2012
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The RHS’s annual photographic competition is now open for entry and you have until 28 February 2017 to get your pictures uploaded. Entry is free, both for RHS and non RHS members, and there are nine categories to choose from including celebrating RHS gardens, welcoming garden wildlife, pure plants, abstract and detail and greening grey Britain. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three pictures in each category from an overall prize fund of £10,000. Also, the winner of each adult category receives a year’s membership to the RHS. RHS annual competition
Above Asghar Khamseh, Photographer of the Year, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.
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The New East Photo Prize is a new initiative seeking to broaden perceptions of the New East through photography. Entry is free and open to pro and enthusiast photographerswho are nationals of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Entrants are invited to submit a project of their work that was finalised in the past two years. Closing date is 19 August 2016. Looking East
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Image Abstracts &Details first: ChrysanthemumbyGynelle Leon.
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