Photography News Issue 55

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P T S K K F N A P T M A E D T U I D Y Q I F S P S I R N H S S C V S N O I T A C O L K W P F U B R L P T F E B O C D E R N O D I T T R S A R D A U J N R H T F F B Z V Z S A H L A G R V L T R V R I C Q L S K M E E R T I N S S E Y N L S X T K Z T L G N S E J P H V Z E B I U S L O X C U Y G W W A L L E T N K V D P C K Y F L B U B P A T P X Z T R R A I X G H E S P O R D L L C A Q C X G N I L S H N Capture life’s magical moments across all devices with the Samsung EVO Plus 128GB microSDXC memory card with SD adapter offering read speeds up to 100MB/s and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. Samsung’s latest cards are also ultra reliable and are water, temperature, X-ray and magnet proof, so shooting in the most challenging conditions isn’t an issue.We have one 128GBSamsungEVOPlusmicroSDXC cardwithSDadapterworth£78.99 for the eagle-eyed winner. Complete the word search below, and you’ll find one word in the list that’s not in the grid. Email us on puzzle@photographynews.co.uk with that word in the subject box by 17 June 2018 and the winner will be randomly drawn from all correct entries received. The correct answer to PN53’s word search was Comics and the Samsung 128GB PRO+ cardwas won by Chris Sheehy fromNewport. samsung.com/uk/memory-cards A Samsung memory card! WIN!

Editor’s letter Awardsmatter

You will probably have heard of TIPA and you might have seen its logo on a box of kit you’ve bought. If you haven’t, then you are about to. TIPA is a worldwide organisation of 29 imaging magazines and websites, and last year Photography News got voted onto its ranks. It was an outcome that had a double meaning for me. Firstly, becausemembership will benefit the magazine’s status and give us access to TIPA’s technical resources, and secondly because I was involved in TIPA from its inception in 1991 when I was working on Practical Photography . It was originally a European organisation but as its influence and the importance of its awards has grown, so too has its geographical reach. Last month, the TIPA editors gathered in Lisbon to decide on the winners of its product awards. TIPA’s approach to awards is different from ours. The PN Awards are for products on current sale while TIPA’s are for products announced in a specific time period. Anyway, all the winners are featured in News in this month’s issue. Speaking of awards, I had a couple of days in Amsterdam thanks to Canon, one of the main sponsors of the World Photo Press Awards. I was there for the awards ceremony, exhibition opening and the photography festival that accompanies the awards. Theawardsceremonyitselfwasacelebration of the photographers who regularly risk life and limb to capture events in strife-torn parts of the globe, bringing the plight of their people or nature to our attention. I say strife-torn parts of the world but one of the final six shortlisted images in contention for the overall World Press Photo Award was taken in London by Toby Melville who photographed the attack on Westminster Bridge in March 2017. And the winner of the Spot News: Stories category was a set of shots taken by David

Becker during the Las Vegas shooting last year, where 58 people died. In these cases, the photographers were on typical press assignments when the tragic events unfolded in front of their lenses. The imagesMelville andBecker capturedare remarkable in somanyways and that applies to all the winners and shortlisted images. There are so many talented photojournalists around the world doing incredible work but I get the impression (and it is no more than that) that their work is not as appreciated as it was in the past. This might be for any number of reasons – social media, TV, compassion fatigue or maybe such work does not get the platforms it used to get, ie. the way such images are used in printed media. As I said, it is only an impression and perhaps I just don’t pick up the right newspapers. Whatever, and I am sure minds far greater than mine will have a theory on this, but for me I have to say that most of the pictures I saw at this year’s World Press Photo exhibition were thought-provoking, provocative and emotional, unless you have a house brick for a heart,andvisuallyintenselypowerful.So,ifyou get the chance see the show as it is well worth a visit. The exhibition will be on a worldwide tour over the coming year, although at the moment Edinburgh in August is the only UK venue at the moment. Of course, you can check the images out online but seeing them in the flesh, as it were, is hard to beat. Finally, to finish on another award, the final of Camera Club of the Year is happening in May. Our full report on the final and details of how the five clubs got on will be in the next issue, so see you next month for that.

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