Latest photography news Oh, what a show! The Photography Show took the NEC by storm recently for the second year running
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Photography News was out in strength at the show, with 10,000 copies handed out over the four days. Also there was our sister title Advanced Photographer . Editor Will Cheung was busy presenting the Advanced Photographer Awards, acknowledging the best kit of last year as chosen by PN and AP readers. Some of the deserving award winners are pictured here, but for full list check out last issue or go to www. absolutephoto.com. As you might expect, planning is already underway for The Photography Show 2016 and Grace confirmed that 85% of exhibitors have already rebooked. See you there!
to continue to grow and improve both the visitor and exhibitor experience. The feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive. We’re really pleased that for the second year running we have provided a space for the photographic community to meet and have a valuable and inspirational day.” Among the highlights was the Super Stage line-up featuring the likes of Mary Ellen Mark and Don McCullin (whose session sold out before the show opened). In fact, it was such a hit, it could be a hard act to follow, but Grace reassured us that “we have some ideas up our sleeves and we’re up for the challenge.” So here’s looking forward to next year’s event.
Words by Will Cheung
Whether you wanted to learn, listen to leading photographers, handle the latest kit, treat yourself or pick up a copy of Photography News , this year’s The Photography Show had it all. Now in its second year, the show was a huge success with almost 10,000 visitors on the Monday alone. Grace Turner, Future marketing manager, said: “We are delighted with how the show went this year. We were conscious that after the success of the launch year we needed
Photography News was in evidence here…
… there and, in fact, pretty much…
… everywhere during this year’s Photography Show at Birmingham’s NEC.
Lars Madsen and Stephanie Kelly of Canon with Advanced DSLR and Wide-Angle Zoom awards for the EOS 5D Mark III and EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM respectively.
Simon Iddon of Nikon receives the Professional DSLR award for the D4 s .
Jim McKay and Jane Nicolson of Intro2020 holding two of their three awards: Telephoto Zoom for the Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD, Superzoom for the Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Macro and Video Lens for the Samyang 50mm T1.5 AS UMC.
Will Cheung hands the Mains Flash: Monoblocs award for the SuperFast 600 to Lencarta’s Harry Liu.
Receiving Manfrotto’s Tripod: Carbon-Fibre award for the MT055CXPRO3, Ivor Chamberlain.
Profoto’s Paul Legg gets the Portable Flash award for the B1.
Mark Thackara of Olympus receives the Advanced CSC award for the E-M10.
π To find out more about The Photography Show, go to www.photographyshow.com.
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Issue 19 | Photography News
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