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OPOTY finalists revealed The finalists of the Outdoor Photographer of the Year 2016 awards have been announced. Over 17,000 images were entered frommore than 50 different countries. Those named as finalists include UK photographers Pete Hyde, Christopher Roche and Justin Garner. The overall winner will be announced live at the Photography Show in Birminghamon 18 March. opoty.co.uk HasselbladMasters 2018 The prestigious Hasselblad Masters competition is now open for entries until 10 June 2017. The 2018 competition sees the introduction of a new Aerial category. The winners will be announced in January 2018. hasselblad.com Color Confidence inspired by Colour The Color Confidence Inspired by Colour photography competition was launched in January 2016, with one image chosen by the public every month. Violeta Angel, one of the 12 monthly winners, was named as the overall winner with her image, Seagull, and won the grand prize of over £1000 worth of photographic equipment. facebook.com/ ColorConfidence Masterclasswith Joe Cornish Joe Cornish will be running three masterclasses with The Fotospeed Academy. Interpreting your print will see Joe sharing his experience to help you get the best from your prints. Tickets costs £275 and the dates are 21 or 24 April, at Lacock Abbey inWiltshire. fotospeed.com
FORMAT Festival is the leading international contemporary festival of photography and related media which takes place annually inDerby. With a different theme each year the 2017 festival explores the theme of ‘Habitat’, looking at images that document theworld and the changes aroundus.Celebratingphotography, the free festival, which takes place from 24 March to 23 April, presents a variety of international exhibitions, events, open calls, collaborations and much more.
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British documentary photographer Martin Parr will be receiving the Outstanding Contribution to Photography title at the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. The awards ceremony will take place in London on 20 April, and to coincide a collection of rarely seen black & white images taken by Martin Parr in the early stages of his career will be on show at Somerset House. The exhibition will run 21 April to 7 May and Martin will also be giving a talk at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences on 21 April. Tickets to the talk are £25, which also includes a ticket to the exhibition, which is otherwise priced at £8-£11 for adults, depending on which day you attend. MartinParr to receiveaward
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Saatchi Gallery andHuawei have joined forces to launch a selfie competition asking photographers and artists to submit their creative self-portraits for the chance to have their work shown at the gallery. The competition closes on 12 March and the winner will be announced on 30 March. The winner will receive a special, money-can’t-buy photographic experience and ten shortlisted winners will receive a Huawei smartphone. The competition coincides with the Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition, which looks at the history of self-portraits right up to the selfies of the present day, and is the first exhibition worldwide to do so. The exhibition takes place at the Saatchi Gallery from 31 March to 30May 2017. SaatchiGallery shows selfies
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017 opens for entries on 1 March. Entries shouldshowtheinteractionbetweenpeopleandtheirenvironment,andmust be submitted as a self-contained series of between ten and twelve images. The winner will receive a cash prize of €25,000, as well as a Leica M camera and lens, while the winner of the Newcomer Award (for photographers aged LeicaOskar BarnackAward2017
25 and under) will receive €10,000 and a Leica rangefinder. There will also be ten prizes of €2500. All of the finalists’ images will be published online and in a magazine. Closing date is 10 April.
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