The Details: 2020 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Status: Open for entry
Closing date: Feb 09, 2020
Winners chosen by: Judging panel
Contest Summary – Pink Lady Food Photographer
Open to professional and non-professional, old and young, the Awards celebrate the very best in food photography and film from around the world.
Categories:
The categories cover the full cultural range of the depiction of food in society – there is something for everyone. From styled food for magazines to images of families eating together in celebration of religious festivals, from depictions of the realities of food production to food growing in its natural setting.
- Champagne Taittinger Wedding Food Photographer
- Food Stylist Award
- Winterbotham Darby Food for Sale
- Street Food
- Food for the Family
- Food for Celebration sponsored by Champagne Taittinger
- Food Bloggers
- World Food Programme Food for Life
- On the Phone
- Fujifilm Award for Innovation
- InterContinental Food at the Table
- One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop
- Pink Lady® Apple a Day
- Politics of Food
- Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
- Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
- Production Paradise Previously Published
- Bring Home the Harvest
- Food in the Field
- The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
- Student Food Photographer of the Year
- Food Film Shorts supported by Foodism
- Young (Under 18s)
- World Food Programme Storytellers Innovation Award
Prizes:
Prize Pool valued at over £20,000GBP, The winner of the coveted title Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year receives £5000GBP, 2 nights’ accommodation at the InterContinental London Park Lane and will be re-imbursed up to £750 GBP for the cost of a return flight to London to attend the Awards Evening Reception.
Overall winner:
In addition to the £5,000GBP top prize:
- You will be invited to attend the glittering VIP Awards evening at the world renowned Mall Galleries, London SW1 along with leading figures from the world of photography, retail, food/photography and national press
- You will be provided with 2 nights’ accommodation at the InterContinental London Park Lane in a double room with breakfast.
- You will be re-imbursed up to the maximum value of £750 GBP for the cost of your return flight (economy class) to London travel to attend the Awards Evening Reception. The value of your flights costs will be re-imbursed after the Awards evening. There is no cash alternative, the prize is non-transferable and receipts must be provided.
- You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed in the Mall Galleries, London SW1 in the spring of 2020 in an open-to-the-public exhibition giving your work free high profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity, and encourage and inspire others to develop their skills in food photography for the following year.
- Your image will be appreciated by some of the leading figures in the photography and food industries during the judging process
- A dedicated page will be added to our website showing an in depth profile of the overall winner featuring the winning image
- You will receive a dedicated press release promoting your image to international photography and food media
- Your hard work and creativity will be credited wherever the image is used and will be seen by millions of people across the globe
Category winners:
- All category winners will receive a prestigious trophy.
- The winner of Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year, a category of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, will win £1000GBP and an Errazuriz Don Maximiano Founder’s Reserve Commemorative Magnum (150cl), signed by Eduardo Chadwick.
- The winner of the Pink Lady® Apple a Day category will win £1000GBP and the winning image will be used by Pink Lady® in its UK multi media marketing campaign.
- The winner of the Production Paradise Food off the Press category will win a special feature in the Production Paradise Spotlight Food & Drink Photography online magazine, along with a 12-image gallery of their work.
- The winner of One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop, a category of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year will win £300GBP for use against One Vision Imaging services
- The winner of the Fujifilm Award for Innovation will receive the following:
- 6-month relationship with Fujifilm to be taken within 12 months of the awards
- Free loan of Fujifilm X-series products during the relationship
- Fujifilm will support the photographer by promoting them on their Social Media channels (subject to the work being shot on Fujifilm products)
- Fujifilm will support the photographer with up to 10 exhibition quality prints, to be printed by a laboratory of Fujifilm’s choice
- May be commissioned to present on behalf of Fujifilm at retailer events, experience days or trade shows (subject to the work being shot on Fujifilm products)
- The winner of the Student Food Photographer of the Year category will have the unique opportunity to have a 90 minute one-to-one (preferably in person, otherwise by Skype) with Commercial Photography Consultant and Mentor, Zoe Whishaw. This will include:
- Image review of up to 30 images
- Website review
- Analysis of creative direction
- Options and ideas to take career forwards
- Finalists will be invited to attend the glittering VIP Awards evening at the world renowned Mall Galleries, London SW1 along with leading figures from the world of photography, retail, food/photography and national press.
- You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed in the Mall Galleries, London SW1 in the spring of 2020 in an open-to-the-public exhibition giving your work free high profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity, and encourage and inspire others to develop their skills in food photography for the following year.
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