Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
The world's leading food photography and film contest
- Deadline: 5 February 2023
- Entry fee: A single sum of £30.00 GBP is required per adult entrant and allows up to 5 photographic entries. Further entries may be submitted at an additional fee of £6 GBP per entry.
- Website: http://www.pinkladyfoodphotographeroftheyear.com/
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year is the world's leading celebration of the art of food photography and film.
With over 20 categories, ranging from food portraiture to food politics, from weddings to harvest, the competition celebrates the diversity of ways food touches our lives. So this isn't just a competition for classic 'food photographers'; there's a category for every type of photographer.
Finalists' work will be exhibited at prestigious Royal Photographic Society, the world's oldest photographic society and seen across the world. Last year’s photographs have received more than 400 pieces of coverage across print, digital, radio and television in over 50 countries: from the BBC, The Times, Forbes, National Geographic and MSN, to Corriere della Sera, CNN, China Daily, Tatler and El Mundo. In addition, winning photographers have been interviewed on the world’s largest radio station, BBC World Service, and one of America’s biggest news TV programmes, CBS Saturday Morning.
Prizes:
Overall winner receives £5,000GBP. In addition:
You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed at the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, in a free-to-enter, public exhibition in May/June 2023, giving your work high-profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity and also 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.
You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed at the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, in a free-to-enter, public exhibition in May/June 2023, giving your work high-profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity and also encourage and inspire others to develop their skills in food photography for the following year.
The winner of the Pink Lady® Moments of Joy category will win £1,500GBP.
The winner of the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year category will win £1000GBP.
The winner of the Production Paradise Previously Published 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 the Hotel Art Group Cream of the Crop category will win £300GBP for use against One Vision Imaging services
The winner of the MPB Award for Innovation will win an MBP voucher for £1000GBP to spend on any used photography or videography equipment at MPB.com
The winner and two runners up of the Student Food Photographer of the Year category will receive an RPS Membership, worth £55. The winning student will have their work and an interview published in the award-winning RPS Journal.
In addition, the winner of the Student Food Photographer of the Year category will have the unique opportunity to have a 60 minute one-to-one Zoom meeting with Commercial Photography Consultant and Mentor, Zoe Whishaw. This will include:
Website review
Analysis of creative direction
Options and ideas to take career forwards
Eligibility:
Open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages.
Copyrights & Usage Rights:
Each entry must be the original work of the entrant and the entrant must have complete copyright for this work. The copyright in all images submitted to the awards will remain with the entrant who will be credited in accordance with the Terms and Conditions.
By entering the awards, each entrant grants to the Owners a non-exclusive, irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, and communicate to the public, by any means, exhibit their image and copies of their image in all media throughout the world in relation to the awards and the exhibition for no other purpose including but not limited to all use in the context of:
Judging the awards
Display in an exhibition
Inclusion in any portfolio book and magazine or similar
Inclusion within interactive elements associated with the awards and or exhibition (now known or hereafter created) available for viewing or download from the Owners’ website
Inclusion in promotional, press and marketing materials associated with the awards and or the exhibition
Inclusion in merchandising associated with the awards and or the exhibition
In some of the above circumstances, commercial opportunities may exist for winning photographers to benefit from the use of their image: where a commercial benefit is likely to arise, permission will be sought in advance and Terms and Conditions will be agreed.
Winning images will be used by the Organisers for a period of 14 months from the announcement of the winners and thereafter the Organisers may keep the winning images within an archive (electronic or otherwise) for a period of 3 years from announcement of the winners, after which permission will be sought from the photographers should their images be used in connection with the awards and or exhibition.
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