AOP Students Awards 2010 Exhibition

11th May - 20th May

Private View - Wednesday 12th May, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Opening times - Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm

The AOP has been running an annual competition for students since 1981. These awards recognise the excellent standard of photography produced by individuals studying on photography related courses in the U.K and Overseas. Now, over a quarter of a century since their inception, the Students Awards continue to flourish and offer the winning students and their colleges both support and valuable publicity.

One entrant will be crowned the AOP Student of the Year at the Awards night on Wednesday 12th May. They will receive a double page spread in the AOP Photographers Awards book, a day’s work experience with a high-profile AOP member, plus extensive press coverage. We may also use their winning images to promote the AOP Students Awards and AOP Student in the following year.

There will two Merit Awards, plus all finalists will have their winning images exhibited in a 2-week exhibition at the AOP Gallery, from 11th May – 20th May, as well as being the main feature in the Students Awards Book, which is being produced by Blurb this year.

For further information please visit - http://www.the-awards.com
For further information on any of the exhibitions please e-mail gallery@aophoto.co.uk

Moral Rights are, of course, important to all creators - but the Integrity and Attribution right are of particular importance to photographers. Indeed, any commercial visual artist, such as illustrators, value moral rights to protect their integrity and enhance their reputation.

Images are the perfect medium for a digital age, and all photographers use the Internet to enhance their reputation and sell themselves and their work to new and existing clients - either via their own websites, online galleries or stock libraries who license the images on their behalf.  Images are constantly ’lifted’ from the Internet, despite warnings and imbedded metadata, and suddenly appear on other websites and social networking sites – but of course, many are never discovered. Metadata doesn’t stay with images, the publishing process itself often removes it and each time an image is lifted it loses any metadata imbedded – particularly when it changes format.

The judging for the AOP Students Awards 2010 is now complete and all the images have been selected.

To view all the successful 2010 images please click here.

The AOP Students Awards exhibition will run from 11th May - 20th May at the AOP Gallery.

Winners will be announced at the Awards night on Wednesday 12th May.

For further information click here.

Online entry is now open for the photography competition accessible to all.

The AOP Open is the only competition in which established professionals, assistants, students and keen amateurs all compete on equal terms.

There are no categories or themes - the aim of the competition is to showcase outstanding individual images.

The deadline is 16th May 2010 and the images will be judged by a panel of noted professionals from the creative industry. For more information please click here.

Click here to enter now.

The 2010 Photographers Awards competition is now closed.

The First Round judging will take place during the last week of April and the first week of May. Entrants will be contacted in the second week of May to inform them whether they have progressed to the Second Round.

Click here for more information about the Photographers Awards.