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The UK Picture Editors' Guild Awards 2012
The Guild's highly-acclaimed Awards are now established as a premier annual event recognising and rewarding the talent and skill of Britain's press photographers ... and the 2012 competition is on track to be the best ever.
This year the competition is split between the main awards and a separate "Olympics Photographer of the Year" section.
Entries for the contest will again be through the Guild's dedicated website with pre-registration available from April and a closing deadline of 26th July for the main awardfs and 26th September for the Olympics awards.
Taking on the rôle of chairman of judges, David Ofield of the Evening Standard will be leading the panels of top picture editors judging each of the the competition's ten categories.
Winners in the ten separate categories, and the overall SABMiller Photographer of the Year, will be revealed at a prestigious gala evening held in the City of London on November 8th.
A huge thank you for a spectacular night at the Awards - what a wonderful event .
Estelle Hicks-Bennett, Senior Marketing Manager IPC
All of us at Bloomberg would like to express our thanks for another fantastic evening; you even managed to top last year's event!
The evening was great, people very interesting and the building simply amazing in the heart of London.
Benoit Caire, International Marketing & Biz Dev Director, Fotolia LLC
It was marvellous being among such iconic figures as Sir Harold Evans and Horst Faas and we all very much enjoyed meeting Kate Silverton.
Antony Robbins, Head of Communications, Museum of London
I just wanted to say congratulations again on another fantastic event. It was a real honour to be there amongst such talent and to be a part of it. Thank you again.
Sophia Antoniades, British Airways
Without question better than ever, totally brilliant.
Stewart Goldstein , Newscast
What makes the Awards distinctive is that panels of judges consisting only of experienced picture editors assess and select from thousands of entries from professional photographers working throughout the media.
Previous winners of the SABMiller Photographer of the Year title have been the Guardian's Martin Argles and Matt Dunham of Associated Press.
Regional, local, agency and freelance photographers have all won valuable cash prizes and trophies alongside their national colleagues.
Headline sponsors enabling the Guild to provide this unique opportunity to reward the very best in photo-journalism include SABMiller, the international brewer, British Airways, and Nikon, plus the media companies Bloomberg and Newscast.
This year's award-winning images, thanks to the printing expertise of Photobox, will also be on display to the public at a major exhibition to be held at the Museum of London.
Alan Sparrow, UK Picture Editors' Guild chairman, said: "The Awards have got better each year. I believe they are now the ultimate test and celebration of British press photography - the most dynamic and competitive media workplace in the world."
The UK Picture Editors' Guild
The UK Picture Editors' Guild has been established 30 years and is formed by picture editors from the picture desks of the national press, regional newspapers, international press agencies and domestic photo agencies.
The founding members, Paddy Hicks of the Press Association, Stuart Boyd of The Scotsman and Peter Woodman of the Newcastle Chronicle, felt there was a need for people in the same profession to have a forum in which they could share their thoughts.
It was acknowledged that there were common issues that could often find common solutions and sharing the problems with others meant that they could often be solved.
The needs that created the Guild in the past are still with us in the present and likely to be with us in the future.
The Guild encourages and is a supporter of fine photography and its members are involved in judging competitions throughout the World.
The Guild welcomes new members.