The UK Picture Editors' Guild Awards 2011
The UK Picture Editors' Guild Awards 2011
The highly-acclaimed UK Picture Editors Guild Awards competition which launched in 2010 returned for 2011 with additional prestigious sponsors and improved prize categories.
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for a spectacular night at the Awards last night - 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
This second year of the awards was amazing;without question better than the last and due to your efforts of perfection;totally brilliant
Stewart Goldstein , Newscast
These awards are distinctive in that panels of judges consisting only of working picture editors from national and regional newspapers and international photo agencies assess the thousands of entries from professional photographers from throughout the media. Enthusiastic non-professionals also get an opportunity to have their work judged in their own category by the same top editors.
In 2010 the first-ever competition awarded thousands of pounds in prize money to the winners of eight categories with the overall accolade of SABMiller Photographer of the Year going to the Guardian's Martin Argles. This year an extra category for Regional Photographer of the Year was added.
Headline sponsors enabling the Guild to provide this unique opportunity to reward the very best in photo-journalism include SABMiller, the international brewer, telecom giant BT, British Airways, and Nikon, plus the media companies Bloomberg, Newscast, and Fotolia.
Amateur Photographer magazine has joined with the Guild to encourage readers to compete in the improved Citizen Photographer of the Year section.
This year's award-winning images will be on display to the public in a ground-breaking new exhibition thanks to PhotoBox and the Museum of London.
Alan Sparrow, UK Picture Editors' Guild chairman, said: "We were thrilled with the many congratulations we received for the success of our first annual Awards. This is now the premier celebration of the skill and talent 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.
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