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Thursday 15 May 2008
ILLUSTRATED TALK AND EXHIBITION
A talk by writer Sally Jenkinson, founder member of The Alliance for Childhood, on the importance of play as a key ingredient for a childhood full of wonder. Acompanied by an exhibition of black & white photographs by Pete Millson from 8–9.30pm. The North London Rudolf Steiner School, 1–3 The Campsbourne (off Hornsey High Street), Hornsey, London N8 7PN Tickets £3.50 in advance. Contact Gabriele Woelfle 020 8341 3770 or Pete Millson 07768 077353. info@rudolfsteiner.london.sch.uk
BPPA AGM Date announced
This year’s BPPA AGM will be held on Friday 16th May 2008 from 7.30pm in the Johnson room at YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE on Fleet Street. There is a cash bar and there will be some food too. This is a historic venue for The Association as it was here at the very end of 2002 that six photographers got together and decided to re-form the BPPA. None of us works on Fleet Street any more but it is still the spiritual home of press photography in the UK and we are delighted to be able to bring the 2008 AGM to that home. A detailed agenda will be published nearer the time but we have several items of business that we need to discuss with as many members as possible.
First Scotrail Press Photography Awards 2007 - Winners announced
Two BPPA members were amongst the winners in the FIRST SCOTRAIL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2007. Ian MacNicol won Sports Photographer of the Year and Tom Main won Sports Picture of the Year. Here is a full list of the winners:
Photographer of the Year
Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman
Picture Essay of the Year
Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman
Highly Commended: Kirsty Anderson, Sunday Herald
Features Photographer of the Year
Donald MacLeod, The Scotsman
Sports Photographer of the Year
Ian MacNicol, Freelance
Highly Commended: Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman
Local Photographer of the Year
John McIntyre, Freelance
Highly Commended: Gordon Fraser, East Lothian News
Young Photographer of the Year
No award
Student Photographer of the Year
Claire Cox, Stevenson College Edinburgh
Highly Commended: Johnny Mclauchlan, Glasgow Metropolitan College
News Picture of the Year
Andrew Milligan, Press Association
Sports Picture of the Year
Tom Main, Freelance
Judges’ Commendation: Rebecca Lee, Ideal Images
Celebrity Picture of the Year
Mark Anderson, Sunday Mail/Freelance
Highly Commended: Gordon Terris
Newspaper of the Year
Sunday Herald
Highly Commended: Daily Record
Magazine/Supplement of the Year
Herald Magazine – joint winner
Sunday Times ‘Ecosse’ – joint winner
Open Category
Andrew Milligan, Press Association
First ScotRail Employee Photographer of the Year
John Hay
Highly Commended: Alan Wallace
Judging Panel
Ken Lennox, ex-picture editor of The Sun
Colin Cavers, Documentary photographer and lecturer at Napier College Edinburgh
Paul Delmar, Head of Photo-journalism training, National Council for Training of Journalists
Stan Hunter, ex Picture Editor, Scottish Daily Express
Ray Wells, Picture Editor, Sunday Times
Member Downloads
We have started to add some new downloadable items for BPPA members which can be accessed from their member log-ons. We will keep adding useful and interesting items as we come across them. Amongst the new content is; this month's newsletters, the PCC code of conduct, the BPPA/CIoJ/NUJ Met guidelines and the UNSEEN 2008 rules and technical guidelines
UNSEEN 2008 announced
The Association has now launched the new UNSEEN project and put out a call for submissions in a newsletter on the 19th of March. The closing date is Sunday 6th April. Here is the text of that call and if any member needs the rules sent to them again they should contact postmaster@thebppa.com
CALL FOR ENTRIES – UNSEEN - hidden, concealed, obscured, out of sight, invisible, imperceptible, undetectable, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unobserved.
The BPPA hasn’t published a book for a while and to rectify that situation we are revisiting the idea of UNSEEN. Back in 2003 we held a hugely successful gallery show and published a catalogue on this theme. The Association’s key aim is to promote press photography and many of the finest images produced it’s members go unnoticed.
It happens to all of us, a lot of the time – many of our best images don’t get the space and prominence they deserve; overlooked because they don’t fit the right shape or because they are too subtle. The result - they are either never published, buried in the middle pages, used the size of a postage stamp or even overshadowed by a huge advert. We are also keen to see pictures that may not have even been shot for publication, but might be a photographer’s personal work.
We are going to right some of these wrongs and collect some of the your best work. The book will be around 192 pages, “coffee table” size and published by one of the best know publishers in our industry.
We are looking for great photographs. The operative word being great. These can be anything – a wonderful features or sports picture which deserves to be published, or a personal image worthy of sharing. We are asking members to look through their archives, find a maximum of twelve UNSEEN images and get them to us in time for the edits.
To make the publisher’s deadlines we need to hand over a finished edit by the end of May this year. Also we need a smaller edit of the best work by the end of April.
The amount of time needed to log entries and edit the pictures means that all submissions must be received by midnight, Sunday 6th April 2008. We encourage you to submit as early as possible as this will make life easier.
The BPPA has a brilliant record with projects like this and we want as many of you as possible to be in with a chance of being part of what will be a stunning book.
So here we go, another BPPA project. Please remember that our goal is, and always has been to promote press photography. The BPPA exists for a whole variety of reasons and getting our best work in front of our peers, the rest of the industry and the public is the key one. Please enter and help make this project as successful as all of the others have been.
Philip Jones Griffiths
This week saw the sad passing of one of the world's greatest photojournalists. Philip Jones Griffiths accomplished so much and influenced the way many of us think about the world and how we document it.
The Magnum Blog has a moving tribute from Staurt Franklin that says everything so eloquently: http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2008/03/philip_jones_griffiths_1936-2008.html
BPPA member Graham Harrison has an interview with Philip on his Photo histories site which is also required reading. http://www.photohistories.com/
2008 BPPA Subscriptions
The Association’s 2008 membership year officially began on January 1st and your subscriptions are now due. There are three ways that you can pay:
•go to the BPPA website http://www.thebppa.com and log on to your own user identity and follow the links to renew your membership
•go to http://www.paypal.com and make a payment for £75.00 to paypal@britishpressphoto.org
•send a cheque for £75.00 to BPPA, Suite 219, 2 Lansdowne Crescent, Bournemouth, BH1 1SA quoting your membership number
EPUK reports several Police incidents
The Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK) website has published several pieces incidents involving confrontations between Police and photographers. From an agency photographer in Birmingham being forced to delete images to a London based BPPA member winning substantial out-of-court damages for an assault the trend looks a little worrying.
You can also find the latest ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) media guidelines on the EPUK site.
Press Photographer's Year 2008 announced
Designed for press photographers by press photographers. Now in its third year The Press Photographer's Year is the definitive competition to recognise and showcase the outstanding press photography taken for, and used by the UK media.
The 2008 awards are now OPEN and you have until the 24th of March to enter. It follows last year's awards where once again over 6000 entries were received. A jury of ten distinguished photographers will make an edit of around 150 photographs and award 12 prizes.
All these photographs will be brought together and published in Assignments 3 -
The Press Photographer's Year and then exhibited at the National Theatre's Lyttelton foyer on London's South Bank from 5th July 2008.
Sponsored by Canon cameras since its inception, their aim is to demonstrate once again that even in an age of rolling television news, internet and satellite communication, the traditional still image burns the keenest, fastest impression on the public conscience and is the most effective way to show the world the world as it really is.
Press Cards - BPPA members can apply now
After several months of hard work, meetings and changes to various designs we are delighted to announce that BPPA members can now apply for a Press Card through the Association. To find the application form and the instructions all you need to do is to click on the orange link above.
Unfortunately the BPPA will have to charge applicants an administration fee whether or not their application is successful. The fee is currently £30.00 and a cheque for this amount must be sent with the application form.
Non members of the Association will be charged a fee for the card if their application is successful. The fee is currently £225.00 or the equivalent of three years full membership of the BPPA. BPPA members will be asked to make their membership paid up until the end of the membership year in which the card expires. This will mean paying up to three years membership in advance if you are approved for a Press Card through the BPPA. The card is valid for two years
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