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See below for the latest information about opportunities, new training schemes, events, masterclasses and other new services to help support the Photo Imaging industries.
Shoot Liverpool: Photography Competition
Date: Sat 26 May 2007
Time: 11.00am - 8.00pm
Price: £10, £8 (concessions)
Shoot Liverpool is a photographic treasure hunt being held in conjunction with Tate Modern's Shoot London on 19 May. Tate, Open Eye and Shoot Experience get the city's creative juices flowing with an event fusing photography, culture, history and art.
The theme for the treasure hunt is 'Water', a prominent feature of both cities involved. The event is open to everyone with a digital camera and sense of adventure.
Prizes are awarded for the quirkiest photos of the day and selected photos will be exhibited at Open Eye Gallery from 5 - 9 June 2007. Teams require one digital camera.
For detailed information and photos from previous events visit: www.shootexperience.com/ and www.openeye.org.uk
LICENSING GUIDE
An interesting new guide to one of the most important aspects of professional photography in the form of a podcast, featuring experts from the Association of Photographers. The Photographer's Guide to Licensing, Contracts, Terms And Conditions can be found at www.own-it.org/ipinfo/podcasts/ -scroll down to "Keeping Covered".
SUBMISSIONS
Best Of Manchester
The Best of Manchester Awards is a new competition designed to celebrate and support the creative energy in our city. It is for original and modern thinkers who are pushing fashion, music and visual arts forwards.
The shortlist will be given an exclusive exhibition at Urbis this summer, and the winners, who will be presented by Manchester's Creative Director, Peter Saville at an awards evening, will also receive a cash prize, publicity and support from their creative industry.
To enter and to choose the category you wish to enter in please visit: www.urbis.org.uk/thebestofmanchester
Closing date for entries is Mon 7 May.
SHOT UP NORTH - SUN AWARDS
Call for Entries 2007
The SUN Awards 2007 will open for entries on 1st May 2007 and close on 30th June 2007.
The categories are: 1. Best Image, 2. Best Use of an Image, 3. Best Promotion of a Photographer:
The competition is open to professional photographers based in the Northern United Kingdom, from Birmingham to Scotland, working within the disciplines of Advertising, Design, Editorial or Fashion. Open to designers from any location, but they may only nominate photographers based in the Northern United Kingdom.
For further details please visit: www.shotupnorth.co.uk
PAVILION ONLINE GALLERY
Pavilion are seeking submissions by photographers based in Yorkshire and the North East of England, to showcase contemporary photographic work through the Online Gallery, a dedicated space on the website, through which they aim to develop access, and increase awareness of local and regional practitioners.
Submission Deadline: 5.00pm 1 June 2007.
For further information visit: www.pavilion.org.uk
Adobe Design Achievement Awards
The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition - which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software - honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.
International prestige and valuable prizes.
The 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards competition is open to students at post-secondary institutions in 30 countries throughout the world. First-place winning entries will receive US$5,000, a trip to attend the awards ceremony, valuable Adobe software products, and studio tours.
For further information vist: www.adobe.com/education/adaa/
EVENTS & EXHIBITONS
PORTRAITURE AND THE YBAs
Date & Time: Thursday 10 May 2007, 13.15
Location: Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free
Portraiture, especially the self-portrait, was central to much of the new British art produced in the 1990s from the videos of Gillian Wearing to the installations and photographs of Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas and Tracy Emin. Sumi Ghose examines the role of the portrait in the art of the so-called 'young British artists'.