14.03.12
Professional Photographer of the Year 2011 shortlist announced
Professional Photographer of the Year 2011 shortlist announced
Professional Photographer magazine today announced the shortlist for the prestigious, annual Professional Photographer Of The Year (PPOTY) awards. The 2011 competition has seen a huge increase in interest with over 6300 entries, more than six times as many as the year before!
Adam Scorey, competition judge and Group Editor of Professional Photographer magazine said: “When we saw the final quantity of images entered, we were flabbergasted. However, what did dawn on us that we needed to shortlist 6,000-plus images to just 16! It took far longer than we initially thought, especially as at virtually every other image we were exclaiming “Wow!” The standard of entries, not that I am complaining, was very high in all categories, making the team’s job particularly hard. In the end, the process took six people about a week, on and off, to get to the initial shortlist of 160 images. Yes, there was a little argy-bargee with judges agreeing, but we got there in the end. I can’t wait until the 29th March to meet all of the winners, runners up, judges and sponsors at theprintspace for the awards evening. It will be a great night. There are rumours that a national broadsheet will be there too! May I take this opportunity to say a huge, massive, immense “Thank you,” too everyone, from the sponsors to the thousands of entrants across the globe, who supported us financially and took the time and made the effort to get involved. We will of course have another competition for 2012, which we will let you all know about as soon as possible – we need a little time to make room on our servers ready for the predicted quantity of uploads.”
Categories
Participants had the option to submit their images to 13 different categories: High Fashion, Street Photography, The Wild World, Commercial Clients, In The Studio, On Location, Sporting Action, Reportage Weddings, Still Life, Student of the Year, Editorial News, Breaking the Mould and The Portfolio Award.
The shortlist
WINNERS
High Fashion - Chee Loon Jericho Soh
Street Photography - Mihail Kopychko
Wild World - Radek Vik
Commercial - James Neale
In the studio – Rossella Vanon
On Location - Marko Mestrovic
Sporting Action - Bjorn Stig Hansen
Reportage Weddings - Adam Riley
Still Life - Jen miles
Student of the Year - Luise Hannah Reichert
Editorial News - Fabio Bucciarelli
Breaking the Mould - Martin Stranka
Portfolio Award - John McMurtrie
Runners Up
High Fashion - Maksym Finogeiev, Nikola Borissov & Marko Mestrovic
Street Photography - James Gourley, Paolo Inglese & Kate Passaro
Wild World - David Tyrer, Simon Ellingworth & Laura Jane Vest
Commercial - Rich Cooper, Irene van der Meijs & Alistair Veryard
In the studio - Florence Leung, Radu Carnaru & Luise Hannah Reichert
On Location - Florence Leung, Vladimir Tochanenko & Radek Vik
Sporting Action – David, Eyre, Jeremy Rata & Craig Mitchell
Reportage Weddings - Mihail Kopychko, Mark Wallis & Andy Griffin
Still Life - Simon Ellingworth, Sebastian Schofield & Parth Sengupta
Student of the Year - Harley Jo Maloney, Diana Grigore & Martins Melecis
Editorial News - Jemima Marriott, Paul Hackett & John McMurtrie
Breaking the Mould - Jenny Brough, Julian Clune & Pavel Tereshkovets
Portfolio Award - Maksim Djackov, Rich Cooper & Tany Kely
The shortlisted photographers have been invited to the PPOTY awards night in London on 29 March, where a winner and three runners up of each category will be announced – plus there will be a little surprise award on the night! We will also have some tickets, 20 in all, open for PP readers who may want to come along to theprintspace on the Awards Night on a first-come-first-serve basis; please send your request to: Kathrine.anker@archant.co.uk with the message line entitled: PPOTY READER TICKETS
The judges
The entries to this year’s PPOTY competition have been judged by an impressive line-up of prominent people in the photographic industry:
Dr Andy Gotts MBE, Celebrity Photographer
Paul Sanders, former Picture Editor of The Times
Ben Duffy, Editorial and Commercial Photographer
Tom Catchesides, Founder of Light Blue Software
Adam Scorey, Group Editor Archant Imaging
The Professional Photographer of the Year 2011 competition is sponsored by: Sigma, Chaudigital,
Amazing Internet, Olympus, Morgan Richardson Insurance, Hasselblad, Lightblue, Fixation, Hahnemuhle
and Focal Press.
The PPOTY awards night is hosted by 
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