Award categories

2009 Exhibition | Runner up Photography - Gurdwara, Simran Sandhu

Brief: This category invites submissions in digital or print photography. Entrants are welcome to submit a photographic sequence or a single image and entries will be graded based on the student’s use of technique and skill as well as the purpose and meaning of the picture(s).

Polaroid’s, high resolution prints or slides are welcome as well as digital images but all submissions must be made online so hard copies will need to scanned and submitted over the web.

Judges will be looking in equal measure at image content as well as craft.

Prize: Five finalists will be selected from all of the entries in this category. The finalists will be invited to an awards evening where the winner will be announced.

The winner will receive a £1000 cash prize and a chance to become the Maurice Miller Design Champion. Second prize will be awarded £100 and third prize will receive £50.

If you are aged 16-18 your entry will automatically be entered into the Young Northern Designer award. Five finalists from across all of the competition categories will be invited to the awards evening where the winner will be announced. The Young Northern Designer will recieve a £500 cash prize and £250 for their school, college or university. The two runners up will receive a prize of £250 each and £100 for their school, college or university.

Criteria: Entrants can submit a series of images or one single image in this category. Images must be submitted in RGB format and be at a high enough resoultion to be judged properly.

Important: As part of the entry process, entrants will be asked to submit a rationale (description) for their project. This should be prepared in advance and pasted in to the appropriate box during the submission process. The rationale should include details of the original brief, the process undertaken, the tools and techniques used and a personal reflection on any learning outcomes.

By submitting a well constructed and thorough description of their work, students are likely to do better in the competition because the judges will be able to better understand the purpose of the piece and the student’s interpretation of the original brief. Because of the professional nature of the competition, the judges are likely to favour entries with good use of language and grammar for the project and the rationale.

File requirements: Entrants should ensure that the file(s) submitted do not exceed 50MB. For further information and support, please download the competition resource sheet*.

Judge: Corinne Silva

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