New prize for Newsletter subscribers
We have copies of ‘101 Moderately Interesting Facts About Clerkenwell’ to award to 5 lucky (and talented) entrants.
To enter the first of our ‘Spot Prizes’, you simply have to be a Newsletter subscriber. Don’t worry, you won’t get bombarded with emails. Just once every fortnight or so. The only brief is, for this prize, we want the shots of people as we’ve been a bit short on people shots due to lockdown restrictions. It’s the variety and character of people who make this area truly interesting. Portraits, group shots, a friend, a relative, a social club, a sports club, or people finally hugging! Remember to ask their permission, and let them know the picture may be seen on a website (and possibly an exhibition). On your entry, just add ‘Newsletter Subscriber’ so we know you’d like it to be entered into this little contest as well as the main one.
These will be judged by the Editor of the website and competition, rather than our official judges. (Basically me. The same person who wrote and illustrated the little book.)
Entries for this additional ‘spot’ prize should be in before the end of June 6th
COMPETITION UPDATE
Some recent entries: Buses, trains, bicycles and foxes
We all see the area the same way - differently.
We’re seeing a nice wide range of images being entered. And more importantly, from a diverse range of ages, showing all sorts of aspects of life in Clerkenwell.
One of the aims of this project was to see how different people see the same area. This is beautifully illustrated by two shots of a bus on the same road, but each with very different feel. One shows a number 38 bus and its reflection in a puddle at one end of Rosebery Avenue (shot by Andrew Plume in the under 18s section), and the other showing a woman on the top deck of the 341 at the other of Rosebery Avenue. One of several great shots entered by Thomas Casey in the 35-65 category.
This difference in age groups has been really encouraging. In one week we had three separate nature shots taken in Wilmington Square, entered by three different members of the same household, the youngest being 7 year old Damian Gayle. The shot of two parakeets from Curtis Gayle had the welcoming and positive caption ‘London welcomes all immigrants’. The next day we received a photo of a cheeky fox taken by Mervyn Rands in the Over 65s from his kitchen in Wynatt Street. And just yesterday we received a charming shot from Nicole Valente in the 18-35 category of a cub having a snooze under a car.
And we’ve had two different entries that, at first sight, look like they could have been taken a hundred years ago. One shows a vintage cycling club who had gathered in Exmouth Market, taken by Hayley Walsh. The other, a London Transport steam train leaving Farringdon Station on the 150th anniversary of the world's first Underground railway, one of several great shots from Thomas Casey.
We’re now looking forward to getting more portraits and people shots. Lockdown has meant that fewer people are out and about, or are meeting less often, but now restrictions have eased, we’re hoping entrants can capture the diverse range of people who live or work here. Especially as the main £100 prize is inspired by The Peel Institute’s ‘Connected Community’ mission. It’s important and polite to always ask permission though, especially if the shot may end up on a website or in an exhibition.
To get in touch: email photographyawards@peelinstitute.org.uk
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