Wednesday 20 February 2008

Photography Competition - deadline 14 March

The competition's open to 'student, amateur and professional photographers worldwide to submit their work for consideration for the Exhibition'.

The ex referred to is the Royal Photographic Society's 151st International Print Exhibition - over 120 prints will be selected and will be reproduced in a full colour catalouge; all entrants will receive a copy of the catalogue; the exhibition will tour fromJune 2008; exhibitors will have the opportunity to sell copies of their prints.

Entry fee is £15 but for that you can send up to 4 images - image size should be no larger than 16" x 20". Deadline for entries 14th March 2008.

1 Gold prize of £10,000; 2 silver of £2,000 each; 3 bronze of £1000. The allen & Overy (sponsors) Prize of £1000 awarded for the image which best reflects the theme of Justice around the world'.

I came across the competition when I was checking out what was exhibiting in the Gloucester museum (top floor temporary exhibition gallery - years, I've been going to Gloucester and the library, years! And walking straight past the museum door with its very Roman invitation, thinking 'I've done the Romans, did it at school'. Worra daft girl! Didn't realise there was such a great gallery space on the top floor.)

Anyways, there are entry forms etc for the competition at the gallery (up Brunswick Road, towards where the old Gloscat building used to be - well, still is, but when it was open).

And the present exhibition is the 150th (surprisingly enough), and in addition to a fabulous range of prints!! has a central display board with newspaper cuttings and photos from over the 150 year history of the exhibition - makes for some interesting reading.

I reviewed the exhibition for a new Forest Radio programme 'Arts Cafe' which I'm co-presenting ... but more of that in a later posting.

Entry to museum and the print exhibition is free by the way.
Open until 1 March, opening hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm.

Fi
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1 comment:

Gill said...

I guess you've discovered how to post a blog entry, Fi?!

Interesting stuff!