Canon IXUS 240 HS
Canon PowerShot SX240 HS
Nikon D800
Samsung DV300F
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Nikon Coolpix P510
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30
Nikon Coolpix S9300
2010 FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards
The 2010 FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards are open for entries. The main competition - which is broken down to six categories including commercial, reportage, portraits, wedding, landscape and illustrative - is open to European photographers only, but non-Europeans can participate in a special international section. Category winners will be awarded a “Golden Camera Award” – and the overall winner will be named FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2010. The competition will close for entries on 15th July 2010. Entry fees apply.
Website: Federation of European Photographers
FEP Press Release
Would you like to set the standard for international photography?
The 2010 FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards, sponsored by EPSON, is a benchmark in European photography – and professional photographers now have a chance to obtain these prestigious awards by participating in this competition, where images from the best of worldwide photography will compete.
One of the most important competitions worldwide
“With the FEP European Professional Photographers of the Year, I entered one of the most important competitions worldwide, since, as has been demonstrated by the participants in 2009, the level is very high; you compete against great names in European Photography. Winning the competition is a great recognition for a professional photographer and for me it meant a lot both personally and professionally - giving great international prestige.” Strong words from FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2009, Jose Luis Guardia Peinado, Spain who also won a category with his very strong bridal portrait. He adds, “My work is internationally based and winning has strengthened the confidence of my clients in the quality of my work and opened new business opportunities.”
The competition is now open for entries from European Photographers. Non-Europeans can participate in a special section.
Photographers can enter 3 images in each of the following categories
• Commercial (advertising, fashion, food, architecture, corporate etc.)
• Reportage (Social, press & travel reportage)
• Portraits (conventional/unconventional incl. nudes)
• Wedding (traditional as well as experimental)
• Landscape (including urban landscape, nature & wildlife)
• Illustrative (including pictorial images)
• INTERNATIONAL SECTION (open to photographers not resident in Europe – and open to all pictures)
Category winners will be awarded a “Golden Camera Award” – and the overall winner will be awarded FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2010.
Makes your heart skip a beat
“At national level to be hovering close to the top is always reassuring. But winning a top prize on a European stage against the ‘best of the best’ makes your heart skip a beat. And whilst winning an award of such magnitude is indeed an ‘ego boost’, the real value is to be gained through the high profile jobs that can be won as a consequence. High profile clients want high ‘profile photographers’, they want to be seen to be winners too”, Gerry O’Leary, Ireland, 2009 Winner of the Commercial Category states. Gerry also holds the prestigious Master Qualified European Photographer distinction. “The more I understand it, the sweeter the taste of my victory. I am sure that participation in such contests makes a photographer grow professionally”. Pictorial-category winner Yuri Afanasiev, Russia, adds.
With FEP President Neil Warner as Chairman of the Jury, this prestigious competition will be judged by an international jury.
The competition will close for entries on July 15th 2010. The entrants will be asked to pay a small fee for participating.
The winners will be announced at the EPSON stand in Photokina, Cologne, on September 22nd 2010 The 2010 FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards, sponsored by EPSON, can be seen at http://www.europeanphotographers.eu
Photo Credit: Yuri Afanasiev
Canon IXUS 240 HS Review
Canon PowerShot SX240 HS Review
Nikon D800 Review
Samsung DV300F Review
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review
Nikon Coolpix P510
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30
Fujifilm X-Pro1
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V
#1 madeleine
In 2009 the organizers of this competition didn't respect their own rules.
According to the rules, published on the competitions website the pictures were to be judged by 6 Master QEP holders. But several judges didn't even have a standard QEP award.
The day the competition was closed the results were leaked by on of the webdesigners to a Dutch competitor.
The webdesigner was disgusted by the fact that several judges had given their highest points to fellow countrymen.
When the official results got published they were identical and showed that indeed nationalist impulses had prevailed in several cases thus falsifying the results.
A Belgian photographer who got the info from his Dutch colleague confronted the organization with it and was afterwards, during a Spanish congress, publicly accused by the president of FEP of hacking the website. He was also accused of having altered the points. But he had just passed on information that he got from a third party.
Winners were invited at a grand ceremony at the museum of photography in Antwerp. Together with several Dutch colleagues we took a 3 hour drive trough snow and ice to attend this ceremony... It was a farce.
In one room adjacent to the museum library the pictures were exposed. In that room two tables with glasses of cheap cava and orange juice. The 'grand 'ceremony took about 15 minutes. The ceremony for my swimming diploma was much more impressive.
Our Dutch party was very disappointed and angry as was the Spanish delegation that had traveled to Antwerp by plane specially for the occasion.
A few months later we received an e-mail from the organization containing a pdf. This was our silver award . We were supposed to print it ourselves...
We were so pissed that we teamed up with six Dutch photographers and decided to have a closer look at the organization.
Last week we received the official statutes from the Belgian court of commerce. Fep is hosted in Belgium.
At first we thought we had received the papers of an other organization because mister Niel Warner supposedly the president of the FEP is not mentioned in the statutes, nowhere.
The man claiming to be the C.E.O. is officially the secretary of the organization. And the function of C.E.O. is nowhere mentioned in the official statutes.
It is one big hoax.
6:39 am - Wednesday, August 11, 2010