The Royal Photographic Society’s International Print Competition, the longest standing photographic competition of its kind in the world, is open for entries. This year, the competition is sponsored by Allen & Overy, as in the past two years.The overall winner will receive the Society’s gold medal and a prize of £2,000. Two entrants will win silver medals and £1,000 each. Three bronze medal winners are entitled to prizes of £500 each, while the winners of the themes, “Cities of the World’ and ‘Industry and Commerce’ will receive £750 each. The winner of the Under 25 category will be awatded with the Society’s gold medal and a prize of an Olympus PEN camera. The submission deadline is 29 March 2010. Shown above is one of last year’s bronze medal winners, ‘Who Eats Who’ by David Maitland.

Website: RPS 153rd International Print Competition

RPS Press Release

The Royal Photographic Society’s 153rd International Print Competition
www.rps.org

Third year of sponsorship from international legal practice,  Allen & Overy LLP announced

Deadline for entries: Monday 29th March 2010

Society Medals and Allen & Overy Awards

•    1 Gold Society Medal and a prize of £2,000

•    2 Silver Society Medals and prizes of £1,000 each

•    3 Bronze Society Medals and prizes of £500 each

•    RPS/Allen & Overy International Award of £750 on the theme ‘Cities of the World’

•    RPS/Allen & Overy International Award of £750 on the theme ‘Industry and Commerce’

•    Under 25 - Gold Society Medal and a prize of an Olympus PEN camera

•    Up to 125 prints will be selected for the Exhibition

•    All selected images will be reproduced in a full colour catalogue.  All entrants will receive a copy of the catalogue

•    The Exhibition will tour from July 2010 for approximately 1 year

•    Exhibitors will have the opportunity to sell copies of their prints

•    SELECTION DATES: Thursday 29th and Friday 30 April 2010

•    The Awards will be presented during the Opening Reception on Wednesday 14 July 2010, at Allen & Overy’s prestigious building at Bishops Square, London

Selectors:

JOHN CHAMBERLIN FRPS
Chairman of Selectors
Visual Art and Wildlife Photographer

JUDY BOYLE FRPS
Creative and Visual Art Photographer

JOE CORNISH HonFRPS
Landscape Photographer
www.joecornish.com

TIM FLACH
Creative and Fine Art Photographer
www.timflach.com

DAVID WHEELER FRPS
Visual Art Photographer

Entry forms can be downloaded from The Society’s website, under Exhibitions:

http://www.rps.org/international-print-exhibition/The-153rd-International-Print-Exhibition-2010

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