The Picture Editors' Awards were founded 15 years ago to recognise and reward the very best of British photographic journalism. They are judged by a jury of working picture editors from across the UK & Ireland. The Awards Ceremony, held annually in the splendour of Guildhall in the City of London, is one of the highlights of the journalistic calendar, with an audience of around 600, picture editors, photographers, and guests drawn from politics, commerce, sport and entertainment. Keynote speakers have included Prime Minister Tony Blair (three times), Gordon Brown, (when Chancellor of the Exchequer), and double Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas.
Founded when news gathering was still done on photographic film, the Awards have been refined & updated in line with the digital age. In recent years the Awards were enlarged to include the whole of the island of Ireland, and in 2007 an award for Web Publishing was made for the first time. Also in 2007, the traditional winter event was changed to mid summer, a highly popular move.
An announcement will be made shortly in relation to the 2008 Picture Editors' Awards.
The Awards are open to photographers resident in the UK and Ireland, and British and Irish photographers wherever they reside. Pictureawards.net, which has over 750,000 visitors annually, is a global showcase for current British photojournalism. |
The
2007 Picture Editors’ Awards were named at the Great Hall
of Guildhall, the 14th year that the City of London has hosted
the ceremony, on the evening of Wednesday 20 June 2007.
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