SUN AWARDS 26 by Shot Up North

Participate How to enter • The Call for Entries is announced in May each year. • News of this appears on our SUN web site, and in various publications and online media. • Categories include Best Image, Best Use of Image and Best Promotion of a Photographer. • Details and Entry Forms appear on the web site once the call is announced. Call for Entries shotupnorth.co.uk/call-for-entries Podcasts Features and Interviews with Photographers, Designers are available as Audio or Image Enhanced Podcasts to download and listen or watch on your computer or iPod. Available FREE • from the SUN Awards web site – shotupnorth.co.uk • search the iTunes store for SUN AWARDS (automatically updated when a new podcast becomes available). Buy the SUN book Published each year to coincide with the presentation of the SUN Awards. You can purchase the book online via our web site.

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CONTENTS How to enter, buy the book

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Welcome 5 Judges 6 Best Image

Best Use of Image

Best Promotion of a Photographer

Should Photographers be Locked Up?

Photographers Index

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The SUN Awards showcases and rewards the best photography produced each year by professional photographers based in the Northern regions of the UK. The awards are a not-for-profit event run by photographers for all those who work with, purchase or commission photography.

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SUN26 Judges

Judges left to right Amy Rodchester Designer Brass Agency | John Weldon CC Imaging | Jon Cohen Fuji Film (Chairman) Kate Abbey Photographer | Glyn Davies Photographer | Geoff Clark Blackpool College

“Such professionalism reinforces the tremendous value of using the very best photography when meeting client needs. All involved are to be heartily congratulated.”

“There’s some really strong, image makers in the North: I’ve always been aware of that, but this year’s SUN has demonstrated that’s its not just a core set, but in fact a broad range of brilliant creatives”

“There was something definitely more varied and honest in this Northern presentation of imagery”

“I felt that overall, photographers were genuinely connecting with subject and creative image making”

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Best Image

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Best Image Winner Dan Aziz

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Tim Ainsworth | 0161 866 8803 | tim@timainsworth.com | timainsworth.com 10

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Dan Aziz | 07988 876 646 | dan@danaziz.biz | danaziz.biz | Commissioned: Wynyard Hall Country House Hotel 12

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Jonathan Beer | 07900 992 075 | info@jonathanbeer.co.uk | jonathanbeer.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

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Jonathan Beer | 07900 992 075 | info@jonathanbeer.co.uk | jonathanbeer.co.uk | Commissioned: Hasselblad shotupnorth.co.uk

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Simon Crofts | 0131 228 4243 | contact@croandkow.com | croandkow.com | Commissioned: Der Spiegel shotupnorth.co.uk

Paul Crowther | 07770 528 374 | paul@revolverphoto.com | revolverphoto.com 22

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Matt Davis | 07812 787 051 | matt@davisphotographer.co.uk | davisphotographer.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

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Peter Dibdin | 0131 560 1360 | info@peterdibdin.com | peterdibdin.com | Commissioned: Orkid Studio shotupnorth.co.uk

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Nick Dunmur | 07831 253 745 | info@nickdunmur.com | nickdunmur.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Ryan Edy | 07966 439 372 | ryan@ryanedy.com | ryanedy.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Paul Fosbury | 07788 818 011 | email@paulfosbury.com | paulfosbury.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Merit | Andy Gallacher | 07775 688 774 | andygallacherphoto@mac.com | andygallacher-photography.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Richard Goulding | 0161 924 0203 | admin2@richardgoulding.co.uk | richardgoulding.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

Ed Horwich | 07976 407 472 | book@edphoto.com | edphoto.com 36

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Ed Horwich | 07976 407 472 | book@edphoto.com | edphoto.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Adam Murray-Brown | 07730 412 803 | amurraybrown@me.com | ambacreative.co.uk | Commissioned: Creative Review shotupnorth.co.uk

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Jonathan Oakes | 0161 236 9045 | jonathan@jonathanoakes.com | jonathanoakes.com | Commissioned: Fogg Associates shotupnorth.co.uk

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David Seed | 07973 633 535 | dave@seedphoto.co.uk | seedphoto.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

Merit | Steve Sharp | 07884 363 234 | info@stevesharp.co | stevesharp.co 44

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Steve Sharp | 07884 363 234 | info@stevesharp.co | stevesharp.co shotupnorth.co.uk

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Mike Slawski | 0191 264 8888 | studio@magenta.org.uk | magenta.org.uk | Commissioned: Beamish Museum shotupnorth.co.uk

Mike Slawski | 0191 264 8888 | studio@magenta.org.uk | magenta.org.uk | Commissioned: Beamish Museum 48

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Peter Thompson | 07711 556 634 | itsfab@petethompsons.co.uk | petethompsons.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

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Best Image Second | Phill Thornton | 07710 499 281 | phill.photo@btopenworld.com | phillphoto.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

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Simon Vine | 07973 394 624 | info@sv-photography.co.uk | sv-photography.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk

Jimmy Welch | 0161 273 5511 | info@rig2.co.uk | rig2.co.uk | jimmywelch.co.uk 54

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Moy Williams | 07836 770 977 | moy@moyphotography.com | moyphotography.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Mark Williamson | 07774 990 939 | mark@markwilliamsonphotography.com | williamsonphotography.com | Commissioned: Sale Sharks shotupnorth.co.uk

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Mark Williamson | 07774 990 939 | mark@markwilliamsonphotography.com | williamsonphotography.com shotupnorth.co.uk

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Best Use of Image

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Best Use of Image Winner Jonathan Oakes

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Best Promotion of a Photographer

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Best Promotion of a Photographer Winner Isy & Leigh Anderson

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Best Promotion of a Photographer Highly Commended | Moy Williams | 07836 770 977 | moy@moyphotography.com | moyphotography.com 68

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Should photographers be locked up? Please tick

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Should photographers be locked up as insane for expecting to make a reasonable living from their chosen profession? Is it too much to ask to be able to map out a career path as other professionals such as architects, lawyers and doctors might. We are after all part of the “creative industries” one of the few sectors this country can excel at within a global market. A few decades ago I suspect the pathway was easier to define. There wasn’t the massive volume of photography both good and bad available nor the methods of easy exchange and publication we experience now with the advent of the internet. If a client needed a photograph to promote their products they needed a photographer to produce it for them. There wasn’t the plethora of pre-existing images that could be cut and pasted together in an approximation of a result that could keep an over cautious account handler happy. Of course there has always been good and bad photographers but then there was a massive incentive to get better at your job and take better and better photographs. For those of us who did improve our successes were not only rewarded with higher day-rates but also more interesting and more frequent commissions by art directors and designers of the creatively driven agencies. You could form good working relationships with these creative people as they appreciated and valued the lengths to which you would go to produce better and better images. We all spoke

You were treated with respect and when you turned up for a location shoot with a couple of assistants and a Range Rover full of lights and cameras you got the facilities you needed from all concerned. OK you were being paid a relatively large sum of money to produce photographs for them but it was more than just the money. There was a respect for your ability to create beautiful images even from the mundane – it was magic and you were the magician. The changes in our businesses directly mirror what has happened within the advertising and design industries in good times and bad were creativity has a tendency to be under valued in businesses where the client is king and the most important line is the bottom line. We are all in business to make money but if that is the only motivation our businesses are as vulnerable as theirs. The most important thing in all this turmoil is that we never under value our own worth. If a client requires the best photography they have to employ the best photographers and that is us. Successful photographers not only have confidence in their own unique image making abilities but also understand how to capitalise their talents into a profitable business. Advances in technology perhaps once seen by some as the death of our industry are in fact the tools we have to employ to make our businesses successful. They also provide the key to our future. In fact if we don’t adopt these benefits we have no future.

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Advances in technology perhaps once seen by some as the death of our industry are in fact the tools we have to employ to make our businesses successful. shotupnorth.co.uk

. . . you are only as good as your clients . . .

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Technology not only helps us to take good photographs but perhaps more importantly assists us in the manner in which we organise and operate our businesses. We just have to make sure our clients appreciate just how much better our commissioned images are at doing the job for which they were intended than cut price ones snatched from the internet to foot the bill. The old saying “You are only as good as your clients” has never been truer so we have a strong vested interest in helping the people we rely on for an income to realise the value of good photography. Technology not only helps us to take good photographs but perhaps more importantly assists us in the manner in which we organise and operate our businesses. For example back in the days before the mobile phone existed the invention of the answer phone and pager gave you the ability to be away from the studio but still be contactable. You didn’t have to sit in a room alone with your phone any more waiting for it to ring to ensure you got that next all important job. This was liberating in itself but 5 years later we had the mobile phone – just voice at first but later texts and later still cameras, emails and everything else we now have at our disposal. Not to adopt this technology would be professional suicide and this is true for most advances.

OK sometimes it doesn’t all go in our favour but then we have to use the elements that are of benefit to us as with the greatest of all advances - the internet. Although the internet is responsible for many negative effects as discussed earlier the benefits of communication it offers to us are something we would not like to be without.

One of the new innovations available with newer digital cameras is the ability to shoot moving pictures. Could this become an important part of a photographers job. If yes those photographers who master this medium will be at a distinct advantage as long as they can convince their clients of its value and get away from the piggy back approach where it is tagged onto a stills shoot as a bit of an extra. This great technical innovation should not be sold out on the cheap. It will become even more important as advertising moves away from the printed image to screen based content. We almost take the influence of all this technology for granted now but it really has been a short period of time since we first recognised the creative possibilities available to us and it is these possibilities that will be the key to a successful business in the future. The accelerating speed at which new innovations are added make it difficult to keep up but it can sometimes be a lot of fun trying. Learning new things is always a pleasure at any point in your career.

When I started to write this piece I was expecting to find big differences in the way people thought of photography as a business. These differences do exist but behind them all there is a truth and that is as it has always been - that successful photographers not only know how to take the best photographs but know how to sell them as well. This is equally true of photographers who have had successful businesses for a long period of time or those at the start of their careers. There is a commonality there and that is that they all want to take better photographs. Funny that isn’t it.

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Tim Ainsworth Dan Aziz Jonathan Beer Chris Close Graeme Cooper Simon Crofts Paul Crowther Matt Davis Peter Dibdin John Donoghue Nick Dunmur Nick Eagle Ryan Edy Paul Fosbury Andy Gallacher

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Richard Goulding Ed Horwich David Lindsay Adam Murray-Brown Jonathan Oakes David Seed Steve Sharp Mike Slawski Peter Thompson Phill Thornton Simon Vine Jimmy Welch Moy Williams Mark Williamson

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