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).
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Welcome to the 24th year of Shot Up North’s
SUN AWARDS
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CONTENTS
How to enter, buy the book
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Welcome 5 Judges 6
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Best Image
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Best Promotion of a Photographer
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Best Use of Image
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SUN Motion
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SUN Rise
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SUN 25 Anniversary
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SUN Podcasts
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Photographer 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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JUDGES
Glen Cartwright Glen is Creative Director at Beautiful Minds, soon to become the creative arm of Bloom digital agency. He has won awards from all over the place for all manner of work. He photographed his friend Mr Ted on a recent night out in Leeds. He says “Well, not a lot to say about Mr Ted, apart from he is 6 foot tall, he’s nearly too big to fit in the Citroen C1. Has his own bedroom, and loves a pint with the lads in the local. He moved to Norfolk recently and now lives with my granddaughter Kya. This photo is the only memory I have left. If anyone knows a lonely female Ms Ted who fancys a good night out please pass on her number.” The photo was shot with Hisptamatic on iPhone.
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Laurence Cutting Laurence has had an interesting and diverse career. He spent time in the merchant navy studied at the Royal College had some shots used on Grandstand credits amongst other things and had numerous exhibitions both here and around the world. He has taught at Brighton, St. Martins, Manchester and Harrogate colleges and has recently returned from Mongolia were he has been working on a 7 year project. His shot of the racehorse after exercise was part of a series on the Kentucky Derby. One of the guys washing the horse down asked Laurence where he was from, Laurence replied England and explained what he was doing, after a long pause the questioner looked at his workmate and said “is that out of state?”. Later Laurence found out that many of the horse workers came from small communities in the Appalachian Mountains and had little idea of the outside world.
Roy Meiklejon Roy was made the Honorary President of BIPP this year, as well as being chairman of the judges for this year’s SUN Awards 24. Roy has had a long association with the Shot Up North since the early days and is a great supporter through the sponsorship of Towergate Camerasure. This photo of his daughter Jess outside Lincoln Cathedral was taken last January. The ducks in the picture are well known in Lincoln as they are always together when walking through the city. Even when busy with shoppers and tourists they never fail to take their evening stroll. Roy usually prefers his duck on a plate together with a nice glass of red wine.
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Jonathan Oakes Jonathan is a well established photographer and has always been a frequent contributor to The SUN Awards. This image is one of his favourite portraits. He explains: “This was one of a series of a dozen different actors I shot over a day in London. I hired a selection of old picture frames as props. Oliver Bradshaw understood the idea straight away, his bemused but stoical look positioned in the corner of the ornate frame balanced the composition perfectly. I built a huge, cumbersome and probably very dangerous ring light just for the job, the flat shadowless light it gave brought out the gilt in the frames and put a weird highlight in the eyes. The results, published in a hardback book with contributions from 38 other photographers was both diverse and unique and I was really proud to have been involved.”
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Ellie Halls Schiadas Ellie is co-founder of Leeds Gallery where the SUN Awards 24 will be exhibited through November and December this year. Leeds Gallery specialises in Photography, Illustration and Fine Art. Ellie studied at Central St. Martins college, becoming a freelance production designer and art director before setting up the Gallery. She runs a very successful life drawing group to keep her hand in. Her photograph was taken at Brimham Rocks in 2008. “I like it because it kind of looks like a diving board and that whoever steps on it is going to dive into some trees (!) There was another one which was of the actual rocks themselves, but when you zoom in it is blurry (bit of a shame)”.
Dan Watkins Dan is the mastermind image refiner behind Papa Imaging. His expertise goes way back to the glorious days of film. He is not merely a “Photoshoper” but will go to the greatest of lengths to make the image “better than anybody expected”. Dan’s image of his son’s blue plastic spade is almost an antidote to the images he deals with on a daily basis. He says “I often see hundreds of beautiful ‘commercial’ images every week and after twenty plus years I know my perception is skewed. In some ways I’m numb to brilliance. But that’s not as egotistic as it might sound, because I work with great images every day; that’s what I expect and assume to see”. Thanks Dan where’s the bucket then?
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Best Image Winner Dan Prince
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Best Image Winner Dan Prince | 07763 417346 | dan@danprince.co.uk | danprince.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk
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Steve Aland | 07760 112211 | info@stevealand.co.uk | stevealand.co.uk 12
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Harry Archer | 01274 669996 | harry@viewpointphotography.co.uk | viewpointphotography.co.uk | Commissioned. Sutton Young Consultants shotupnorth.co.uk
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Phil Cawley | 0161 273 7050 | phil@philcawley.co.uk | philcawley.co.uk 14
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Best Image Second George Coppock | 07960 407745 | podgeproduction@yahoo.co.uk | cargocollective.com/georgecoppock shotupnorth.co.uk
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Matthew Davis | 07812 787051 | matt@shashin.co.uk | shashin.co.uk 16
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Guy Farrow | 01924 444774 | info@guy-farrow.co.uk | guy-farrow.co.uk 20
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Best Image Third Paul Fosbury | 07788 818011 | mail@paulfosbury.com | paulfosbury.com | Commissioned. Joe Public Rohan shotupnorth.co.uk
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Tracey Gibbs | 07801 413161 | info@traceygibbs.co.uk | traceygibbs.co.uk 24
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Kerry Harrison | 07903 016103 | kerryharrisonphotography@hotmail.com | kerryharrisonphotography.com | Commissioned. Leeds College of Art 26
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Merit Tim Hetherington | 07831 228219 | tim-h@btconnect.com | tim-hetherington.com shotupnorth.co.uk
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Ed Horwich | 07976 407472 | book@edphoto.com | edphoto.com | Commissioned. Daily Mail Weekend shotupnorth.co.uk
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Garrod Kirkwood | 07921 528873 | garrod@garrodkirkwood.com | garrodkirkwood.com 32
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Rebecca Lupton | 0161 848 9958 | rebecca@rebeccalupton.co.uk | rebeccalupton.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk
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Simon Mackney | 01332 650076 | simon@mackney.com | mackney.com | Commissioned. Folk band Son of Eagle 34
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Simon Mackney | 01332 650076 | simon@mackney.com | mackney.com | Commissioned. Style direction for Toni & Guy Avant Garde Collection shotupnorth.co.uk
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Mark McNulty | 0151 294 9001 | mark@markmcnulty.co.uk | markmcnulty.co.uk | Commissioned. TBWA Abu Dhabi 36
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Ian Pilbeam | 01624 840441 | pilly03@mac.com | ianpilbeam.com 42
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Carl Pinnington | 07788 406268 | info@pixelsandcream.com | pixelsandcream.com shotupnorth.co.uk
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Merit Stuart Royse | 01663 733670 | stuart@stuartroysephotography.co.uk | stuartroysephotography.co.uk 44
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Willie Runte | 0161 224 2032 | photo@willierunte.com | willierunte.com 46
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David Seed | 0161 273 6666 | dave@seedphoto.co.uk | seedphoto.co.uk shotupnorth.co.uk
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Lisa Stonehouse | 07903 222445 | lisa@lisastonehouse.co.uk | lisastonehouse.co.uk 48
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Mark Westerby | 07966 467315 | info@markwesterby.com | markwesterby.com 52
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Judges comments “Beautiful” “a joy to look at, fantastic package” “very of the moment” “simple and unassuming, but the number edition gives it the feeling of being special” “no arrogance or vanity but a joy to have” “the depth runs through each item, the magazine, stationery and web site”
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Judges comments “very human” “there’s subtlety and attention to detail” “I love the simplicity of the red rubber bands making the George Cross” “revealing the name underneath the bands is a lovely subtlety”
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Judges comments “lots to look at but still simple.” “the more you look at the image the more you see in it” “successfully communicated and much integrity” “clean, considered”
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Sun Motion 2012. Winner Kerry Harrison – a film about Dean Kemp
Year on year the judges comment that the quality of entries in SUN gets better, and that’s what they are saying too about SUN MOTION 24. Here’s a summary of their responses to this year’s best Motion entries. “Kerry Harrison had two films, both documentary style, are charismatic. They both take a look at the ‘feeling’ of a person and allow their nature to come through and drive their film. Both films use appropriately chosen music which enhances the view of each subject. Interviewing people is a black art. It has been done well in both films. Both characters reveal themselves.
There is empathy with the sculptor, Dean Kemp. The B/W is a good choice to strengthen the medium and interestingly, the B/W gives an edge which we feel sure is truthful. There is joy in his other film printer Miriam Trent. Her delightful talented and humorous personality shone through, which is a major part of a documentary film makers duty. Both very watchable films. It was a very hard call between these two Kerry Harrison films for the final winner.
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Top Tony Lendill’s ‘Swimwear’ ad. Centre Jay Place’s theatre thriller. Above Tony Lendill’s ‘Courage’.
Mention too goes to three of the other entries. Tony Lendill’s ‘Swimwear’ is well put together advertising commercial and shows us the product. Though we would have liked to have seen a little more motivation in the models. Good commercial though ! Jay Place’s theatre thriller is well shot and lit, uses style well and gains much from the handheld camera work. It is well edited, shot in a great location and a good effort with the artists. We are looking forward to Jay developing more of his own style in the future, something that would make his work more unique. Good film though! shotupnorth.co.uk
Tony Lendill’s other entry, a ‘Martial Arts’ film, has a great ‘go’ at an idea. The detail is well shot and the performances are interesting. Its weakest element we felt was the story itself. Nevertheless an intriguing film. Next year we hope to see greater confidence in using the DSLR’s capabilities, pushing its benefits of size, lens characteristics, and versatility so that they really shine.”
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Winner Carlton Watt
Second Max Bamber
SUNRISE showcases some of the best new professional talent coming onto the photographic scene. Illustrated here are the winners awarded in the last year since SUN23. We are very pleased to see that some of them have gone on to successfully enter this years main SUN Awards.
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Commended Ryan Edy
Commended Gemma Thorpe
Commended Santi Udomkesmalee
No award was made for this years Sunrise entry. Below is a small selection from the Sunrise 24 submissions.
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To mark SUN Award’s 25th Birthday we will not only be presenting the 50 best images but also highlighting a group of photographic images spanning the 25 years of SUN’s existence. The combined photographs will form a much larger catalogue and exhibition at which there will be a series of events and seminars to celebrate our art and our businesses. This retrospective of commissioned images will demonstrate some of the ways in which the production and use of photography has changed over the years. This period has seen massive changes not only in the technology of image capture but also in the manner in which the images are used and distributed unfortunately not always in the photographer’s favour. Some would argue that with the introduction of electronic retouching the levels of skill required from the photographer have been greatly reduced and devalued which has inevitably lead to a diminishing day rate but we know different.
The basics remain exactly the same the combination of light and lens are how it’s always been and the use of these elements still making the difference between one photographer and another • We want you to send in your best images. Anything produced and used commercially within the last 25 years will be eligible. • We hope to represent as broad a spectrum of work as possible to document this period together with details of the use and manner of production. • Every image has a story behind it, and we want you to tell us those stories. Here are a few images to help demonstrate the sort of thing we are looking for. The first is from Robert Walker he says…
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This un-retouched image was taken in 2000 for the agency Lowe Lintas. The simple message was a homing pigeon who couldn’t find his way home, he was missing his Weetabix! The Art Direction is clean and unpretentious and the one word headline is as succinct as they come. Once we had decided how to get the bird to ‘hold’ the map, given they don’t have hands, the rest was quite straightforward. In fact the hardest thing was getting the paving slabs up to my 1st floor studio a task I left to my able assistant Paul Moffat. I had the pigeon stuffed minus wings with his head set at an inquiring angle. The eye was painted with an exaggerated pupil and left unfixed to enable positioning to camera. The taxidermied bird was then sent to a model maker who I had worked with many times to build the hands in such a way that (hopefully) you don’t really question the mutation. He also made the miniature A-Z, binding a mini book with scaled down colour copies from a full size map. The book and hands were on a small rig which attached to the bird behind the book.
The armature which ran through the leg and foot just slipped into the crack in the pavement. I suggested adding the ‘Birds Eye View’ graphic, the ad was running as 48 and 96 sheet posters, so detail was everything. However not everything went to plan. I had intended to create a dappled sunlight effect on the paving, so we washed the stone before leaving for the night. The following day instead of clean dry slabs, they had all dried patchy and no amount of hairdryers would help. With pressing deadlines we went for a ‘after the rain’ effect instead! The photograph and ad were selected for the 2001 SUN Awards and the 2001 D&AD Annual.
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The second group of images was part of a campaign shot by Doug Currie for Harry Hall who manufactured high quality riding wear. There was a series of adverts and small posters all based round the strapline ‘Nothing looks better on a horse’. The images had to convey elegance and energy through athletic and artistic leaps preformed by members of Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds wearing the riding products we were advertising. Over the week before the shoot the dancers rehearsed the moves devised by the company’s artistic director wearing the horse’s heads that were made by the props department at Opera North and we painted up a huge canvas background the size of the studio to accommodate the action. The coming together of all this work over a 3 day shoot resulted in some wonderful shots and my great admiration for the physical efforts and dedication of the dancers in conveying the required energy with elegance time after time and really just looking so good. Both these descriptions demonstrate just how large and specialist the team of people involved in producing these shots was and inevitably how expensive such shots could be.
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• Will we ever see the days of commitment to and respect for image production in the same way and the subsequent budgets again? Interestingly all these shots were captured on film from the days when nearly all image manipulation happened in camera and was invented and controlled by the photographer. • With the fantastic advances in technology the situation has changed, image manipulation is now almost mandatory and freely available to everybody, we see good and bad examples of it everyday. Has this democratisation of image making enhanced or devalued the photographer’s art? • Have the amazing benefits of internet communication been hijacked by art directors and designers who try to direct shoots by email? These and many more questions will be answered by you the photographers at the exhibitions of your commissioned images both film and digital, together with Seminars and Events we are planning to celebrate 25 years of SUN. Look out for details.
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tinyurl.com/sunpodcasts youtube.com/shotupnorth Shot Up North’s YouTube channel is the place to look behind the scenes and catch up on SUN events you might have missed. In conversation with Richard Moran Richard talks about his success and the influences on his career.
SUN Awards exhibition Video of the SUN Awards and Special Edition at the Biscuit Factory March 2006.
SUN interviews Andy Cheetham An interview with Andy Cheetham, Creative Director of Cheetham Bell JWT Manchester.
Location Finding The ins and outs of photographers using location finders. Nick Jones and Jonathan Oakes in conversation.
SUN interview with Paul Wenham-Clarke Is undertaking an MA in photography a way of moving your career to a new level ?
Guy Farrow about Locations Guy talks about his work and what it’s like to work on location.
Overview Call for Entries A 10 minute summary of how to enter the SUN Awards. SUN Awards interviews Ady Bibby Ady Bibby picks his favourites images from SUN 2007. SUN Awards Jon Boyes talks about being Best Image winner 2005.
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John Baxter – SUN winner 2007 John talks about his rise to commercial success through a series of photographic books looking at different people’s unique occupations and activities. McCoy Wynne – Quiescence Photographic partnership Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynne talk about their recent exhibition Quiescence and how they manage to merge personal projects with their full time commercial work.
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