SUN AWARDS 22 by Shot Up North

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CONTENTS

How to enter, buy the book

Welcome

Judges

Best image

Best use of image

Best promotion of a photographer

SUN Motion

SUN Rise

SUN Special Edition

SUN Podcasts

Photographer index

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Welcome Increasing challenges, new opportunities, new talent... Looking back at this last year, rather than getting easier the challenges brought about by the recession have increased. But looking at now and the future, new talent continues to emerge, and we have new opportunities with the merging of video in stills cameras creating a new and potentially lucrative market. Shot Up North is one of the first to give photographers the opportunity to showcase new media and new talent. We are very excited about it. Ed Horwich and Doug Currie

Dedicated in memory of Nick Jones 1972 - 2010

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Jon Cohen Jon Cohen

David Stewart David Stewart

Graeme Cooper Graeme Cooper

Richard IrvingIrving Richard

Wayne FordWayne Ford

Martin Brent Martin Brent

Non-voting Chair

Pete Chase Peter Chase Kanjo

Creative Partner at McCann Erickson

Photographer

Haymarket Publishing

Photographer

Judges Edited comments from the judges. “These events are always enjoyable, because the photographers raise the bar, entering their best work, and its a great opportunity to see them . . .” “I look for original things and I’m always fascinated to see an otherwise standard subject and composition pushed and taken to another level . . .” “There’s some incredibly beautiful work coming out of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and the rest of the north, so why not shout about it !” To view the individual judges talking about SUN go to http://tr.im/t1Bc Chair of Judges - Jon Cohen shotupnorth.co.uk 6

Best Image

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Best Image Winner Simon Winnall

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Best Image Winner Simon Winnall 0780 300 3063 simon@simonwinnall.com simonwinnall.com 9

Merit Kate Abbey 0777 599 3005 me@kateabbey.co.uk kateabbey.co.uk 10

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Kate Abbey 0777 599 3005 me@kateabbey.co.uk kateabbey.co.uk 11

Steve Aland 0151 625 0919 info@stevealand.co.uk stevealand.co.uk 12

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Harry Archer 01274 669 996 harry@viewpointphotography.co.uk viewpointphotography.co.uk 13

Danny Craven 01490 412723 danieljosephcraven@yahoo.com dannycraven.co.uk 14

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Best Image Joint Third Matt Davis 0113 289 2295 matt@shashin.co.uk shashin.co.uk 15

Peter Dibdin 0131 228 1761 info@peterdibdin.com peterdibdin.com 16

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Best Image Joint Third Nick Dunmur 0844 585 5505 info@nickdunmur.com nickdunmur.com 17

Paul Fosbury 07788 818 011 mail@paulfosbury.com paulfosbury.com 18

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Andy Gallacher 0114 262 0032 andygallacherphoto@mac.com andygallacher-photography.com 19

Andy Gallacher 0114 262 0032 andygallacherphoto@mac.com andygallacher-photography.com 20

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John Garon 01274 496346 me@johngaron.com johngaron.com 21

Richard Hanson 0114 275 0480 richard@hansonphoto.co.uk hansonphoto.co.uk 22

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Richard Hanson 0114 275 0480 richard@hansonphoto.co.uk hansonphoto.co.uk 23

Kerry Harrison 0 113 305 0395 kerry@kerryharrisonphotography.com kerryharrisonphotography.com 24

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Merit Tim Hetherington 0161 273 6989 tim-h@btconnect.com tim-hetherington.com 25

Tim Hetherington 0161 273 6989 tim-h@btconnect.com tim-hetherington.com 26

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Tim Hetherington 0161 273 6989 tim-h@btconnect.com tim-hetherington.com 27

Ed Horwich 07976 407 472 book@edphoto.com edphoto.com 28

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Ed Horwich 07976 407 472 book@edphoto.com edphoto.com 29

Ed Horwich 07976 407 472 book@edphoto.com edphoto.com 30

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Ed Horwich 07976 407 472 book@edphoto.com edphoto.com 31

Helen Kirkbright 0161 761 3423 helen@helenkirkbright.co.uk helenkirkbright.co.uk 32

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Chris Leah 0113 256 5439 chris@chrisleah.com chrisleah.com 33

Andrew Livesey 01772 742558 andrew@ukphotographers.com andrewlivesey.com 34

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Gill Moore 0161 882 0460 gill@gillmoorephotography.co.uk gillmoorephotography.co.uk 35

Jonathan Oakes 0 161 236 9045 jonathan@jonathanoakes.com jonathanoakes.com 36

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Jonathan Oakes 0161 236 9045 jonathan@jonathanoakes.com jonathanoakes.com 37

Jonathan Oakes 0161 236 9045 jonathan@jonathanoakes.com jonathanoakes.com 38

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Jonathan Oakes 0161 236 9045 jonathan@jonathanoakes.com jonathanoakes.com 39

Ian Pilbeam 01624 840441 pilly03@mac.com ianpilbeam.com 40

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Ian Pilbeam 01624 840441 pilly03@mac.com ianpilbeam.com 41

Dan Prince 0191 512 0351 danprincephotos@mac.com danprince.co.uk 42

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Dan Prince 0191 512 0351 danprincephotos@mac.com danprince.co.uk 43

Merit Willie Runte 0161 860 7397 thesunawards@willierunte.com willierunte.com 44

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Willie Runte 0161 860 7397 thesunawards@willierunte.com willierunte.com 45

David Seed 0161 273 6666 dave@seedphoto.co.uk seedphoto.co.uk 46

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Mike Slawski 0191 264 8888 magenta.mail@btconnect.com magenta.org.uk 47

Lisa Stonehouse 01757 268720 lisa@lisastonehouse.co.uk lisastonehouse.co.uk 48

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Best Image Second Michael Swallow 0161 448 1243 mail@michaelswallow.com michaelswallow.com 49

Michael Swallow 0 161 448 1243 mail@michaelswallow.com michaelswallow.com 50

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Michael Swallow 0161 448 1243 mail@michaelswallow.com michaelswallow.com 51

Jimmy Welch 0161 273 5511 welchphotography@hotmail.com refineryphotographic.co.uk 52

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Moy Williams 0161 839 6660 moy@moyphotography.com moyphotography.com 53

Moy Williams 0161 839 6660 moy@moyphotography.com moyphotography.com 54

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Moy Williams 0161 839 6660 moy@moyphotography.com moyphotography.com 55

Moy Williams 0161 839 6660 moy@moyphotography.com moyphotography.com 56

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Simon Winnall 0780 300 3063 simon@simonwinnall.com www.simonwinnall.com 57

McCoy Wynne 0 151 932 1540 steve@mccoywynne.co.uk mccoywynne.co.uk 58

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Best Use of Image

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Best Use of Image First Chris Leah chris@chrisleah.com chrisleah.com 60

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Best Use of Image Second Chris Leah chris@chrisleah.com chrisleah.com 61

Best Use of Image Third Dan Prince danprincephotos@mac.com danprince.co.uk 62

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Best Promotion of a Photographer

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Best Promotion of a Photographer Winner Dan Prince

â&#x20AC;&#x153;My day as a Robotâ&#x20AC;?. Day following a boy dressed as a robot, presented as a school jotter, designed to look as if the boy has used it as his diary of the day.

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Motion is moving the photographer forward. The converging media of photography and video has opened up new possibilities for photographers, giving artistic control over many more aspects of a commission and creating more opportunities for work. SUN-MOTION - the competitive Award for stills photographers using stills cameras to make movies in a professional context.

For several years the amateur has been able to make videos on their compact digital cameras. Now the professional world has joined them with the latest pro stills cameras having the capability to record broadcast quality video. In the past some advertising photographers have made the progression into film and video direction of commercials. To do this they had to cross over into a new medium with equipment and optics that were a world away from those they were already used to. With the convergence of image capture technologies the stills photographer can enter the video world, using the same equipment and lenses he or she is entirely familiar with. Indeed the stills elements and the movie elements of a job can both be achieved on the same equipment, in the same environment and under the same artistic direction. Beyond this, the stills camera brings its own way of working and its own perspective to the visuals of the movie. The photographer

is able to take advantage of the unique characteristics of lenses and the compact nature of camera bodies to make movies in ways that have new and exciting resonances. From the movie side of the equation, we are seeing video cameras being made up of exchangeable component modules (eg. the Red) much like we have been used to with Hasselblads and Mamiya RB67s in stills photography. Video cameras are taking from the stills world and stills cameras are borrowing from the movie world. Convergence of the media means Pandoraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Box has opened and the stills photographer is free to enter the world of movie making on his/her own terms. Shot Up North has created SUN-MOTION to bring this new work to an eager audience. shotupnorth.co.uk/sunmotion shotupnorth.co.uk

For more than twenty years SUN has been constantly showcasing new generations of talent. But never the less it is still hard to make that leap from learning to fully fledged pro-photographer. So we created SUNRISE to bridge the gap. Giving new photographers, who are maybe not quite ready to enter the SUN Awards themselves, the chance to show the world what they’ve got.

SUNRISE 2 is the second year of this showcase.

You must be based in the northern regions, from the Midlands to the Scottish Isles.

It presents a simple, affordable, one-cost entry, with the successful photographer’s work being presented in their own showcase.

You must not have entered the SUN Awards previously; nor can you enter both the SUN Awards and SUN Rise in the same year.

We believe the next generation of photographic talent should be encouraged . . . and SUNRISE is here to do just that.

You must be working as a photographer/assistant and cannot be in full time education.

Photographers at the beginning of their photographic careers, who consider that their work isn’t ready for the SUN Awards themselves, or who might still be in the process of building up their commissions or portfolio. You can be an assistant, photographer, freelance or running your own studio. Accepted areas of photographic practice are advertising, design, editorial or fashion.

Selection Our invited curator(s) will select those images which in their opinion best deserve to be in the showcase. Also one winner will be selected as SUN RISE Photographer of the Year.

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Selected by Claire Turner (Comme Ça Art, Manchester) and Sam Knowles (The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle) and chosen from the entire entry submission to this year’s SUN Awards. The SUN Special Edition is the only annual exhibition of its kind where you can pick up original, often personal work by professional, commercial photographers that is rarely displayed publicly, let alone available to buy and take home.

Paul Adams Factory No.2

Harry Archer Atmosphere

Nick Dunmur Ray’s Lido #One

George Coppock Lone Tree

Paul Adams - Factory No.2 To translate the architecture of this building into the flat planes of a photograph, I focused on its graphic qualities and patiently waited for the right day and the harsh sunlight and deep blue skies I needed. Harry Archer - Atmosphere Photography is my connection to the world and inspires me to be creative, I’m always seeing our environment within a framed vision, trying to capture it with a different viewpoint. Wind turbines are one of the subjects that draws my eye and I wanted to show these massive man made machines being dwarfed by the sky from which they get their power. These turbines are on the moors near Bury and the sky was an ever changing beast due to high winds, so I set up my camera and waited until the clouds and light were just right to give me the effect needed. George Coppock - Lone Tree This shot was taken in the heavy winter snow fall surrounding of my local village. It’s situated within Bramham Park where the Leeds Festival takes place, a stark contrast to what it looks like surrounded with festival goers. 70

Danny Craven Trolleys

Danny Craven - Trolleys Airports are a fascination to me. I travel a lot, so I guess I have more chance than most to capture the stark beauty that others have to rush past. This image is part of a series that documents transient spaces of commerce and travel, the non spaces are often at first not what they seem. This image was taken, like many in the series, in an airport departure lounge, what at first looks like an abstract image is actually a collection of luggage trolleys shot from a high viewpoint. Nick Dunmur - Ray’s Lido #One Made in Malta on film, this picture of a Morris Traveller has a particular significance for me as one of them was our family chariot when I was very small. Because of its historical connections with the UK, Malta still has many old British cars in use - most in surprisingly good condition thanks to its climate.

Nick Dunmur Ray’s Lido #Two

Richard Moran Forest

Guy Farrow Cow

David Seed Mad Music

Nick Dunmur - Ray’s Lido #Two Also made in Malta on film and in a similar location at the north of the main island, this picture is one of a series made in a ghost resort - a strange, postapocalyptical place where time and tide were slowly reducing the place to dust. It’s hard to illustrate the pace of decay in a fortieth of a second perhaps but I like places which people have left to natural forces to do what they will. Guy Farrow - Cow This was a shot for fashion stylist Lisa Jayne Dan. The brief was very open, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try something a little more unusual and eye catching. Fortunately the cow was good to work with and the model had a good understanding of balance. David Lindsay - Another Place Antony Gormley’s sculptures are installed across a mile of Crosby beach. Although there are over one hundred iron statues, each has it’s own place and viewpoint of the landscape meaning there’s almost an infinite number of perspectives depending on sculpture you are closest to.

David Lindsay Another Place

Gill Moore Sunflower, six weeks

David Seed Winter Hill

Gill Moore - Sunflower, six weeks Taken from my “House Portraits” series; the sunflowers are homegrown. Week by week the developing scene kept distracting me. Sell-by dates are so over-rated. Richard Moran - Forest This is a one-off shot, one frame, one split second in time, not heavily thought about but when you see something you see it. Shot in Keldy Forest, North Yorkshire, on colour neg film on my trusty Pentax 6x7. The mid-tones in the image give me great faith in using film. David Seed - Mad Music Taken at the Fasnacht Carnival in Basel, Switzerland. It’s the country’s largest popular festival with around 20,000 masked participants taking part. The parade consists of groups of marchers in masks depicting cultural and satirical events of the past year with the marchers playing a variety of musical instruments. 71

Edition: Limited to a maximum of 25 from each image. Size: Overall print size including border approx 50 x 40cm. Exhibition venues and dates: Manchester 17 September - 17 October 2010 Matt & Phred’s Jazz Bar, 64 Tib Street, Manchester.

Newcastle upon Tyne 12 March - 24 April 2011 The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Phillip Shannon Bubbles

Mark Westerby Spanish Mountains

Jimmy Welch Beast

Mark Westerby Emma Wood

Buy from gallery venues: Matt & Phred’s (Comme Ça Art www.commecaart.com) The Biscuit Factory Buy online: www.shotupnorth.co.uk

McCoy Wynne Seagulls in Night Sky #3

David Seed - Winter Hill After abandoning the car and walk down Goyts Lane to shoot a location at Errwood Reservoir in the Peak District I noticed the overhanging sunlit snow on a bank with its captivating contrast between the blue snow and grass in the shadows.

Mark Westerby - Emma Wood This image was part of a fashion shoot inspired by The Women’s Land army the British civilian organisation created during the first and second world wars, to replace men working in agriculture.

Phillip Shannon - Bubbles I wondered whether it was possible for something to have the purity of graphical shape but yet be organic in origin. Once I had discovered the idea of bubbles it took four hours to capture this single image.

Mark Westerby - Spanish Mountains These are the Ronda Mountains, a wild dramatic tract of mountains which surround Ronda, Andalucia’s ancient city.

Jimmy Welch - Beast When touring round Sri Lanka I took time out in the Royal Palace Park in Kandy. I soon became the interest of a group of Toque Macaque Monkeys. This was the first shot I took before their curiosity got the better of them and they ransacked my equipment!

McCoy Wynne - Seagulls in Night Sky #3 This long exposure photograph depicts what the camera can see but the eye cannot... the intriguing and abstract flight patterns of sea-gulls in the midnight sky. shotupnorth.co.uk

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.

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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Kate Abbey Steve Aland Harry Archer Danny Craven Matt Davis Peter Dibdin Nick Dunmur Paul Fosbury Andy Gallacher John Garon Richard Hanson Kerry Harrison Tim Hetherington Ed Horwich Helen Kirkbright

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Chris Leah Andrew Livesey Gill Moore Jonathan Oakes Ian Pilbeam Dan Prince Willie Runte David Seed Mike Slawski Lisa Stonehouse Michael Swallow Jimmy Welch Moy Williams Simon Winnall McCoy Wynne

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Copyright ÂŠ Sun Expo Limited 2010. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical. Including photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored on a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the photographer. The copyright of the individual photographs remains with the photographers or clients credited unless otherwise shown. The compilation of the photographs remains with Sun Expo Limited.