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Shot Up North's SUN Awards, which celebrate and reward the best commercial photography in the UK regions, working in the disciplines of Advertising, Design, Fashion or EditorialTRANSCRIPT
ParticipateHow 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 Entriesshotupnorth.co.uk/call-for-entries
PodcastsFeatures and Interviews with Photographers, Designersare available as Audio or Image Enhanced Podcasts todownload 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 bookPublished each year to coincide with the presentation of theSUN Awards. You can purchase the book online via our web site.
Online Book salesshotupnorth.co.uk/sun-book
Book subscription serviceIf you would like to be sent a copy of the book each year, please use the alternative Subscription Service. Each year you will automatically be invoiced and your book will be dispatched on publication.
Online Book Subscriptionsshotupnorth.co.uk/sun-book
Buy SUN ‘Special Edition’ printsSpecially selected by our guest curators from all the submissions for that year and printed on the best archival materials in strictly limited numbers. Prints can be purchased from our Online Gallery and from selected exhibition venues.
Online Print salesshotupnorth.co.uk
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The SUN Awards showcases and rewards the best photographyproduced each year by professional photographers based in the Northern regions of the UK.
The awards are a not-for-profit event run by photographers forall those who work with, purchase or commission photography.
find SUN online
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CONTENTS
How to enter, buy the book 2
Welcome 5
Judges 6
Best image 8
Best use of image 60
Best promotion of a photographer 64
SUN Motion 66
SUN Rise 67
SUN Special Edition 70
SUN Podcasts 73
Photographer index 82
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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 mergingof 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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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
Peter Chase Richard Irving Wayne Ford
Jon Cohen David Stewart Graeme Cooper
Martin Brent
Jon CohenNon-voting Chair
Richard IrvingCreative Partnerat McCann Erickson
Pete ChaseKanjo
David StewartPhotographer
Wayne FordHaymarket Publishing
Graeme CooperPhotographer
Martin BrentPhotographer
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Best Image
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Winner Simon Winnall
Best Image
Best Image Joint Third Nick Dunmur 0844 585 5505 [email protected] nickdunmur.comshotupnorth.co.uk
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Best Image Second Michael Swallow 0161 448 1243 [email protected] michaelswallow.comshotupnorth.co.uk
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Best Use of Image
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Best Promotion of a Photographer
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Winner Dan Prince
“My day as a Robot”. 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.
Best Promotion of a Photographer
Best Promotion of a Photographer Winner Dan Prince [email protected] danprince.co.ukshotupnorth.co.uk
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Motion is moving the photographer forward.The converging media of photography and video has opened up new possibilities forphotographers, 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.
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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 sameequipment 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 videocameras 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 Pandora’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.
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For more than twenty years SUN has been constantlyshowcasing new generations of talent.
But never the less it is still hard to make that leap fromlearning 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 Awardsthemselves, the chance to show the world what they’ve got.
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You must be based in the northern regions, from the Midlandsto the Scottish Isles.
You must not have entered the SUN Awards previously; nor can you enter both the SUN Awards and SUN Rise in the same year.
You must be working as a photographer/assistant and cannotbe in full time education.
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 Photographerof the Year.
Read more: shotupnorth.co.uk/call-for-entries/sunrise
SUNRISE 2 is the second year of this showcase.
It presents a simple, affordable, one-cost entry, with thesuccessful photographer’s work being presented in theirown showcase.
We believe the next generation of photographic talent should be encouraged . . . and SUNRISE is here to do just that.
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.
© Luke Cannon. Sunrise 2010 Winner.
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Nick Dunmur - Ray’s Lido #OneMade in Malta on film, this picture of a Morris Traveller has a particularsignificance 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 hasmany old British cars in use - most in surprisingly good condition thanksto its climate.
George Coppock - Lone TreeThis shot was taken in the heavy winter snow fall surrounding of my localvillage. It’s situated within Bramham Park where the Leeds Festival takes place, a stark contrast to what it looks like surrounded with festival goers.
Danny Craven - TrolleysAirports 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.
Selected by Claire Turner (Comme Ça Art, Manchester)and Sam Knowles (The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle) and chosenfrom 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 uporiginal, often personal work by professional, commercial photographers that is rarelydisplayed publicly, let alone available to buy and take home.
Paul Adams - Factory No.2To translate the architecture of this building into the flat planes of aphotograph, I focused on its graphic qualities and patiently waited forthe right day and the harsh sunlight and deep blue skies I needed.
Harry Archer - AtmospherePhotography 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.
Harry ArcherAtmosphere
Paul AdamsFactory No.2
George CoppockLone Tree
Danny CravenTrolleys
Nick DunmurRay’s Lido #One
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Gill Moore - Sunflower, six weeksTaken from my “House Portraits” series; the sunflowers are homegrown. Week by week the developing scene kept distracting me. Sell-by datesare so over-rated.
Guy Farrow - CowThis 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.
Nick Dunmur - Ray’s Lido #TwoAlso 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, post-apocalyptical 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. 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, NorthYorkshire, on colour neg film on my trusty Pentax 6x7. The mid-tones in theimage give me great faith in using film.
David Lindsay - Another PlaceAntony Gormley’s sculptures are installed across a mile of Crosby beach. Although there are over one hundred iron statues, each has it’s own placeand viewpoint of the landscape meaning there’s almost an infinite numberof perspectives depending on sculpture you are closest to.
David Seed - Mad MusicTaken at the Fasnacht Carnival in Basel, Switzerland. It’s the country’slargest popular festival with around 20,000 masked participants taking part. The parade consists of groups of marchers in masks depictingcultural and satirical events of the past year with the marchers playinga variety of musical instruments.
Nick DunmurRay’s Lido #Two
Guy FarrowCow
David LindsayAnother Place
Richard MoranForest
David SeedMad Music
Gill MooreSunflower, six weeks
David SeedWinter Hill
Edition: Limited to a maximum of 25 from each image.Size: Overall print size including border approx 50 x 40cm.Exhibition venues and dates:
Visit www.shotupnorth.co.uk for more information.
Buy from gallery venues:Matt & Phred’s (Comme Ça Art www.commecaart.com)The Biscuit FactoryBuy online: www.shotupnorth.co.uk
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Phillip Shannon - BubblesI 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.
Jimmy Welch - BeastWhen 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!
Mark Westerby - Emma WoodThis 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.
Mark Westerby - Spanish MountainsThese are the Ronda Mountains, a wild dramatic tract of mountains which surround Ronda, Andalucia’s ancient city.
McCoy Wynne - Seagulls in Night Sky #3This 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.
David Seed - Winter HillAfter 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.
Phillip ShannonBubbles
Jimmy WelchBeast
Mark WesterbySpanish Mountains
Mark WesterbyEmma Wood
McCoy WynneSeagulls in Night Sky #3
MANCHESTER17 September - 17 October 2010 Matt & Phred’s Jazz Bar,64 Tib Street,Manchester.
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE12 March - 24 April 2011The Biscuit Factory,Stoddart Street,Newcastle upon Tyne.
In conversation with Richard MoranRichard talks about his success and the influenceson his career.
SUN interviews Andy Cheetham An interview with Andy Cheetham, Creative Directorof Cheetham Bell JWT Manchester.
SUN interview with Paul Wenham-ClarkeIs undertaking an MA in photography a way of movingyour career to a new level ?
Overview Call for EntriesA 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.
SUN Awards exhibitionVideo of the SUN Awards and Special Editionat the Biscuit Factory March 2006.
Location Finding The ins and outs of photographers using location finders.Nick Jones and Jonathan Oakes in conversation.
Guy Farrow about LocationsGuy talks about his work and what it’s like to work on location.
John Baxter – SUN winner 2007John talks about his rise to commercial success through a series ofphotographic books looking at different people’s unique occupationsand activities.
McCoy Wynne – QuiescencePhotographic partnership Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynnetalk about their recent exhibition Quiescence and how they manageto merge personal projects with their full time commercial work.
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Shot Up North’s YouTube channel is the place to lookbehind the scenes and catch up on SUN events youmight have missed.
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Chris Leah 33
Andrew Livesey 34
Gill Moore 35
Jonathan Oakes 36
Ian Pilbeam 40
Dan Prince 42
Willie Runte 44
David Seed 46
Mike Slawski 47
Lisa Stonehouse 48
Michael Swallow 49
Jimmy Welch 52
Moy Williams 53
Simon Winnall 9, 57
McCoy Wynne 58
Kate Abbey 10
Steve Aland 12
Harry Archer 13
Danny Craven 14
Matt Davis 15
Peter Dibdin 16
Nick Dunmur 17
Paul Fosbury 18
Andy Gallacher 19
John Garon 21
Richard Hanson 22
Kerry Harrison 24
Tim Hetherington 25
Ed Horwich 28
Helen Kirkbright 32
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