Garden Photographer Of The Year 2008 - From May 2007 - Deadline is January 2008
Are you the next Photographer Of The Year ? The competition and exhibition Garden Photographer of the Year builds on the highly successful Garden Photographers’ Association’s annual competition and exhibition. Over the last eight years, the GPA has staged increasingly prestigious events culminating with the highly acclaimed exhibition “Imagine, Yesterday Today” at Kew Gardens in 2006. This prize is a unique opportunity for entrants to have theirs photographs exhibited at a major London venue, alongside some of the world’s most talented photographers in the gardening and landscape world. The 2007-8 competition has the following categories : My Garden, Plant Portraits, People and Animals in the Garden and an annual changing category, which will be Trees in 2008. A panel of high-profile industry professional photographers are encouraged to enter single image or themed portfolios. This year there will be a new special award for Young Gardener Photographer supported by Chris Collins Blue Peter Gardener. Entrants for this category are welcomed from young photographers under the age of 16. Closing date for submissions is January 2008. For more details on “How to Enter”, please visit www.gpoty.org.