Curators Announcement
We are pleased to announce two more Curators for Assignments – John Downing & Nikki Sutherland
In a long career at the Daily Express John travelled the world covering a huge variety of stories. John was inside the Grand Hotel in Brighton when it was bombed, was imprisoned by Idi Amin, lived rough with the Guerrillas fighting the Russians in Afghanistan – and still found time to win Royal Photographer of the Year!
He was Press Photographer of the Year no less than seven times – as well as numerous other awards including an MBE.
John was also one of the founders of the Press Photographers Association – so we are particularly grateful that he has agreed to spend some of his valuable time to help us put together Assignments this year.
Nikki Sutherland, acting picture editor of the Mail on Sunday is the daughter of News and Royal photographer Jim Bennett – and spent much of her school holidays following Jim about various events dragging an 800mm, or in the darkroom hand printing pictures.
From there she went to work for Nunn Syndication, before moving on to Kent News and then to The Mail on Sunday.
Nikki said “I am looking forward to doing this – I really like the idea of an exhibition that has a range of different people picking the pictures to give it a bit of variety”.
If you want to take part you had better hurry – you only have until noon tomorrow to submit your entry.. Visit the assignments website for details.
We are pleased to announce the first of the Curators for Assignments
We are pleased to announce the first of the Curators for Assignments – Tom Stoddart!
Now established as one of the worlds most respected photojournalists Tom Stoddart began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his native North-East of England, before moving to London to work for a variety of papers on Fleet Street.
During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international events as the war in Lebanon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela, the bloody siege of Sarajevo and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
We are thrilled that Tom has agreed to join our panel of curators this year.
If you want to take part you had better hurry – you only have until friday to submit your entry.. Visit the assignments website for details.
Assignments is back – and not just in London!
The exhibition of the best of British press photography returns – and as well as the London show we are taking over the The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke on Trent for a whole month.
The opening night is Tuesday 23 July- and will run until Sunday 25th of August to coincide with summer holiday season.
We are doing things slightly differently this year – full details on the website – but here are the key facts:
- Entries open on April 1
- Entries close April 12th
- Pictures taken between 31st August 2017 and 14th April 2019 are eligible
- We have increased the maximum number of pictures you can enter to 10 this year
- There is a £10 registration fee to help us pay for everything
- There is NO framing fee this year – our friends at Canon and Fixation are very kindly picking up the bill for us!
- We will be doing the “catalogue” and the “contact sheet” again
- (every image entered makes the contact sheet – so you can choose your own favourites)
- Everyone who enters gets a pair of invites to the opening night party!
- The exhibition is open to BPPA members – but if you have lapsed or haven’t got round to joining you can do so now
Check out the Assignments website for the full rules and details of how to enter: https://assignments.thebppa.com
You haven’t got long – so get hunting through those hard drives now!!