Deadline: February 7, 2021
Entry Fee: from £6 to £30, Young (under 18) – Free
Prizes: £300, £1,000, £5,000, valuable prizes, participation in the exhibition
Open to professional and non-professional, old and young, the Awards celebrate the very best in food photography and film from around the world.
The categories cover the full cultural range of the depiction of food in society – there is something for everyone. From styled food for magazines to images of families eating together in celebration of religious festivals, from depictions of the realities of food production to food growing in its natural setting.
Since 2011, over 70,000 images and films have been submitted from over 77 countries.
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year was founded by Caroline Kenyon and her team at The Food Awards Company.
The idea for the Awards arose from two decades of experience commissioning photography and the wish to see this wonderful and vibrant sector of photography given the recognition it deserves.
Categories
- Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers
- Champagne Taittinger Wedding Food Photographer
- Food Stylist Award
- Winterbotham Darby Food for Sale
- Street Food
- Food for the Family
- Food for Celebration sponsored by Champagne Taittinger
- Food Influencers
- World Food Programme Food for Life
- Spayne Lindsey On the Phone
- Fujifilm Award for Innovation
- Food at the Table
- One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop
- Pink Lady® Apple a Day
- Politics of Food
- Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year
- Marks & Spencer Food Portraiture
- Production Paradise Previously Published
- Bring Home the Harvest
- Food in the Field
- The Philip Harben Award for Food in Action
- Student Food Photographer of the Year supported by the Royal Photographic Society
- Food Film Shorts
- Young (Under 18s)
- World Food Programme WFP Storytellers Innovation Award
Prizes
Overall winner
In addition to the £5,000GBP top prize:
- You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed at a prestigious gallery to be announced shortly, giving your work free high profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity, and encourage and inspire others to develop their skills in food photography for the following year.
- Your image will be appreciated by some of the leading figures in the photography and food industries during the judging process
- A dedicated page will be added to our website showing an in depth profile of the overall winner featuring the winning image
- You will receive a dedicated press release promoting your image to international photography and food media
- Your hard work and creativity will be credited wherever the image is used and will be seen by millions of people across the globe
Category winners
- All category winners will receive a prestigious trophy.
- The winner of the Pink Lady® Apple a Day category will win £1000GBP and the winning image may be used by Pink Lady® in its multi-media marketing campaign.
- The winner of the Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year category will win £1000GBP.
- The winner of the Production Paradise Food off the Press category will win a special feature in the Production Paradise Spotlight Food & Drink Photography online magazine, along with a 12-image gallery of their work.
- The winner of One Vision Imaging Cream of the Crop, a category of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year will win £300GBP for use against One Vision Imaging services
- The winner of the Fujifilm Award for Innovation will win a Fujifilm X100V, worth £1300. (No cash alternative)
- The winner and two runners up of the Student Food Photographer of the Year category will receive an RPS Membership, worth £55. The winning student will have their work and an interview published in the award-winning RPS Journal.
- In addition, the winner of the Student Food Photographer of the Year category will have the unique opportunity to have a 90 minute one-to-one (preferably in person, otherwise by Skype) with Commercial Photography Consultant and Mentor, Zoe Whishaw. This will include:
– Image review of up to 30 images
– Website review
– Analysis of creative direction
– Options and ideas to take career forwards - You will have the opportunity to see your work displayed at a prestigious gallery to be announced shortly, giving your work free high profile exposure. This is intended to help publicise your creativity, and encourage and inspire others to develop their skills in food photography for the following year.
Entry Fees
- A single sum of £30.00 is required per adult entrant and allows up to 5 photographic entries. Further entries may be submitted at an additional fee of £6 per entry.
- The exception being for entries to the On the Phone category, the fee for which is £6 per entry only, £2 of which will be given as a donation to Action Against Hunger.
- To enter the Food Film Shorts category the fee will be £30 per video submitted.
- To enter the Food Stylist category the fee will be £30 per portfolio of 5 images submitted.
- Entry to the Young (under 18) categories is free of charge. A maximum of five entries may be submitted to the Young (under 18) categories.
