2 March 2006
The Kodak Portrait & Wedding Awards are back, with thousands of pounds worth of cash prizes to be won this year by photographers and their consumers.
The reshaped awards are now the Kodak/MPA Portrait &Weddings Awards 2006 - and although now administered by the MPA they still remain open to ANY professional photographer working in the UK.
Said Kodak Professional marketing manager David Kitchin: "Over the past 32 years (apart from a 'gap year' in 2005) this highly popular awards programme has judged tens of thousands of entries from hundreds of photographers up and down the country - and now it's back.
"The MPA is putting its full weight and support behind a new-look programme aimed at both boosting photographic creativity in the portrait and wedding environment and driving new business through studio doors."
He added: "A special MPA/Kodak judging panel will sit later this year to select the new Kodak Portrait Photographer of the Year 2006 and the new Kodak Wedding Photographer of the Year 2006. Both winners will pick up £1,000 cash and valuable PR - and their winning consumers will also collect £1000 cash each."
The new competition is open now. All photographs must have been taken between January 1st 2006 and August 24, 2006 with a minimum size of 5"x 4" and maximum 8"x12".
All entries must be output on Kodak Professional paper and if capture is not digital, all entries must have been shot on Kodak Professional film.
Colin Buck, MPA CEO added: "We are delighted to be running this new-look Awards programme in conjunction with Kodak. Now photographers again have the opportunity to win prestigious, business-building awards and £4,000 in cash prizes for themselves and their customers. The judging panel will be looking closely at image composition, technical competence, originality and print quality"
He added: "In addition, the new £1 entry fee will go in full to the PACE charity to help motor disorder handicapped children."