Call for submissions: The Food Photography Awards 2010

Calling people with cameras who like food!

(Text lifted from Ivy Knight’s website, with tweaks to formatting.)

January 17th will be the Pictures and Popcorn event and we want you to enter your photos.

During the evening we will have a Popcorn Battle going on with different chefs offering up their best flavoured popcorn for everyone to try while they look at a slideshow of all the entered pictures on our big screens.

The competition opens today, December 15th, with the deadline for submissions being January 7th. This competition is open to everyone on earth.

Judges:

Kirsten Hanson – Cookbook Editor, HarperCollins Canada
Stephen Bulger – Stephen Bulger Gallery
Jacob Richler – journalist
David Leyes – photographer

Categories:

Food
Raw, cooked, vegetable, animal – living in a meadow or sliced and on a plate.
This category is all about food itself.

People
Chefs, farmers, recipe testers, fishermen, winemakers, restaurant reviewers.
This category includes any and all people who deal with food.

Places
restaurants, barns, gardens, vineyards, fishing boats, home kitchens.
This category is all about where food comes from and is cooked and eaten.

Things
tea cup knife, wire whisk, a cutting board, stockpots, wine glasses.
This category is all about the tools and utensils we use every day with food.

Fun
Have you taken a picture of every single thing you’ve ever ordered in a restaurant? Please enter your best bad photo of a restaurant dish just for fun.

Rules:

1. All submitted photos must have been taken in 2010
2. Professional and amateur photographers are eligible to enter
3. Each photo must be submitted by email to Ivy Knight. JPEG only, 1 MB max. Winning photos need to available at high resolution and able to print at 10×15.
4. Each photo must have a name, even if it is just a description. Please no untitled photos and, even worse, photos titled “untitled” – that will get you immediately disqualified.
5. Photographers may only enter 1 photo per category
6. We will accept submissions until midnight on January 7th, 2011
7. Photographers retain ownership of their copyright. Ivy Knight reserves the right to display photos/images at the Awards event and the right to use winning photos in conjunction with post-promotion and PR of any future Food Photography Awards.

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