EMBRACE

UCW Photography Award

EMBRACE - UCW PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

We are proud to announce the Winners of UCW Photography Awards 2024

OPEN CALL

Winner - Farid Barari, Shoemaker, Tehran, Iran

Runner up - Amir Farhoud, Modernity Against Modernism, London, UK

Runner up - Elaine Cristina Melo, The Miracle of innocence, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Commended - Tony Jordan, Stroud, UK

STUDENT

Winner - Lucy Kenchington, Weston super Mare, UK

Runner up - Tanya Fairall, Weston super Mare, UK

Runner up - Viktorija Chvirago, Weston super Mare, UK

The exhibition and awards was at Cube Microplex in Bristol alongside Dirigo International Student Film Festival on Friday 2nd February 2024. The exhibition will continue at We are Super Studios, in the Sovereign Centre, Weston super Mare, (dates and times tbc).

Shortlisted for Awards:

Open Call -  Farid Barari, Elaine Cristina Melo, Amir Farhoud, Tony Jordan

Student - College's/ 6th Form - Viktorija Chvirago, Tanya Fairall,  Lucy Kenchington

We intend to also include a selection of work from each of the photographers that submitted work to Embrace - UCW Photo Awards. Thanks to all of you who submitted your photographs.

Dates & Deadlines

  • October 10, 2023 - Opening Date

  • November 17, 2023 - Earlybird Deadline

  • December 8, 2023 - Regular Deadline

  • January 5, 2024 - Late Entry

  • January 15, 2024 - Notification Date

  • February 2, 2024 - Event Date - now at Cube Microplex in Bristol. Note: Venue & Date change.

    This years theme is Embrace. We used Film Freeway for submissions. Entries are now closed for this year.

    You could enter any Image (maximum of 3 images per entry) that says something about our theme 'Embrace' - whether this be mental, physical or metaphorical, the choice is yours. This award is open to all ages and abilities with separate categories aimed at schools, colleges/sixth forms and an open call.

    Selected Images from the shortlist will be professionally printed and displayed as part of a curated exhibition at The Cube Microplex in Bristol. (Note, change of venue and date)

    This photography awards is produced and organised by The Photography & Visual Cultures (BA Hons) students from University Centre Weston, with support from Royal Photographic Society. Thanks to Liz Williams (Education Manager at RPS) for being part of judging process.

    Please also see The Dirigo International Student Film festival, produced by The Film & Media Arts Production students (BA Hons) from University Centre Weston.

Last years winners for UCW Photo Awards - Connections were:

Open Call - Khamal Thomas
College's/ 6th Form - Roxy Barrow
Schools - Esme Rutter, Isabella Rutter, Minnie Edkins (Joint winners)

Runner’s Up

Open Call - Jessica Carrillo
College's/ 6th Form - Alisha Hobbs

Commended
Uliana Abrosimenkova (College's/ 6th Form)
Amy Koenig, Lydia Cashmore, Morton Moss (Open Call)

AUDIENCE AWARD

CONGRATULATIONS ALISHA HOBBS on winning the AUDIENCE AWARD!

Nominees were

Open Call - Amy Koenig, Jessica Carrillo, Khamal Thomas, Lydia Cashmore, Morton Moss, 

College's/ 6th Form - Alisha Hobbs, Roxy Barrow, Uliana Abrosimenkova

Schools - Esme Rutter, Isabella Rutter, Minnie Edkins, 

Winners were announced on Wednesday 29th March 2023, 6pm at Tropicana

Study at UCW

This Photography Award is organised by second year students from UCW’s Photography and Visual Cultures (BA Hons) at University Centre Weston. For more details about our courses please visit website via link below.

We are proud to say The RPS is supporting this award and was involved in the judging process, our students are all members of The RPS.

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