I am really sorry not to have known about this before and to have failed to alert you to the exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London SW1 that closes today. If you are in London and have the time go and have a look, it is always so much better to see photographs as prints than viewed on a screen.
The Renaissance Photography Competition is in support of young women with breast cancer, a very worthy cause and one to give your time to. Set up in 2007 by Fiona Gifford, an amateur photographer who survived cancer after being diagnosed in 2006.
Many photography competitions in support of causes seem to attract rather dull images, nothing to shout about, that is definitely not the case with Renaissance. As soon as I saw some of the winning images I was struck but how intelligent and mature the art of photography was being used by the entrants. The website has all the winning entries for you to see and buy as prints and your love of photography would have to be a moribund husk not to find something that you would want to own.
Exhibition
100 photographs selected by judges Monica Allende, Michael Hoppen, Brigitte Lardinois, Mary McCartney and Brett Rogers will be exhibited in the Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 11 June to 16 June 2012 (admission free).
Photographs will be available for purchase.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind (United Kingdom)
disorientation
Digital
From The Series The National Womb: Baby Boom In Nagorno Karabakh
Julieta Sans (United Kingdom)
expression
Film
Untitled
Dom Agius (United Kingdom)
disorientation
Digital
Matthew: Under My Umbrella
Tom Hatton (United Kingdom)
environment
Film
Madaba
Mimi Mollica (United Kingdom)
expression
Film
Untitled
Mattia Vacca (Italy)
memory
Digital
Srebrenica. Requiem For A Dream
Alessandro Falco (Italy)
perspective
Digital
Vengeance N° 1
The following images were shortlisted for awards.
Mustafah Abdulaziz (Germany)
memory
Film
November, 2010.
Philip Cheung (Canada)
expression
Digital
Soldiers’ Angels – U.s. Mortuary Affairs In Afghanistan
Cristina De Middel (United Kingdom)
memory
Digital
Bongo
Régis Defurnaux (Belgium)
perspective
Digital
Contemporary Identities
Salomon Fargeon (France)
memory
Digital
Seventy Years Later
Colin Hutton (United Kingdom)
expression
Digital
That Royal Wedding
Florence Iff (Switzerland)
environment
Digital
Post Arcadia 1
Simon Impey (United Kingdom)
perspective
Digital
My Point Of View
Alvaro Laiz (Spain)
environment
Digital
Transmongolian
Cynthia O’Dell (United States)
memory
Digital
Tullig Village, Kilrush, Co. Clare, 2006/1849
Istvan Prem (United Kingdom)
disorientation
Digital
Tin Foil Dream
Greta & Manu Schnetzler (United States)
perspective
Film
Wow
Luke Smith (United Kingdom)
environment
Film
Isolation
Catrine Val (Germany)
disorientation
Digital
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