EIZO make monitor screens for creative people, but that’s not all we do: We also run a student photography award which recognises the best in new creative image making. It’s our commitment to the future of the industry. Winning entries receive an EIZO ColorEdge monitor and a work placement offer with a leading photographer.
Previous winners have spent time with the likes of Rankin, Miles Aldridge, Simon Roberts, Benedict Redgrove and John Ross.
The competition is now open and you can submit your entry below.
The Brief
Colour is more than a palette; it is life and is present in all aspects that surround it. We want to see how you represent this in your work; what is the significance of colour in the images you create and what are you aiming to communicate through the use of it in your work.
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Key Dates
21st Nov 2019: Awards open for submissions
May 2020: Awards closed
June 2020: Winners announced
Summer 2020: Work placements
The Prizes
An EIZO ColorEdge monitor
Work placement with one of the judges A fast track into the industry. Chosen winners will get the chance to work alongside one of our judges – looking, listening, learning and getting something valuable on the CV.
The Judges
Tim Flach
Tim is a London-based animal photographer and honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Bringing to life the complexity of the animal kingdom, his work ranges widely across species, united by a distinctive stylisation reflecting an interest in how we better connect people to the natural world. His recent project, Endangered, is a powerful document of species on the edge of extinction.
Tim Flach
Helen Jennings
Helen is an editor , curator, consultant and co-founder of Nataal, the award-winning media brand celebrating contemporary African visual arts, fashion and culture. Its digital platform, magazine and photography exhibitions have created a global platform for a new generation of artists. She has contributed to titles including Vogue, Guardian, Harpers Bazaar, Dazed and Lula, penned essays for several coffee table books and worked with brands such as Stella McCartney and Topshop.
Lakin Ogunbanwo
Alistair Taylor-Young
Alistair is a British photographer and film director whose career spans over 25 years. He has long standing relationships with leading names in fashion and beauty, including Dior, Bloomingdales, Fendi and Margaret Howell; shooting on location and in studio, creating advertising campaigns, catalogues and directing commercials. Alistair has contributed to Conde Nast Traveller for the past 20 years, travelling to extraordinary locations across the world.
Alistair Taylor Young
Submissions
Photographic submissions: please submit either a single image or a story of up to 10 images.
Film submissions: please submit a link to your film which should be no more than three minutes long.
A summary of your idea and approach in no more than 300 words.
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Participating colleges,
schools and universities:
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Arts University Bournemouth
- Barking and Dagenham College
- Bath Spa University
- Birmingham City University
- Blackpool and the Fylde College
- Bradford College
- Bristol, University West of England, (UWE)
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Central Bedfordshire College
- Central St Martins
- Cleveland College of Art and Design
- Coventry University
- De Montfort University
- Edinburgh Napier University
- Falmouth University
- Glasgow School of Art
- Hereford College of Arts
- Hugh Baird College
- Kingston University
- Leeds City College
- Leeds Arts University
- Leeds Beckett University
- Leeds Trinity University
- London College of Contemporary Art
- London Metropolitan University
- London South Bank University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Middlesex University
- Newcastle College
- North Warwickshire and Hinckley College
- Northbrook College Sussex
- Northern School of Art
- Norwich University of the Arts
- Nottingham Trent University
- Plymouth College of Art
- Plymouth University
- Ravensbourne
- Robert Gordon University
- Sheffield College
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Southampton Solent University
- St Helens College
- Staffordshire University
- Stockport College
- UCA Rochester
- Ulster University
- University Centre Colchester at Colchester Institute
- University Centre Southend & Thurrock(Part Of South Essex College)
- University for the Creative Arts
- University of Bedfordshire
- University of Bolton
- University of Brighton
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Chester
- University of Cumbria
- University of Derby
- University of East London
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Gloucestershire
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Huddersfield
- University of Lincoln
- University of Northampton
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Roehampton
- University of Salford
- University of South Wales
- University of Suffolk
- University of Sunderland
- University of the Arts London
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- University of West London
- University of Westminster
- University of Wolverhampton
- Wiltshire College
- York St John University
- Walsall College
Last year's winners
Jimmy Lee
University for the Creative Arts
Another Day in Paradise is a unique study of modern Britain in the ‘Brexit era’. Instead of documenting the direct conflict, Jimmy’s work depicts the ideology of British people today as well as the fantasy of the future.
Josh Adam Jones
Bristol, University West of England
Josh’s study, XO, concentrates on the relationship between local people and outsiders in Oman’s capital city, Muscat, with an emphasis on human aspects of the Middle East and how people are united by diversity.
Maia Pavey
Falmouth University
Maia’s series ‘Chez Moi, De Loin’, is a collection of mixed media exploring her grandparents’ house in the Calvados region of Normandy which was inhabited by the Nazis in the Second World War. Her images ask the question: what makes a home, and does the history of the house matter?