University of the Arts London is pleased to launch the 2012 Bar-Tur Award.

The award was established in 2011 in memory of Ann Lesley Bar-Tur (1947-1984). Ann was an exceptionally talented British artist and alumna of Chelsea College of Art & Design who died after long illness in 1984. The award has been created by her family and friends in collaboration with the University.

The Bar-Tur Award is open to all current students studying at UAL and University Alumni who have graduated in the last ten years. Students and graduates will be able to submit up to 4 images to this year’s award theme.

The selected theme for 2012 is ‘Olympian’. The judges will be looking for entries that demonstrate the breadth, depth and diversity this may mean to individuals, communities and society. The theme has been chosen to reflect a diversity of interests and concerns of the broad community of photographic practitioners at UAL and amongst its graduates.

The Bar-Tur Award is open for submissions from 6pm, 22 March 2012 until 10pm, Thursday 3 May 2012.

Visit the Bar-Tur Award website for further information on the award, prizes, and how to apply.

D&AD exists to inform, educate and inspire those who work in and around the creative industries. The D&AD Student Awards have been helping students break into the industry since 1978.

Entry to the Student Awards is open to anyone in full or part-time education. And to make sure that all new talent gets a chance to shine, they’ve added a new brief this year: Make Your Mark. As well as all full-time students, it’s open to anyone under the age of 26 or to all recent graduates who finished their course within the last two years.

Everything you need to succeed at this year’s Student Awards can now be found online in the Student Awards website: tutor packs, sponsor films, digital brief-in, and more.

Still to come…

This year’s judges will be revealed by the end of the month. To coincide with this they’re running a livestreamed event at D&AD HQ featuring a panel of industry experts to provide you with top tips on how to make sure your entries get noticed by the judges. Everyone will be able to send in their questions and have them answered live by the panel. Further details to be announced soon.

The site will accept entries from late January 2012.
The deadline for completing your entries online is Friday 9 March 2012.

If you have any questions on the briefs or the entry process please contact studentawards@dandad.org.

Visit:
- D&AD Student Awards

We can be heroes

We Can Be Heroes is a new book about London clubland between 1976-84 by Graham Smith (photography and interviews) and Chris Sullivan (text). It’s funded by crowdsourcing so if you’re interested, sign up to pledge some money!

Beautifully designed over 320 pages, it’s the definitive record of this fascinating and influential period of youth sub culture, produced by people who were actually there in the thick of it.

The book includes interviews with more than 60 familiar ‘faces’ (many of whom were Central Saint Martins boys and girls) and the photography is captioned with 500 of their quotes, from Sade to Philip Sallon. You’ll also find playlists from all the clubs, and charts plotting the rise and evolution of the scene.

Those were interesting times…

Visit:
- We Can Be Heroes web page

Congratulations to Jesús Madriñán who’s won second place in ‘Non-Professional, Portrait’ in this year’s IPA World Photography Awards.

Visit:
- The MA Photography course page
- IPA World Photography Awards website
- See more of Jesús Madriñán’s work

The new London Street Photography Festival is calling for submissions!

Candid, un-staged photography which captures, explores or questions contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their surroundings.  Street photography is more a method than a genre. The results can fit into documentary, portraiture and other genres, but the key elements of spontaneity, careful observation and an open mind ready to capture whatever appears in the viewfinder are essential.

Submission deadline: 31 March
Festival: 7-17 July

Prizes include: an Olympus PEN camera worth £500 for the winner; tuition and a show at Orange Dot Gallery for 6 finalists; a voucher toward publishing your own book with Blurb for all entrants.

Visit the Festival website

Pause

We’re proud that Özant Kamaci, our MA Communication Design alumnus, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Salon Photo Prize.

The Salon Photo Prize 2011 is the inaugural photography exhibition produced by Matt Roberts Arts. The exhibiition will take place from 4 February – 26 February at Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG.

This year’s selection panel consisted of:
Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate
Stefanie Braun, Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery
Tim Clark, Editor-in-chief, 1000 Words Photography Magazine
Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum

Visit:
- Özant Kamaci‘s website
- Salon Photo Prize website
- MA Communication Design course page

Nils Jorgensen - Poise

To kick start the first annual Street Photography Festival, you’re invited to submit your work to the newly launched Street Photography Awards.

The festival, which will take place between 7-17 July, will feature a diverse programme of interactive events at central London venues including the National Portrait Gallery, the British Library, the German Gymnasium and St Pancras International.

The Student Street Photography Award is open to submissions from UK based students.
The International Street Photography Award is open to photographers across the globe.

The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2011.

Visit -
- The London Street Photography Festival website
- The Street Photography Student Award
- The Street Photography International Award

Patrycja Basinska, a graduate of MA Fine Art has been selected by curator Shama Khanna to be featured on MAstars for her outstanding work.

One artist featured in MAstars will be hand-picked to receive a 12 month residency at the Florence Trust, London beginning in August 2011.

See Patrycja’s work on the MAstars website

Visit the MA Photography course page

Congratulations to Kristina Kostadinova, newly graduated from our MA Communication Design who’s won a first place in the International Photography Awards for ‘AMNESIA: House of Bulgarian Communist Party’.

- View more of Kristina’s images
- Visit the MA Communication Design course page