The 2011 Photographers Awards Judges


Commissioned Advertising & Design Categories


Ray Massey (Group Chair) 
Photographer

Mark Roalfe
Executive Creative Director - RKCRY&R   

Nick Finney
Designer/Director NB

Studio Nick has nearly 20 years experience in the design industry, including five years at design consultancy Pentagram, where he worked with clients such as Polaroid, The Savoy Group and King’s College. In 1997 he established independent design consultancy NB: Studio with Alan Dye and Ben Stott. NB works with a variety of clients including John Lewis, University of Oxford, Mothercare, Pernod Ricard and Channel 4. NB’s work has been published widely both in the UK and overseas and has received numerous design awards, most recently a 2010 Gold Cube at the Art Directors Club NY for their campaign for the Museum of London.

Ray Massey (Group Chair)
Photographer

First exposed to light in Somerset. Thirteen years later, discovered photography whilst experimenting with pinhole cameras made from coffee tins. Studied Photography and Graphic Design at Somerset College of Art and  Kent Institute of Art and Design before enduring a short period of assisting several photographers including: David Montgomery, Penny Tweedie, Julian Cotterel and Richard Avedon. Having understood that assisting was not his vocation, became a freelance photographer at 20, from first studio in Camden. Early commissions were mainly editorial, publishing, music and annual reports before life decided  skills producing and crafting elusive illusions were best suited to the design and advertising industry. Currently exercising the same passion from his studio in a de-consecrated church hall for clients both in the UK and overseas. Occasionally takes time out for charity and travel photography projects.
 

Monica Allende
Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine

Monica Allende is the Picture Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine. Having joined the magazine in 2002. She was part of the team which founded Spectrum- a section dedicated to photography from around the world-and over the last two years has continued to develop and edit it. After graduating with a political-science degree from the University of London, Monica worked as picture editor for several book publishers before moving into newspapers; The Independent followed by The Sunday Times. She was recently commissioned by CAM to curate an exhibition about the Darfur conflict, which is currently being shown in Spain. She has been a jury member for Visa pour L’Image, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, F awards, Summer Show at Host, Blurb book awards, nominator for masterclass WPP, she also teaches workshops in photography and has been portfolio reviewer at Photo España and Bamako Photo Festival.  While Monica has been working at The Sunday Times Magazine, the publication has received several awards for its photography, including: Picture Editor’s award for Best Magazine in 2006; Best Feature in Photojournalism 

Simon Norfolk
Photographer

Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work over the last ten years has been themed around a probing and stretching of the meaning of the word ‘battlefield’ in all its forms. As such, he has photographed in some of the world’s worst war zones and refugee  crises, but is equally at home photographing supercomputers used to design military systems or test launches of nuclear missiles. His work has been widely recognised: he has won Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2005; The Infinity Prize from The International Center of Photography in 2004; the Foreign Press Club of America Award in 2003: and he was winner of the European Publishing Award, 2002. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize now known as the Deutsche Böurse Prize. He has produced three monographs of his work including ‘Afghanistan:chronotopia’ (2002) which was published in 5 languages; ‘For Most Of It I Have No Words’ (1998) about the landscapes of genocide and ‘Bleed’ (2005) about the war in Bosnia. He has work held in major collections such as The Museum of Fine Art, Houston and Deutsche Böurse Art Collection in Frankfurt and the collection of the British Council. He has been described by one critic as ‘the leading documentary photographer of our time. Passionate, intelligent and political; there is no one working in photography that has his vision or his clarity’.

Gary Shaw
Cinematographer

Gary started in the industry as a 16 year-old runner at the film optical company Geoff Axtell Associates. After working his way up from runner to lead cameraman, he discovered that his calling lay not in world of post-production, rather on the actual set of commercials and feature films. He moved into the motion control area of special effects photography, working in Great Britain’s renowned effects lab The Mill Motion Control Studio, or The Mill. At The Mill, Gary worked on many hundreds of high-end commercials and movies including, Entrapment, The Mummy, The World Is Not Enough and Enemy of the State to name a few. A great deal of his effects work took place both on the ‘Super Cyclops’ process stage at Shepperton Studios and on many locations with the ‘Milo’ mobile Mo-Co rigs. By the late 90’s, Gary had already been developing a craft for the camera while working alongside several top cinematographers. Gary was given the chance to DP what was to become an award winning BMW commercial for Paul Street. He has since gone on to shoot various award winning commercials worldwide with many talented directors. Gary first collaborated with Duncan Jones on the Carling ‘Robots’ commercial before they came together on their first feature MOON. Gary said. “It was a great and challenging opportunity to shoot MOON with Duncan and I think, together, we have crafted a great film” Gary has recently completed a second feature Raftaar 24/7 in Bollywood with well-known Indian commercials director Shamin Desai.   

Dominique Green
Film & Photography Consultant-Photovoice

Combining a career in film and photography, Dominique Green is currently Chief Executive of the award-winning charity PhotoVoice, and delegate to the Berlin Film Festival for the UK and Eire. She was the MD of Magnum Photos London, from 2004-2008, coming to the post from the film industry after 14 years in Paris as head of Co-Productions at TF1 and Studio Canal+. And prior to this, Head of Distribution for Virgin Vision and Managing Director of Comic relief.

Lindsey Hopkinson
Founder & Manager Director Little Yellow Jacket
Between Man And Beast

LJ Hopkinson is the founder and managing director of both Little Yellow Jacket Productions, and creative collective Between Man And Beast. She began her career in photography, studying at the London College of Printing, and then going on to the international news agency Reuters. Her work has appeared in publications such as Exit, Foto8, Arena, Dazed and Next Level. The transition from stills to moving image was a natural progression, having worked on many commercials and shorts as a DOP. Recently she completed work on a moving-image art project for eco-friendly fashion brand North Circular starring Lily Cole, and shot The Craftsman which came third out of 6000 entries into the Phillips Cinema competition, as judged by Sir Ridley Scott. She is currently executive producer and DOP on “If I Had A Heart” her first feature, and a formative step in her continuing working relationship with Director Chris Turner.

Non-Commissioned Portrait & Life Categories


Maxine Hose (Group Chair)

Zed Nelson
Photographer

Zed Nelson gained recognition and major awards as a documentary photographerworking in some of the most troubled areas of the world. His work has increasingly focussed on Western society and contemporary social issues. Nelson’s seminal first book, Gun Nation, was a disturbing reflection on America’s deadly love affair with the gun. Nelson’s recently published second book, Love Me, reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a phenomenal global obsession with youth and beauty. Nelson’s awards include First Prize in World Press Photo Competition, the Visa d’Or (France) and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award (USA). 

Lou Proud
Head of Photography, Phillips de Pury

Lou joined Phillips de Pury in 2009. She began her career in photography in 1997 at Magnum Photos London, where she worked mainly with Henri
Cartier-Bresson. Her work at Focus Gallery, London, and then with Eric Franck, a private dealer in photography, as well as participating regularly in
international art fairs, has given her an expertise in 20th-century photography and in global markets. In 2004 she joined Atlas Gallery where she became Associate Director. She subsequently worked as a consultant specialising in 20 Century Photography and Private Photographs Dealer.

Non-Commissioned Object & Environment Categories


Maxine Hose (Group Chair)
Art Buyer, Leo Burnett

Maxine Hose has a surname that suggests she works in a tights shop or a garden centre. She doesn’t. She’s an Art Buyer. Maxine joined Leo Burnett in the March of 2003 and stayed there for a wonderful 8 years, before moving home to Grey in May of this year. She spends her days working closely with creative bods, helping to bring to life the essence of their imaginations. She loves searching for inspiration in nooks and crannies and wide open spaces, but equally loves the daily challenge of producing those ideas. She also loves coffee. Working on award winning campaigns, the constant search for the next big thing, as well as working with the enormous expanse of talent that’s out there, makes her very grateful every day for the career that she has.

Jenny Van Sommers
Still Life Photographer

Jenny Van Sommers is an award winning still life photographer. Van Sommers was awarded the Golden Lion at Cannes for her work with Stella Artois among other Awards. Van Sommer’s still-life advertising clients include AUDI, VW, MERCEDES, NIKE, ADIDAS, The GAP and Apple. Her stil-life photography has featured in French Vogue, German Vogue, English Vogue, Italian Vogue, POP, V Magazine, Another Magazine, 10, and Ponystep.

Tim Simmons
Landscape Photographer

Tim Simmons is a UK based photographic artist producing large-scale landscapes. From 2002 onwards, he has focused on developing a body of work reflecting artistic concerns. This work has been exhibited and published internationally over recent years. He works on a large format camera with artifical lighting, which gives the resulting images a surreal, other worldly quality. The illusive atmosphere suspends belief, giving pause for quiet reflection, prompting questions about mortality and our place in the world. Born in 1955. He lives and works in Norfolk .


 

Karin Berndl is originally from Austria, but found her true creative home in London. Karin has a curiosity for experimental techniques and is fascinated by unusual materials, jewellery, art objects. She would love to keep most of her sets, but as this is not possible, capturing the beauty in the photographs is the only way to make them last forever. She won the award for AOP photographer of the year 2009. Karin’s next project is to capture the efforts of the LondonVisionClinic in Nepal.

Best Commercial Use of Photography & Non-Commissioned Project Categories

Zoe Whishaw
Commercial Photography Consultant

Zoe Whishaw is a Commercial Photography Consultant providing creative direction, strategic advice and mentoring services for photographers, photo agencies and businesses. As a seasoned Editor and Art Director she has had many years of experience analysing and critiquing ideas and photography intended for commercial use across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Zoe’s previous role was European Director of Photography at Getty Images, where she worked for 17 years. As a passionate believer in photography’s power to communicate at all levels, Zoe transmits her enthusiasm and excitement through speaking widely at workshops and conferences (including guest speaker at CEPIC 2010 and Wildphoto 2011) and through one-to-one mentoring. She has judged international photography competitions, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year, STA Travel Photo Competition and the Association of Photographers Open Awards. 

 

Richard Reed