About The 2018 Awards
Our 5th Year of the World's Best Landscape Photography!
It seems only yesterday that we were planning the first International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards - and in landscape terms, it is but the blink of an eye!
Looking back on the first four books, we see a stellar collection of impressive and imaginative landscape images, representing all genres of our art from colour to black and white, single capture to composite, reportage to interpretive. Yet there is one element in common with all the images - and that's passion.
We're as passionate about landscape photography as you are and that's why we're excited to be announcing the fifth International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards - the 2018 Awards.
We've made a few subtle changes to the competition rules in an effort to ensure we share the prize pool around. We're aiming to have 11 different photographers winning the 11 awards, and there's a limit of four images any one photographer can have in the book. We'll be interested in your feedback.
Unchanged is the basic premise that the most important prize of all is to be featured in the book, to enter one of the 101 best landscape photographs of 2018.
The International Landscape Photographer of the Year Award has matured with a look and a style that has been guided in part by our judges, and in part by the entrants. There's no doubt that our judges have strongly held views on what makes great photography, but equally we've invited judges who have a broad appreciation of photography. This cornucopia of ideas curates our wonderfully diverse collection of the top 101 landscape photographs, but it also makes choosing the best three photographers and the best three photographs very challenging.
The organisers - David Evans and I - are keen landscape photographers, so putting together this award gives us great enjoyment. There's still something magical about the way a book involves the reader, the expectations as you turn each page, the excitement and surprise as you look at amazing photograph after amazing photograph. If you enjoy looking at the flipbooks on this website, think how much better the experience would be with a physical book, printed by our sponsors MomentoPro.
So, here's the challenge! Would you like to be involved in the 2018 publication? Entries are open from 1 October 2018 until 30 November 2018, with an extended period for late entries up to 7 December (but you don't receive the every fifth entry free offer).
Don't leave it until the last moment, get your entries ready and enter now!
Peter Eastway
APP.L G.M.Photog. Hon. FNZIPP, FNZIPP, Hon. FAIPP, FAIPP
International Judging Panel
DAVID BURNETT
CO-FOUNDER CONTACT PRESS IMAGES
www.davidburnett.com
JIM M GOLDSTEIN
PROFESSIONAL AND FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER
www.jmg-galleries.com
KAYE DAVIS
G.M. PHOTOG. (NZIPP), M.PHOTOG. II (AIPP)
Kaye has close to 20 years experience as a photographer, following many years immersed in the creative industry of fashion and design. It was during her time studying for the fashion industry that saw her first experience the wonders of the darkroom, a love she went back to when deciding to retrain in photography many years later.
Since then, she has worked as a freelance photographer, undertaking wedding, portrait and commercial photography. Now working as a full-time Senior Lecturer on the Bachelor of Applied Visual Imaging (UCOL, Palmerston North, New Zealand), she also gives back to the industry through writing a regular column for The Photographer’s Mail, as an international judge, a position on the NZIPP Board and as current Chair of the NZIPP Honours Council.
Kaye’s practice now revolves around photographic art and a love of landscape, still life, illustrative and portraiture.
Career highlights include Epson/NZIPP Professional Photographer of the Year 2013 (New Zealand), Illustrative Photographer of the Year 2013 (Australia), Creative Photographer of the Year 2014, 2013 and 2011 (New Zealand).
"I absolutely love being part of this amazing profession and I’m constantly amazed and inspired by the passion, creativity and talent that exists at all levels.
“As an artist, photography is my medium of choice for expressing and interpreting the wonders of nature and the world around me, and I love that I am constantly learning about the art of photography.”
TIM PARKIN
PHOTOGRAPHER, On Landscape EDITOR
Tim Parkin is On Landscape online photography magazine's editor and, along with Joe Cornish, co-founder. Originally a computer engineer with a PhD, he has worked extensively in publishing, the internet and the music industry, but today Tim is immersed in all aspects of the art and craft. While his background means he is completely comfortable with digital photography and post-production, he chooses to shoot a lot of his landscape work on film using large format cameras.
"Our original goal for On Landscape was to create something dedicated to the people we both meet on a fairly regular basis. The amateurs who spend all of their spare time in the field, the semi-professionals trying to make a living from this misunderstood occupation and the full timers who have managed to build themselves a niche in a challenging business field.
"At the end of the day my photography is about learning; learning to see, learning to take pictures, learning about other photographers. This process also becomes a conversation with other photographers (who tend to be a nice bunch mostly) and this engagement is satisfying in itself."
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/
http://www.timparkin.net/
MAX RIVE
2017 INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR WINNER
Born and raised in the flat country off the Netherlands, Max visited the high mountains of Switzerland for the first time at the age of 5. Looking at topographical maps, making hiking routes and running in front of his parents and brother, it was immediately obvious that Max had a true and deep passion for mountains and landscapes.
Many years passed by before Max would go back to the mountains for a hiking trip in the Swiss Alps. Even though Max ended up in the hospital after 3 days, he found his passion for the mountains again and returned many times to the European Alps.
As big as his passion was for mountains, photography and other hobbies - such as motorsport and cycling – so small was his passion and motivation for the countless studies he followed. The travels he made during his study made him realise that his current path and direction were only motivated by the expectations of his surroundings. After missing a deadline for his study, Max decided to end his life as a student and stepped only weeks later onto a plane bound for the Himalayas of Nepal. After almost losing his life in an airplane accident, and witnessing the major earthquake in April 2015, he continued traveling around the world to Chile, Argentina, Greenland, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and New Zealand.
“I gradually became more serious as a real landscape photographer when I started sharing photos on the internet and became inspired by the work of others – and by ‘real’ landscape photographer, I mean using tripods, filters, bigger cameras and waiting for days at a spot to get the shot.
“I have now called myself a professional for the past four years, although I always want to keep challenging myself. I don’t want to fall into a predictable routine or get comfortable with what I’m doing.”
Max was the winner of the 2017 International Landscape Photographer of the Year and as such has been invited to be on the 2018 judging panel. Max was also the winner of the 2018 International Landscape Photograph of the Year - winning both the major awards.