NEWS

The 2010 Open Exhibition has now been launched online and visitors can vote for their favourite image to win the Public Choice Award.  

Click here to view the exhibition in full and take part in the Public Vote.

The AOP Open is the only photography competition in which established professionals and occasional snappers compete on equal terms.  Each year professional photographers, assistants, students and amateurs battle it out to be selected for the exhibition at the AOP Gallery.

For everyone who is passionate about photography, the Open provides the perfect opportunity to gain recognition for their work.  There are no categories or themes in this competition - its aim is to showcase outstanding individual images - so the choice of work submitted is entirely up to the photographer.

The Open is judged each year by a panel of respected industry professionals.  This year’s panel included Karin Berndl - 2009 AOP Photographer of the Year, Daniel Campbell Blight – Director, HotShoe Gallery, Martin Brent – award-winning Photographer and ex-AOP President, Grant Scott – Group Brand Editor Imaging, Professional Photographer & Photography Monthly and the renowned music and fashion photographer, Peter Ashworth.

This year we received over 1300 entries from around the world.  The standard of work submitted was, as always, extremely high so it was a difficult task for the judges to select the final images that make up the 2010 Exhibition. 

All visitors to our website can get a first glimpse of the exhibition in its entirety and we are also offering all visitors to the online exhibition the opportunity to participate in the Public Vote.  Click here to see the exhibition and vote for your favourite image to win the Public Choice award.  Votes can be cast until 1pm on Thursday 19th August.

Meanwhile, the judges have selected the Best in Show and their own personal Judge’s Choice Awards which will be announced, along with the Public Choice Award, at the Gala Presentation Evening on Thursday 19th August.  The Best in Show and Public Choice winners will both win a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. 

The Open 2010 Exhibition will be on show at the AOP Gallery in Shoreditch, London for four weeks - from Tuesday 17th August to Thursday 9th September.