AOP Photographers Awards Sponsors

The AOP would like to thank all of the sponsors of the 2008 Awards, without whose support, these Awards would not be possible.

The Sponsors of the 2008 AOP Photographers Awards are:

Chubb; Epson; Hasselblad (UK) Ltd.; Leaf ; MOT Models; Stanley’s Post; Street Studios; Tag Creative; Towergate Camerasure

Chubb

Sponsors of the Award Presentation Programme
Chubb Insurance Company of Europe S.A. has sponsored the Association of Photographers annual awards for over ten years and is proud to be supporting the event again.

A member of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, one of the world’s leading insurance organisations, founded in 1882, we are known worldwide for providing specialist insurance solutions to individuals and a wide range of businesses, small, large, national and multinational. We are pleased to offer AOP members a tailored, packaged product specifically designed to meet the insurance needs of photographers. Covers include damage to equipment, props, portfolio, office contents, money and laptops, public and employers’ liability. Our comprehensive insurance cover, with special discounts for members of the Association of Photographers, is available through Williamson Carson Insurance Brokers (tel: 020 8650 9222), the Association’s appointed broker for members.
 

Chubb Information

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Epson

Sponsors of the Photographer of the Year and the Personal & Commissioned Classic Landscape Categories
In these days where 10 megapixel cameras (and larger) have become affordable for the mass market, allowing everyone to think they can take pictures, Epson is pleased to sponsor the Classic Landscape category and recognise the artistry of the professional photographer.

Professional photographers continually aspire in both their commissioned and personal work to capture exceptional images. Epson is proud to be the perfect partner to enable this professionalism to continue through into the reproduction of that image. Epson’s printers are one part of a printing system, designed and developed to work together with Epson ink and media to produce high quality, vibrant, long lasting prints. The recent launch of the 64” Stylus Pro 11880 means professional photographers can now think bigger than ever before.

www.epson.co.uk

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Hassleblad (UK) Ltd.

Sponsors of the Personal Portrait & Commissioned Life Categories
Hasselblad have an uncompromising attitude to image quality, demonstrated by its integrated digital cameras – achieving the highest quality through integration of the optical, mechanical and software systems. The Hasselblad H3DII – combined with Phocus software for results that will take your breath away.

The Association of Photographers has a place at the very top of the photographic industry, its membership includes the technical and creative elite, and at Hasselblad (UK) Limited we like to think of ourselves as a supplier of tools for this elite. Tools that remove limitations and enable the realisation of creative ideas. Hasselblad, the best photographic tools supplied professionally for professional photographers.

www.hasselblad.co.uk

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Leaf

Sponsors of the Personal and Commissioned Interiors & Architecture Categories
Ever since its establishment in 1984, Leaf has strived to set the standard in high-end, medium and large format digital photography, using cutting-edge sensor and software technologies and allowing professional photographers to achieve the best possible colour and detail while maintaining high levels of creativeness and productivity.

The Leaf AFi and Leaf Aptus range provide an un-beatable flexibility for every assignment, offering the highest capture rate and the most intuitive workflow: in studio under strobe or on a helicopter chasing speed boats; from glossy fashion magazine cover to a 30’ poster in Piccadilly Square.

Leaf and its UK partners, Calumet Photographic and Peartree, offer preferential rates to AOP members along with free training and photographers’ seminars and assistants’ workshops.

www.leaf-photography.com

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MOT Models

Sponsors of the Personal & Commissioned Fashion Categories
MOT Models is proud to be a long-time sponsor of the AOP Awards. Rather as photographic styles and techniques change and also as the Awards themselves have changed over the years, so too MOT strives to refresh itself through its portfolio of models and the levels of service we offer to the photographer and the model. Our objective is simple - to always ensure that your assignment, no matter how big or small, is a success for everyone involved.

www.motmodel.com

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Stanley’s Post

Sponsors of the Commissioned Contemporary Landscape & Cityscape and Commissioned Still Life Categories
Stanley’s Post are delighted to be continuing our involvement with the AOP by again sponsoring this year’s Awards.

We love to encourage award-winning photographers in any way we can and know only too well the hard work that goes into producing every one of these superb images.

We continue to work closely with photographers and agencies and are proud to be producing the highest quality creative retouching for the industry.

In the future, we aim to carry on doing what we do best, whilst embracing technical innovation and looking for new ways to improve the services we offer.

www.stanleyspost.com

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Street Studios

Sponsors of the Personal Still Life and Project Categories
Street Studios is proud to support the 2008 AOP Awards at the end of our tenth anniversary year.

Ten years which have seen the most fundamental transformation in photography that most of us have witnessed in our lifetime.

Through all this, Street Studios has grown and adapted and now provides fully digitalised studio packages with the latest technology and lighting systems on offer.

We take pride in providing quality studio hire facilities to the professional photographer catering for the needs of the photographic industry in all its manifestations.

www.streetstudios.co.uk

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Tag Creative

Sponsors of the Personal Life and Personal Travel Categories
As well being industry leaders in cgi and retouching, Tag Creative’s commitment to photography and photographers has increased dramatically in recent years. Moving the in-house studio back into Peartree Street studios has given Tag Creatives two staff photographers the sort of facilities and equipment that really allows them to create more elaborate sets and complex lighting – far and above the standard perceived pack shot set up. Couple with this the continued success of Wendy Jackson and Kari Burton, both of whom operate under the Tag Creative banner and it’s not difficult to understand why the AOP is so important to us. Representing eighteen photographers and illustrators between London and LA, photography has become core to Tag’s business and will continue to develop in the coming year with the addition of a new Soho facility.

www.tagworldwide.com

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Towergate Camerasure

Sponsors of the Personal Contemporary Landscape & Cityscape and Commissioned Portrait Categories
Towergate Camerasure looks after more professional photographers and image makers than any other insurer in the UK, and has strong links to the major trade associations for photographers. With over 20 years’ experience Towergate Camerasure has developed insurance solutions which are flexible enough to meet the individual requirements of professionals, including as standard covers such as:

• equipment cover
• liability cover
  
• reinstatement of data for computers
• damage resulting in re-shoot costs
• 45 days world wide (including USA) cover
• equipment in aircraft holds
• equipment in unattended vehicles

Towergate Camerasure makes insurance easy with friendly, knowledgeable staff, and a fast efficient claims service. As part of the UK’s largest specialist insurance intermediary Towergate Underwriting Group, and with policies underwritten by Norwich Union, Camerasure offers a combination of strength and security that gives you the reassurance of dealing with a name you can trust.

www.towergate.co.uk

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