AOP Awards at Sadler’s Wells report

photo: Tim Flach © – one of the ‘Judges Choice’ winners

Dylan Jones, editor of GQ magazine, hosted the 24th AOP Photography Awards at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London last Monday March 26th 2007. Nearly one thousand guests attending this showcase for the photographic industry saw Silver Awards go to Charlie Crane, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Markku Lahdesmaki and Adam Hinton this year.

The gala evening included a reception at which the Photography Awards Exhibition of 350 images selected by the judges was launched together with the 2007 Awards Book. Then on to the main event in the theatre – Dylan Jones announced the Award winners in each category in front of a stunning audio-visual production that spanned the entire Sadler’s Wells stage. All winning images can be viewed at www.the-awards.com.

AOP Awards Winners
AOP Photographers’ Awards Winners
Silver Awards: Charlie Crane (Project), Julia Fullerton –Batten (Fashion & Beauty),
Markku Lahdesmaki (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors)

Bronze Awards: Uwe Duettman (Project), Adam Hinton (Project), Judith Katz (Still Life), Simon Norfolk (Project), Jaap Viegemtjart (Landscapes Interiors & Exteriors)

AOP Document Winners
Silver Award and Best in Document Prize (£2,500): Adam Hinton (Daily Life)

Bronze Awards: Adrian Brown (Daily Life), Tim A Hetherington (News), Massimo Mastroillo (Feature)

AOP Assistants’ Awards
Winners (£400 each): Arthur Almeida (Lifestyle & Portraiture), Claudia Eschborn (Lifestyle & Portraiture), Chris Jelley (Still Life), Daniel Matthews (Still Life), Ewan McNicol (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors), Nicky Walsh (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors).

Merits (£200 each): Claudia Eschborn (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors), Tom Hull (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors), Anthony Lycett (Lifestyle & Portraiture), Hannah Metz (Lifestyle & Portraiture), Rob Murray (Landscapes, Interiors & Exteriors), Frederic Streicher (Lifestyle & Portraiture).

AOP Awards Judges
More than 4,000 images were submitted by photographers this year and judged by panels of industry professionals:

AOP Photographers’ Awards
Photographers Gino Sprio and Patrice de Villiers; photographic agents Niall Horton-Stephens, Wendy Jackson and John Wyatt-Clarke; curators Anne Braybon, National Portrait Gallery and Louise Shannon, Victoria and Albert Museum; Debi Angel, insideout magazine; art directors Jo Casey, Saatchi & Saatchi, Ben Cole, VCCP, Katie Grogan, AMV BBDO, Daniel Moorey, DDB, David Wilson, Crave.

AOP Document
Photographers Tim Flach and Simon Norfolk; Nick Galvin, Magnum; Harry Hardie, The Times; Nishani Kampfner, SS Robin Gallery.

AOP Assistants’ Awards
David Kimpton, hat-trick design; Thad Cox and Bertie Scrase, Leo Burnett; Tatjana Bilger, art buyer.

The Photographers’ Awards 2007 Exhibition runs in two parts from 28 March – 4 April and 8 May – 18 May , the Assistants’ Awards Exhibition from 5 June to 14 June and AOP Document Exhibition from 1 August – 9 August. The AOP Gallery, 81 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS