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Photography Judging is an essential guide for all photographers who judge photography.
It offers essential reading and reference material for those who wish to enter their images to photography competitions, awards, or salons.
Photography Judging is a handbook for those who carry any responsibility for judging photographic entries for awards or prizes
at any level.
If you are, or have been invited to be a photography judge this book gives you all the information you need to perform your duties with skill, flair, and fairness. With the thousands of competitions, awards, salons worldwide, there is a pressing need for a clear, authoritative manual to guide photojudges.
This book is that manual.
Certain questions about judging photography recur. On every continent, in every country, every photography judge will be asked variants of these queries.
¿'How do you judge a photograph?'
¿'How can you spot the one great photograph among thousands of others?'
¿'Surely photography is totally subjective?'
¿'What's the difference between a good photograph and a bad one?'
This book is essentially a long answer to those questions. In doing so, I hope to help you become a skillful, subtle, prudent judge of photographs; and, by the end, that you'll appreciate there's much less subjectivity and more objectivity than you might have first thought.
About the author
Tom is a leading authority on digital photography, a photographer, author, educator, TV broadcaster, and traveller. He was was awarded the Hamdan International Photography Award for Content Creator in 2019. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jinan International Photography Biennial 2024. He won the Thomas Cook award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his photography of the Marco Polo Expedition which pioneered the modern Silk Road crossing from Europe to China. He has worked as a magazine editor, picture editor, technical journalist, has exhibited internationally and was a university senior lecturer and course leader in photography for over twelve years during which time he pioneered academic links in the former Soviet Central Asia. Amongst his 40+ books on photography is the award-winning Photography - the definitive visual history, his best-selling Digital Photographer's Handbook which has sold over 700,000 copies and translated into twenty languages and the award-winning Digital Photography Masterclass. The presenter for two ground-breaking 6-part BBC series on digital photography, he also presented and wrote an award-winning 8-part photography series for Channel News Asia, Singapore. He has led workshops internationally, including in London, Cape Town, Salzburg, Budapest, Dubai, Manila, Singapore and Auckland. He is a founding member of the Sony World Photography Award, has been jury member for Czech Press Photo, Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Hamdan International Photography Award. A Sony Digital Imaging Advocate for New Zealand and a GettyImages contributor, he lives and works in New Zealand.
