Michael Ormerod Award 2007

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This year’s Ormerod Travel Award was open to all the pre- and undergraduate students at Newcastle College, (some 300 students), for a prize of £1000 for travel and the printing and framing costs of a subsequent exhibition. An endowment to commemorate Ormerod’s life as a fondly remembered local photographer and mentor, the prize is awarded annually, independently judged and this year’s theme was ‘trace’.

The task was to produce a printed contact sheet from a roll of 24 frame 35mm colour film, and one chosen A4 print to represent the set of 24. A written application detailing costs, objectives and travel itinery was to be included with the photographs in an anonymous package, with a late April deadline. Easier or more difficult than it sounds, hmm? You decide.

My photographs of ‘traces’ were taken on a chill spring evening at a semi-derelict fishing harbour on the north east coast. The light was beginning to fade, and the wind was crisp, though the vast expanse of clouded sky and the reflected light from the grey-green waters of the dock, has thrown a soft blueish cast over the photographs. They were shot with a Nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens on Fuji 160 Pro film, and treated to minimal post processing.

Adrian Lourie won the 2007 Ormerod, and he’ll be spending at least some of the summer in Blackpool on his assignment, results to be exhibited in November. More about him then. Meanwhile, my submission was one of two sortlisted joint second, and mighty pleased I am about it too. Will definitely apply again next spring, but in the meantime Adrian, if you’re reading this: congratulations! My short rainy Blackpool tribute set will be uploaded later in the year.

Newcastle College’s photography foundation degree alumni of 2007’s work can be seen on their end of year website. I think that means it’s about time we started thinking about ours.

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8 Comments

  1. Laura
    Posted August 28, 2007 at 10:51 pm | Permalink

    Wooooo. Congrats to you :)

  2. Posted August 28, 2007 at 11:25 pm | Permalink

    Thank you!

    Very clever, this degree palaver. They /make/ you enter awards, exhibit and all that: it’s how one builds a CV. So before I go back at the end of Sept, I’m slowly listing what there is, so I can link to it on the online CV on bdada.com.

    A word via the dictionary of Mr Cawley: reification. Must do more of it.

  3. drjoolz
    Posted August 31, 2007 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    Really love your entries; there is a sparseness in them all that I like a lot. Similar qulaity as the winning entry of course.
    Something poignant about the know on his shot – and its fragility is alluring too.

  4. Posted September 1, 2007 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    There’s a sparseness on that fishing dock too, so I’m pleased it’s been conveyed.

    Strangely, a horse was drowned down there at the weekend. I can’t quite find out how, but it all sounds quite disturbing.

  5. DrJoolz
    Posted September 2, 2007 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    That is most Kafkaesque.

  6. Posted October 13, 2007 at 10:07 am | Permalink

    Big Up Brenda…see you at the Preview on 30/10/07.

  7. Posted October 16, 2007 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

    Big Up Ade. :)

    Your long blue passport machine photos are up on the new wall by the studio, and mighty fine they look too. See you in a couple of weeks.

  8. Posted October 17, 2007 at 9:02 am | Permalink

    Is it really? How cool…glad it’s got some use! See you soon.

    http://www.adrianlourie.co.uk

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