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RPS winners

announced

The Royal Photographic Society has revealed the winning images from
its 160th International Photography Exhibition (IPE160). Glasgow-based
photographer Margaret Mitchell has taken the Gold Award, with London
photographer Owen Harvey picking up Gold in the Under 30s category.
R. J. Kern from the USA takes home the Silver award and Canadian, Wes
Bell, wins Bronze. For the fi rst time in the exhibition’s history – which has

been running since 1854 – all four winners entered a series of work, rather
than individual images.
The winning photographs will be included in a touring exhibition of 100

images selected from the thousands of entries. The exhibition opens at
The Old Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane, where it runs from

13-16 October before moving on to Aberystwyth Arts Centre (17 January –

10 March 2018) and The Civic, Barnsley (28 April – 9 June 2018). The four Niagara © Andrew Urwi
winners will also have their images exhibited as part of a group show at
theprintspace gallery, London, in 2018. More venues may be added, so

visit rps.org/IPE160 for the latest tour dates and locations.

New reality for OS Maps ZEISS open for entries

One of the outdoor photographer’s favourite mapping tools – OS Maps – Entry is now open to the 2018 ZEISS Photography Awards. Now in its third
has had its capabilities expanded with a new ‘Augmented Reality’ mode. year, the brief for this year’s challenge is Seeing Beyond – Untold Stories,

Available via the OS Maps app, premium users will be able to ‘pan the which ‘requires photographers to present a strong series of five to ten

landscape with their phone or tablet camera to find out what’s nearby’; images that look beyond the ordinary and every day’. Intentionally broad,
simply hold up your tablet or phone and the app will label hills, mountains, the competition accepts entries from any photographic genre and in any

forests, woodland and other selected features in the area. medium, with the judges ‘specifically looking for a strong narrative’.
At present the app has more than 200,000 locations programmed into One talented winner will walk away with €12,000 worth of ZEISS lenses
it and the technology will work with or without a phone signal, so you don’t and €3,000 of travel expenses to complete a photography project of their

need to be connected. However, with a data connection the labels become own choosing, plus a day at ZEISS’ headquarters in Germany. There will
more informative, allowing you to call up additional information, such as also be an awards ceremony and an exhibition of the winning entries.
places to stay, routes and images relating to the location. To enter the awards and see previous winners, head over to

The OS Maps app is available for both iOS and Android devices, with worldphoto.org/zeiss. The closing date for entries is 6 February 2018.
premium subscriptions ranging from £3.99 for one month, to £19.99
or £23.99 for one year (depending on whether the subscription renews
automatically or not). Find out more at ordnancesurvey.co.uk.
© Anna Filipova, UK, Shortlist, ZEISS Photography Award 2017

© Ordnance Survey

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