PhotoBox and ChildLine Young Photographer of the Year - Winners Announced -
The NSPCC and PhotoBox today announce the winners of the PhotoBox and ChildLine 2009 Young Photographer of the Year.
The competition, launched at the beginning of September, was open to all children under the age of 18. After receiving a large number of impressive entries, the judges had the difficult job of whittling it down to the lucky four winners from each category: Under 8’s, 9-12 Years, 13-15 Years and 16-18 Years.
Each of the winners will receive their own individual prize, ranging from tickets to the new Disney movie UP to one-to-one photography tuition with world famous landscape photographer Charlie Waite. All entries from this year can be seen at youngphotographer.photobox.com/front/welcome
The winner from the 16-18 category, Sophie Matthews, says: “I am extremely excited to be given this opportunity to work with such a well respected photographer as Charlie Waite. I never thought I’d win so I’m just gob smacked and delighted!”
All the shortlisted entries will also be included within a special PhotoBox I ChildLine 2009 Young Photographer of the Year photobook available to buy at www.photoboxgallery.com/nspcc-young-photographer from 30th October. A range of NSPCC greeting cards featuring the same images will also be available at www.photobox.co.uk from 30th October. Both will help generate money for the NSPCC’s ChildLine service with 10% of selling price from the photo book, and 5% of selling price from the greeting cards, going directly to its Child’s Voice Appeal.
One of the judges, professional photographer Annabel Williams of Contemporary Photographic Training, commented: “We were impressed with the array of images submitted in all the categories, making it hard to choose the winners, but we went for the ones we felt best signified the ‘Childs Eye View’ and really stood out for us.”
NSPCC account manager, Gwen Grant commented: “We are delighted with how successful the competition has been and think that the standard of entries has been incredible. Every day, hundreds of calls are made to ChildLine or the NSPCC Helpline for help and many can not get through due to lack of funds. All the funds raised by PhotoBox will go towards our Child’s Voice Appeal which will fund the expansion of our helpline services and bring us closer to our vision of answering every cry for help.”
PhotoBox UK, Managing Director, Mark Chapman says: “We’re very pleased with how popular this competition has proved to be with children throughout the UK. It shows that children are really interested in photography from an early age. We hope to raise as much money as possible for the NSPCC through sales of the photobook and greeting cards, and ideally run this competition again next year.”
Under 8’s:
Winner: Sasha Gunning, aged 6, Autumn walk with me and Daddy
Runners up: Harry Jenkins, aged 8, Found you Mr Conker
Harry Jenkins, aged 8, I Made These Gonks
9-12 Years
Winner: Zara Kesterton, Aged 11, Model Pony Procession
Runners up: Robert James Batson, aged 9, Me taking a Picture of ME!
Charleigh Lowe, aged 12, Kingfisher Spotting with Granddad
13-15 Years
Winner: Chris Wheeley, aged 15, A Time to Reflect
Runners up: Isaac Leach, aged 13, Simple and Strong….Love
Helen Fendley, aged 15, Sunset Balloon
16-18 Years
Winner: Sophie Matthews, aged 17, Great Wall Love
Runners up: Anoushka Brun, aged 16, Inner Reflection
Runners up: Abi LeSanto, aged 16, Shattered
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