The inaugural Ocean Pictures Awards winners’ exhibition will now occur on-line, and the time limit for submissions has additionally been prolonged, in accordance with the competition’s organizers.
Before every little thing scheduled to occur alongside London’s River Thames in August 2020, the week-prolonged winners’ exhibition will now be inch as a digital match. The exhibition will now occur across a bespoke and interactive digital platform in November 2020. This can dwell free to accept admission to.
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic is what led organizers to transition to a digital match.
Ensuing from the later exhibition date, the submissions time limit for entries has additionally been prolonged. Photographers now delight in except August 31st, 2020 to enter their photos for consideration. All prizes dwell the a related.
Every the winners’ gala match at City Hall and the winners’ exhibition at London Bridge City will occur next year as allotment of the Ocean Pictures Awards 2021.
Will Harrison, editor of Oceanographic Journal which is organizing in the aid of the Awards, acknowledged:
“The resolution to inch this year’s exhibition digitally is each and each marvelous and thrilling. The digital platform we are engaged on with our partners will allow us to bring the a hit photos to the arena in formulation which can be exquisite as compelling and heaps extra inclusive than the physical exhibition we had deliberate – and without risking of us’s effectively being. Attendees from across the world would maybe be in a design to trip the match from the safety of their delight in homes.”
The upcoming digital match will characteristic one of the essential crucial leading voices in ocean conservation, exploration and adventure photography, as effectively as 2020’s a hit photographers. Extra data about the match would maybe be launched in August.
Based entirely on Cristina Mittermeier, Managing Director and Co-founder at SeaLegacy:
“That is an gracious different to leverage the creative potentialities of an immersive digital match. One of essentially the most intelligent things about the set we are in the arena as of late is the ability we delight in got as humans to innovate and adapt in definite programs. I’m excited to trip this digital match and aid all ocean focussed photographers to steal benefit of the prolonged entry time limit. I’ve continually believed that photography competitions are a essential step in organising your self as a prime photographer – a formulation to ascertain your self aside from others. As a keep in mind, I will’t wait to gaze the entries!”
Kiran Haslam, chief management officer for Princess Yachts, added:
“Because the starting up of this year, a highlight on the fragile nature of all lifestyles on our planet has been renewed, globally. By device of our ongoing dedication to definite alternate, and our collaboration with Oceanographic Journal we are hopeful that these awards will aid to concentrate on the continuing challenges we face in maintaining marine ecosystems. The brand new dates and new programs wherein we are all interacting remotely now commence up these awards to a important larger viewers of participation, so we sit down up for seeing many extra spell binding entries.”
For extra data about the Ocean Pictures Awards, run to oceanphotographyawards.com.
(Photo credit rating: Luciano Candisani)
