EEF Photography Competition 2017

Description

We’re on the hunt for images that capture UK manufacturing
This competition is designed to inspire a new image and improved public perception of UK manufacturing using photography. From the traditional to the high-tech your images should reflect the strength and diversity of today’s UK manufacturing sector.
Capture British products, components or processes in abstract form or in their full glory and enter them into one of three categories:
Best photograph by an Amateur photographer, Best photograph by a Professional photographer, Best photograph by a Young photographer (under 20 years old)

How to enter
1.Simply take a photo of a British made product, component or a manufacturing process carried out here. 2.Register and upload your image here for your chance to win 3.There is no limit on the number of images you can enter!

Categories

There are three categories for entry in to this year's competition:

• Best photograph by a Professional photographer
• Best photograph by an Amateur photographer
• Best photograph by a Young photographer (under 20 years old on 30 September 2017)

Your photograph should represent one or a combination of the following areas:

Product or component
Nothing could be more representative of manufacturing itself than the quality and contribution of its output – both components and finished goods in all their detail and variety. Your image might be of a product or component invented, designed or made in the UK.

• Your image may capture the product or component in its full glory or in abstract form
• Your product may be captured standing proudly in its own right, in the environment within which it is manufactured or the environment or place within which it is used
• Your product or component must have been either invented, designed or made in the UK

Your product must be an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale or a thing (but not a person) that is the result of an action or process. Your component must be a part or element of a larger product or a product that is destined to be so.

Processes

Show us what best represents today’s dynamic manufacturing environment – the processes which display the transformational characteristics of British manufacturing and/or its lifecycle– from input to output, handicraft to high-tech production; at the macro scale of aircraft product or the micro scale of nanotechnology, prototype to mass production.

Whether it’s the intricacy or precision, the momentum or speed, or the scale – large or small - of the process you choose, your image will capture the ingenuity of British manufacturing at its best.

Your process must involve a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.

Tips

Overall, the judges will be looking for strong images that raise questions in people’s minds. Does the image provoke surprise or admiration? Will people look at it and say: “I didn’t realise that was part of our UK manufacturing base”? Will it make people wish they had taken the picture and captured this message?

Because we want to find a new set of iconic images which portray the boldness and creativity of UK manufacturing, the quality of its output – products, components and processes - we want your images to reflect a new and contemporary identity which truly showcases the UK manufacturing industry.