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Open to all UK photographers – professional and amateur – 16 years and over, the Urban Photographer of the Year will be chosen as to who can best depict the competition’s theme “CITIES AT WORK”.

The objective is to explore work life in the UK’s towns and cities during any single hour of a 24 hour day. A prize for each hour will be awarded for a total of 24 different prizes. From these awardees, the Urban Photographer of the Year and two runners up will be chosen. Submissions on multiple categories are allowed but only one submission is accepted per category. There is also a possibility to win on multiple categories.

The Urban Photographer of the Year winner will also receive the following

• Title of CB Richard Ellis Urban Photographer of the Year
• Personal photographic safari in Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains for two people
  • return flights
  • transfers
  • accommodation
  • guides
  • meals
  • permits

• option to travel to La Roserie Hotel in the middle of the High Atlas Mountains and cross the tallest mountains in North Africa to the Sahara beyond
• works to be featured on Digital Photographer Magazine, one of the UK’s leading photography magazines

FIRST RUNNER UP

• a week one-on-one course at the International Academy of Professional Photography with Martin Grahame-Dunn, FMPA, FRSA, FSWPP, FBPPA, QEP, Hon.FMPA.
  • Martin is a Past National President of the United Kingdom Master Photographers Association and has also been a Director of the Federation of European Professional Photographers (FEP). Based in his school close to Cordoba and Seville he will create a week of personal tuition based on your input. As probably the top photographic mentor in Europe and as a Past Chairman of the Admissions and Qualifications Board he is uniquely placed to support you in gaining that step closer to your next qualification or to simply focus on the discipline of your choice. 
With great local connections Martin has hosted photographic trips into the old town of Cordoba. This includes return flights, transfers, accommodation, guides, meals and permits.

SECOND RUNNER UP

• win a Wacom Cintiq 21 inch Graphics Panel.
  • With its larger screen size of 21.3 inch, the flat drawing surface and the decreased distance between pen and display, the Cintiq 21UX let all previous Interactive Pen Displays pale in comparison. Experience a whole new meaning to on-screen work with the expanded Intuos3 technology. At the same time, the Cintig 21UX is the most efficient of all Interactive Pen Displays: It features ExpressKeys and Touch Strips on both sides of the display, to accommodate the needs of both left- and right-handers equally. The Cintiq 21UX comes together with the Cintiq Grip Pen, the unique Cintiq stand that enables you to rotate the display by 360° (if laying) and to tilt it by 10-60° as well as a separate pen stand and the required DVI and VGA graphics card adaptors.

Visit Urban Photographer of the Year (UK) for more details.