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Jim Martin is the founder of www.digitalmediumformat.com and the author of Digital Photography Outdoors and Planet Ice among others. He leads Medium Format excursions to Iceland and Burma/Cambodia for Focus on Nature and Joseph Van Os Photosafaris in the coming months.
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After months of searching for the world’s next authentic, provocative and inspiring photographers, WIN-Initiative and its magazine partners have declared a winner of the 10 BEST 10 international photography competition. The judges selected Australia-based photographer Kylie Coutts as the Grand Prize winner based on the images she submitted to Oyster magazine. Competition judge Mary Virginia Swanson says of the winner, “Kylie truly understands teamwork! Her submission and her assignment showed great talent and vision. I loved the video, [it's an] honest portrayal of her professional life at this time.” Coutts, in addition to receiving a Sony A550L DSLR and a lifetime PRO account with Dripbook, may now claim the Grand Prize: a $5,000 Mobilite Lighting Package provided by Broncolor. Coutts also received the iD-RELEASE app to capture all her future model releases digitally. 10 Best 10 also provided her with a SONY HD Bloggie, with which she recorded her process, thoughts on the competition and more. Watch how Kylie photographed her assignment with her SONY camera below.
Congratulations Kylie Coutts for the win! And many, many thanks to our magazine partners: Time Out New York, Oyster, Eyemazing, The Outlook, Reflex, Singular (FUXYZ), Let Them Eat Cake, One Small Seed and Guerilla. And our judges: Bill Moulton, Steven Kasher, Phillip Prodger, Kris Graves, Sarah Small and Mary Virginia Swanson. The winners, in addition to receiving Sony gear, can also expect a combination of prizes, which may include a lifetime Dripbook PRO account, a customized portfolio from Photoserve, a 1-year customized portfolio membership with IPN and free iD Release apps. Thanks to our list of sponsors for ensuring each winner was treated well: IPN Stock, Photoserve, Freshlists, Dripbook, Photocrew, Adorama, Arc, APA, Contaminate NYC and Bron Imaging Group. We could not have held such a successful competition without your continued help and support.
Been a while since we updated our blog, and that’s because we’ve been busy bees, what with contributing to the 2010 PDN Stock Guide, putting out our own issue and managing the 10 BEST 10 competition. But we’ve got some updates today!
When WIN-Initiative set about to find the world’s next leading photographers, we knew we absolutely had to team up with the world’s most unique magazines in order for our search to yield utter greatness. Titles like Oyster, Eyemazing, The Outlook and Time Out New York all joined our search and the hunt for the 10 BEST 10 was on. The first stage consisted of uploading images to the international competition site, wherein each magazine was responsible for picking their area’s best photographer. As if being personally handpicked by the world’s most cutting edge titles wasn’t enough, the editors then gave their respective winners an actual assignment.
Enter Phase Two. The winners were asked to shoot and document their assignments using with their newly awarded prizes, the SONY A550L DSLR and the SONY Bloggie HD.
The judges—which include Steven Kasher, Kris Graves, Phillip Prodger, Sarah Small, Mary Virginia Swanson and Bill Moulton—will now be judging the final layouts and will be announcing a grand prize winner shortly, ending the months-long search for the world’s most authentic, inspiring and provocative photographers. Many, many heartfelt thanks to our magazine partners and our sponsors, including SONY and the Bron Imaging Group. Be sure to check back to see who won!
Speaking of Bron, they were generous enough to provide WIN with Sunbounce equipment, including three silver PRO reflectors and three silver Micro Mini’s with flash brackets. The Bron family really understands WIN’s outreach endeavors, which provides WIN Scouts and Talent with equipment and gear, and were instrumental in ensuring we can continue providing our photographers/scouts with quality products. During our most recent Take 5ive event, WIN awarded new Talent Sebastian Smith with some gear. That means two more people have the opportunity to receive the goodies. Will it be you?
