The London Awards for Art and Performance is the country's most expansive awards and recognises artists and performers across many art-forms. Each is presented to an individual or team who have made an outstanding contribution to their art form.

Who better than the nominees themselves to judge each category. We'll be asking nominees in each of the categories to pick their top artist/s and from that we'll arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The shortlist and winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony in June.

There will also be a public vote, where anyone can vote online. However, this will only be taken into account if there's a tie in the nominee votes.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 16

London Photography Award Nomination Simon Annand: '.. has been granted unprecedented access to actors' dressing rooms during this sacrosanct period; the result is a series of portraits that catch the moment in which the daily self is shed and the actor slides their way into a role... As a piece of theatre history, The Half is astonishingly rich.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 20

London Photography Award Nomination Alex Bamford: '"Oddness" shows a fortuitous light leak adding to the already strange colours .. This is a fantastic set; conceptual, imaginative and genuinely beautiful.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 15

London Photography Award Nomination Peter Newman: 'Gravity dictates the earth contains a buried past of dinosaurs and archaeology, the surface reveals the activity of present daily life, but what is above is an empty field of possibility, a space in which to conceive and live the future.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 08

London Photography Award Nomination Daniel Meadows: 'Turning an old double decker into a mobile darkroom and living space, he drove around England for 14 months taking portraits of people on their own streets. He really engages with people and let’s them speak for themselves, rather than taking a pose, point and press approach... it captures a time in history, and the ordinary really is extraordinary.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 23

London Photography Award Nomination Tom Oxley: ‘.. has worked with Amy Winehouse, Florence and the Machine, Mark Ronson, Coldplay, Lily Allen, The Prodigy and Adele to name but a few: the go-to guy for stunning, innovative snaps of the cutting-edge artists of today.’

Alice Stride · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 18

London Photography Award Nomination Ian Treherne: '.. an Essex photographer with Usher Syndrome, so that his eyesight is deteriorating and his hearing is also affected. A man of remarkable resilience, Ian takes photos of everyday buildings and scenes, finding beauty in the banal: "I see less than most people, but I think in some ways it actually makes me see more in life.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 09

London Photography Award Nomination Martin Parr: '[His] work very much belongs to a sentiment of innate curiosity for his fellow human being. Now approaching 60, Martin Parr has published nearly 50 books, and his work has featured in almost 80 different exhibitions across the globe.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 03

London Photography Award nomination Mark Mawson: 'In his Aqueous Floureau series, Mark creates his work by dropping coloured paints into a water tank. He then uses strobe to capture the paint dispersal in glorious techni-colour.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 16

London Photography Award nomination Matt Dunham: 'At the end of last year, the Guardian predicted that Matt Dunham would be “picking up many a photography award” due to his now famous shot of Charles and Camilla under siege in their Rolls-Royce during tuition fee protests.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 14

London Photography Award Nomination David Birkin: 'Alongside his studio practice, he maintains a critical writing practice that examines issues related to ethics and aesthetics, such as the representation of suffering and the consumption of images of war.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 12

London Photography Award nomination Colin Gray: 'It is a heart-rending depiction of an intensely personal, private grief against the bleak anonymity of the hospital’s green walls..'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 02

London Photography Award nomination Jeff Hahn: '.. captures a breathless, delicate sense of youth. The images chime with the rhythm of his personal history, overlaid with the vibrant beat of London life.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 02

Photography Award nomination Jooney Woodward: 'Enhanced images can portray a false sense of reality, whereas my work celebrates the people and places as they appear every day.'

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 11

London Photography Award nomination Giles Duley: "He is aiming for the ‘universal’. Empathy is his gift."

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 08

London Photography Award nomination Chloe Dewe Mathews: 'And every ecological scar left on the land, by powers of the past, is a wound to the people.”

Chris Brocklebank · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 01

London Photography Award Nomination Sophie Gerrard: 'We are succinctly reminded that whatever beauty is, we should be grateful for the lenses that focus on it.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Oct 21