Presentation Ceremony in the Axis Restaurant, One Aldwych Hotel, Covent Garden, June 20, 7 pm

The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognises the best in British art and entertainment across 11 categories. Nominations are based on recent and highly rated reviews of the artist or performer's work, and a recognition of their talent and skill in their art form.

As current and excellent practitioners of their art, the nominees themselves are the best people to judge each category. Nominees are asked to pick their top artists to arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony.

Shortlist (in development as votes are coming in, alphabetical order):

Results of public voting (please note, online voting can be unreliable so this is for interest only and will not be used in the judging). Please take a moment to vote below, only one vote per award please.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 18

London Photography Award Nomination Peter Dench: 'England Uncensored is a laugh out loud warts and all romp through this often badly behaved nation. A comprehensive portrait of the first decade of 21st Century England, it is not an idealised brochure of a green and pleasant land.'

Greg Tallent · Views 194 · Mar 03 ·

London Photography Award Nomination David Solomons: 'His work relies on his perceptive eye and technical command of an old film camera. He roams the street with an obsessive determination, creating images that reveal the heart of London’s West End at its best and at its worst.'

Greg Tallent · Views 210 · Mar 03 ·

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 · Views 215 · 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 · Views 295 · 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 · Views 217 · 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 · Views 296 · 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 · Views 336 · 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 · Views 475 · 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 · Views 374 · 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 · Views 753 · 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 · Views 407 · 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 · Views 542 · 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 · Views 522 · 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 · Views 393 · 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 · Views 507 · Nov 11 ·

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

Chris Brocklebank · Views 489 · 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 · Views 447 · 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 · Views 469 · Oct 21 ·