The London Photography Award celebrates artists working in and visiting the city and recognises photography that is both original and contemporary.

Winner: Nadav Kander

Judges:

Wendy Jackson, Principal, Wendy Jackson Photographic Agency
David Lambert, Principal, David and Rose Lambert Photographic Agency
Niall Horton-Stephens, Director, Horton-Stephens Photographic Photographic Agency

Shortlist:

The 'snapshot' of Likes above was taken on Monday/Tuesday, July 4/5. For judging process, please see below.

Click on the title for a link to the original review.

Long list in competition - nominations: 9

London Photography Award nomination John Bulmer

Telegraphy review: 'Against the normal stereotypes of the region as deprived and gloomy, Bulmer's photographs portray a resilient community whose economy and culture was beginning to change beyond recognition.'

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Jul 05

London Photography Award nomination Nadav Kander

Observer review: 'Through Kander's lens, we are offered a fresh view, whether of Erin O'Connor as Millais's Ophelia, Cheryl Cole as a curled-up bunny, or the inscrutable but honed mask of Christopher Lee.'

The Lowry

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Apr 11

London Photography Award nomination Polly Braden

FT interview: '“It is very human to watch one another, and to photograph one another,” says Polly Braden, whose work is featured in London Street Photography at the Museum of London.'

Museum of London

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Mar 11

The Judging Process

We wanted to include work by established as well as those not-so-established artists and performers (some awards leave out many worthy contenders). The Facebook and Twitter numbers is a way to do this without specifying criteria but using audience reaction (criteria would always be contentious). Using audience 'likes' allows for a more 'democratic' way to judging the award.

Human nature is a wonderful thing and it is possible that artists and performers will encourage others to 'like' their nominations to increase their number. This is why reviews are also part of the judging process.

We understood at the outset that it was likely that all judges will not have seen/read/heard all entries in their category. We had a choice, either to limit the number of nominations to what judges can be expected to see, or to be more inclusive and bring in those from the Fringe who don't have huge audiences and yet produce amazing work. We decided to be more inclusive.

With so many awards and nominations it would have been impossible to run on the basis that each judge will have seen every nomination in their category and to recognise and nominate great talent/performance when it is reviewed.

In any case all are in good company and all are worthy of winning the award.

There is no perfect judging process, however, the democratic part to the judging process, and the review commentary, as well as the judges' expert opinion, will together give us a fair and transparent process and a credible winner.

Each nomination below is based on a highly rated review in the national press. There is a Facebook and a Twitter button with a number of 'Likes' against each nomination. There are also a number of Likes on the original online review (there may be other online reviews but we can only take one into account). We shortlist nominations with the highest number of Likes from both pages and ask judges in each category to help decide the winner from the shortlist. Very occasionally there is a review that does not have the Facebook and Twitter buttons because the publication has not included them and so we have taken the numbers from the award page.

Note that the number of Facebook Likes on the award page is occasionally different from that on the the online review. It's probably because the original review page was changed (perhaps being updated) in some way after the nomination and Facebook starts counting again, so to account for this we only take the highest number.

We ask each judge to give us their top three in order of preference from the shortlist. We'll merge that with the other judge's preferences and that should give a clear winner. If not, a discussion between the judges should do so, and if there is yet no agreement, the London Awards Director will have casting vote.

All nominees are invited to the ceremony.