The winner of the first-ever CEWE Pupil Pictures Award has been introduced stay on the The Pictures & Videography Present. Greater than 700 photos had been submitted by college students from all throughout the UK, however there might solely be one winner, and that was Flora Tomlinson-Pilley together with her lovely monochrome summary of a dolphin nearly to interrupt the floor of the ocean.
The award was introduced by skilled music photographer Christie Goodwin, one of many panel of judges for the competitors, at CEWE’s stand on the ultimate day of the present. The profitable picture kinds a part of a gallery of ten shortlisted photos, every of which is displayed on CEWE’s stand (location A90 – come and take a look should you’re on the present!) in a specialist picture mount particularly chosen to convey out the very best of every particular person shot. In Flora’s case, it was mounted on aluminum dibond, its metallic end complementing the monochromatic tones of the {photograph}.
The CEWE Pupil Pictures Award is a free-to-enter competitors that’s open to all UK college students with a love of pictures. It was launched in 2024, inviting college students aged 16-plus in full-time training to enter photographs that commemorate the earth’s magnificence, and has a prize pool value greater than £5,000 on provide.
Flora defined that she entered the competitors after seeing posters up at Falmouth College, the place she is in her third yr finding out Marine and Pure Historical past Pictures. Her picture, The Excellent Second, is of a dolphin she photographed just under the floor of the water whereas on a ship journey as a part of her course. “The ocean was glass-flat and there have been dolphins in every single place,” she defined. “They had been all alongside the aspect of the boad and I simply stored taking pictures and taking pictures till I obtained one nearly to interrupt the water pressure.”
For her first prize-placed picture, Flora was awarded a Fujifilm X-T30 II digicam with equipment and her photos may even be featured in a solo exhibition, with full help and mentoring from main picture printing firm CEWE, a CEWE PHOTOBOOK, and unique work expertise with the CEWE Picture Crew in Oldenburg, Germany.
The second prize went to Kayla Merkus for her picture Trying to find the Oldies, juxtaposing a traditional automotive with its bonnet open on a busy excessive avenue, whereas third prize went to Hannah Mittelstaedt for her avenue portrait Boyish Gaze, depicting a raincoat-clad household outing and capturing the eye of a younger boy.
Prizes for second and third place provide a restricted version print run of the shortlisted photographers’ photos, signed and numbered by the artists, in addition to inclusion within the CEWE Pupil Pictures Award 2025 exhibition and catalogue, and extra.
The CEWE Pupil Pictures Award competitors kinds a part of the world’s largest free pictures competitors, the CEWE Picture Award, a worldwide competitors that acquired greater than half-a-million entries.