Aperture (competition)
The aperture is Europe's largest photo competition for amateur photographers, which was announced in 2013 for the 39th time in a row by German daily newspapers in cooperation with Prophoto GmbH, a subsidiary of the Photo Industry Association . Experts from the photo industry, the specialized photo press and photo museums select the best from the “aperture” photographs .
Jurors
The jurors include Gérard A. Goodrow (former director of Art Cologne ), Juliane Rückriem ( Photokina Visual Gallery), Manfred Segerer and Klaus Tiedge (photographers) as well as representatives of well-known camera and lens manufacturers from Zeiss , via Canon , Nikon , Leica , Pentax and Tamron to Olympus .
background
Daily newspapers - covering the whole of Germany - regularly invite their readers to take part in "Blende". All hobby photographers are requested to send in photographs on given topics that make the intensity of the experience evident. From the round of regional preliminary rounds, the selection of more than 3,000 photographs for the nationwide final emerges from over 60,000 entries according to tried and tested rules. Overall, prizes worth more than € 40,000 will be awarded for each competition.
Individual evidence
- ^ Photo competition is being extended , Heilbronner Voice article from September 30, 2013
- ↑ There's music in there! ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from March 27, 2013