2023 Awards - last minute expert advice!

MIKE TROW 
Independent Curator and Photo Editor and Chair of the Jury

• Research. Read, write, storyboard and open yourself up to the things you care about and how to go about  making the work that speaks to an audience. 
   
• Be self-critical and allow those you trust to give feedback. Work has to be seen by others and listening to what peers have to say frankly about your work is vital. Print it out, think about scale and cropping and don't be afraid to fail.
   
• Make sure captions are informative, concise and relate to the work and your intention. It's so easy to write in cliché and not actually say much. Photographs stand on their own and captions or short essay form is there to help guide the viewer into the work. 
   

ERIC SCHLOSSER 
Art Director, Tbilisi Art Fair 

Just do it. It’s free. And the recognition is great!
 

MIKE TROW

As every year, the variety of work coming through never ceases to amaze me. There is so much more personal art photography appearing that is telling powerful narratives with incredibly strong image-making techniques, both digital and on film and mixes of both. As the world inches away from covid and photographers are able to explore their worlds again more easily - both physically and also mentally, I'm hoping to see powerful meaningful beautiful work that challenges the judges with its intention and production values.
 

ERIC SCHLOSSER

I'd like to be faced with what I have not seen before. It doesn’t mean life on Mars but work that couldn’t have been done by anyone else but the photographer who took the picture.