The IWPOY is very pleased to welcome on-board its first new sponsor for the 2008 competition. The Island Photo Centre (IPC) will be supporting the IWPOY this year and providing additional prizes for the top three winners. IPC is in the process of developing their new website that will be going live in February and we will provide you with the link as soon as we can.

Thanks to IPC for their support and please use the link on the right for their address and phone contact details until their new website goes live.

It is with great pleasure that we are now able to announce the first, second and third place winners of the 2nd Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year competition. Along with these winning images all of the fifty shortlisted entries will be exhibited in both the Quay Arts and Dimbola Lodge in 2008 so everyone will be able to enjoy the quality and recognise the skills of our Island photographers.

On Saturday 1st December 2007 the Quay Arts opened its doors for a drinks reception prior to the 2nd IWPOY Awards Ceremony. The room was buzzing with anticipation as the short-listed photographers and invited guests mingled and chatted.  Promptly at 7:15 everyone made their way into the theatre for the start of the ceremony…  Continue Reading »

We are very much looking forward to introducing our IWPOY 2008 judges and will update this information as the competition progresses

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Whilst every effort has been made by the organisers to ensure that the IWPOY is fair to all Island photographers, due to recent events, we now find it necessary to issue the following statement

conduct not in keeping with the spirit of this competition, multiple single-user registrations, the use of false names and/or addresses will result in disqualification from receiving an IWPOY award and taking part in all future Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year events

This year’s judging is complete and the short-listed entries may be viewed in the slideshow top-right above or by clicking the Gallery link on the right. Thanks to the competition Judges and to local photographer David Betts stepping in and and helping out at the eleventh hour. We are also extremely pleased to announce that Island MP Andrew Turner will be presenting the awards to this year’s successful Island photographers

The IWPOY 2007 has finally closed for entries and with well over 200 images submitted the judge’s task will be quite daunting. This year’s theme of ‘lifestyles’ has received a great diversity of images and the judges will soon embark on selecting their fifty for the short-list. These short-listed images will be displayed in the IWPOY 2007 gallery as soon as the judge’s decisions have been finalised and the top three winners will be announced at the Awards Presentation evening. In addition all fifty shortlisted entries will be exhibited both at the Quay Arts and Dimbola Lodge in 2008 and through their support everyone will be able to recognise and appreciate the fantastic photographic talent that we have here on the Island.

We are very pleased to be able to confirm that Essential will once again be providing high quality canvas prints for the top three winners and the overall winner will also be able to spend the day with an Isle of Wight County Press photographer with the possibility of having some of their work published.

We are very much looking forward to the IWPOY 2007 Awards Presentation evening later this year and would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors, supporters and of course, all of you, the Island’s photographers who have entered the competition. Good Luck to everyone and we hope to soon be able to see you on the shortlist!