HOTSHOTS

This summer Channel 4 is launching a major new competition for photographers across the UK which we hope will be the beginning of an exciting annual television and on-line event.

THE ONLINE COMPETITION

From the 30th June 2007 the UK’s most exciting undiscovered photographers will be invited to take part in a major new Channel 4 series, competing for a fantastic prize. Applicants will be able to apply using an open-entry website– designed in association with Flickr. Applicants will be asked to submit three photographs - one in each of the following categories:

PORTRAIT
STREETSCAPE/LANDSCAPE
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO ME

Selection for the series will combine peer voting via Flickr with the expert opinions of our selection panel.

ABOUT THE SERIES

After the online application process is complete, a selection of the most promising photographers will be asked to take part in the series. Over three weeks filming in August 2007, the photographers will undertake a series of assignments, testing their skills in a number of different photographic genres and techniques.

Their work will be assessed by world-famous members of the photographic community; amongst them photographers, buyers and curators. Only one photographer can win the overall competition and the fantastic prize.

The series is set to broadcast in early 2008 and is part of an exciting new multimedia venture for Channel 4 that combines both web and broadcast platforms.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Applicants for Hotshots must be available throughout the month of August to participate in the series. Hotshots encourages photographers from all disciplines. Applicants must be over 18 to be considered for the series. Applicants from overseas may apply to participate but must be prepared to cover their own travel to and from the UK.

Professional photographers who have earned less than £30,000 in the last 12 months from photography may apply.

Go to www.channel4.com/hotshots from Friday 29th June to apply!

(The application process closes on Tuesday 17th July 2007)

HOTSHOTS IS SET TO BE ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ONLINE & TV EVENTS OF THE YEAR…

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Photo Quote: As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked. - Wynn Bullock