Our associates at Novice Photographer are internet hosting the Competition of Images – DOCUMENTARY a one-day occasion held on August 9, 2025 on the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London – and you possibly can win tickets to the occasion.
Constructing on the success of the Competition of Outside Images, Novice Photographer is providing you with one other alternative to study, be impressed and interact with main image-makers as they share their wealth of data.
All through the day you’ll hear from a collection of world class specialists in Documentary images. Every giving an perception into their work, how they captured a few of the world’s greatest recognized documentary pictures and how one can too. Confirmed audio system embrace: Zed Nelson, Laura Pannack, Jillian Edelstein, Jon Nicholson and extra!
Right here’s the line-up…
ZED NELSON: Weapons, Magnificence and the Anthropocene
This yr’s Sony World Images Awards winner Zed Nelson takes us on a revealing journey into humankind’s more and more illusory relationship with the pure world, and behind the scenes on three earlier award-winning tasks.
JON NICHOLSON: Auto Publicity
Jon takes us via his 40-year profession in sports activities reportage, documenting the tradition of all the things from Formulation 1 (that includes the likes of Ayrton Senna and Damon Hill) to banger racing, in addition to a few of his different work.
SIMON HILL & JOHN BULMER: The North Revisited
John Bulmer’s color pictures of northern England taken within the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s stay a cornerstone of British documentary images. Simon Hill lately revisited these communities they usually focus on their two our bodies of labor.
KRISHNA SHETH: Life on the Image Desk
Not too long ago appointed Director of Images for The Economist, Krishna will speak about her profession, which started as an image researcher on the Specific newspaper, earlier than changing into Deputy Images Director at The Telegraph Journal.
JILLIAN EDELSTEIN: Sharing the Story
Jillian shares tales associated to managing reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, private tales linked to Ukraine and Palestine, and native tales on a variety of subjects. Plus, how industrial work helps to fund the non-public tasks.
CAROL ALLEN-STOREY: Telling Ladies’s Tales
Carol discusses her humanitarian documentary work photographing points affecting girls and youngsters all over the world for NGOs corresponding to UNICEF, Save the Kids and Comedian Re
LAURA PANNACK: Documentary Portraiture
Laura discusses her portraiture and social documentary work, which has been extensively exhibited and revealed worldwide, together with on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, the Homes of Parliament, Somerset Home and the Royal Competition Corridor.