Our APHE Colleagues at the Royal Photographic Society are running an essay prize to promote the study of the history of photography, open to under 25s. Please encourage your students to enter, as this provides a great way to celebrate the critical writing that many of our students undertake. Full details are below, closing date 28th February 2015.
Hall Marriott Essay Prize
The Royal Photographic Society Historical Group (the Group) is pleased to announce the 2015 Hall Marriott Essay Competition. Prizes of £250, £150 and £100 will be awarded for the best essays in the field of the history of photography. These prizes have been generously provided by an external donor. The Society will also provide free membership, for one year for the prize winners. The competition has been funded to promote interest in the history of photography amongst younger students and researchers and is open to anyone who will be aged under 25 years on 28 February 2015.
The essay should address some aspect of the history of photography and should be approximately 3000 words in length (+/- 10%), word processed and fully referenced in academic style with a bibliography. Images may be included where appropriate and reasonable use may be made of appendices. Entrants are responsible for ensuring that all necessary permissions have been obtained for any copyrighted material that they include. Images, the bibliography and appendices may be excluded from the word count. Entries can only be accepted in English.
Entries will be examined by a panel of three members of the Society appointed by the Committee of the Group. The findings of the examiners will be final on all matters and no correspondence will be entertained. The prize winners will be notified by email not later than 30th April 2015 and details will be published the May edition of The RPS Journal. Copyright in the work remains with entrants but the Group reserves the right to publish any or all of the winning essays, in whole or in part, in its absolute discretion.
Closing date 28th February 2015 - Submission details available at: http://www.rps.org/special-interest-groups/historical/about/hall-marriott-prize
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