Thanks for this Dave. As I hope it came across in my brief spot at the Conference, I am very much an advocate of good, creative photography within our sector and I think this would be a great idea.
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From: AHFAP, for image professionals in the UK cultural heritage sector [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Clarke
Sent: 11 December 2015 11:55
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Subject: Lucie Awards
Dear all
Since leaving the Tate, one enjoyable role I have been offered is to become chairman of the advisory board for the Lucie Awards www.lucies.org which is mainly based in the USA. Their goal is to emulate the oscars but for photography. There are a number of main Lucie award categories plus some secondary categories and there is also an International Photography Awards competition. They have also expressed a desire for the Lucies to be more international on all levels.
Speaking to them earlier this week we were discussing their wish to widen the scope of the awards, I mentioned the cultural heritage sector as a potential area of interest, fully expecting a polite rejection of the idea. However, they became very interested indeed in the notion of highlighting our sector on an international platform. I did spell out that maybe it could be seen as being not that sexy and there is a heavy technical emphasis to our work but they were and still are very enthusiastic about the possibility of promoting and supporting our sector within the Lucie Awards scheme.
So with this in mind I thought a good first step would be to gauge opinion. Please let me know if you have a view on this, and any ideas on how it could be approached would be very well received too. I have a very positive view and I think it can only benefit our area of the industry, particularly the young talent we now have entering the sector. Much great creative input as well as technical and scientific work is being carried out, so it's quite a wide gamut to consider. It could be as simple as an all encompassing award for Achievement in Cultural Heritage or there could be a number of categories to look at? It needn't be an individual, it could be a team? a project? etc etc
What do you think?
Thanks
Dave Clarke
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