Bury St Edmunds Photographic Competition

Photographic Competition Bury St Edmunds: Then and Now in Pictures Is now complete. The Spanton Jarman Photographic Collection is a unique window on the world of Bury St Edmunds in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You can help to record how the sights, life and people in the town have changed since then and win up to Ł500 along with having your photographs showing today's Bury St Edmunds exhibited publicly. This is all you have to do <ul class="n"> <li class="n">Browse the photographs of Bury St Edmunds that are on this site, or</li> <li class="n">View prints of the photographs at the Suffolk Record Office, Raingate Street, Bury St Edmunds Tel: 01284 352352.</li> <li class="n">Take a modern interpretation of up to six pictures.</li> <li class="n">Send your pictures (film or digital) with an entry form (see below).</li> <li class="n">The competition closes on 10th September 2006 and the results will be announced in November.</li> <li class="n">A public exhibition will be held to display leading entries.</li> <li class="n">Prizes are Ł250 for Best Adult, Ł250 for Best Junior (under 16 on 31 August 2006), and Ł250 for Best Full Time Student. The overall winner, which may or may not be one of the previous three, will receive a prize of Ł250.</li> </ul> <hr>

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Photographic Competition 2007

Bury St Edmunds:
Then and Now in Pictures

Is now complete.

We would like to thank our Sponsors:

Bury St Edmunds Town Council were our first supporters (even before we received our grant from the Local Heritage initiative)
Abbey Blinds
Charles Mansfield
Chica Shoes
Cllr Paul Hopfensperger (Suffolk County Council)
D J Evans (Bury) Limited
David Roberton & Co
Denny Bros
Gross & Co
Milburn Leverington & Thurlow
Jackson-Stops & Staff
Thurlow Champness
Trotter & Deane

Judges

We would like to thank our panel of judges for all their hard work:

Alison Plumridge, Director of the Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery (www.burystedmundsartgallery.org),
Brett Alexander Robertson, local freelance photographer (www.barphotoart.co.uk),
Graham Portlock, photographer (www.artworksinfo.org.uk/profiles), and
Graham Turner, Deputy Editor of the Bury Free Press (www.buryfreepress.co.uk).

Prize giving

Competition winners received their prizes at the St. Edmund’s Day Civic Reception and Awards Ceremony hosted by Bury St. Edmunds Town Council, in the Athenaeum on Sunday 19^th November 2006. The awards were presented by the Mayor of Bury St. Edmunds, Cllr Beccy Hopfensperger, and all the winning entries were on display.

Exhibition

An exhibition of some of the entries is in Moyses Hall from 23^rd November where it will be on display until January 2007.

Winners

The winners of the competition are published below:

Junior

First Prize: Picture K505/0563 [kids outside Jewellers]
Lewis Evans
Cambridge

Second Prize: Picture K505/0079 [Abbey Gardens]
Amy Evans
Barrow, Bury St Edmunds

Student

First Prize and Overall Winner: Picture K505/1216 [red VW seen through Norman Tower]
Ben Chadwick
Bury St Edmunds

Second Prize: Picture K505/1768 [fish-eye view of Angel Hill to Abbey Gate]
David Wilman
Bury St Edmunds

Third Prize: Picture K505/0567 [using laptop looking towards Abbey gate]
Ben Chadwick
Bury St Edmunds

Fourth Prize: Picture K505/0567 [b/w pic towards Abbey Gate]
David Wilman
Bury St Edmunds

Adult

First Prize: Picture K505/3954 [b/w picture of couple]
Clive Burton
Felsham

Second prize: Picture K505/3370 [Abbots Estate Agency with staff]
Miles Biggs
Bury St Edmunds

Third Prize: Picture K505/2469 [Café Uno]
Mr Chris Austin
Bury St Edmunds

Fourth Prize: Picture K505/1451b [inflatables in Abbey Gardens]
Frank Saunders
Bury St Edmunds

Fifth Prize: Picture K505/2627 [man and dog]
Sue Burton
Felsham

Sixth Prize: Picture K505/2679 [vignette old and new Abbey Gardens]
Trevor Goodfellow
Great Barton