Photography student makes shortlist for GuardianWitness Awards
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:16:00 GMT
A WWI painting by Tim's grandfather Reginald Hanson Fawcett
First year photography student Tim Brown has been shortlisted for The GuardianWitness Award.
The aim is to celebrate guardian readers and website users and their involvement in their stories. They will reflect the Guardian’s open approach to journalism, and through them it is hoped to encourage even more people to take part in newspaper coverage.
First year student Tim Brown took an idea inspired by a module on his Photography BA(Hons) course which looked at photographic genres and the tradition of memory images, using a combination of portraits and landscapes made by Tim, alongside found paintings and drawings from his Grandfather in the First World War.
Images and videos from over 50,000 contributions have been published on GuardianWitness since it was launched in April 2013 with business partners, EE. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 27 March 2014. The shortlist from Tim's group is as follows:
Award for a series of contributions
Barbaros Kayan: protests in Turkey
Eujin Byun: Syrian refugees
Giles Bennett: extreme weather in Aberystwyth
Jens Darup: WW1 from a German perspective
Luciano Freaza: protests in Brazil
Tim Brown: WW1 from a British perspective
The award judges come from across the worlds of journalism, film, photography, science and food. They include:
Deborah Rayner, VP and Managing Editor EMEA at CNN
Alastair Stewart, ITN newscaster
Andrea Arnold, film director
Wolfgang Blau, Director of Digital Strategy at the Guardian.
