FOTO8

The Exhibition
The Foto8 Summershow is London’s greatest photographic spectacle, a veritable ‘salon de photographie’ – an inspiring array of framed and mounted images of all shapes and sizes, installed from floor to ceiling. London’s prestigious FOTO8 Gallery is the setting for the fifith annual Summershow which will features 159 framed photographs, selected from some 3200 entries spanning over 30 countries.

The 2012 Summershow runs 7 July to 18 August.

The Awards

The title of ‘Best In Show’ with prize money of £2000 will be ammounced and awardesd on the opening night of 6th July. The single winning photograph will be judged on 5th July. The 'People’s Choice", determined by votes cast by visitors to the gallery during the weeks of the exhibition, will be announced during August.

All shortlisted work is included in a printed catalogue on sale from 6th July and will also feature as Foto8's online story of the week. Prints from the exhibition will be available for sale to the public from the gallery.

The 2012 Best in Show Jury comprises:

Gerry Badger, photography curator and critic

Phil Coomes, Director Photography, BBC Online

Alison Jackson, Photographer

Simon Roberts, Photographer

Ossian Ward, Time Out Associate Editor and art critic

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