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16th International Color Awards

One Honourable Mention & Eight Nominations

Absolutely thrilled to share that the 16th International Color Awards have honoured some of my work. It’s great to have my work judged alongside other photographers’ work from 72 countries, by a jury of international photography curators, editors and other professionals.

I received one win, as an Honorary Mention in the Silhouette category, for one of my street photography pictures. The photograph was made on the King’s Road in London, using my Leica M10-D and lovely 1970s Leica 50mm Summicron.

Daily Life, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, UK. August 11, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian
Nominee in Abstract | Alternative Planes Of Existence
Alternative plains of existence, Canary Wharf, London, UK. July 16, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Leica M10-D and Leica 50mm Summicron.
Nominee in Fashion | Serendipity 01
A sunburst yellow moment of serendipity 01. Covent Garden, London, UK. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Leica M10-D and Leica 50mm Summicron.
Nominee in Food | Bubble Tea Flurry
Bubble Tea Flurry. Chinatown, London, UK. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Leica M10-D and Leica 50mm Summicron.
Nominee in People | Pub Life
After work drinks. Shoreditch, London, UK. July 14, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Leica M10-D and Leica 50mm Summicron.
Nominee in Fashion | Serendipity 02
A sunburst yellow moment of serendipity 02. Covent Garden, London, UK. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Leica M10-D and Leica 50mm Summicron.
Nominee in Photojournalism | Angel Of Soho
The Angel Of Soho. Trans+ Pride march ends in Soho Square, London, UK. July 09, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix GX9 and Leica DG 15mm.
Nominee in Still Life | Leonardo Momento Zero Grande Primary Manipulation Bohemian
The Leonardo Momento Zero Grande Primary Manipulation Bohemian Twilight Stilografica fountain pen, was a limited edition of 43. The stunning result of a partnership between Leonardo Officina Italiana, J. Brooks and Casa della Stilografica. With a magnificent 14k gold medium nib. London, UK. November 12, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 and Olympus M.Zuiko 30mm Macro.
Nominee in Still Life | Namiki Lacquer Vermilion No.50 Fountain Pen
Forms of bygone written and printed communication, kept alive through a passion for a connection to history and a feel for the sensation of an exquisite writing instrument. The Namiki Lacquer Vermilion No.50 (often referred to as the Namiki Emperor) fountain pen. An ebonite body, with Roiro Urushi lacquer applied and finished by hand, resulting in each pen requiring many months to be made. An elegant and understated writing instrument of absolute excellence. It has a phenomenal No.50, 18k FM nib, showing an outline of Mount Fuji as well as the signature pentagon logo. London, UK. August 29, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix S1R and Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro ART DG DN.

The still life photographs were made using a Benro geared head and tripod. Lighting was with PixaPro and Godox lights. As always, all photographs were shot in raw. The raw files were then processed in LightRoom Classic on my Mac Pro, using calibrated Eizo CG monitors and finished off in Exposure Software’s X7.

With thanks to the jury, comprised of members from The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Art Channel, London; Groninger Museum, Netherlands; Koller Auctions, Zurich; Preus Museum, Norway; Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York; Publicis Groupe, Warsaw; Chung 24 Gallery, San Francisco; Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg; Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr Auctions, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia; William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis; Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna; and Clamp, New York.

Highly Commended, Travel Photographer Of The Year 2022

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that the judges of the 2022 Travel Photographer of the Year awards have given my photograph a ‘Highly Commended’ award! A huge thanks to the judging panel and organisers.

Altered Realities. A man taking his dog out for a walk is seen in the reflection of a building’s portico (external ceiling). Whilst nothing in the photograph has been altered, it has been rotated by 180 degrees. Canary Wharf, London, UK. July 16, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian/2022

The photograph was awarded in the Mark of Mankind category and was made using my Lumix G9 and Leica DG 50-200mm f2.8-4.0 lens; very much a favourite combination of mine.

The raw file was processed in Adobe’s LightRoom Classic and finished in Exposure Software’s X7, on my Apple Mac Pro, using calibrated Eizo CG monitors.

Hope to see you in May 2023 where the pictures will first be exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society as part of World Photography in Focus.


“Thankfully travel is returning after two years of disruptions and restrictions. With this photographers are back out in the field, whether this is in their own countries or around the world.
Below you will find this year’s stunning winning imagery from our very talented entrants.
Any of you who took part in our People’s Choice vote will already know that the standard of images from our finalists is high but also how hard it is to pick the winners! So, as ever, we are extremely grateful to our incredible judges for their expertise.
This year, we’ll be first exhibiting these images in May at the Royal Photographic Society as part of World Photography in Focus. 2023 is TPOTY’s 21st award and we hope you’ll share your images with us again.”
TPOTY FOUNDER, CHRIS COE

Shortlisted For The British Photography Awards 2022

Absolutely thrilled to share that three of my photographs have been shortlisted for the British Photography Awards 2022. The chosen images span my photojournalistic work as well as my creative product photography, specialising in writing instruments.

Alongside the judged categories, there is also a a public vote, which helps choose the separate People’s Choice Awards winners.

I’d appreciate it tremendously if you would pop over to the shortlisted images of 2022 and cast your votes. It’s one vote per category. As luck would have it, my three images are in different categories; Commercial: Product, Documentary and Macro. If you like the photographs, your support will as always, be deeply appreciated. You could even vote for all three images, if they appeal to your visual tastes of course! The public voting will close on November 4th.

Commercial: Product

The Visconti Divina Matte fountain pen, with its elegant curved faceted lines, spiralling around the pen’s matte black acrylic resin body. London, UK. April 22, 2022. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian/2022. The photograph was made using a Panasonic Lumix S1R camera and a Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro Art DG DN lens. Lit using PixaPro and Godox COB LED lights and a Benro tripod and geared head.

Documentary

Shift Manager Miner Colin Evans, who has been a miner for 40 years, prepares the paperwork for the shift. Aberpergwm Mine is the only remaining operational coal mine in the UK and is the only source of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe. This anthracite is used in water filtration, rechargeable batteries and production of stainless steel, to name a few of its uses. Aberpergwm Mine, Glynneath, Neath, Wales, UK. July 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian/2021. The photograph was made using a Panasonic Lumix G9 camera and a Leica DG 10-25mm Vario-Summilux f1.7 lens.

Macro

The nib of a Montblanc Meisterstück 149 fountain pen with Montblanc Homer Greek Blue ink, is reflected in a mirror. London, UK. November 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian/2021. The photograph was made using a Panasonic Lumix S1R camera and a Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro Art DG DN lens. Lit using PixaPro COB LED light and a Benro tripod and geared head.

Do kindly share this link on your socials as it would be great to get support for the People’s Choice Award! Many thanks 🙂

If you would like to see more of my creative fountain pen photography, do visit and follow my Instagram, Fountain Pen Scribbles.

My photojournalistic, portrait, commercial, corporate and street photography work can be seen on my main Instagram, Terakopian.

All images were shot in raw and processed on an Apple Mac Pro using calibrated Eizo CG screens, with LightRoom Classic and finished in Exposure Software’s X7.

Finalist In The UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2022

Immensely proud, excited, honoured and delighted to share that my portfolio of five portraits, are a finalist in the prestigious UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards.

Miner Ian Turner, at the end of his shift. Aberpergwm Mine is the only remaining operational coal mine in the UK. It’s the only source of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe. The applications range from potable and sea water filtration, battery manufacture, lead recycling to stainless steel manufacture, to name some uses. Aberpergwm Mine, Glynneath, Neath, Wales, UK. July 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Camera Gear: Panasonic Lumix G9 and Leica DG 50-200mm f2.8-4.0 lens.

The portfolio is shortlisted in the DMGT Portrait Photographer of the Year category, alongside three folios from colleagues. My gratitude to the team of judges, made up of the UK’s picture editors for their stellar work.

Alongside the judged categories, there is also a public vote category. For the first time, photographs from the shortlisted finalists in the nine categories will be put to a public vote, so that you may choose your favourite, for the IMAGO Photograph of the Year. There is a prize of two tickets to New York, chosen at random from the public voters.

Once you have registered and confirmed your registration, you can access the voting page, you will see all selected entries, to vote. You can vote for one photograph only. If you like my highlighted portrait of the miner for the public vote, it is ID: 1105 in the DMGT Portrait Photographer of the Year section. The UK Picture Editors’ Guild will choose a name at random from those who voted and will receive two tickets to New York courtesy of Norse Atlantic Airways.

All images were shot in raw and processed on an Apple Mac Pro using calibrated Eizo CG screens, with LightRoom Classic and finished in Exposure Software’s X7.

Please don’t forget to vote for your favourite picture! Thank you.

Angelika Ghazaryan, a descendant of Genocide Survivors, at the 106th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of April 24th, 1915. Members of the British Armenian community gather at the remembrance service for the 1.5 Million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Empire. US President Joe Biden has become the first US president to issue a statement formally describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide by the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey) on the day that Armenian communities around the world marked the killing of 1.5 million Armenians. St Yeghiche Armenian Church, London, UK. April 25, 2021. Photo: Edmond Terakopian. Camera Gear: Lumix G9 and Voigtlander 29mm f0.8 MFT Super Nokton Lens.

An XR protestor is seen through the broken window of a bus, which was broken when the Police stormed the bus as the Extinction Rebellion action began. Extinction Rebellion protestors block off the southern end of London Bridge. London, UK. August 31, 2021. Photo: Edmond Terakopian. Camera Gear: Panasonic Lumix G9 and Lumix G Vario 35-100mm f2.8II.

A mourner commemorates the victims of the Genocide, during a church service, as candles lit in prayer illuminate the back of the church. Joe Biden has become the first US president to issue a statement formally describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide by the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey) on the day that Armenian communities around the world marked the killing of 1.5 million Armenians. (London, UK) 106th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of April 24th. Members of the British Armenian community gather at the remembrance service for the 1.5 Million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Empire. St Yeghiche Armenian Church, London, UK. April 25, 2021. Photo: Edmond Terakopian. Camera Gear: Lumix S1 and Lumix S Pro 70-200mm f2.8.

Extinction Rebellion protestors block off the southern end of London Bridge. London, UK. August 31, 2021. Photo: Edmond Terakopian. Camera Gear: Leica M10-D and a 1960s Leica 50mm Rigid Summicron.

Three Wins At The 15th International Color Awards

Absolutely thrilled to receive the good news from Los Angeles that three of my pictures have been judged into the winner’s circle with honourable mentions and that two other images have been nominated, in the 15th International Color Awards, from close to 6800 entered images.

Many thanks to all the judges (The Armory Show, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Art Channel, London; V&A Museum, London; Koller Auctions, Zurich; Preus Museum, Norway; Publicis Groupe, Warsaw; Fila, New York; Chung | Namont Gallery, San Francisco; Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg; Tilton Gallery, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Cornette de Saint Cyr Auctions, Brussels; Podbielski Contemporary, Milan and RedKite NFT, London) and many congratulations to the other winners.

As some would have seen, I’ve started to branch out into creative still life photography, specialising in fountain pen and stationery. It was a thrill to see one of these pictures receive an honourable mention.

Here are the five chosen images. All photographs were made using Lumix cameras, using Leica DG, Olympus and Voigtlander lenses. The images were shot in raw, processed on an Apple Mac Pro with Eizo CG monitors and processed using Adobe LightRoom Classic and finished in Exposure Software’s X7.

Honorable Mention in Portrait | Coal Miner

Miner Ian Turner, at the end of his shift. Aberpergwm Mine is the only remaining operational coal mine in the UK. It’s the only source of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe. Aberpergwm Mine, Glynneath, Neath, Wales, UK. July 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 with Leica DG 50-200mm.

Honorable Mention in Photojournalism | Memorial Wall For Covid Victims

The wall of hearts grows as a memorial to loved ones taken by coronavirus. Each heart representing every one of the UK’s close to 150,000 victims (to date). The memorial is the idea of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, which has called for an inquiry into the Government’s handling of the pandemic. The National COVID Memorial Wall. North Wing, Lambeth Palace Rd, South Bank, London SE1 3FT. April 11, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 and Voigtlander 29mm F0.8 MFT Super Nokton Lens.

Honorable Mention in Still Life | Liquid Teal

“The Teal Breaker”. One of an 88 custom pen set. A concept by Bernardo “Mr Teal” Gomes, with the fountain pen made by John Garnham, nib tuned by Noah Maasarani (the Pen Doctor UK) and engraved by Ben Walsh, for the Fountain Pens UK group on Facebook. London, UK. November 28, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 and Olympus 60mm f2.8 Macro.

Nominee in People | Coal Mine Shift Manager

Life around the mine. Shift Manager Miner Colin Evans, who has been a miner for 40 years, prepares the safety paperwork for the shift. Aberpergwm Mine is the only remaining operational coal mine in the UK and the only source of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe. Aberpergwm Mine, Glynneath, Neath, Wales, UK. July 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 and Leica DG 10-25mm Vario_Summilux.

Nominee in Photojournalism | Covid 19 Memorial Wall

The wall of hearts grows as a memorial to loved ones taken by coronavirus. Each heart representing every one of the UK’s close to 150,000 victims (to date). The memorial is the idea of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, which has called for an inquiry into the Government’s handling of the pandemic. The National COVID Memorial Wall. North Wing, Lambeth Palace Rd, South Bank, London SE1 3FT. April 11, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian. Lumix G9 and Voigtlander 29mm F0.8 MFT Super Nokton Lens.

Second Place-A portrait that tells a story contest

Absolutely delighted to come second place in the WANDRD and Kodak Professional, “A portrait that tells a story” international photography contest.

Miner Ian Turner, at the end of his shift. Aberpergwm Mine is the only remaining operational coal mine in the UK and is the only source of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe. The produce from the mine is used in water filtration, stainless steel production and rechargeable batteries, to name some of its uses. Aberpergwm Mine, Glynneath, Neath, Wales, UK. July 30, 2021. Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian

The portrait was shot on a Panasonic Lumix G9 and Leica DG 50-200mm. The raw file was processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic and finished in Exposure Software’s X7.

Rather enjoying some of the prizes, including the very neat WANDRD PRVKE LITE backpack and the rolls of Kodak Portra, which will be put to good use! Photo: ©Edmond Terakopian