Just entered the LensCulture Exposure Awards
https://www.lensculture.com/exposure-awards-2018
You can enter one image free (in the Single Image category). After that you have to pay. Having spent over £100 this last year (2017) entering photography awards, I’m now determined to pay as little as possible!
See Lewis Bush’s post on his still-out-there-but-now-sadly-defunct Disphotic blog on free to enter photography competitions, awards & grants:
http://www.disphotic.com/competitions-and-grants/
16.12.17

Posted this back in December originally but have also since entered the Zeiss awards for a series of 10 images but due to the rather arcane rules not sure if I can show them here!
Read the small print - yes.
Understand the small print - er, probably (-ish!) Would publishing them here render them 'published' under the rules (+ render them in elligible). Sounds like it. Odd.

Anyway, it's always an interesting + enjoyable process to re-edit your work for a particular award (even if when you've finally decided on the sequence you notice one is out of the time-frame for the award + needs replacing + re-editing!)
When the inevitable Dear John letter arrives I'll publish the series!

Anyway heres to the free to enter awards! May there be many more of them.

Just uploading a couple of older posts from my old tumblr blog

​Taking part in the Windmill Hill & Victoria Park ‘Art on the Hill’ art trail was a turning point for me. Despite coaching students in the art of the artist statement, I’ve always been really uncomfortable trying to describe / justify my own work.
In October this year the showing of work from BS3 + the Creuse (see statement below) consolidated some of my ideas about how + why I make photographs. 
For the first time my artist statement for the art trail felt less bullshit and more an honest situating of what I’m trying to achieve.
It’s still imperfect and needs polishing, but it’s the first time I’ve been comfortable in describing / justifying what I do.
14.12.17

Managed to catch Nadav Kander’s Dark Line just before it closed at Flower’s Gallery in East London. A dark brooding meditation on the Thames Estuary. It’s a continuation / development of his work on Yangtze – the Long River from 2010.
It’s heavily atmospheric drawing on both its history and its literary roots in Dickens + Conrad and surprisingly moving + scary (I was pleased to see him write about being fearful – thought it was just me!)
Fantastic tiny details of historic and current industry just visible in the haze offsets the timelessness of the river (see final image + subsequent close up).
Very thoughtful showing of the images , surprisingly low to the floor but worked really well with the Chinese scroll painting influence he ascribes to his practice.
Also a really affecting video companion piece “The Edge of the Stream” projected onto 3 gauze screens which as a self-portrait (I think) seemed to encompass birth, struggle, drowning (poignantly), death, rebirth – hopefully that’s enough for you to be getting on with!
Absolutely captivating exhibition thoughtfully displayed, lit and with the video piece, a really well rounded well considered show (it’s amazing how many aren’t!)