Photography Competition 2007

FORK Photography Competition Report 2007

Nicholas Milligan

The first-ever FORK photography competition was very successful, with a very high standard of talent in all the entries. The competition was judged at the Gala and the winners were as follows:

• Architecture – David Barry
• Wild Kelvin – Tim Dyer
• People and the Kelvin – Stephen Moore
• Under 16s – Thomas Crowe

• Certificate of Special Commendation – Clare McDowell
• Certificate of Overall Commendation – Thomas Crowe

Friends of the River Kelvin would also like to thank Stravaigin Restaurant, Papyrus, Timorous Beasties, the Glasgow Camcorder Centre, and Firebird Restaurant for kind donation of the prizes. (Thanks also to Dernijohn, Grassroots, Willow Trading and Oned World for generous support of the Gala.) Congratuations go to all entereants, who each exhibited a great deal of talent and I hope you will all enter next year. Many thanks to Sally Johnston, who did a huge amount of work to make the competition a success.

Update

In spring 2008, Friends of the River Kelvin was granted use of the communities’ exhibition space at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the country’s most visited museum, with 14 million people through its doors every year. The exhibition put across messages about the environmental impact or rubbish left by the Kelvin – and of non-soluble things flushed down the toilet, which can find their way into the river at times of heavy rainfall. It displayed the winning photos from the 2007 photography competition, and textile designs inspired by the Kelvin by Cardonald College students. Poems and artwork about the river by Mandy Haggith were on display.

You can see a selection of photographs from the competition below.

(Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version. Then click on the larger version if you want to see the original)