Get your cameras at the ready! Leeds Modernist is launching a photography competition and exhibition which celebrates the interplay between modernist architecture and light.
Light transforms how we perceive and experience buildings. It can highlight or hide, soften or exaggerate. It is able to make places seem inviting or unfamiliar. Lighting can also be integrated in unusual and intriguing ways into our built environment. ILLUMINATE invites you to capture the UK’s iconic modernist architecture ‘in a new light’.
First prize will receive £200
2 runners-up will receive £100
Winning submissions and up to 25 commended pieces will be featured in an exhibition at Ginger Works’ Leeds City Free Room in October.
The competition is kindly sponsored by architectural lighting consultancy Lumen Loom.
Submission
Entries are OPEN and submissions must be emailed to leeds@modernist-society.org by 17:00 Wednesday 6 September
Photographs should showcase architecture in the Modernist Chapter Cities; Birmingham, Glasgow, Huddersfield, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield or Swansea
Maximum of 3 images per person
Images must be submitted in JPEG or PNG formats
Note: We welcome analogue photography but require a high-resolution scan for submission
Results
Entries will be judged by our fantastic guest panel and the results announced in September:
Eleanor Young (The RIBA Journal)
Simon Phipps (Brutal North)
Jack Hale (The Modernist)
Download the ‘ILLUMINATE: Architecture & Light’ poster here.