2020 Potato Photographer of the Year
Editor`s note: Image #10 (11th in the gallery) doesn`t strictly feature nudity, but may be considered NSFW, so proceed with caution accordingly.
Yes, you read the headline right. The Potato Photographer of the Year is a real photo contest and this year`s winners have been announced.
If you`re wondering where the idea for a potato photo contest came to be, look no further than Kevin Abosch`s Potato #345 (2010), a now-famous photo of a sole starchy tuber that sold for a wallet-mashing one million dollars in 2016, making it the 15th most expensive photo sold at the time.
The Potato Photographer of the Year contest was founded by the contest platform Photocrowd, who partners with The Trussell Trust to ensure all proceeds to ending hunger and poverty in the United Kingdom. Proceeds are made with each photo entry, which costs £5 (GBP) each (up to 8 images).
While the competition ‘didn`t quite raise a million bucks I had secretly hoped for,` says competition organizer Benedict Brain, ‘the few grand we did raise will go a long way to help provide much-needed food for the Trussell Trust.`
The overall winner is Raw Spence, who captured an image of his sprouting spud about to get a much-needed quarantine haircut. For taking the overall prize, Spence is receiving a Fujifilm X-A7, a year`s membership of the Royal Photographic Society, a one-on-one workshop with photographer Benedict Brain and 3 years of Photocrowd master-level subscription.
The ten winning images, presented in the following gallery, were selected from an panel of judges that includes Martin Parr, Paul Hill, Angela Nicholson (Founder of She Clicks), Nigel Atherton (Editor, Amateur Photographer), and Benedict Brain (Brain`s Foto Guides).
Overall Winner
Photographer: Ray Spence
Title: End of Lockdown
Caption: `This picture manages to introduce a topical lockdown obsession to the brief of photographing a potato. It take ...
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