Kodak introduced the Gallery Awards in 1985 as a way to honor and promote the importance and value of excellence in professional photography.
Kodak has always represented quality imaging through its many products and services and will continue to work to elevate the importance of professional, quality imaging within the industry, as well as with customers. It’s a connection we’re pleased to make.
Therefore, we are delighted once again to salute and support outstanding professional photography and photographers by presenting our annual Gallery and Gallery Elite Awards. The Gallery Awards are judged on a state or regional basis, with winners going on to compete at the national level for the Gallery Elite Award.
Gallery Awards will be presented, throughout the year, at annual Professional Photographers of America (PPA) regional and state conventions — in addition to those events’ customary awards.
The annual Gallery Elite Award will be judged prior to the national PPA conference and trade show and honored at the Gallery Elite Award Gala, held during the PPA’s national gathering, “Imaging USA,” traditionally in January of each year.
Photographers will be considered for a KODAK Gallery Award in each of the following five categories:
• Portrait or Landscape Print • Wedding Print • Illustrative, Commercial, Electronic Imaging Print • Printed Album or Book (any category) • Print or Album using KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Metallic Paper
A region and/or state organization may award up to five (5) trophies total, in any combination of the designated categories. For example, if there are no entries to be judged or that meet the judging-point criteria in a certain category, more than one Gallery Award may be given in the other designated categories. However, Kodak prefers that one Gallery Award be given in each of the five categories, provided each entry
has achieved the minimum 80-point criteria. The primary purpose of the awards is to recognize and further the use of professionally- printed photography, especially if it utilizes KODAK PROFESSIONAL Products (papers and chemistry). Therefore, Gallery and Gallery Elite trophies are intended to be awarded for prints and printed albums, not electronic-only images and video albums (e.g., CD, DVD), which are outside of Kodak’s intended purpose.
KODAK GALLERY AWARD QUALIFICATIONS.
TO QUALIFY FOR A KODAK GALLERY AWARD:
1. Only prints or printed albums will be considered for Gallery Award competition.
2. An image* must receive a score of 80 or more points during PPA judging to be eligible for a Gallery Award and, as such, is eligible for any award in the Gallery Award categories, regardless of the category to which the entry was submitted.
3. An image may only win one Gallery Award per year.
4. A printed image that was not made with Kodak’s products may be considered for a Gallery Award. However, for a print to be eligible for a Gallery Elite Award, the original image must be printed on any of the following:
• KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Papers • KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Display Materials • KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTATHERM Media • KODAK PROFESSIONAL Inkjet Photo Paper
5. Supply the print chair with the lab name and the product name that the print was made on.
It is the responsibility of the photographer whose entry is submitted to own copyrights to each entry and to have in his/her possession signed and dated releases for each subject, model and location. By entering the competition, the photographer acknowledges and accepts this complete responsibility and grants Kodak use of the entry.
Gallery Award winners are urged to provide Kodak with their contact info per the card contained in the box with their trophy.
KODAK GALLERY ELITE AWARD QUALIFICATIONS.
THE BEST OF THE BEST.
The KODAK Gallery Elite honors the “best of the best.” It is one more way Kodak can showcase outstanding, high-quality images and to continue elevating the art of professional photographers, as well as thanking them, their associates, and clients, who have helped make the Gallery Elite Award a symbol of photographic excellence.
If you are chosen as a KODAK Gallery Award winner, you may be eligible to compete for the prestigious Gallery Elite Award.
When a Gallery Award winner chooses to compete at the next level, the Gallery Elite Award competition, the entrant must meet the following requirements.
1. Print or album must have won a state or regional KODAK Gallery Award.
2. Original entry must have been produced on and printed on any of these:
• KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Papers • KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Display Materials • KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTATHERM Media • KODAK PROFESSIONAL Inkjet Photo Paper
Each fall, Gallery Award winners will receive a letter with instructions from Kodak inviting them to compete in the Elite competition. Award winners register per the instructions on the card included with their award and that PPA regional/state judging personnel promptly submit the names of Gallery Award winners to Kodak after each competition.
For more information, go to www.kodak.com/go/galleryaward
An elegant engraved crystal trophy will be presented to the winning photographers, along with a specially-designed lapel pin.
(*) The word image(s) refers to a print or printed album.
KODAK Gallery Award
2010 KODAK GALLERY ELITE AWARD WINNERS.
1st Place:
“Nefertiti Revisited”
George DeLoache
Entry Guidelines for the KODAK Gallery and Gallery Elite Awards
2nd Place:
“Soon”
Tim Kelly
3rd Place:
“First Fitting”
Steve Ervin
4th Place:
“A Glorious Day”
Don Emmerich
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