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Sony World Photography Awards 2011
The Sony World Photography Awards is the most comprehensive photographic competition in the world today. The 2011 competition has attracted more submissions than ever before, reaching all corners of the globe, with over 105,000 entries from 162 counties.
Frank Meyl is honored to be among the three finalist photographers in the professional fine art architecture categorie.
The winners plus 2nd and 3rd place of the Professional categories will be announced on Thursday 27 April at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony, and showcased as part of the World Photography Festival and Exhibitions at Somerset House in London.
hasselblad masters finalist 2010/11
For the second year in a row, Frank Meyl has been selected as finalist in the Hasselblad masters. This time in the architecture categorie.
Selected from more than 2500 applicants by an internal jury of Hasselblad employees, Hasselblad partners and distributors, the quality of submissions for the Masters program continues to increase, raising the bar for entry. "It's more difficult than ever before for even the finest photographers to qualify as finalists," reports Christian Nørgaard, Photographer Relations Manager for Hasselblad, "and even more challenging to choose 110 finalists from among such exceptional work."
The public is encouraged to vote for their favorite image in each category by registering online. The remaining votes will be cast by a distinguished panel of industry professionals from around the world.
www.hasselblad.com/masters-finalists
Creative Review Photography Annual 2010
Frank Meyl is proud to be the only german-based photographer who`s work has been selected for publication in the Creative Review Photography Annual 2010.
The Creative Review Photography Annual is a showcase of the best images produced over the past year in commercial photography. It includes photography commissioned for advertising, editorial, photolibraries and design studios as well as photographers personal projects.
Creative Review is the worlds leading monthly magazine for visual communication. Frank's image "drivecarefully" will get in front of over 100,000 readers in over 80 countries worldwide.
Art of Photography Show 2010
The sixth annual Art of Photography Show, received nearly 14,000 entries from 67 countries worldwide –the largest number of countries represented in the history of the competition.
Acclaimed judge Natasha Egan, the Associate Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, spent nearly a week with the Art of Photography Show Director Steven Churchill and narrowed down the thousands of entries to only 111 exceptional images that will be included in this photography exhibition.
It is expected that the show will be viewed in San Diego by more than 30,000 people from Aug. 28 to Nov. 7, 2010. Frank Meyl's image called "balltree" will be one of the displayed images.
Luerzer's Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide 2010/2011
Frank Meyl is featured with 8 images in the architecture, automotive, people and transportation categories of the 2010/2011 edition of Lürzer’s Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide.
To be eligible for the book, photographers had to be nominated by top advertising agency art directors before being invited to submit their best work from the past 2 years. A judging panel of leading creatives then had the difficult job of sifting through the 6,539 submissions sent in from 48 countries and selecting the top 200 photographers.
Profile in photographie magazine sept 2010
Andrea Spaeth interviewed Frank for the German "Photographie" Magazine, Issue 9 2010. The profile on Frank is entitled "Der Besondere Blick".
4th Annual Photography Masters Cup 2010
In the Categories Advertising, Architecture and Wildlife Frank Meyl has been awarded 5 Nominations and 2 Honorable Mentions.
Professional photographer Frank Meyl of Germany was presented with the 4th Annual
Photography Masters Cup 2 Honorable Mentions in the category of Architecture at a prestigious
Nomination & Winners Photo Show attended by over 40,000 online viewers who logged on live
from 154 countries to see the climax of the industry's most important event for color photography.
The judges reviewed thousands of images submitted from every corner of the globe
online for eight weeks before making their final nominations and Frank Meyl's "Midcentury
Modern" an exceptional image entered in the Architecture category, received a high percentage
of votes overall.
Applied Arts Award 2010
Frank Meyl’s work has been awarded in 3 different categories by the Canadien 2010 Applied Arts Photography & Illustration Awards.
In the Category Architectural Photography his assignment for the Milwaukee Art Museum has been selected as a series of images.
He is one of the few european photographers who are included in the June/July 2010 Photography & Illustration Awards Annual and showcased at the year-end Exhibit.
Hahnemühle Anniversary Photo Award 2009
Frank Meyl is proud to announce that his image “Skypool” has been selected to be part of the Hahnemühle Anniversary Collection.
To help celebrate their 425th year of continuous paper mill operation, Hahnemühle created the Anniversary Photo Awards as an open, international photographic competition with an intriguing theme: ‘For Originals.’
The company was interested in having photographers present their unique visions of people, objects and atmospheres from the most original perspective possible. Nearly 1,800 photographers from 45 countries around the world sent in more than 7,100 entries. From these, an international panel of experts selected 43 to become part of the Hahnemühle Anniversary Collection.
London, Paris and New York are among the stops on the Hahnemühle Anniversary Collection’s 2010 world tour of international photo capitals. The tour is scheduled to begin in Sydney, Australia on February 10th, and will then travel to Beijing, Berlin, Toronto and Hong Kong. A special highlight of the tour will take place in Cologne, Germany at Photokina. www.hahnemuehle.com
Profile in Picture Magazine Nov/Dez 09
Christina M. Hinke interviewed Frank for Picture Magazine Nov/Dez 09. Picture published a profile about his approach to his photographic style.
Pit Kho, Creative Director from Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt, makes a comment on what it was like working with Frank on a Photoshoot for Allianz Insurance Company.
American Photography 25 silver-anniversary competition.
Two images of Frank's desert homes series have been selected to appear in American Photography 25 Anniversary Annual.
From a record-breaking 10,100 pictures entered by over 1,000 photographers, magazines, agencies and publishers, a distinguished jury selected by a majority vote or better only 351 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures from 2008.
AP25 will be distributed world-wide in hard cover.
The winning images will also appear on the permanent web gallery at ai-ap.com.
European Prize of Architectural Photography 2009
The theme of this year's European Prize of Architectural Photography was "Neue Heimat - New Homeland". Of the 233 entries from 16 countries the jury, headed by Hans-Michael Koetzle, publisher and until 2007 editor-in-chief of Leica World, awarded a Commendation to the four-part series of photographs by Frank Meyl.
The European Prize of Architectural Photography, which is held every two years, is being awarded for the 8th time. The Award ceremony and the exhibition of the 28 best competition entries are being held for the first time at Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
A catalog with 150 color illustrations in German and English to accompany the exhibition is being published by Verlag avedition. www.architekturbild-ev.de
Hasselblad Masters Finalist 2009
Frank has been selected as one of ten finalists in the general category of the 2009 Hasselblad Masters Competition.
More than 3000 photographers from all over the world have submitted application portfolios to the Hasselblad Masters. The top 100 were selected for the artistic and technical quality of their work.
An acclaimed jury of photography experts and the public will decide the winners in each of ten categories including architectural, editorial, fashion/beauty, fine art, general, landscape/nature, portrait, upcoming, and wedding/social.
For the first time, one vote per category will be decided through public voting. A special online gallery and voting area will allow website visitors to vote for their favorite photographers and images.
The finalist images, one from each photographer, are touring the world as the Masters on Tour exhibition. After the opening event held in hong kong the photographic exhibition will be on display in copenhagen, new york city and london.
ipa: international photography awards 2009
Frank Meyl was awarded in the International Photography Awards Competition 1st place in Nature - Trees category for the winning entry "Balltree", and 2nd place in Nature - Trees category for the winning entry "Palmshadow."
He also received 9 Honorable Mentions in the following categories: Advertising, Architecture, FineArt, Nature and People.
The 2009 International Photography Awards received nearly 18,000 submissions from 104 countries across the globe. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation's mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographer's accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition.
Visit www.photoawards.com
px3: prix de la photographie paris 2009
Frank Meyl of Germany was Awarded: 7 Honorable Mentions, Second Prize in category Advertising for the entry entitled, " Corvette " and First Prize in the category People’s Choice for he entry entitled, „ Highschool.“ The jury selected PX3 2009’s winners from thousands of photography entries from over 85 countries.
Px3 is juried by top international decision-makers in the photography industry: Carol Johnson, Curator of Photography of Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Gilles Raynaldy, Director of Purpose, Paris; Viviene Esders, Expert près la Cour d'Appel de Paris; Mark Heflin, Director of American Illustration + American Photography, New York; Sara Rumens, Lifestyle Photo Editor of Grazia Magazine, London; Françoise Paviot, Director of Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris; Chrisitine Ollier, Art Director of Filles du Calvaire, Paris; Natalie Johnson, Features Editor of Digital Photographer Magazine, London; Natalie Belayche, Director of Visual Delight, Paris; Kenan Aktulun, VP/Creative Director of Digitas, New York; Chiara Mariani, Photo Editor of Corriere della Sera Magazine, Italy; Arnaud Adida, Director of Acte 2 Gallery/Agency, Paris; Jeannette Mariani, Director of 13 Sévigné Gallery, Paris; Bernard Utudjian, Director of Galerie Polaris, Paris; Agnès Voltz, Director of Chambre Avec Vues, Paris; and Alice Gabriner, World Picture Editor of Time Magazine, New York.
The "Prix de la Photographie Paris" (Px3) strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent, and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris. Winning photographs from this competition are exhibited in a high-profile gallery in Paris and published in the high-quality, full-color Px3 Annual Book.
Visit http://px3.fr
