The first open national photo award "Best Photographer" - a new project from the creators of Prophotos and Photoawards

Hello again. For a long time there was no news from us, but this is not surprising. Having more or less adjusted the work of Photoawards.ru, we turned to more serious things. The idea of ​​this project lay on the surface, but matured for a long time. As a result, our team turned out to be the fastest - whoever had the first time, the idea belongs to that. The competitors, if they planned something (and the enemy intelligence reports from all sides, that yes, they did, but somewhere through goooooddd, or maybe through twoaaaaa ...), now their plans are over. Since it was the Prophotos team that launched the First Open National Photo Award “Best Photographer - 2009” this week (then it will become ... -2010, ... -2011, etc.) by opening the BestPhotographer.ru website .

As you remember, in general we already had a portal about contests. So why another one, you ask? We answer. The first competition site, Photoawards , was like the first stage of preparation for the project. We got to know our audience even closer - if users only read the magazine Prophotos.ru , now they have shown on Photoawards.ru what they are shooting themselves. We recognized their hopes and aspirations. During the work with this project we met many good photographers who, having downloaded just a few photos, acquired the highest - platinum - status. But for that they are masters - each photo turned out to be a prize in its competition. It was these users that we were the first to invite to participate in the Prize.

Unlike Photoawards.ru contests, the First Open National Photo Award “The Best Photographer”, although it has a website on the Internet, is primarily an offline project. The works are submitted via the Network, but their further life - exhibitions, books and, of course, the award ceremony takes place offline. In the same place, offline, workshops are held for the participants of the award. Unlike our past projects, here the site is just an auxiliary tool.

During the preparation for the project, we managed to talk with a bunch of various very important people from the world of photography, who were called on the jury. In general, what makes the work with the Prize interesting is that the Prize will develop with us, and we with it. Already at the dating stage, our esteemed jury prompted us some good chips, pointed out a couple of mistakes, and praised us for some ideas and findings.

In general, speaking essentially, BestPhotographer.ru is perhaps the longest-running project of our team in its development. Photo contest - run and see what photos came in the online photo magazine the most difficult thing is to fill it with some amount of content so that the pages do not look blank. Here we get at least some result in at least a year. Until January, the participants will send photos, then we will start work with the jury, then there will be an exhibition and an award, and only then we can look back and take a look at what we have done. The final result will be clear only after a few years. But, we are sure that this result will be worth the effort spent on it now.

We can talk about this project for a long time - there are a lot of pitfalls, and interesting discoveries, and finds. Our statuette Argentum deserves special attention (something like an Oscar in photography - you can read about it on the website). But sometimes it’s better to stop on time. That is, summing up, you can congratulate the Prophotos team on the next startup. BestPhotographer.ru will not be the easiest project, but we are sure no less successful than the previous ones.