Welcome to UK Picture Editors Guild
01255 319862 or (m) 0771 503 7231
Welcome to UK Picture Editors Guild
01255 319862 or (m) 0771 503 7231
The UK Picture Editors Guild is an association for Picture Editors and those that work with editorial photography.
Why was the Guild formed?
Our history
In 1977 when the Picture Editors Guild was formed ,Picture Editors of the national and regional press did not have the benefit of the internet and so they were very dependent on each other for news pictures.
If a story broke in the regions, the first call from the national newspapers was often to the local paper.
Major players such as the The Manchester Evening News or the Newcastle Chronicle for example, who might be prepared to provide you with a picture to go with the story.
Of course there was no internet, so the picture was placed in an envelope and a messenger would take the picture to the local station where it would travel to London in the goods carriage of the train in a ‘Red Star‘ package, the fastest way to get a picture to London and fingers crossed your messenger would collect the packet from the station and you might get it before deadline!
With such dependency Picture Editors thought it would be good if they could meet a couple of times a year to meet face to face with the person who answered the 'phone when you called.
So the Guild was formed. From the beginning the Guild was involved in judging photography competitions. Encyclopedia Britannica. The Post Office, Ilford Films, Kodak and Nikon were among those holding photography competitions but now the Guild is proud to be the master of its own photography competition, .
UK Picture Editors Guild Awards
This year the Awards return with an event at the HAC. Date to be confirmed.
Ticketing and Tables
A table for ten at the UKPG Awards at the Honourable Artillery Company HQ in City Road cost 1750 pounds (plus VAT)
Individual tickets are 175 pounds each (plus vat)
members of the Guild and concessions are 85 pounds each. (incl VAT)
Our Sponsors and Categories
- Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the year sponsored by Dave Benett
- Sports photographer of the year sponsored by Canon.
- DMGT Portrait photographer of the Year is sponsored by the Daily Mail and General Trust.
- News photographer of the year sponsored by Fixation
- Regional photographer of the year sponsored by GenesisImaging
- Young photographer of the year sponsored by Gettyimages
- Photograph of the year sponsored by Imago
- Student photographer of the year sponsored by Nikon
- City and Industry photographer of the year sponsored by Piemags
- National newspaper photographer of the year sponsored by Sony
- UKPG Royal photographer of the year
- UKPG 'The Missing Years' photo essay
- UKPG Press photographer of the Year
New to this years awards
We are thrilled to welcome new sponsors to the Guilds awards and new categories.
We have added a category for portraiture and are delighted to welcome the Daily Mail and General Trust to the Awards. The DMGT are the first newspaper group to support the awards and we are grateful for their involvement. We have also added to the awards this year a public vote to choose the photograph that the public beleive is the best photograph of the year and this new category is sponsorsed by Imago the leading independent photo agency in Germany and the largest producer of sports content in Europe. We are also pleased to announce that we are joined by specialist stock photography suppliers Piemages. For this year only, to recognise the years that we missied due to Covid, we have the 'Missing Years' category consisting of twenty five pictures that the photographer believes best sum up the period between our awards .
We are grateful to all out sponsors because without them, these awards would not exist .
Entry Conditions
- The awards are open to photographers based in the British Isles .
- The entry fee is 25 pounds . You can enter as many categories as you like as often as you like.
- For all categories apart from the 'Missing Years' essay the photographs must have been taken between 1st of January 2021 and 31st Dec 2021.
- So that we recognise the years we were unable to have our awards due to Covid we have dedicated the Essay to the 'Missing Years' . This is an essay of twenty five pictures taken between 31st October 2018 and 31st December 2020. The twenty five pictures can be one subject or a mixture of subjects.
- Enter here https://pictureeditorsguild.awardsplatform.com/
Our Partners
The UK Picture Editors Guild
Would you like to be a member ?
Membership is open to picture editors on national and regional newspapers, on photo agencies, or working for magazines or websites.
The Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award
2010. The first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Phil Coburn of the Sunday Mirror.
Associated Press photographer Horst Faas. The two times Pulitzer Prize winner was the second recipient of the Lifetime Achievement trophy
UK Picture Editors Guild
Frinton-On-Sea, Essex, England, United Kingdom
01255 319862 or (m) 0771 503 7231
