CATEGORIES.
EPA 2024 has sixteen core categories to enter with progressions such as Music Events being divided into 'Concerts' and 'Performers', while Catering, Food & Drink offers a broader scope. New this year is the A-Listers category for shots of celebrities at events. Beyond these are the Best Amateur, Portfolio and Peoples’ Choice awards, plus the ultimate Overall Winners.
A-listers - New
Shots of celebrities at events, who could be performing, hosting ‘a corporate’, supporting a function as a charity ambassador, or just attending as a guest.
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The Hoff at the Ski Show
James North
BEHIND THE SCENES
A favourite category of our event industry leading judges, Behind The Scenes highlights the crucial unseen work that goes into creating amazing events by dedicated professionals.
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The Power of Preparation (‘Ladderman’)
Daniel Vegel
BRAND ACTIVATION &
EXPERIENTIAL EVENTS
Product launches, brand experience road shows, creative field marketing, consumer engagement pop-ups, plus teambuilding exercises and other experiential events.
Sponsored by
Making A Splash
Kevin Moran
Catering, food & drink
Championing the central role of food and drink at events, the category can cover everything from cool canapes and beautiful plates of haute cuisine cooking, to kitchen capers and crazy cocktails.
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The Art of Plating
Floris Heuer
CHRISTMAS PARTIES
& SEASONAL EVENTS
Covid put paid to in-person Christmas parties for a couple of years, but they’ve bounced back, along with other end-of-year occasions and increasingly popular corporate summer parties.
Sponsorship available
Santa on a Break
Floris Heuer
CONFERENCES &
CORPORATE EVENTS
Conferences and conventions are to the fore of this category, but also corporate occasions such as motivational meetings, away days, hospitality dates, gala dinners and even awards events!
Sponsored by
The Summit
Noah Goodrich
CULTURAL EVENTS
This broad category encompasses a myriad of community events, from all kinds of fairs and festivals, to art installations and air displays, plus public theatre and dance performances.
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Boardmasters
Andrew Whitton
MUSIC EVENTS - concerts
We have divided the Music Events category in two so more talented photographers can be recognised. The new ‘Concerts’ category is for longer/wider shots of crowds and stages etc.
Sponsorship available
Higher Power
Luke Dyson
MUSIC EVENTS - performers
We have divided the Music Events category in two so more talented photographers can be recognised. The new ‘Performers’ category is for closer shots of singers and players in action etc.
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Ghost
Katja Ogrin
PORTRAITS
A classic photography genre, but with a key limiting factor: subjects need to be captured during, or in the context of an event.
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Ella Balinska prepares for the British Fashion Awards
Dominic Graham-Hyde
PRIVATE EVENTS
Any non-commercial events, bar weddings! Think birthdays and anniversaries, christenings, bar and bat mitzvahs, wakes, graduations and
family reunions.
Sponsored by
Multitasking
Andrew Billington.
Royal Occasions
Added to EPA 2023 to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee (but not her funeral), however EPA 2024 entries are not limited to the King’s coronation as a shot of any royal at any event qualifies.
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King Charles III
Jack Boskett
SPORTING EVENTS
Competitors in action makes for compelling photography, but also think sporting ‘events’ and everything that goes into to organising and enjoying them.
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Heaven or Hell
Dave Dodge
TRADE SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS
Images that capture commerce in action and the fun interactivity so often evident at exhibitions, through wide shots of stands and crowds, or expressive faces of visitors and vendors.
Sponsorship available
Stitch
Aidan Synott
Venues
Every event needs a venue, but it takes great skill to show off an empty space enticingly. This category celebrates a highly important competency in the events sector.
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Hope the Blue Whale
Noah Goodrich
WEDDINGS
Celebrating the highly skilled and under pressure professionals that capture the magic moments, important people and myriad of key elements involved with these very special events.
Sponsorship available
Weddings Tiers
Andy Griffiths
overall awards.
BEST
AMATEUR
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Chosen from the best amateur entries in each category.
PORTFOLIO AWARD
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Awarded to a photographer with the most outstanding range of entries in a single category.
Peoples' Choice AWARD
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Voted for by attendees at the awards night, from all the short-listed shots on display.
OVERALL WINNER
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Chosen from the category winners.