The 2011 International Loupe Awards

The Judges

The Prizes

Amateur Awards Prizes

Medium Format Art Prize

The Rules

Open & Amateur Award Rules

Medium Format Art Prize

Award Galleries

Entrant Login

Awards 2008 Gallery

Winners Gallery from the 2008 Awards

Open Awards Major Prize Winner

The $25,000 Major Prize winner of 2008,
Jim Fiscus, US

This image was shot for Channel 4 London to illustrate "what would happen to an English chef if he were to tinker about with traditional Italian recipes". When asked that question I said that in Texas we would string him up, and the idea went on from there. Channel 4 (a mad band of ultra creatives) had me do the image in NY and had Jamie Oliver fly over. The set was built in a sound stage so we had complete control of content. Every item in the image was chosen and placed. Orderly chaos. The color felt right being greens and warm tones to give the right feel of tension mixed with some old world. Jamie Oliver hung upside down four times for a couple minutes each. He is a great guy and fun to work with. He kept smiling and saying that the sides of beef needed more blood on the floor, and had I ever slaughtered a cow, and some stuff about dogs bollocks, and other generally confusing things. Fun stuff.
PS: the guy at the table is a spineless boaster waiting on his Ma. She's the one that's going to cut stuff up.

About the Photographer
In 15 years of shooting Jim Fiscus has shot campaigns for Levis, Nike, HBO, and many others. He was voted International Photographer of the Year for 2006. His work was featured on two Communication Arts covers, and named #1 on Campaigns 2008 list of top photographers in the United Kingdom. Jim Fiscus lives and works from Athens, Georgia, United States.

Peoples Choice Award Winner

The winner of the 2008 Peoples Choice Award,
Binh Trinh, NZ

The photo was created for a personal project called "Influence" to portray influential subjects in an artistic manner. This subject is Brynn Neilson, founder of a NZ based web company Spinning Planet. He has travelled the world, being lost and confused as to what he wanted to do with his life. I wanted to describe this emotion in the hectic world that we live in. The Regent theatre is an iconic image of Palmerston North, my local town, and thus served as an appropriate backdrop. We had to do several takes with Brynn being in different parts of the image. We even had to stop traffic a few times to get the shots we wanted. The shots were then carefully collated and the touched up was designed to give an old feel to the picture, so the viewers could feel like they were back in time, and mixed this with the fast moving cars and people.