Win £5,000 manfucturing photo prize

Professional and amateur photographers have just six weeks left to enter the EEF Made in Britain Photography Awards (www.eef.org.uk/photo) and compete to win £5,000 worth of photographic equipment from headline sponsor Canon.

The Awards are open to professionals, amateurs and young people (14-19), and there is no cost to enter.

“There's a boldness and beauty to British manufacturing that we're looking to capture through stunning photography," said Terry Scuoler, Chief Executive of EEF, the manufacturers' organisation. "Our aim is to give British manufacturing greater visibility and to challenge the myth that 'Britain doesn't make anything anymore'."

Neil Lloyd, Head of Sales Development, of Awards partner Lombard, added: "This is a high profile competition and winners will gain national recognition. There is wide scope for creative interpretation so long as photographs capture British products, components or processes. This can be in abstract form or real life, and could be anything from turbines to ceramic pots, steel rods to silicon chips. Images can portray any part of the journey in inventing, designing or making British products."

The government's Make it in Great Britain campaign is also backing the Awards. Business Minister Mark Prisk said: "Manufacturing is a creative and innovative industry. EEF's Made in Britain Photography Awards will help raise awareness of how interesting and dynamic the industry is, while tackling outdated perceptions."

Other Awards partners include: ERA Foundation; The Times; The Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group; The Guild of Photographers; The Digital Asset Lab and The Manufacturer magazine.

Entries must be received by 28 September 2012, with entries shortlisted by a national panel of photographic and industry experts in October. Winners will be announced at a special ceremony in Westminster in December and the gallery of winning and shortlisted images will be showcased throughout 2013 in EEF’s activities to promote UK manufacturing. These will also be displayed at select offices of the Department of Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) and EEF offices throughout the country, and published in various publications, including The Manufacturer and the EEF member newsletter, Insights.