Steve Pyke talks about judging World Press Photo 2012
Feb 10, 2012 by M. Scott Brauer 4 Comments »Thanks to Jonathon Worth for writing in to tell us about this short interview with World Press Photo 2012 juror Steve Pyke (embedded above). Pyke served as chair of judging for portraiture. The discussion offers an interesting perspective of the judging process from Pyke’s own perspective, especially focusing on the discussions between jury members during the process and the influence that each jury member’s own specialty and expertise plays in picking the winners. Particularly interesting, Pyke says (at about 5:45) that the winners in the Portrait category weren’t entered into the category originally. Jurors pulled images from other categories into the Portrait category and chose those as the winners.
There’s also an earlier short interview with Pyke that covers the chore of looking through 8,000 entries.
The awards will be announced tomorrow, Feb. 10.
By the way, do check out Jonathan Worth’s two open access online photography classes, Phonar and Picbod.
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Thanks for the shout-out both. jw
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M. Scott Brauer Reply:
February 10th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Thanks for letting us know about it, Jonathan. Keep in touch!
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I just posted the last straight from the press conference -
http://www.picbod.covmedia.co.uk/2012/02/10/is-that-it-are-we-done-steve-pyke-on-judging-the-world-press-photo-award/?preview=true&preview_id=929&preview_nonce=59bbe94d06
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