IPA Awards 1st Place 2010
May 2010
2010 International Photography Awards Announces Winner of Landscape Catagory.
Ellie Davies was Awarded: 1st place in Nature – Landscapes category for the winning entry “Smoke and Mirrors”
Ellie Davies was Awarded: 2nd place in Nature – Other category for the winning entry “Smoke and Mirrors”
Ellie Davies was Awarded: 3st place in Nature – Trees category for the winning entry “Smoke and Mirrors”
About Winner:
BIOGRAPHY Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in London and works in the woods and forests of the UK. Her gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include The Open West 2014 at The Wilson Gallery in Cheltenham, Forest Stories in The Russian Museum Summer Gardens in St. Petersburg, Inside Out at PH21 Gallery in Budapest, The Arles 2013 Photo Festival in France, The Noorderlicht 2013 Photofestival in The Netherlands, and the 2012 Singapore International Photo Festival, with touring exhibitions in 2013. In late 2012 the Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscape Exhibition toured the USA including Gordon Parks Gallery, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Newspace Centre for Photography, Portland, Oregon. Davies’s six recent solo shows included Into the Woods at The Richard Young Gallery, London, Come with Me – New Landscape by Ellie Davies at The Print House Gallery in London, Smoke and Mirrors: Solo Exhibition at 10GS London, and Ellie Davies Solo Exhibition at Bruce Collections, Kiev in Ukraine. Her work is currently on display at The Wilson, Cheltenam, UK as part of The Open West 2014, and is soon to be showing at PH21 Gallery in Budapest. She has recently been interviewed for F-Stop, Mull It Over, Urbanautica Photo Stories, Two Way Lens, Fraction Magazine, and It’s Nice That. She has been featured in Interior Design USA, Fraction Magazine’s 50th Issue, Cercle Magazine-France, Fuzion Magazine, Photo+ Magazine-South Korea, Conscientious, Silvershotz, Lens Culture, Art Ukraine, Mull It Over, Entitle Magazine, Urbanautica, F-Stop Magazine, Le Monde Magazine , and The London Independent Photography Selected Artist Showcase. Recent books include WUD: Four Fictional Walks in the Woods, a limited-edition hardcover Photobook published by Tangerine Press in December 2012. Also, Open To Interpretation: Intimate Landscapes – Published October 2012, and Behind the Image By Natasha Caruana and Anna Fox, 2012. Davies was selected as a finalist in the 2013 London International Creative Competition and was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Professional Women Photographers International Juried Exhibition 2012, and an Honourable Mention by the jurors of Inside Out 2014 at PH21 Budapest. She was also selected for the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010, and received 1st Place in the Fine Art Landscape category of the 2010 PX3 Paris Photo Prize, The Exeter Phoenix 2010 Audience Choice Award, ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner in 2010 and 2011, and Commended in the LPA Landscape Awards 2010. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, the US, Central and Eastern Europe, South Korea, Russia and The United Arab Emirates. WUD: Four Fictional Walks in the Woods has been added to the collections of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Library Project Bookshop, Dublin, The Glasgow School of Art Library, and is stocked in Foyles London.
About IPA:
The 2010 International Photography Awards received nearly 15,000 submissions from 103 countries across the globe. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation’s mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographers’ accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition. Visit www.photoawards.com for more details.
Contact:
ellie davies:
ellie@elliedavies.co.uk
https://elliedavies.co.uk
IPA Contact
Linda Dzhema
Director, International Photography Awards
linda@iawardsinc.com