Celebrating the winners of our 2022
photography awards!


Celebrating the winners of our 2022
photography awards!
THE CISCO PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
with thanks to Canon
We received 34,531 entries to the 2022 Show and Tell exhibition and 1000s of Workshop Films and photography tasks have now been completed.
Such incredible work has been created and we are absolutely thrilled to reward a selection of schools and young people across the UK with a professional photography pack to encourage further mindful photography practice.
Picking winners was an incredibly difficult task – a huge thanks to our partners NSEAD, Teen Tips and First News for helping us make the final selection.
And a very big congratulations to all of the winners, your incredible work inspires us every step of the way.
First News Award
“Trapped” by Emily-May Stephenson
“I often find myself feeling trapped and I know so many others do too, especially in current times. This bird stood out to me. The way that the bird is physically trapped shows how we, despite being uncaged humans, still find ourselves trapped within our own heads.
Your own mind can be a far worse place to be stuck than any cage but I’m truly so positive that anyone who’s ever felt restrained in this way will be able to find their wings and fly again.”
Teen Tips Award
NSEAD Awards
Show and Tell were thrilled to be invited by NSEAD to speak at their Twilight ‘Leading Voices’ sessions and offer attendees the chance to win two prize packs. Here are the winning responses when we asked them to ‘tell us why art and photography are an important part of your curriculum’.
Templars Primary School
“Through art and photography, our children discover and develop their artistic voice and identity – it helps children to take risks, begin to let go of the fear of failure, grow in confidence and just be themselves!”
Grove House School
“Many of our students have difficulties with fine motor skills – photography can unlock new horizons of creativity and self-expression for them, as well as enhancing our sense of community.”
Show and Tell Outstanding Photographer Award
James Kent, Age 17, Oxfordshire
“Alone”
“This shot represents feeling alone against the world. The subject is looking out across the sea and the way I shot it from far above distorts the sense of perspective and creates the impression the sea is weighing down on top of him or about to engulf him. This feels like a powerful representation of feeling alone and how crushing it can feel.”
“Slowly Drifting”
“This piece is meant to represent a feeling of losing yourself. A process of drifting away from the ‘real’ you until you are no longer sure who you are anymore. I shot with blue lighting to capture the melancholy and cold look I wanted the photo to embody and also to appear slightly like the sea and drifting waves. I also shot multiple exposures and combined them to have the array of shadows fading away to represent the idea of unsteady change.”
“Frozen While the World Moves”
“This image represents feeling out of control and stuck. The light and movement are hectic in the background and the darkness around the image is encroaching in. I shot with a slow shutter speed to get the blurred lines and sense of motion but my subject kept still so there is this unbalance between motion and stillness, like the subject is stuck but everything around them is continuing like usual.”
Show and Tell School Awards
NSCG Newcastle College
Rhyl Community Primary School
“Isolated” by Tasnim
“The old torn curtains popping out of a broken window frame made up of rotting wood made me think about what is must have been like for someone who lived all on their own during. They may have been stuck in a cold room with no one to talk to – isolated – feeing it to be too dangerous to go outside in case they catch the dreaded Covid-19. I felt like that at times but at least I had my family with me.”
Maesteg School
“Behind the Mask” by Lola, age 17
“This is linked to the idea of masks and COVID 19. It is to represent us taking off the mask and allowing people to see our face. The emotion of the image can be seen as positive or negatively, which links to whether taking off our masks will be the right thing to do or not?”
“Uncertain/Out of Reach” by Beth,
“I have described the feeling of this image as Uncertain and out of reach, as the view behind the thick fog cannot be seen creating a mysterious atmosphere and the feeling of the unknown. I feel that people can relate to this feeling as the pandemic has brought a lot of uncertainty and worry. The background of this image also displays both light and dark reaches, which represents to me the positive days that are yet to come, out of this dark unprecedented time.”
“Approaching Storm” by Beth
“This photograph was captured on Port Talbot beach. This image captures the both beauty and power of nature and I find myself being drawn greatly to the splashes of water across this image, as well as the range of tones, which are vibrant and create contrast. I find that this image does not reflect anger, but however this is the moment just before the waves are at their harshest and most violent, which is why I have titled this image the approaching storm.”
The Brit School
“Help” by Soloman
“One day I was out in London, outside Victoria station and as I was walking I saw this women holding a milk carton reading that she needed help. I decided to take a photo, to send and create a message to the world, because there are millions of people around the world struggling and in pain.”
Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston
“Curiosity”
from Lauriston Primary School
“I loved watching my little brother wading through the puddle. He was wondering how deep the water would be and if it was going to go over the top of his wellies, then he started worrying in case there was something at the bottom of the puddle! When my mum was small she was told if she looked at the swirling mud on the top of a puddle, then she’d go back in time. She was terrified about what time to choose to go back to!”
Huddersfield New College
Show and Tell Poster Award
Prize pack
Canon EOS 250D Camera
EF-S 18-55mm Lens
Reflector
Tripod
Light Source
Soft Box & Stand
