Big Film Photowalk Competition: Winner! 🏆

Today we announced the winner and honourable mentions from the Big Film Photowalk Photo Competition! As a reminder, this competition was open to everyone who attended the Big Film Photowalk at the end of June. They received a free roll of Kodak Gold 35mm film on the day and a processing voucher with the Analogue Wonderland lab, and were able to submit their favourite photos from the day to a competition to win a brand new Pentax 17 camera 🤩

**Please note that this is NOT the result from our Kodak Summer Competition - we are still processing those entries which will be judged by Kodak in September. Watch this space!**

The judge: Antonio Pisani

We asked Antonio, one of the sales team from Pentax/RICOH to judge the competition. He attended the Big Film Photowalk in London and is an accomplished photographer in his own right. You can see some of his images on Instagram - @apisani_official - and he specialises in monochrome documentary photography.

So noble! 😅 Taken by Paul McKay on the Big Film Photowalk along London's South Bank

After reviewing the 1,200+ entries into the competition (!) Antonio produced a shortlist of 12 photos that we'll show here. 9 of them are honourable mentions - fantastic photos in no particular order - and then we'll cover the top 3.

The reveal on video

We showed the full countdown and winners on an Instagram live. You can watch it - along with Antonio's commentary - on YouTube below!

Honourable Mentions

Photo by Gerard West - Honourable Mention

Photo by James Anderson - Honourable Mention

Photo by Alan Topping - Honourable Mention

Photo by Barry Bridgens - Honourable Mention

Photo by Clare Pickett - Honourable Mention

 Photo by Greg Artis - Honourable Mention

 Photo by Emily Bundock- Honourable Mention

Photo by Bill Paget - Honourable Mention

Photo by Eoghan Hennessy - Honourable Mention 

The runners-up

The two runners-up were Rachel Brewster-Wright and Lucy Giles! Huge congratulations both, some Kodak film will be on its way to you shortly

Wide angle photo from Rachel - she also headed the Liverpool Big Film Photowalk!

Antonio loved the photo: "You see this athlete jumping the hurdles and it really does give a three dimensionality to the picture which is quite difficult to achieve. On top of that there is a really powerful message and it's powering positivity. There is someone working on this billboard and then there are all these nice messages on the bottom of it. Progress, not perfection, believe in yourself, never give up and so on, which is a powerful message within the message in the sense that powering positivity is a work in progress.

"And then you see the human. Someone fixing the painting. So I think it does really tell a strong story yet is very iconographic. It just give you a really strong message. And the proportion between the elements is really well nailed it. So yeah, really well done to Rachel."

Lucy's runner-up photo

Antonio said about this photo: "So Lucy Giles really nailed the shot. She used a simple concept, which is conceptual photography, which sounds easy. But when you start trying to give a message through your images in a subtle way - and trying to give these messages while you take the shot, that's really difficult.

"The bars out of focus gives a sense of separation and also gives you sense of depth, which is quite difficult to achieve when you're photographing a wall. So it does have a strong concept. Great photography and a strong message from Lucy Giles. Well done"

The winner 🥇

Hugh congratulations to Gregor Boyd for his winning entry!

Antonio described why this is his winner: "It's very good timing Gregor chose here. He really captured the moment. He froze the moment. And he captured the expression of the gentleman. He captured the fire on the floor near the wheel. Also, some betting institution and other shops, which shows really the core essence of the UK, where this is a classic scene. Making something ordinary extraordinary, he did it. I think it's quite difficult to find something like that. I hadn't seen anything like this in the 1,200 images. So well done to Gregor, well deserved first place in my view"

Congratulations Gregor! We will be in touch shortly to dispatch your Pentax 17 camera, along with a goodie bag of Kodak films 🎉