{"id":7843,"date":"2012-10-31T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2012-11-08T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:21:40","slug":"life-through-a-diamond-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2012\/10\/life-through-a-diamond-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Life through a diamond lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Royal Commonwealth Society Photographic Awards gave photographers the perfect opportunity to showcase their unique point of view and the cross-cultural nature of the Commonwealth – as well as become part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Time Capsule.<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

With over 230 entries from 33 countries, competition was strong for the 2012 Com\u00admonwealth Photographic Awards. Explor\u00ading this year’s Commonwealth theme of ‘Connecting Cultures’, young photogra\u00adphers impressed the judges with their di\u00adverse and varied interpretation of the topic.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of this annual photographic competition run by the Royal Common\u00adwealth Society (RCS) is to enable young people to explore themes of international importance in a creative and engaging way, sharing with and learning from their peers around the world. Their images bring to life the commonalities and remarkable di\u00adversity of the modern Commonwealth.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The competition was open to amateur photographers under the age of 30 who are citizens of or a resident in a Common\u00adwealth country, and entries could be sub\u00admitted on digital, analogue, disposable or mobile phone cameras. For 2012, the year of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, all entries were added to the RCS’s dig\u00adital Diamond Jubilee project, the Jubilee Time Capsule.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to this year’s annual awards, young Commonwealth photog\u00adraphers were given the opportunity to enter a special competition organised to mark the Queen’s 60 years as Head of the Commonwealth. The RCS has part\u00adnered with the Royal Photographic Soci\u00adety (RPS) to run the Royal Photographic Society Jubilee Award. Participants were asked to submit a photo related to a day or special moment in the last 60 years that was important to them, their family or community. Entrants had a chance to win a trip to London and mentoring by RPS photographers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Competition was again fierce and, with the winning images from the Common\u00adwealth Photographic Awards now chosen and the winner of the Jubilee Award still to be announced later this year, it looks as though photographers have produced a diamond crop for 2012.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The winning entries can be viewed online at: www.thercs.org\/youth<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Royal Commonwealth Society Photographic Awards gave photographers the perfect opportunity to showcase their unique point of view and the cross-cultural nature of the Commonwealth – as well as become part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Time Capsule. With over 230 entries from 33 countries, competition was strong for the 2012 Com\u00admonwealth Photographic Awards. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}