MASTER PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2012

By Eva Fydrych

MPA Diamond Jubilee Award winners unveiled

Merit Award, 2012 MPA Diamond Jubilee Awards, UK (Click to enlarge)

NEWCASTLE, UK - The Master Photographers Association (MPA) announced the winners in its 2012 Master Photography Diamond Jubilee Awards.

The announcement was made at the Master Photography Awards Dinner, a prestigious event that took place on Sunday, 14th October 2012, at the Hilton Hotel in Newcastle. The event attracted the cream of the worlds photographers who, together with many major trade representatives, packed into the Gateshead Hilton for a glittering nights celebration of photography.

We are pleased to announce that Singaporean photographer Jennifer Lam (Lang Lei Lam) won a Merit Award in the 2012 MPA Diamond Jubilee Awards and her work was exhibited in Newcastle during the official ceremony.

The winning shot was submitted in the Advertising: Beauty category and it was part of Four Seasons series shot by Jennifer earlier this year. 

Screenshot (Courtesy of International Photography Awards)

The beauty shot also received a Honorable Mention at the 2012 International Photography Awards (IPA), USA.

What's more, in August 2012, Jennifer won Bronze Award for category Emotive Portraits in the 6th Better Photography Magazine: Photography of the Year 2012, USA.

6th Better Photography Magazine: Photography of the Year, USA (2012) | Bronze Awards: Emotive Portraits

ABOUT JENNIFER LAM

Winning numerous international photography awards mainly from Europe, USA and Japan further reinforces her burning passion for photography particularly in portraits, fashion and beauty. Being a freelance photographer based in Singapore, the bustling metropolitan and an Asian hub where travelling to neighbouring exotic countries is a breeze, gives her the perfect opportunity of capturing images with an edge. She believes strongly that photography is more than just picking up a camera and pressing the shutter button or be obsessed with the technical aspects of the gears or output image. To her, it is more of a process of interpretation of an artist with three essential steps - gathering of information of the subject, process it in the heart (not the brain) i.e. feel it, and finally output it on an image. The fact that every human being feels and perceive differently from one another, there should not be two same images. The true process of creation results in distinctive art pieces while the process of duplication results in strikingly resembling work.

Jennifer Lam: award-winning fashion, beauty and portrait photographer

With the dawning of the new age digital photography, a photographer's job is not done with just the output from the camera, of which will become the imput of the post-processing in the digital manner (this step was previously done in the dark room manually). Again, digital post-processing is another step of interpretation, an interpretation of the raw image that should have been in the final output. Capturing the image is only fifty percent of the work done while the other fifty percent comes from perfecting the image for the final output.

Jennifer Lam welcomes you to her world of photography, a world where her creative interpretation rules. In order to appreciate her work of art, please feel free to browse her portfolio.

Source: Jennifer Lam

Selected works by Jennifer Lam:

International Photography Awards, USA (2012) | Honorable Mention in category Editorial-Other // 6th Better Photography Magazine: Photography of the Year, USA (2012) | Bronze Awards for Emotive Portraits // London Photographic Association, UK - Let's Face It 8 Portraiture (2012) | Commended Photographer

International Photography Awards, USA (2012) | Honorable Mention in category People-Portrait

Model: Anne Ueberbach (Germany) / Makeup: Angel Gwee / Hairstyle: May Ee / Fashion: Rachel Ong

Model: Jeannie King (Austria) / Makeup: Shikin Khalid / Hairstyle: Edwin Tang / Fashion: Rachel Ong

Model: Rachel Doss (Singapore) / Makeup & Hair: Emily Leong / Fashion: Rachel Ong

Congratulations Jennifer!