AV Peter

Sir David’s contribution to natural history, heralded for popular documentaries including ‘The Living Planet’ and ‘The Trials of Life,’ has changed how we see the natural world forever. He joins a list of high profile names including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and David Hockney who have also received this prestigious accolade. 

2008 Awards recipients also include Martin Parr Hon FRPS, who will receive The Society’s prestigious Centenary Medal for his sustained and significant contribution to photography.  Parr, a member of Magnum Photos, is internationally respected for the manner in which he has broadened and developed the notion and intentions of documentary practice over the past 30 years. 

Fellow member of Magnum Photos, Chris Steele-Perkins will receive the Terence Donovan Award for his major achievement in the field of editorial, advertising and commercial practice.

Honorary Fellowship recipients this year include veteran photojournalist John Chillingworth, who cut his teeth on Picture Post magazine in the 1950s, internationally respected documentary photographer Zed Nelson and the landscape photographer Joe Cornish. 

John Chamberlin FRPS

Peter Sephton Coles FRPS

Tom Dodd FRPS

John Page Hon FRPS

HON FRPS                                                        Dr Peter Magubane

                                                                        Dr Daniel Meadows

                                                                        Ben Osborne

SELWYN AWARD                                             Dr Vien Cheung

DAVIES MEDAL                                                Professor Stephen Westland

THE SOCIETY’S MEMBER’S AWARD                  Elaine Herbert ARPS

and Hon Life Membership

LUMIÈRE AWARD                                             Giles Nuttgens

J DUDLEY JOHNSTON AWARD                           Gail Buckland    

HOOD MEDAL                                                   Gina Glover

COLIN FORD AWARD                                        Toni Booth 

THE COMBINED ROYAL COLLEGES                      Professor Francis Ring ASIS FRPS

MEDAL                                                

THE RPS/JEFF VICKERS/GENIX IMAGING          Philip Volkers

BURSARY

JOAN WAKELIN BURSARY                                To be announced on 2 October

 

The Vic Odden Award, recognising notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 years or under, will be presented to Alixandra Fazzina.

Citation for Peter’s Award:

Peter Coles read Chemistry, Theology and Education at Leeds University and went on to teach chemistry in two Bradford Grammar schools, and then to become a senior lecturer at Loughborough University teaching teachers of chemistry. From there he went into Local Government in the SE of England.

In 1986, he gave up his post as Chief Education Adviser for The Royal County of Berkshire and moved back to his roots in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, to concentrate on his photography and writing. Over forty of his books and a few thousands of his pictures are now published and he has himself, through Sephton Enterprises, published a number of works by other authors. He has had several one-man exhibitions of his photographic montages but he is probably better known photographically for his Audio-Visual works; he was National AV Champion in 1991 with “Jill is Still” and again in 2003 with “Sarah”. He has now achieved well over a hundred-and-fifty major International awards including having twice won the European Cup for Diaporama, once with his friend Colin Balls with “Motorway” and once on his own with “Kingdom Come”. Peter has indeed, over the past thirty years, produced more AV Sequences and achieved more International Awards than any other AV worker in the world. He achieved his Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society with Pictorial Prints in 1986 and also a Fellowship in AV in the same year with a collection of works entitled “Six Poems”.  Until 2007 he edited, produced and published a quarterly magazine AV WORLD, the only generally available publication in the English language devoted exclusively to Audiovisual work.

I enjoyed going down to London for the Day. Coiln Balls and Rhona went with me in their car to Banbury and then by train to London. We enjoyed a stroll in Regents Park. My son, Mark, my daughter, Belinda, and my granddaughter Ally came too, even they they were coming up to Hebden Bridge that weekend anyway. The President did a good job in control of the event in The Architects ; the only minus points were due to the somewhat indifferent quality of the projection of images; they had used flash on a Mac! It was good to see Tony Troman there too (he won the medal last year).