Send us your summer Bankside pictures and win great prizes from Tate Modern
With so much to see and do around Bankside and the promise of a long, (hopefully) hot summer, you’ll want to make sure you bring your camera to record your day. We want to see your best snaps to put on visitbankside.com. Simply fill in the form below and upload your image (no larger than 5MB) or email le@betterbankside.co.uk with your image and the best, most creative picture will win some great prizes from Tate Modern.
The best adult photograph will win tickets to Tate Modern’s Pop Life exhibition as well as the photography book – Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography
The best photograph taken by a child under 13 will win a 'Blue 2' pop-up book (covering a broad range of ages) full of incredible paper sculptures, and a Tate Photo Journal: each page has pre-cut slots to hold up to 48 photographs. To be considered for this category please include your age in the caption field.
Street & Studio: An Urban
History of Photography
Examining the history of street and studio photography and how the
images these photographers have produced has conditioned the way we see both
the modern city and ourselves. It contains many of the greatest names in the
history of photography - David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, Jürgen Teller and Diane
Arbus - plus essays by leading critics.
POP LIFE, 1
OCTOBER 2009
– 17 JANUARY 2010
"Good business is the best art" Andy Warhol once provocatively
claimed. Tate Modern's hit autumn exhibition Pop Life examines how artists
since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured
a dazzling mix of media, commerce and glamour to build their own 'brands'. Beginning
with the grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, the show includes Jeff Koons'
infamous Made in Heaven series and his stainless steel Rabbit sculpture, an
iconic array of golden spot and butterfly paintings from Damien Hirst's record
breaking 2008 auction, and a reconstruction of Keith Haring's Pop Shop in New
York. Also included will be works by
Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, and the notorious YBAs, and a special new
commission by Takashi Murakami. This
exhibition is not to be missed – book now at www.tate.org.uk or call
020 7887 8888
Jeff Koons Rabbit 1986 C Jeff Koons
The competition will be judged by Bankside photographer Steve Hollingshead. Hollingshead has been photographing the capital for more than a decade. He has exhibited extensively locally and across London. In recent years large-scale projections of his river images have featured outside Tate Modern and on the façade of the Royal National Theatre as part of the Mayor’s Thames Festival. Large format prints also lined the festival route from City Hall to the London Eye in the month-long lead up to the festival weekend in 2005 and 2006.
Hollingshead’s work is currently at Baltic Restaurant & Bar featuring a display of local images and a digital presentation of Londoners at 'leisure and pleasure'. Until 30th September 2009 Baltic Restaurant & Bar, 74 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA (Tube: Southwark) www.balticrestaurant.co.uk
The competition closes on September 20th, 2009 and the winner will be notified shortly after by email. Better Bankside reserves the right to use any submitted images as it chooses, including online and around the Bankside area and will own the copyright to the images submitted. This competition has been generously supported by Tate Modern.
