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The British Society of Gerontology is delighted to announce the winners of their photographic competition to capture the multiple realities of ageing and to stimulate professional and amateur photographers to think about what ageing means across the globe. Over 1200 high quality submissions were received for this exciting collaboration with Photocrowd. Click here to view all of the winning images.
Professor Julia Twigg, one of the judges, commented on the quality of the photos stating, “We had work coming from all round the globe, responding to the different, yet also often shared, circumstances of older people. Some of the most powerful images were portraits, where older people looked out directly at the viewer, and we chose some of these. But we were also drawn to shots that showed older people in interaction with others, living their lives in diverse ways.”
Professor Sheila Peace, President of The British Society of Gerontology, commented on the success of the competition, “The British Society of Gerontology (BSG) has been delighted to co-host ‘Ageing: the bigger picture’ with Photocrowd. This has been an exciting venture bringing to our attention the beauty, experience and intergenerational dimensions of global ageing and our congratulations to the winners whom we hope have inspired us all to go on capturing those images that show the value and diversity of our world as we grow older.”
We are pleased to announce the winners:
Expert Winner – Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen
Crowd’s Winner – Hardik Gaurav
Expert 2nd Prize – Sudipto Das
Crowd’s 2nd Prize – Willem Kuijpers
Expert 3rd Prize – Federico de Gyldenfeldt
Crowd’s 3rd Prize – Leon
Sheila comments, “My thanks as President of the BSG go to everyone who took part in this competition. To have over 1200 pictures to consider and to generate more than 200,000 votes is tremendous. Let’s keep being inclusive in embracing these visual images of ageing.”
Ageing Issues 
Magnificent and inspirational.
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The idea is interesting; my only query; were the entries judged on their photographic content/skills/originality, or because they made and original and pertinent statement about ageing?
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Hi GM. The competition was a photographic competition and Photocrowd is a place where photographers meet, discuss, and showcase their work. The expert panel contained professional photographers, Liam Bailey and Paul Bevan, the well known journalist Caryn Franklin, and leading gerontologist Professor Julia Twigg. The outstanding quality of images in the winners gallery, the experts’ “commended” list, and the Crowd’s “top 25%” (just over 300 images) reflects this.
The photographs also had to fit the brief, which was as follows:
“Getting older is a complex process, but it’s all too easy to revert to clichés when it comes to representing old age. In keeping with the British Society of Gerontology’s aim to enhance knowledge about ageing and later life, this challenge is a chance for you to show a more nuanced approach to the subject: we want to see how you’ve captured the multiple realities of ageing.
The brief in more detail:
Facets to consider might include:
• The joys of ageing
• The problems people associate with ageing
• Confronting fears about ill health
• The ways people plan / don’t plan for the ageing process
• Ageing as a political problem
• Ageing as a worldwide issue: cultural differences and similarities
• How our current society copes with a large ageing population
• Embracing ageing with a healthy mindset
Show us images that will stimulate conversation and make people think about ageing as a concept – this challenge is generously sponsored by the British Society of Gerontology, with £3600 in cash prizes to be won!
‘My job is to use photography to get people talking, to get them thinking, and to hopefully, ultimately, get them caring.’ – Mac Stone”
Most of the discussion that I have had with friends and colleagues is about the crowd and expert choices – my own top ten for example wouldn’t have coincided much with either! And for me, this would have been the winning picture: https://www.photocrowd.com/images/160224.da708be53/in/challenges/374-ageing-bigger-picture/crowd-choices/
which was ranked 74th by the Crowd, and not ranked by the expert panel at all. I think it is an incredibly powerful and complex image.
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