RPS Digital Imaging | Print Portfolio

DI Print Portfolio 2025

We are announcing the DI Print Portfolio for 2025. This is not a competition as such, but an opportunity to enjoy a varied selection of the best images from RPS DI Members.

See the Rules for full details of how to enter, including specifications and how to submit your prints and digital files. The submission link for your digital images will be live below when entries open. For any enquiries in respect to this Print Portfolio competition including difficulty uploading your images then please contact DIprintcomp@rps.org.

We are inviting A4 printed submissions created using light-sensitive methods (not generative AI), in any style or process, colour or mono. Our selectors for 2025 are Ann Cook FRPS, Derwood Pamphilon ARPS and Alison Cawley ARPS, who will both judge the image, and take into account the technical quality of the print and the paper used.

Key dates:

Entries open on January 1^st 2025 at 09.00
UK entry closes on 6^th February 2025;
International members’ entry closes 3^rd February 2025 to give us time to get their images printed for the selectors.
The final 30 images will be presented at the DI AGM on 23^rd February 2025.

The selectors will choose 30 prints to represent the range of work of the DI Group. These will be presented in a print portfolio; a copy of which is given to all those whose images are selected; all other entrants will receive a magazine version of the same content. The top 30 images will also be presented at the online DI AGM on February 23^rd 2025, when the selectors will discuss their choices. This will not only be the chance for 15 minutes of fame for the winners, but also an opportunity to learn from the selectors about how and why they made their choices.

Why are we asking for digital and printed copies?

The judging by the selectors is done on the prints (on A4 paper at the aspect ratio and resolution you choose). We also ask for a separate digital copy 3000px on the shortest side and 300 ppi, which will be used to create the printed portfolio should your image be selected.

The selectors

Ann Cook FRPS

Ann Cook's photographic life really began in the early 1980's when an enthusiasm for Travel resulted in supplying adventure images to Travel brochures and many magazines including the National Geographic.

This interest expanded to the creation of Audio Visual presentations using dual projectors and sound and used for Travel Talks to organisations such as the National Trust and Nadfas.

With her great interest in people, their cultures, religions and family life she was naturally drawn to festivals and events, including the Glastonbury Festival which she has photographed for over 30 years and with a panel of which she achieved her Fellowship of the RPS in 2000. Recently 160 of her Glastonbury images have been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their Theatre and Performance archives.

Ann still is a passionate portrait photographer, and has been attending the Glastonbury Goddess Conference for 25 years, for which a book of their portraits is about to be published in readiness for their Conference in 2025.

Alison Cawley ARPS

"Photography is more than just a hobby; it is a passion.

"Home is at the end of a muddy lane in the depths of the New Forest. It was here that the photography bug took hold just as the digital revolution was taking off.

"My photographic journey is a familiar one of camera clubs, competitions etc. enjoying some success along the way. In 2010 I gained my Associateship with a panel of toned digital infra-red photographs, presented as “miniatures”, at a time, unlike now, when very few people were experimenting with the format.

Prior to this I had spent several years working at an internationally renowned performing arts company albeit in an admin role. To observe how the “greats” from the world of theatre, music, art and design worked, their passion, dedication and refusal to accept nothing less than perfection left an indelible mark in a way I could never have imagined at the time. Little wonder then I don’t regard myself as a prolific worker!

"My photography and photographic interests continue to evolve. Today ever-increasing amounts of time are being devoted to nature and wildlife and whilst I enjoy documentary and street photography it’s hard to get the practise in living where I do! And my love of infra-red lives on too."

Derwood Pamphilon ARPS

"I picked up a camera again after many years absence roughly 12 years ago, retirement had allowed me to immerse myself in photography. My great passion is taking photographs of dancers to show their elegance and to capture the wonderful shapes that they make. I also work with models and enjoy creating portraits both in the studio and on location.

"My composite images are created in Photoshop, and I have recently been experimenting with AI generated backgrounds for some of my images. While the use of AI is prohibited in competitive photography, I find it interesting to explore its potential - who knows what developments there may be in the future? I am a member of the Bristol Photographic Society and also belong to a Bristol-based art collective and local art trails, exhibiting my work through them.

"In the last two years my pictures were exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). My images have also been successful in both the Digital Imaging and Visual Art Groups."