Judges

Local jury

Paul Kelly, Stephen Quinn and Glen Hayward
 

Paul Kelly, Commercial Photographer

Paul has worked as a commercial photographer in Ireland for 7 years. His commissions, personal work and coverage of developmental issues have taken him to locations as diverse as Guatemala, Japan, Iceland and East Timor. He has exhibited in London, Dublin and Waterford. The major show last year 'Beyond Timor' was followed this summer by 'Dog Days' a retrospective of both shown and previously un-shown work.

This year he set up the Paul Kelly gallery in CHQ in Dublin's financial district.
In January Paul travels to Bolivia with journalist Fionnuala Cregan to examine how the political situation is affecting the people. In April he returns to Africa to cover new housing projects initiated by an Irish charity.

Paul's primary focus is people photography.
 

Stephen Quinn, Creative Director, Atomic

Stephen is a graduate in Visual Communications from DIT Mountjoy Square and has fifteen years experience in the advertising industry in Ireland, Australia and the U.S.A with agencies such as Publicis QMP (Ireland), Pettaras (Australia), SMART (USA). During that time, he created advertising campaigns for brands such as Universal Movies, Alfa Romeo, Dell and Masterfoods. In 1998, he returned to Ireland to set up Atomic and oversees creative development on brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Chevrolet, KPMG, Jameson and Café Sol.
 

Glen Hayward, Picture Editor, Metro Ireland

For the past two years, Glen Hayward has been the Picture Editor of Metro in Ireland. He is a media and picture desk professional with a wealth of Picture Editing experience. Trained by the British Civil Services' "Oxbridge" graduate recruitment scheme, Glen was an Executive Officer in HM Customs & Excise Photography Department. He is a Barrister in the UK and was called to the Bar as a specialist in multimedia and copyright law. Glen started his career working on the Art Desks of The Daily Express and The Daily Star in Manchester. Previous to working for Metro, Glen worked for over 12 years at News International in London. Based on The Sun picture desk he has also worked on the picture desks for The Times, The News of the World and Today newspapers. In addition he has participated in an international exchange allowing him to work on the picture desk of The New York Post. He has assisted in picture editing several photography based books, including those of the celebrated photographer Arthur Edwards CBE, favourite of the British Royal family. Consequently Glen has become a specialist in understanding, capturing and representing the ideas and concepts of others through the media of photography. In his spare time Glen has assisted on several photographic projects of his late friend, the famous west-end Director and Producer Clifford Disley-Jones who was the Art-Director of the original film version of The Italian job. Glen's favourite photographer is Harry Goodwin.

Global jury
 

Global Jury Chairman

Marco Delogu, professional photographer, Rome

Marco Delogu was born in 1960 in Rome, where he still lives and works. His work has often focused on group portraits of people with shared experiences, though in recent years he has turned his attention to nature, specifically the different ways in which people interact with the natural environment. Delogu has published more than 20 books, and has exhibited both in Italy and abroad – including at the Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici in Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, the Warburg Institute (London), the Henry Moore Foundation (Leeds), Centre George Pompidou (Paris), the Museé de l'Elysee (Lausanne) and the Moscow PhotoMuseum.

Delogu also works as a publisher and exhibition curator. In 2002 he founded the first FotoGrafia, the international festival of photography in Rome, of which he is still artistic director. In 2003 he founded the Punctum publishing house. He has curated more than 50 exhibitions featuring the work of some of the most important figures in world photography, including Josef Koudelka, Sally Mann, Olivo Barbieri, Don McCullin, Anders Petersen, Martin Parr and Graciela Iturbide.

Julia Rish, Getty Images, NYC

Julia Michelle Rish has been the East Coast Entertainment Assignment Editor at Getty Images in New York City since 2006. Part of Julia’s role with Getty is to recruit exceptional photographers for the newsworthy entertainment events Getty covers worldwide.  Julia enjoys working with the photographers and has an enduring appreciation and respect for quality images, therefore she takes care to assign photographers to venues and events where their unique talents can shine. Prior to Julia’s position with Getty, she worked with NYC celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan as director of bookings for four years,

Julia was born in Guadalajara Mexico and then moved to the tri state area. She graduated with a BFA from Emerson College in Boston MA where she studied musical theater, photography, writing and communications. Currently she resides in NYC.

Paul Kelly, Dublin

Paul has worked as a commercial photographer in Ireland for 6 years. His commissions, personal work and coverage of developmental issues have taken him to locations as diverse as Guatemala, Japan, Iceland and East Timor. He has exhibited in London, Dublin and Waterford. The major show last year 'Beyond Timor' was followed this summer by 'Dog Days' a retrospective of both shown and previously un-shown work.
This year he set up the Paul Kelly gallery in CHQ in Dublin's financial district.
In January Paul travels to Bolivia with journalist Fionnuala Cregan to examine how the political situation is affecting the people. In April he returns to Africa to cover new housing projects initiated by an Irish charity.
Paul's primary focus is people photography.

Urban Brådhe, Stockholm

Urban Brådhe is 58 years old, and has spent 37 years working as a press photographer and picture editor for several different daily newspapers. For the last 11 years he has been a staff photographer on the Metro newspaper in Stockholm. Brådhe has been a member of the board of the Swedish Journalists’ Union for two years. He is also on the board of the Swedish Press Photographers’ Club, for which he was the chairman for ten years. He is married with four children and lives in Bromma, just outside Stockholm.