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Lions Eye Institute Marks 40th Anniversary with Inaugural Photography Competition

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Lions Eye Institute Marks 40th Anniversary with Inaugural Photography Competition

Lions Eye Institute Marks 40th Anniversary with Inaugural Photography Competition

Today marks a significant milestone for the Lions Eye Institute in Nedlands as it celebrates its 40th anniversary with the launch of the inaugural Eye to Eye photography competition. The competition is open to photographers of all ages and encourages participants to creatively interpret the theme of eyes and vision.

Four Decades of Visionary Work

Since its inception in 1983, the Lions Eye Institute has garnered worldwide acclaim for its pioneering ophthalmological care and research aimed at preventing blindness and eye diseases. It is distinguished as Australia’s first not-for-profit medical institute, with patient fees contributing to its research funding.

Eye to Eye: A Celebration of Vision

The photography competition, offering over $10,000 in prizes across various categories, is a tribute to the Institute’s commitment to vision health. Categories include three for adults, one for children, and a People’s Choice Award with a $2000 cash prize. The competition aims to parallel the functions of a camera and the human eye, emphasizing aspects such as the regulation of light by the aperture and pupil.

A Million Reasons to Celebrate

As the Institute also commemorates one million patient visits, Managing Director Professor Bill Morgan emphasized the significance of this event. The competition is more than just an anniversary celebration; it’s a testament to the Institute’s continuous dedication to eye health and vision preservation.

Entries are free and will be judged by experts in photography and ophthalmic imaging. The submission deadline is January 16, with winners set to be announced in March. For more information, visit the competition’s website at eyetoeye.lei.org.au.

Last Week’s Winners

In a related development, Indie Dodd of Rimersburg emerged as the winner of a previous Lions Eye Institute photography competition, bagging four tickets to the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium. Other notable winners included Jeff Hirsch’s photo of a worker in Vietnam, Jim Scott’s photo of an elephant in Kenya, and John Gravlin’s photo of a blue footed booby in the Galapagos Islands. Several other breathtaking photos captured in places like Iceland and Priest Lake also received honorable mentions.

There are still a few weeks to enter the Sony World Photography Awards and win $25,000

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There are still a few weeks to enter the Sony World Photography Awards and win $25,000

The countdown has begun for the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards, with just a few weeks left for photographers worldwide to submit their best images and photo series. Now in its 17th year, the prestigious competition celebrates the diverse and creative world of contemporary photography while providing both experienced and up-and-coming photographers a platform to showcase their work.

Last year the Sony World Photography Awards received almost 600,000 entries across the Professional and Open competitions, making it one of the most popular photo competitions ever. With ten categories in total including architecture, creative, lifestyle, natural world and street photography, this extremely diverse competition is suited to photographers of all backgrounds. 

Untitled (Image credit: Giorgos Rousopoulos (Greece) / Sony World Photography Awards 2023)

The Open competition rewards the best single-image entries, and participants are in with the chance of winning a $5,000 cash prize (approximately £3,900) plus a selection of Sony imaging equipment. Up to three images can be submitted free of charge, and entrants are encouraged to explore multiple categories to showcase their creativity. Entry closes on January 05 2024, and all shortlisted category winners and overall winners will receive worldwide recognition. 

Those entering the Professional competition have until January 12 2024 to submit a series of 5-10 images per category. This is also free to enter, and the overall winner could be the recipient of a $25,000 cash prize (£19,600), hold their own solo exhibition, be included in the Sony World Photography Awards book and show, and receive global exposure in print and online coverage. 

Edgar Martins was crowned the overall winner in last year’s Professional competition for his photo series Our War. “It is a huge honor to be recognized,” he reflected. “Knowing that there were over 180,000 entries to this year’s Professional competition is very humbling,”. His deeply personal series honors his late friend and photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed during the Libyan Civil War but whose body remains undiscovered. 

Dissident freedom fighter in makeshift burka (Image credit: © Edgar Martins, Portugal, Photographer of the Year, Professional competition, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2023)

As the clock ticks down, photographers worldwide are urged to submit their best works and seize the opportunity to gain international recognition and valuable prizes. Entering into such a prestigious competition can feel daunting but, whether you’re an aspiring photographer or an established artist, the Sony World Photography Awards provides a unique platform to showcase your talent to a global audience.

Winners are selected by an esteemed panel of judges including gallery curators, photographers, editors and art directors. Don’t miss out on this chance to make your mark in the world of photography! Visit the World Photo website to learn more about the competition, categories, and submission guidelines.

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The Best Photos of 2023: Expressions of Sensuality and Sexuality

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The Best Photos of 2023: Expressions of Sensuality and Sexuality

December 22, 2023

Lead ImagePhotography by Alexandra Leese, Creative Direction by Nellie Eden

In 1976, the theorist Helene Cixous called upon women to reclaim their bodies, arguing for sensual pleasure as an expression of female and queer resistance to patriarchal power structures. She wrote: “We’ve been turned away from our bodies, shamefully taught to ignore them, to strike them with that stupid sexual modesty.”

In the spirit of Cixous, a multitude of photographers in 2023 shamelessly turned towards their own bodies, or those of friends, peers and lovers. But beyond the sexual or erotic, they embraced the corporeal to convey personal liberation, self-acceptance, or resist forms of oppression. In the post-Covid era, meditations on the body also become a metaphor for the yearning of physical closeness and genuine human connection in an increasingly disconnected world.

From Shae Detar’s use of the body as a tool for radical healing, to the pink and peach-hued photographs of Lean Lui’s girly gaze, or Benedict Brink’s textural shots revelling in the body as a form of still life, this year we have been reminded of the potent, provocative and poetic charge of the body in photography. 

The Beijing-based photographer Lin Zhipeng (also known as No.223) has been photographically documenting his closest friends for decades; something he plans to do until they all die as a way to chronicle evolving relationships across “the passage of time.” In collaboration with Saint Laurent and the label’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Zhipeng’s work was displayed in the brand’s Rive Droit concept stores in Paris and LA. Fascinated with the energetic and counterculture spirit of China’s youth, his work calls into question perceptions of the country’s conservativism, though his tender, erotic and often humorous work expands further afield, capturing friends and lovers in Tibet, Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe.

Read AnOther’s interview with Lin Zhipeng here.

35Lin Zhipeng (AKA No.223) at Saint Laurent, Rive Droite

The Dominican-American photographer, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, published his book O earlier this year – a collection of high-contrast studio nudes in which bodies of all ages, shapes, and ethnicities, rhythmically choreograph themselves before the camera. Contorting, twisting, falling or leaping, Rodriguez’s meditation on the nude conveys sheer vulnerability. His fleshy body of work intends to “strip everything away”, thus removing the daily embellishments that conceal the body. Speaking to AnOther, he explained: “Nakedness just feels so completely generous … I really wanted rawness, so that people could connect to it in that very emotional way.”

Read AnOther’s interview with Luis Alberto Rodriguez here.

18O by Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Until her twenties, Shae Detar lived in an evangelical Christian cult. Aged 30, she turned to photography in an attempt to liberate herself from the religious strictures of her upbringing. Surreal and sensual, her resulting monograph, Another World, was released by Skeleton Key Press earlier this year, in which the female nude becomes a metaphor for the artist’s healing. “It’s literally me finding that freedom, meeting women, hearing their stories and seeing how confident they are,” she told AnOther. Her otherworldly shots – merging the painterly and photographic – present a fantastical world in which women transform into mystical, empowered beings, unencumbered by the male gaze.

Read AnOther’s interview with Shae Detar here.

16Another World by Shae Detar

The year 2023 celebrated the conventional tropes of girlhood, exemplified by the hype of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and the ubiquity of the colour pink. Reminiscing on her own girlhood, the Hong Kong-born photographer Lean Lui released Aseptic Field. Her dreamy photographic gaze isolates the colours and textures of traditional femininity: soft pinks, peaches, pearls and petals. Saccharinely sweet but with a darker edge, Lui alludes to the slippery transition between adolescence and womanhood, as well as the contradictory perceptions of the female body: pure and innocent yet sexual and dangerously seductive. The claustrophobic world she captures illustrates her interiority; in which girlhood is shrouded by delicate artifice.

Read AnOther’s interview with Lean Lui here.

10Aseptic Field by Lean Lui

The erotically-charged monograph Ring Light New Testament by the Belgian photographer Peter de Potter was released earlier this summer, marking his fifth photo book since he came to prominence in the early 2000s. Obsessed with observing our online culture of sharing (or oversharing), de Potter’s latest body of work investigates how platforms such as TikTok or OnlyFans thwart our self-perception. Whether illustrative of narcissism or the pursuit of human connection, he questions our bodily behaviours online. “Everybody wants to be seen,” he says. “Sometimes literally, sometimes more on a metaphorical level – but to be seen, to be noticed by millions, or by one person, I think it’s a driving lifeforce.”

Read AnOther’s interview with Peter de Potter here.

15Ring Light New Testament by Peter De Potter

When Carla Williams found her dad’s stash of porn magazines in the 1980s, it unleashed a latent fascination with the body. Shortly after, she took up a Polaroid 35mm camera to develop her own series of self-portraits. Published by TBW Books 30 years later, her corporeal interest resulted in the monograph Tender, assembling seductive self-portraits taken in private between 1984 and 1999. Chronicling her body on the cusp of adulthood, she delighted in the taboo playfulness of the erotic. The discovery of a shadowy world of sexual imagery propelled her towards an intimate dialogue with herself, as she grappled with her own, burgeoning queer sexuality.

Read AnOther’s interview with Carla Williams here.

12Tender by Carla Williams

The tender photographs of the Danish filmmaker Michella Bredahl unveiled in Love Me Again present poignant moments between friends, lovers, mothers and children. Her work divests the male gaze as she captures women in quiet, interior spaces, conveying their unique energy as they recline on carpets, unmade beds, or vintage furnishings. Bredahl’s poetic gaze softly subverts the male tradition of painting (and sexualising) the reclining, female body: “I make my own mark on the poses I see being portrayed by men through the history of images,” she says.

Read AnOther’s interview with Michella Bredahl here.

15Love Me Again by Michella Bredahl

Year of the Dragon in 2024 is a photographic project that irreverently responds to the history of the erotic, nude calendar. Created by photographer Alexandra Leese and creative director Nellie Eden, the pair invited 13 Asian women from different cultures honouring the lunisolar zodiac to be photographed. “I wanted to create a project that felt like a celebration of culture, beauty and the power of women’s sexuality in a joyful way,” Leese told AnOther. Playful and subtly subversive, Leese displays sensitivity to each woman’s unique desires and sexualities, seeking to empower – rather than crudely objectify – their bodies through the female photographic gaze.

Read AnOther’s interview with Alexandra Leese here. 

20The Year of the Dragon Calendar 2024 by Alexandra Leese

What is a genuinely sexy image? This question underpins Corporeal, the third photo book by Greek photographer Spyros Rennt. Delving into the world of raves and nightclubs, Rennt captures the heady intimacy of dancing in the dark as well as the entwinement of nude bodies. Fleshy, raw and autobiographical, Rennt, who was once an avid clubber, found inspiration from another queer photographer, Wolfgang Tillmans. His unflinching photobook chronicles the hedonistic yearning for bodily connection amongst queer communities in cities, from Athens to Berlin. Speaking to AnOther, he remarked: “My work is personal but the experience is always universal.”

Read AnOther’s interview with Spyros Rennt here.

8Corporeal by Spyros Rennt

Look, Touch, by the Australian photographer Benedict Brink, meditates on the vulnerability of the human body in its flawed and imperfect guises. Reflecting the relationship between the camera and the body, the gaze and embodied experience, Brink’s work operates beyond documentary practice – offering something sensual and tactile rather than cerebral. “I look at people and at bodies – it can become very nuanced and overly thought about. I wanted to bring it back to what it actually feels like to look and be looked at.” By isolating body parts, bathed in soft light, his artfully composed shots evoke the sensuality of painted still lifes.

Read AnOther’s interview with Benedict Brink here. 

10Look, Touch by Benedict Brink

See Anders Edström’s Regal Story for AnOther

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See Anders Edström’s Regal Story for AnOther
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Lead ImageRejoice is wearing a cape in wool by ROKSANDA. Dress in jersey by STELLA MCCARTNEY. Elsa Peretti Bone cuff in copper with black finish by TIFFANY & CO. And sandals in leather by ISABEL MARANT Photography by Anders Edström, Styling by Akeem Smith

Hair: Pawel Solis at Artlist using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE. Make-up: Satoko Watanabe at Artlist using MAC. Models: Rejoice Chuol at Select Models and Ageer Kuany at Silent Models. Casting: Simone Schofer at Artistry. Photographic assistant and post-production: Nils Edström. Styling assistants: Kenny Paul, Florence Thompson, Mark Loeb, Carlota Vives and Charlotte Ghesquiere. Hair assistant: Mayna Sissoko. Make-up assistant: Yosuke Nakajima Ziima. Production: Artistry

This story features in the Autumn/Winter 2023 issue of AnOther Magazine, which is out now. Order here.

This photographer captures the moment that parents say ‘hello and goodbye’ to their baby

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This photographer captures the moment that parents say ‘hello and goodbye’ to their baby

WARNING: This story includes details about infant death and an image of a stillborn baby. 

At 2 a.m., Heather Brooks has gotten in her car and driven from Essex, Ont., to Windsor Regional Hospital to photograph a baby that has died. 

Since she first started taking pictures of stillborns about six years ago, Brooks has made this same trip about 50 times. 

“Every situation is slightly different, but very emotional,” said Brooks, who provides the service free of charge. 

“These families, they’re not going through what they expected so, yeah, I just feel I guess very honoured to be allowed into that space.”

She was motivated to capture the moment that a family is “saying hello and goodbye” because she knows from personal experience just how valuable pictures can later be. 

More than 30 years ago, Brooks went into labour a day before her expected due date, but her baby boy died during delivery due to a true knot in the umbilical chord. She has some film photos from that day, but says they aren’t great.

“From that moment, I don’t have good photos to remember, his little feet, his hands, all that kind of stuff, it’s something that I feel is important to have, ’cause it helps you to remember,” she said. 

WARNING: This video contains pictures of a stillborn. 

WATCH | Photographer captures families that are grieving the loss of a baby: 

Photographer captures the moment a family says ‘hello and goodbye’ to a baby

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Photographer Heather Brooks says she’s honoured that people allow her in when they are grieving. More than five years ago, Brooks photographed Amanda Levesque’s baby. Today, Levesque says the photos are some of her most cherished.

When going in to photograph a family or parent, Brooks says she tries to blend into the background — for example, if the room is dark when she enters, she works with the minimal lighting.

Sometimes, says Brooks, families want to dress the baby in the clothes that they were supposed to go home in, but other times, she says people don’t want photos of them holding the baby. No matter what, Brooks says she just wants everyone to feel comfortable. 

Some of the most important photos for Brooks, are the closeups of the baby’s features, like their hands or feet. As the family grieves and processes what has happened, she says years later it can be hard to remember what the baby looked like. 

But she believes the photos also serve a bigger purpose.  

“[The pictures] bring the existence of that baby’s life to reality — that baby was really here,” she said. 

A baby's foot is shown in black and white.
This is one of the photos Heather Brooks took of Caleb’s foot. Brooks says she thinks it’s important to take closeups of the baby’s features, as she believes that’s what the family will want to look back on and remember. (Submitted by: Heather Brooks Photography)

‘He’s still the one that made me a mom’ 

For 34-year-old Amanda Levesque, it’s the closeup photo of her baby’s face that she cherishes the most. 

As she looks over the black-and-white picture of her son Caleb, she chuckles at how the only feature he got of hers is her lower lip. 

“As time goes by, you kind of forget the little things,” she said.

“So it’s kind of a nice reminder to see all the little features of him that time kind of makes you forget.” 

A black and white photo shows a woman in a hospital gown holding a tiny baby in a blanket.
This is one of the photos that Heather Brooks took of Amanda Levesque and her son Caleb, who arrived as a stillborn at 20 weeks and four days old. (Submitted by: Heather Brooks Photography)

Levesque was only 20 weeks and four days into her pregnancy when things went wrong, leading her to have a stillborn on June 24, 2018, at Windsor Regional Hospital. 

It wasn’t what the east Windsor resident had expected to go through, and even though she was hesitant about capturing the moment, she says they are now some of her most cherished pictures. 

And while there is an emotional heaviness associated with the days leading up to, and the moment of, Caleb’s arrival, looking at the photos Levesque is reminded that her son was at peace. 

“At first, it was very hard to see the pictures, like it would make me teary eyed,” she said. 

“But now, it kind of brings a smile to my face. He’s still my son and he’s still the one that made me a mom.” 

And Levesque says she thinks the pictures serve as a reminder to others that she is still a mother, even though her child is no longer alive. 

“You want to take [the pictures] and if you don’t look at them, that’s fine,” she said. 

“But if in 20 years, you want to look back at them, you have them.” 

A woman sits smiling on a couch.
Amanda Levesque, 34, had a stillbirth more than five years ago. At the time, she wasn’t sure she would want photos of that moment, but now she says they are some of her most cherished. She’s able to be reminded of her son’s features. (Jennifer La Grassa/CBC)

Brooks acknowledges there aren’t many photographers in Windsor who take these sort of pictures. She thinks it’s because it can be such an emotionally challenging moment to step into. 

Despite how hard it is, Brooks knows the reward is much greater. 

“When you’re expecting a baby and that doesn’t turn out the way you’re expecting, you’re losing all of that future,” she said. 

“So I think the photos just bring existence to that life right then and there.” 

2023 New York Photography Awards Now Announces Its Proud Winners to the Public

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2023 New York Photography Awards Now Announces Its Proud Winners to the Public
2023 New York Photography Awards Winners Announced

2023 New York Photography Awards Winners Announced

2023 Professional Photographer of the Year: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mustafa Hassona

2023 Professional Photographer of the Year: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mustafa Hassona

2023 Amateur Photographer of the Year: The mountains of fire by Andrea Sagui

2023 Amateur Photographer of the Year: The mountains of fire by Andrea Sagui

The New York Photography Awards, hosted by the International Awards Associate (IAA) is thrilled to declare the proud winners of the 2023 competition.

It has been an enriching experience for our distinguished panel of judges during their evaluations, and to celebrate these outstanding contributions to the world of photography.”

— Thomas Brandt, Spokesperson of IAA

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, December 22, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The New York Photography Awards, hosted by the International Awards Associate (IAA) is thrilled to declare the proud winners of the 2023 competition. This celebrated event, which welcomes submissions from photographers across the world, honors, recognizes, and promotes outstanding photographers worldwide, who share their vision with the world. The 2023 edition has been a resounding success, attracting an impressive array of over 6,000 entries from over 55 countries including the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Australia, and many others, highlighting the awards’ significant global influence and reach with its overwhelming participation.

2023 New York Photographers of the Year
Following professional evaluations of an extraordinary collection of photographs, the New York Photography Awards is excited to announce the proud 2023 Photographers of the Year. This year, the Professional Photographer of the Year title is awarded upon Mustafa Hassona for his stunning creation, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, accompanied by a cash prize of $3,000. Meanwhile, the title of Amateur/Student Photographer of the Year goes to Andrea Sagui for his masterpiece, The mountains of fire, securing a cash prize of $2,000, demonstrating remarkable skill and creativity.

1. Professional Photographer of the Year – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mustafa Hassona
2. Amateur/Student Photographer of the Year – The mountains of fire by Andrea Sagui

2023 Category Winners for the Year
In addition to the prestigious Photographers of the Year, the New York Photography Awards takes great pride in recognizing a multitude of skilled photographers across various genre, namely the Category Winners of the Year. Each of these exceptional individuals has made a lasting impact with their unique perspectives of the world, and are also awarded a $100 cash prize each to encourage the continued pursuit and refinement of their photographic mastery.

Category Winners of the Year (Professional)
1. New York Photography – The perfect cloud by Francisco Negroni
2. Architecture Photography – Bodie Ghost Town by Deryk Baumgärtner
3. Black & White Photography – Railway Community by Steff Gruber
4. COVID-19 Related Photography – Italian ICU by Alessandro Conti
5. Editorial Photography – The Unconquered Ukrainians by Daniel Ceng
6. Nature Photography – Milky Way by Shirley Wung
7. People Photography – Practice by Dana Hursey
8. Special Photography – Big fire dance by Shirley Wung
9. Special Photography – Exquisite Beauty by Cheraine Collette

Category Winners of the Year (Amateur/Student)
1. New York Photography – Manhattan wings by HELENA GARCIA HUERTAS
2. Architecture Photography – Empire State Building by Stuart Reed Martin
3. Black & White Photography – The Modern Perth by Matthew Tuffield
4. COVID-19 Related Photography – Death by Victor A. Mirontschuk
5. Editorial Photography – Scavengers by João Coelho
6. Fine Art Photography – Katharina-3 by Bodo Gebhardt
7. Nature Photography – Antarctic Dusk by Akiko Matsumoto
8. People Photography – The Long Neck Beauties by Peter Voss
9. Special Photography – Hotel Belvedere by Eric von Schulthess

Kindly visit the New York Photography Awards’ official website to view the complete list of exceptional photographers: https://newyorkphotographyawards.com/.

“The range and quality of entries this year have truly exemplified top-tier excellence of international photography, blending unique perspectives with masterful execution,” stated Thomas Brandt, spokesperson of IAA. “It has been an enriching experience for our distinguished panel of judges during their evaluations, and to celebrate these outstanding contributions to the world of photography.”

Grand Jury Panel
The New York Photography Awards is committed to maintaining exemplary standards in jury selection, ensuring the competition’s integrity and professionalism. Esteemed jury members this year include Nicholas Duers (United States), Alessandra Minotti (Italy), Marine Foissey (France), Marc Olthoff (Netherlands), Pieter Clicteur (Belgium), Mieke Douglas (United Kingdom), and Donell Gumiran (United Arab Emirates), among others. Each brings distinctive insights to the judging process, elevating the competition with their diverse professional backgrounds and perspectives.

“Awarding these individuals represents not just acknowledgment, but is also an honor to modern photographic brilliance,” announced Thomas. “As the New York Photography Awards continue to establish their heritage, we foresee a future where our recipients consistently transform and uplift the realm of visual creativity, paving a path to even greater achievements in the world of photography.”

Following the announcement of the winners for the New York Photography Awards, IAA is pleased to announce that the MUSE Photography Awards is now welcoming submissions from photographers around the globe. This initiative continues to provide a renowned stage for photographic talents to showcase their work and earn recognition in the international photography community, and to achieve the esteemed MUSE title for 2024.

About New York Photography Awards
The New York Photography Awards strives to honor, recognize, and promote outstanding photographers, as well as budding talents, worldwide. This awards’ mission is to assist photographers from around the world, celebrating and honoring their photographical excellence, as well as cultivating a new generation of photographers on a global scale, capturing precious moments for tomorrow’s recollection.

About International Awards Associate (IAA)
Established in 2015, the International Awards Associate (IAA) is a global organization dedicated to recognizing professional excellence and outstanding achievements in various industries. As the organizer of a wide range of prestigious award programs such as the MUSE Creative Awards, MUSE Design Awards, Vega Digital Awards, NYX Awards, NYX Game Awards, TITAN Business Awards, TITAN Property Awards, London Design Awards, NY Product Design Awards, and many more, IAA aims to honor, promote, and encourage professional excellence, from industry to industry, internationally and domestically, through award platforms that are industry-appropriate.

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