DR MAY TAN TREATED ME, PRINCESS DATO SRI DR BECKY LEOGARDO, LILLIAN TAN AND ERROL TAN TO DINNER AT THE SOCIAL AND THE TANS TOOK US FOR BASKIN-ROBBINS ICE CREAM FOR DESSERT.
Message from Datin
Rubab Arif, CEO of Travel Photographer Society Sdn Bhd
It’s with great pleasure for me to inform everyone that this is the 4th consecutive year of TPS Awards. TPS is a fast-growing online community for photographers with the efforts of 12,000 members across 162 countries.
This year we had 10 categories for the annual TPS Photography Contest.
Around 3000 photographers participated from over 92 countries. This is a huge success and we are extremely proud of our global reach.Congratulations to all the winners.
I hope we will achieve more in future and once again thank you to our Chief guest YB Datuk Wira Abu Bakar Mohammad Diah,Deputy Minister of MOSTI for taking the time out of his busy schedule for attending the event."
DATIN RUBAB FATIMA'S SPEECH DURING THE AWARD CEREMONY ON 26 APRIL 2018 AT PUBLIKA KUALA LUMPUR
"Good evening to our honorable chief guest YB Datuk
Wira Abu Bakar Mohammad, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
(Mosti), Mr. Ahsan Qureshi, the founder of Travel Photography Society (TPS), Dato
Arif Siddiqui (My pillar and dearest husband), our talented photographers,
panel of judges, representative of our official venue (WhiteBox Map KL), media
friends, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
I would like to thank all
of you for spending your precious time to support Travel Photographer Society by being a part
of this beautiful exhibition. It’s with great pleasure for me to inform
everyone that this is the 4th consecutive year of TPS Awards.
TPS is
a fast-growing online community for photographers with the efforts of 12,000
members across 162 countries.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This year we had 10 categories for the annual TPS
Photography Contest and the categories are :
1. People
2.
Street
3.
Sports
4.
Architecture & Cityscape
5.
Wildlife & Animals
6.
Stories
7.
Wedding
8.
Fashion
9.
Black & White
10. Landscape
Around 3000 photographers participated from over 92
countries. This is a huge success and we are extremely proud of our global
reach. I would also like to say that the participation rate of Malaysian
photographers is very high and you can witness the work of top Malaysian
Photographers in this exhibition tonight.
We planned to have a separate
category for Malaysia in future which we will announce soon. Our future plans
are we wish to develop youths from colleges or universities in Malaysia to
encourage them to enhance their photography skills which will be a great future
for them.
I have also a great interest to organize a national level photography
contest with an exciting rewards for them.
Besides that, each year the quantity and quality of
photographs that we receive are improving. It is not an easy task for the
judges to select the winners.
We are very pleased to inform that all the work
displayed here is taken by both professionals and amateur photographers. It
means that this contest is for everyone, as long as you have the love and
passion in photography.
Last but not least, congratulations to all the winners
and I hope that we will achieve more in future and once again thank you to our
chief guest YB Datuk Wira Abu Bakar Mohammad for taking the time out of your
busy schedule for attending this event.
Thank you."
Travel
Photographer Society Awards 2018
Arresting images and amazing visual
stories by travel photographers from over 90 countries will be on exhibit at
the White Box Gallery at MAPKL@PUBLIKA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from April 26-
29, 2018.
The exhibits are the best 60 entries
from the 2,562 photographs submitted for the 2018 Travel Photographer Society
Contest under 10 categories: Street, Landscape, People, Wildlife & Animal,
Black & White, Architecture/Cityscapes, Sports, Fashion, Wedding and
Stories (Documentary).
The award-giving ceremony by The Travel
Photographer Society (TPS), its fourth awards event since 2015, will be on
Thursday, April 26, at the White Box at 6pm.
The TPS offers a platform for amateur,
professional and other photography enthusiasts to network and share expertise
while promoting their work.
TPS not only holds photography contests
to encourage healthy competition but also conducts workshops, collaborations, and
CSR work to help individuals, communities and professionals to mingle,
cooperate and enrich the world through their passion for photography.
Ahsan Qureshi, TPS’ founder, has held
exhibitions of his own works in KL. A Pakistani now settled in Adelaide, Australia,
he partners with the lovely Datin Rubab Fatima, the CEO, who is an art
collector herself, and holder of several beauty titles.
The contest, which began on November 15
last year, was judged by 15 photographers, among them Cheryl Nemazie (an award-winning
art director and photographer based in the United States) , Paul Atkins (a
veteran in the industry who sits on the national board of the Australian
Institute of Professional Photography), Vineet Vohra from India (a Leica
Ambassador) and Zainal Abd Halim, Chief Photographer at the Malaysian Insight.
Ten winners were picked from a total of
1,650 participants (for the 10 categories).
The top overall winner, Raed
Ammari, a US dentist with a passion for photography, won for his timely shot of
an insect eyeing the camera through a hole in a leaf.
The
first runner up is Bernard Recirdo from Philippines, whereas the second runner
up is Kaan Yuan Chiam from Malaysia, BELOW
Tuck Mun Leong from Malaysia is the
winner of the Stories category with his shot titled Everyday Life of People in
Sichuan.
The top prizes include flight tickets
and hotel stays for the awards night in KL and for some of the category
winners, scholarships for masterclass and workshops by world-renowned
photographers.
1st
Runner Up | Dragon Boat Race by Bernard Recirdo | Philippines
2nd
Runner Up | Grassland Of The Grand Canyon by Kaan Yuan Chiam | Malaysia | Photo
taken in China
Architecture
| Down To The Bones by Francis Meslet | France
Street
| People by Mikhail Potapov | Russia
Wedding
| Waiting For You by Jacky Wong | Malaysia
People
| The Opera by Nick Ng Yeow Kee | Malaysia
EXHIBITION AT
WHITE BOX PUBLIKA (Free Admission)
26 April : 10am –
4.30pm
27 April – 29 April : 10am- 7pm
27 April – 29 April : 10am- 7pm
The exhibition will move to the Tourism
Centre Art Gallery in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia from mid
September to mid October 2018.
Visit http://travelphotographersociety.com/
and https://www.facebook.com/travelphotographersociety/
for details
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