Winning Press Photographers – UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2022

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The UK Picture Editors’ Guild Press Photographer of the Year is Chris Furlong. Furlong collected his trophy last night at a black-tie event at the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in City Road, London.

A panel of picture editors led by former Sunday Times picture editor Ray Wells considered hundreds of photographs submitted by many of the finest photographers working in the media today.
Furlong was the winner in the Fleet Street’s Finest Photo Essay, Highly Commended in the Fixation News Photographer of the Year category and Highly Commended in the Dave Benett Photos Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the Year category, demonstrating the all-round talent that earned him this prestigious award. He had previously won the News Photographer of the Year category in 2010, and the Photo Essay category in 2015.

The Chairman’s Award for Lifetime Achievement was presented to Ray Wells (above) who was the Picture Editor of The Sunday Times for over twenty-five years.

With its successful return, the Guild added new categories and new sponsors. DMGT joined as sponsors for a new category, Portrait Photographer of the Year, stock photo agency Piemags joined as sponsors of the Business Category and leading industry magazine Professional Photo sponsored the Royal Photographer of the Year category.

German news and sports photo agency IMAGO joined in on an adventure to test the public’s appetite for taking part in a vote for the IMAGO Photograph of the Year. To encourage participation a prize of two tickets to New York courtesy of Norse Atlantic was awarded to one of the voters. By a huge majority the photograph by Press Association photographer Jonathan Brady of Her Majesty The Queen sitting alone at the funeral of HRH Prince Phillip was chosen as the public’s favourite.

Congrats and well deserved Alan!

Here are the winners and runners up:

UKPEG Press Photographer of the Year Chris Furlong (winning image above)

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Piemags Business Photographer of the Year
James Hardisty Yorkshire Post – Winner (above image and his tweet below!)
Danny Lawson Press Association – Highly Commended
Jeff Gilbert F/L Daily Telegraph – Commended

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IMAGO Photograph of the Year
Jonathan Brady Press Association (above image)

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Nikon Student Photographer of the Year
Ryan Jenkinson Falmouth University – Winner (Above Image)
Annabel Lee-Ellis University of Gloucestershire – Highly Commended
Jory Mundy Falmouth University – Commended

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Getty Images Young Photographer of the Year
James Manning F/L Press Association – Winner (above Image)
Molly Darlington F/L Reuters – Highly Commended
George Wood F/L Getty Images – Commended

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Canon Sports Photographer of the Year
Julian Finney Getty Images – Winner (above Image)
Andrew Stenning Mirror – Highly Commended
Alex Whitehead SWPix – Highly Commended
Ian MacNicol F/L – Commended

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Dave Benett Arts and Entertainment Photographer of the Year
Danny Lawson Press Association – Winner (above image)
Chris Furlong Getty Images – Highly Commended
Jeff Gilbert F/L Daily Telegraph – Commended

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DMGT Portrait Photographer of the Year
James Glossop The Times – Winner (above image)
Natasha Pszenicki Associated Newspapers – Highly Commended
Daniel Hambury F/L Evening Standard – Commended
Edmond Terakopian Freelance – Commended

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Fixation News Photographer of the Year
Jeff Mitchell Getty Images – Winner (above image)
Chris Furlong Getty Images – Highly Commended
Peter Jordan F/L Sun – Commended

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Fleet Street’s Finest Photo Essay ,The Missing Years
Chris Furlong Getty Images – Winner (above image)
Richard Pohle The Times – Highly Commended
Hannah Mckay Reuters – Highly Commended
Jeff Moore Freelance – Commended

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Genesis Imaging Regional Photographer of the Year
Charles McQuillan Getty Images – Winner (above image)
Tom Maddick SWNS – Highly Commended
Oli Scarff F/L Agence France-Presse – Commended

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Professional Photo Royal Photographer of the Year
Kelvin Bruce Freelance – Winner (above image)
Jonathan Brady Press Association – Highly Commended
Chris Jackson Getty Images – Commended

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Sony National Newspaper Photographer of the Year
Richard Pohle The Times – Winner (above image)
Andrew Stenning Mirror – Highly commended
Wattie Cheung F/L Daily Mail – Commended

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