TUBRIDY SHOW

LOOK OF THE IRISH

PHOTO COMPETITION

You can see images of the Irish of times past at Look Back In Pictures, featuring photos from the RTÉ Stills Library. And watch the season of programmes on Irish photography on RTÉ One from Sunday 9 August.

Now, we want you to help us capture the Look of the Irish today.
Landscapes are lovely but the Look of the Irish is about people. Send us your pictures of the people living on this island in the summer of 2009. In groups and on their own, newly born, old and playing, young and working, happy and sad, in their shorts on the beach and done up to the nines. Show us the people of Ireland.

From Monday 27 July, listen to The Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 and send your photos to the LOOK OF THE IRISH website gallery.

Judges Brenda Fitzsimons, Tom Lawlor and Mary McEvoy will nominate four short-listed photographs and from Monday 10 August every day the four photographers will tell Ryan the story behind their picture. And then the judges will choose the winner of a spectacular photographic prize from Canon Consumer Imaging!

PRIZE

For the First Prize winner of The Tubridy Show Look of the Irish competition, we have the fantastic prize of a Canon EOS 500D together with a Canon SELPHY ES20 photo printer. The Canon EOS 500D combines power and versatility in stunning 15.1 Megapixel resolution, or in pin-sharp Full High Definition video. And the Canon SELPHY ES20 photo printer delivers lab-quality photos direct from your memory card or digital camera. And for each of our three runners-up, there’s a Canon Digital IXUS 100 IS, exceptional style in an ultra-slim form, with 12.1 Megapixel resolution, plus a Canon SELPHY ES20 photo printer.

HOW TO ENTER

Entries can only be accepted attached to an email. You may enter only once.

The photo must be titled simply using the photographer's name, for example: janesmith.jpg. It should be in jpeg format and the maximum file size is not to exceed 1.5mb.

Please copy these headings into your email and fill out the details:

NAME

ADDRESS

CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER

DATE OF BIRTH

A VERY BRIEF DESCRIPTION (max 40 words) of your photo, naming who is in it if you can, and telling us where it was taken and any story behind it:

Send this e-mail with your photograph attached to lookoftheirish@rte.ie

View terms and conditions here

The judges

BRENDA FITZSIMONS

Brenda Fitzsimons is one of Ireland’s leading photographers working today, and the first woman staff photographer with The Irish Times. Brenda was also the first woman ever to win Photographer of the Year in Ireland. She has recently returned from Afghanistan where she has been documenting life there as part of an Irish Times project.

TOM LAWLOR

Tom Lawlor is an Irish photographer with an international reputation. He spent seventeen years with The Irish Times where he received many awards for his work. His published works include Dublin, one in a thousand, Tom Lawlor at the Gate and Ways of Knowing. He was recently made a Life Honorary Member of the Professional Photographers Association of Ireland for his services to Irish photography. He is currently working on a book on women and runs his gallery and studio from Red Stables in Dublin's St Ann's Park.

MARY McEVOY

Best known as ‘Biddy’ from Glenroe, Mary has been working steadily in theatre since the end of the long-running TV series. She is the joint artistic director of Esker Riada theatre company with Caroline Fitzgerald. Mary’s recent work for various theatre companies include Dancing at the Ballroom of Romance; Mrs. Whippy; The Matchmaker; Shirley Valentine and Dancing at Lughnasa. When Mary is not acting she is devoted to running her farm in County Westmeath.