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[GWL]: Garden Globe Awards

Derek St Romaine
I have been having a discusssion with Derek Fell about The GWAA Garden 
Globe Awards and the fact that it is made very difficult for overseas 
members to enter. I copied the original e-mail below to Larry Hodgson 
National Director of Region VII who said he would take the matter up at 
a meeting in March.  I also copied it to a few other people I know who 
work in North America including a colleague Graham Rice who told me 
about this forum. I would be interested to hear other points of view.

For the last few years I have coordinated the GWG Photography Awards and 
as a consequence refrained from entering myself until this year when I 
passed it on to my successor on th GWG Committee. During this time I 
have been tempted to enter the GWAA awards but have been thwarted by the 
entry conditions which state that 'only works originally copyrighted in 
North America  are eligible for entry'.

Being a photographer who has work published in North America 
predominantly through books which are first published in the UK, I don't 
very often get to see the American versions and the same goes with 
magazines. Being a member of the GWAA who lives in the UK and has work 
published in many  European books and magazines, I feel excluded 
somewhat unfairly from taking part in these annual awards. Surely the 
point of having these awards is to promote and recognise excellence in 
all forms of media throughout our industry wherever it may be.

In the UK we like you open our awards to anyone, not just members of the 
GWG, thereby encouraging interested parties to join us, but we also 
allow entries to be published worldwide. I can see that this may cause 
some problems with language, but up until now I don't think it has 
caused the photography awards any problems as photographs are understood 
universally.

Perhaps you could start a discusion with our colleagues in America about 
opening up the Garden Globe Awards so that they are in fact global and 
don't stop within the shores of North America therefore discriminating 
against your gardening colleagues who do work globally!

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