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onEdition News
1st May 2008
onEdition are proud to announce that they have again been chosen as the
official photographers for the British International Motor Show. The show
sponsored by Zurich Connect is the premier motor show in the UK and this
year sees over 600 cars displayed by over 60 marques and a host of exciting
features including Dreamscape, Honda's live action arena, The Heritage
Enclosure, The Marine Experience, The Kidz Car Zone, The Westfield Active
Drift Experience, The Co-operative Insurance Greener Driving Pavilion and EV
Village, Outdoor Living and What Van? Land.
'We will be looking to build on our success of 2006 and work hard with the
team from 77PR in leveraging the exposure of the show, not only on a UK
basis, but globally across a broad range of titles as well' commented
onEdition's Dan Towers. 'The British International Motor Show is a fantastic
event that attracts interest from around the world and we will be working
hard to leverage that interest to achieve record levels of media coverage
for the event.'
World Wide Images, the brand-able online image library run by onEdition, has
again been chosen as the official image library for the event -images from
the last show (2006) can be found at:
http://www.w-w-i.com/british_international_motor_show_2006/
For more details on the British International Motor Show please visit:
http://www.britishmotorshow.co.uk/
30th April 2008
It has been a busy few weeks for onEdition with a big team out working hard
to leverage Flora's sponsorship of the London Marathon. The race is always a
delight to capture, with all of the agony and ecstasy of the runners a
wonderful source of images. The Maasai warriors were magnificent in their
traditional kit and even carried their spears and shields (with running
numbers on!) and it was a fantastic site to see 'Blind Dave' complete his
seven marathons in seven days -an amazing achievement.
This month sees the team in Plymouth for the start of The Artemis Transat
which we are the official photographers for. The prestigious single-handed
yacht race, steeped in history, starts from Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, UK on
the 11th May and finishes after a non-stop dash across the North Atlantic in
Boston, USA.
The race, in its thirteenth edition since its inception 48 years ago, sees
an all star line-up on the start line, from the world of single-handed
sailing. Originally the OSTAR, The Artemis Transat is now organised by OC
Events (part of OC Group owned by Mark Turner and Ellen MacArthur). We will
also be on the finish line in Boston capturing all of the action as it
unfolds.
3rd April 2008: onEdition have been appointed official photographers to The Artemis Transat
race. The prestigious single-handed yacht race, steeped in history, starts
from Suttton Harbour, Plymouth, UK on the 11th May and finishes after a
non-stop dash across the North Atlantic in Boston, USA.
The race, in its thirteenth edition since its inception 48 years ago, sees
an all star line-up on the start line, from the world of single-handed
sailing. Originally the OSTAR, The Artemis Transat is now organised by OC
Events (part of OC Group owned by Mark Turner and Ellen MacArthur).
Dan Towers, Director from onEdition said "It is very fantastic to be working
on The Artemis Transat and we will be working hard to leverage the event for
the title, associate and team sponsors on a global basis and looking at the
quality of the skippers in the fleet I am sure that this edition of the race
will be the most exciting yet".
For further details on The Artemis Transat please go to:
http://www.theartemistransat.com/
4th March 2008: VELUX 5 OCEANS WINS ESA INTERNATIONAL SPONSORSHIP AWARD with onEdition Photography being recognised by VELUX 5 Oceans for playing an "integral part" in the media success of the race.
The VELUX 5 OCEANS celebrated last night at the annual Hollis Sponsorship
Awards in London as it won the prestigious ESA International Sponsorship
Award. VELUX, the worldwide roof window and design company, was recognised
for its success in supporting the 5 OCEANS event, the classic solo round the
world yacht race organised by Clipper Ventures PLC. Billed as 'The Ultimate
Solo Challenge', The Clipper Ventures media team delivered a winning
platform for VELUX, creating over €66 million of global media value for the
sponsor.
Tim Kelly, Director of Communications, VELUX 5 OCEANS commented "onEdition
Photography were an integral part of the VELUX 5 OCEANS media team from day
one of the last event. Their unparalleled levels of service, professionalism
and truly global distribution, combined with their full service online image
gallery, brought the story of the race to people around the world, no matter
when or where the drama was taking place. The iconic photos of the Bay of
Biscay storm went around the world to national newspapers and took our race
to a huge audience beyond sailing. Overall, the photographic imagery was one
of the most significant factors in delivering the unprecedented media
exposure created for VELUX and strengthening the brand of 'The Ultimate Solo
Challenge."
The VELUX 5 OCEANS was up against respected and high profile sponsorships,
such as the Eon FA Cup and the Guinness Rugby Premiership. The race was the
only yachting event to even be shortlisted this year and illustrates the
global commercial success of the event, and in turn providing a massive
boost for the sport of sailing and its sponsorship profile.
onEdition Photography Director, Matthew Dickens said "We are very proud to
have been involved in the huge media success of this event. Working
strategically with the VELUX 5 Oceans media team, we were able to place a
vast range of imagery into titles around the globe, bringing the race to an
unprecedented audience.
"The event also attracted a huge number of global media titles to our image
library, World Wide Images- http://www.w-w-i.com/. During the race we had in
excess of 26,000 images downloaded by media in over 80 countries around the
world.
"onEdition Photography were also recognised for their photography of this
event, winning both the Sven Simon Preis 2007: Sports photograph of the year
(DIE WELT/WELT am SONNTAG, Germany) and the British Press Photographers
Association: Sports Feature of the year 2007, during last year.”
1st January 2008: It has been a very busy year with lots of changes at onEdition. Susie Roberts joined us to look after the office and post production and we said goodbye to Tim Stonton who spent three years looking after World Wide Images and all of our distribution -his role as Operations Manager was taken over by Martin Silnevs. Another change was in the form of partner Anthony Upton, who has moved on to pursue new directions, having resigned as a director in the Autumn. The good news is that Anthony will still continue to work with onEdition, as a freelance photographer which is great.
It has been a very successful year for the company and we have continued to work on major events as the official photographers and our regional photographer service, with over 50 photographers around the country has gone from strength to strength working on many varied campaigns for our clients.
World Wide Images, has seen a huge growth in the number of registered media downloading free to use editorial images around the world and we have thousands of media from over 100 countries actively using the site on a daily basis. We are currently doing some major site developments to World Wide Images http://www.w-w-i.com/ and will be announcing some exciting new features in the coming months.
5th June 2007: It has been an incredibly busy period for the onEdition team over the last 3 months. We now have a team of over 40 photographers working for us and have been very busy both internationally and around the UK with various events.
We finished the VELUX 5 Oceans event in early May in Bilbao and saw Sir Robin Knox-Johnston coming back home to a tremendous welcome in Portsmouth after his magnificent performance in the race – a huge well done to Sir Robin - we all have enormous admiration for him. The VELUX 5 Oceans race has been an incredible result in terms of media coverage. onEdition secured fantastic levels of international coverage for the event via our comprehensive targeted international distribution of images around the world. The world’s media from our V5O gallery on our online image library, World Wide Images, has downloaded over 25,000 images. So far two major international awards for the team have been won for the outstanding photography shot during this event.
Our team of photographers around the country worked on a brand new competition, the Tesco U13's cup - a football tournament held around the country to increase the number of boys playing community football. Broken up into 4 regions; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - each region, following a national final put forward a team to the finals. The final, played at the City of Manchester Stadium saw the English team Harpfield FC from Stoke win the final. We achieved fantastic regional coverage around the country for the duration of the event, working along with our media partners Sportsbeat, we provided free copy and images from the event to all of the teams regional newspapers - leading to huge media coverage being generated for the event.
We were also the official photographers again for Flora, for the Flora London Marathon, Playtex Moonwalk and the Tesco Race for Life. Again we achieved very strong levels of coverage for these amazing events - a great privilege to work on these incredible events with thousands of participants raising many millions for charity.
We have also been very busy with our wide range of PR clients, working with a large number of diverse consumer clients including Heineken, Yellow Pages, Sugar Puffs, BP, Cobra Beer, Norwich Union and many more high profile clients.
We have a large number of major projects coming up and the onEdition team is looking forward to a busy summer.
11th April 2007: onEdition Photography has picked up another prestigious photographic award -this time at the British Press Photographers Association Awards, with a photograph of Bernard Stamm's Cheminees Poujoulat, fighting for survival in hurricane force winds in the Bay of Biscay, the day after the start of the VELUX 5 Oceans round the world yacht race.
The image has already won the Sven Simon Preis in Germany and now takes
first place in the BPPA's Sports Feature category which was one of 12
categories, with entries from over 300 photographers from over 25 countries.
The 6,000 images were judged by a panel of distinguished photographers,
including the double Pulitzer prize-winner Horst Faas, and twice Chair of
World Press Photo, Roger Hutchings, the BPPA Chairman Jeff Moore and John
Downing MBE. The jurors met in a closed two-day session to view and discuss
every submitted entry using both slide shows and hard copy prints.
Dan Towers who shot the image said 'It is a great honour to win the award,
especially as it was judged by your peers in the industry and another
fantastic recognition for the agency'
To view the image please click here.
5th April 2007: onEdition Photography are proud to announce that for the fifth year running they will be the official photographers for the Playtex Moonwalk 2007, especially so as the Playtex Moonwalk celebrates it's tenth anniversary. This amazing event where women (and men!) wear the most amazing decorated bras on a charity walk around the capital. Some 15,000 people take part and raise an incredible amount of money for breast cancer research. ~ For more details click here.
23rd March 2007: onEdition have been selected as the official photographers
again for two more prestigious events. They will be working on the JP Morgan
Asset Management Round the Island Race on the 23rd of June and also on the
Volvo ISAF Youth Worlds in Canada in July. They were appointed last year by
Into the Blue and the re-appointment on both of these exciting events is a
reflection of the success achieved by the onEdition team.
27th February 2007: onEdition have again been chosen as the official photographers for the Dinghy Sailing Show, held annually at Alexandra Palace in North London. The
show, held on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March is the premier event for dinghy sailors and the team are again very much looking forward to working on the event.
22nd February 2007: onEdition Photography has won first prize in an international photographic competition-winning the prestigious German Sven-Simon-Preis award.
The judges, led by the German tennis star Boris Becker, described the shot as 'Amazing' -'it looked more like a painting than a photograph' commented Christian Putsch, Picture Editor of DIE WELT/WELT am SONNTAG the leading German National newspapers who run the award.
The image was shot in the Bay of Biscay, shortly after the start of the VELUX 5 Oceans, solo round the world yacht race, which the onEdition team are the official photographers for. Within hours of the start the fleet were hit by a huge storm, gusting at over 70 knots (77mph). Photographer Dan Towers set off in a helicopter, for what could only be described as a roller coaster ride, to try and catch up the the besieged fleet. One of the resulting images was of Swiss solo sailor Bernard Stamm and his yacht, Cheminees Poujoulat, fighting for survival in huge seas and wind, which was
awarded as the winning shot of the annual competition.
Clare MacNaughton, Communications Director for the VELUX 5 Oceans said 'Sometimes planning plus circumstance equals unprecedented results, but even with the all the right ingredients it takes an exceptional chef to produce a Michelin star meal. Dan Towers VELUX 5 Oceans storm image is a Carpe Diem moment, brilliantly shot and capturing exquisitely the essence of our race and the endeavour of the soloskipper. Hanging out of a single engine helicopter, with the doors removed, in 70 knots of breeze to get the shot is no small undertaking either. We are delighted that this image is getting the recognition that it deserves'.
Dan is the first non-German photographer ever to win the award and receives both the accolade and a cash prize of €12,500. Dan commented; 'It is a great honour and very much a team award. The guys that work with me are a close and very dedicated team -without them this award would not have happened and they will all be getting a share of the prize money. It is great to have your work recognised in this way, especially after all the hard work that we have put into ensuring that the VELUX 5 Oceans reached the news and features pages of the worlds press'.
To view the amazing image shot by Dan, please click here.
7 Febuary 2007: onEdition have selected as the official photographers for the Tesco Under 13 Cup, a nationwide football tournament for school children. Starting in April, with games all around the UK followed by four regional finals and the overall final a month later. We are very much looking forward to this exciting event and working with our media partner the Daily Telegraph.
25 January 2007: The onEdition team have been very busy on a number of projects
this month; we have been shooting the London Boat Show, which with their new
interactive stands was great fun to shoot. We have started doing Flora London Marathon pre-shoots as well as Dee Caffari's new Open 60 campaign, Aviva Ocean Racing. Huge congratulations to Dee and her new sponsorship and for winning the Raymarine YJA Sailor of the Year -thoroughly deserved. The VELUX 5 Oceans started Leg 2 in Fremantle, Western Australia and we were there to capture all of the action. 2007 will be a very busy year for all the team at onEdition -we can't wait!
22 December 2006: onEdition are featured on both the front page and centre spread of January's edition of Sponsorship News. The magazine profiles onEdition's recent successes winning coverage in UK and International newspapers, websites and magazines for the VELUX 5 Oceans. Sponsorship News is the leading magazine covering sponsorship in the UK.
25 October 2006: onEdition covers the start of the Velux 5 Oceans race as the offical photographers gaining from pages in the UK and around the world. Strong winds and heavy seas damage many of the boats, you can see some of the drama here
10 April 2006: The onEdition Photography team are excitedly preparing for the return of Dee Caffari in early May from her outstanding trip, aboard her 72ft sailing boat, the Aviva Challenge. She has almost circumnavigated the globe -when she does in the next 3 or 4 weeks, she will sail into the history books as the first woman to have sailed the wrong-way (West-about) around the globe single handed. This is probably the last big sailing record to fall. Expect a rather large welcome when she makes it home in May!
16 March 2006: onEdition Photography have been chosen by Into the Blue PR and JP Morgan to become the official photographers for the prestigious JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on June 3rd. The brief is to leverage JP Morgan's sponsorship of the event via branded imagery, distributed on a global basis to national and international news and marine media, using our experience gained whilst working for sponsors on many of the major sporting events that we are the official photographers for.
The JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race is one of the world’s largest and most famous yachting races and takes place in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England.
The first race took place in 1931 with just 25 entries and now attracts an
annual entry of 1700 boats across a large variety of classes. Organised by the Island Sailing Club in Cowes, it is recognised as the largest one-day
yacht race in the world. Competitors race for the prestigious Gold Roman
Bowl and the current record was set in 2001 with "Skandia Life Leopard" at 4 hours 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
25 November 2005: onEdition Photography have been appointed the official photographers for the London Boat Show in January 2005. We are exceptionally proud to have been awarded this contract for what has become a national institution. For more details please click here.
17 November 2005: onEdition Photography have been appointed the official photographers for the Aviva Challenge; the single-handed circumnavigation attempt by Dee Caffari. If she completes this she will be the first woman to have sailed non-stop around the world the 'wrong way', against the prevailing winds and currents. We worked with Dee during the Global Challenge when she skippered 'Imagine it. Done' and she is one tough lady -we wish all her the very best of luck and a fast and safe passage on her amazing trip. You can follow her progress here.
01 September 2005: It has been a very busy and successful summer for the onEdition team with great results across a wide range of events. The Global Challenge 2004/5 came to an end in July after nearly a year-long project. This fantastic event achieved coverage on a worldwide basis and we look forward to working with the Challenge Business again on their exciting events. We had a huge number of publications during Skandia Cowes Week and built on our successes of last year.
We are now flat out preparing for the launch of World Wide Images, our online image library, which was developed for the Global Challenge. We have used the last 15 months trialling it and have now just finished phase 2 development of the site. Watch this space for exciting news of its launch over the next few weeks!
27 April 2005: onEdition Photography are proud to announce that for the third year running they will be the official photographers for the Playtex Moonwalk 2005. This amazing event where women (and men!) wear the most amazing decorated bras on a charity walk around the capital. Some 15,000 people take part and raise an incredible amount of money for breast cancer research. ~ For more details click here.
18 April 2005: Amanda Bunton has joined the onEdition Photography team to head up the sales and marketing of onEdition Photography as well as World-Wide-Images, our on-line image library. She has extensive experience within the photographic industry and will no doubt become an invaluable member of the team.
12 April 2005: onEdition Photography offers training seminars to PR companies actively seeking solutions to the problems of getting images published in national newspapers.
To find out full details please select 'Seminars and training for PRs' fron the 'What we do' section of the menu, or click here.
onEdition Photography are the official photographers for the following events:
Aviva Challenge
London Boat Show 2006
Flora, the Flora London Marathon 2006
Playtex Moonwalk 2006
JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race 2006
Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships
Skandia Cowes Week 2006
Southampton Boat Show 2006
London Boat Show 2007
VELUX 5 Oceans
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