{"id":5459,"date":"2014-07-31T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/uk-photographer-wins-rps-gold-award-5459"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:13:41","slug":"uk-photographer-wins-rps-gold-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/uk-photographer-wins-rps-gold-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UK photographer wins RPS Gold Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n    <sup><br \/>\n      <em>Picture credit: William Lakin<\/em><br \/>\n    <\/sup>\n  <\/p>\n<p>William Lakin, a 22-year-old photographer based in Brighton, East Sussex, won the \u00a31,000 prize in the under-30s category of the RPS International Print Exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on his winning shot, William, a recent graduate of Middlesex University, said: \u2018I met three boys on a cold Saturday morning, on a street in Great Yarmouth in March 2013, while photographing for my project Florida Club.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I asked them if I could photograph them as I felt they represented a transformative age group and reflected the changing identity of the town, once a booming British holiday resort, now struggling to adapt and reinvent itself.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish photographer Jacqueline Roberts, who lives and works in Germany, was named as the Gold Award winner in the main part of the competition. 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