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Piano Masterworks with Alexander Soares
Mon. 25 November - 18:30
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Beethoven and Mendelssohn with Leon McCawley
Tue. 26 November - 18:30
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Annual Lecture: Sir Niall Ferguson
Wed. 27 November - 18:30
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A Night in Bordeaux: Dinner and Wine Tasting
Fri. 29 November - 18:45
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ROSL Christmas Concert with the Temple Church Singers
Tue. 03 December - 18:30
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Exhibition Private View: RAFT
Tue. 10 December - 18:00
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Christmas Lunch
Wed. 25 December - 12:00
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New Year’s Eve: 1920s Dinner & Music Extravaganza
Tue. 31 December - 21:00
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Walton Song Celebration with Siân Dicker
Fri. 17 January - 18:30
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ROSL at ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance
Fri. 24 January - 17:15
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Each entrant can submit up to five digital images of their choice taken in the past 18 months from any image making camera source, tackling the subject however they wish. The previous competition received over 500 entries from 40 countries, collecting huge praise along the way from our selected industry judges for their quality and depth.
The competition is FREE TO ENTER and offers £3,500 of prize money, an exhibition of shortlisted entries in London, winning images published in Overseas Journal and open to any photographer 18+ who is a citizen of a Commonwealth or former Commonwealth Country, the USA, EU and EEA countries or Switzerland. We will also accept images that have a link to current countries of the Commonwealth from entrants outside of the geographical areas listed ab
Prizes
1st Prize: £2,000, a 5-day trip to London for the exhibition (including accommodation at the Royal Over-Seas League), winning image published in Overseas Magazine and professional development support from the arts team.
Runner-Up: £1,000 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine
The Madiha Aijaz Prize: £500 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine, awarded to a Young Photographer of Promise under 23 years of age
For Applicants — The Competition Panel
Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Documentary photographer and educator, author of four photographic books including The Firm (Trolley, 2001), Course Leader at London College of Communication for BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.
Charlotte Jansen
Journalist and author of Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century (Tate, 2021) and Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze (Laurence King Publishing, 2017).
Seamus Murphy
Documentary photographer and filmmaker, recipient of seven World Press Photo awards for his photographic work in Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Peru and Ireland.
Hannah Starkey
Artist, awarded the Vogue Condé Nast Award (1997); the 3rd International Tokyo Photo Biennale’s Award for Excellence (1999), the St. James Group Ltd Photography Prize (2002), and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (2019)
Nilupa Yasmin
Artist and educator, included in many permanent and private collections including Government Art Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museums Collection. She is a Lecturer in Photography and recently completed her MA in Photography Arts at University of Westminster.
ROSL Photography Competition Exhibition 2019
With over 250 photographs submitted from 21 countries, ROSL PHOTO 19 was a huge success.
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ROSL Photo Competition 21
The series of lockdowns experienced throughout 2020 and early 2021 inspired Tirtha Lawati’s ongoing project Nyauli.
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