Bob Willingham awarded BIPP Western Region
Portrait Photographer of the Year 2010 !

Western Region BIPP Portrait Category Winner

Bude's Studio Southwest's photographer, Bob Willingham, has been awarded the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) title of “Western Region Portrait Photographer of the Year 2010”. In the largest category of the competition Bob was up against professional photographers from two countries and seven counties to take the Western region award!
The winning shot of a beautiful sleeping baby wrapped in her mothers shoulder sling, reaching up and grasping the edge of the material, was praised for its beautiful handling of the lighting by the Judge Nigel Tribbeck, a Fellow of the Institute.
Chris Harper, CEO of the BIPP, awarded Bob with his winner's trophy at the BIPP Regional awards night in Exeter on January 25th

PLUS...Award of Excellence in the Portrait Category and Wedding Category

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Studio Southwest’s photographer, Bob Willingham of Bude, Cornwall, has been awarded the British Institute of Professional Photography title of “Regional Photographer of the Year 2009” .
Bob won two of the photographic categories, Pet and Illustrative and secured a second in the Fashion, which gave him the upper hand against the regions’ best. The winning shot of two Alaskan Malamute dogs taken in his studio was a clear winner of the Pet Category whilst his shot of a Pilot Gig Boat in the foreground of St Michael’s Mount had stiff competition but was awarded first place from the three judges.
Chris Harper, CEO BIPP and Llewellyn Robins, head judge, awarded Bob with his winner’s trophy at the BIPP Regional awards night in Bristol on the 20th January .
Bob said “I won the Journalistic category last year and was really delighted and honoured, but to win two categories is unbelievable and I nearly made it 3! This is great news and is a really fantastic endorsement of my style of family photography.”
Bob opened Studio Southwest, a photographic studio in Bude last year and has been providing a photographic service to local businesses, organisations and families keen to capture the milestone ages and events.

L-R, Head Judge, Llewellyn Robins, Bob Willingham and Chris Harper BIPP CEO

Pet Category Winner

 

Illustrative Category Winner

Fashion Category 2nd Place

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British Institute of Professional Photography, Western Region,

Winner of Press & PR /Journalistic Category 2008

Awarded to Bob Willingham (right)

by David McGirr, BIPP Regional Chairman

on 16th January 2008 in Bristol

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Dr. Bob Willingham LBIPP
International Judo Federation (IJF) official photographer 1998 to 2007
A former director of the British Institute of Professional Photographers,
Bob Willingham was a member of the British Judo squad from 1984–1988 and is a past All England Champion.
Having completed a MSc at Warwick University in1988 he started his Photographic career in 1989, covering a vast range of photographic assignments.

He became the Official Photographer for the BJA in 1991 and as editor, and photographer, single handedly launched The World of Judo Magazine as a quarterly publication for the BJA three years later. In 1998 his position with the IJF was confirmed. In 1999 at the World Judo Congress he co-presented a paper entitled ‘Judo Presentation’ which covered a large number of proposals to improve the public presentation of judo. Many of the proposals have since been adopted as standard practice.

Bob has a vast library of judo photographs containing images from events all over the world. He has covered three Olympic Games (from Atlanta to Athens), every European and World Championships since 1990, not to mention a substantial number of the annual Continental Championships, the Paris tournament, the Kano Cup, the European and World team events, Junior World and European Championships, International Masters events and of course many national and regional events within Great Britain.

His photographs have appeared in national and regional newspapers across the country and in a wide range of technical and recreational books about judo. On the international judo scene his reputation is as one of the finest judo photographers in the world.

His judo web site www.twoj.org is visited by thousands of people every month.