The Royal Photographic Society Awards 2015 were sponsored by makers of The Macallan whisky. Meanwhile, the RPS award for Outstanding Service to Photography was presented to Dr Maria Morris Hambourg, founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Progress Medal recognises work that has brought about an ‘important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging’. Sasson won the RPS’s Progress Medal in 2012. The first digital camera was developed by Steve Sasson while working at Eastman Kodak in 1975. The RPS Progress Medal was awarded to Dr George E Smith for his invention of the CCD imaging sensor used in the first digital camera. The citation for Bryan Adams’ Honorary Fellowship includes mention of his 2013 book, Wounded: The Legacy of War, which features portraits of 40 wounded soldiers who were injured while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2000, Tillmans became the first photographer to win the Turner Prize.īryan Adams, who combines his music career with life as a professional portrait and fashion photographer, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship alongside photographers Jonathan Anderson, Edwin Low, Nadav Kander and Viviane Sassen. The event, held at the Royal Society in central London, also saw photographer Wolfgang Tillmans secure this year’s Centenary Medal award ‘in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography’.
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