FIPP ends in 2019
Toronto. Sad news from Freemantle, Australia last week. The Freemantle International Portrait Prize (FIPP) has been discontinued.
The originators wrote, “All good things must come to an end. The FIPP Committee recently decided that FIPP 2019 would be our last; committee members having spent hundreds of hours voluntarily planning, organising, and conducting FIPP over a decade.
“The Fremantle International Portrait Prize (FIPP) ran its first photographic competition in 2012. We staged our Fifth FIPP last year in 2019. In that time FIPP received more than 7,500 photographic entries from 48 countries, awarded more than $50,000 in cash and prizes to entrants and donated over $90,000 to charity. More than 20,000 people visited the five FIPP Showcase Exhibitions in Fremantle, Western Australia.
“FIPP is proud to have run one of the world’s foremost and ethical photographic competitions which has helped to put arts in Fremantle on the map. FIPP started in 2010 with zero funds and, after paying our prize money and donating to charity, remains in a strong financial position. In formally closing FIPP has distributed remaining funds to the two charities we have continued to support, namely The Arthritis Foundation of Western Australia and the Kai Eardley Fund.
“FIPP is extremely proud of its achievements and its contribution both to the arts and to charity. We are equally proud of the work of our hundreds of volunteers and support from Sponsors.
“In particular, we wish to thank you, the entrants. Each and every one of you for entering FIPP. Some of you are multiple entrants and some have been with us from the very beginning. Without you, the entrants, none of this would have been possible.”
