{"id":1164,"date":"2010-11-04T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:19:02","slug":"blurbs-london-celebratory-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Blurb&#8217;s London Celebratory Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/11\/03\/20101103-d0054.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>&#8216;WassinkLundgren&#8217;\u00a0 and their winning portfolio<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Last night I was at Eastcastle House for the start of Blurb&#8217;s London events, celebrating the  new pop-up store and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/bookstore\/pbn\">2010 Photography Book Now<\/a>  winning books.\u00a0 Several of the winners were present including the Portfolio category winners, Dutch photographers <em>Thijs  groot Wassink <\/em>and <em>Ruben Lundgren<\/em>, though we had to be content with Judith Stenneken, whose <em>Last Call<\/em> won the $25,000 Grand Prize, on video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/11\/03\/20101103-d0030.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Judith Stenneken on video<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Some of the judges were there too, and I talked briefly to Martin Parr and a number of old friends at the event, as well as drinking too much fizzy stuff (I&#8217;m sure it was the bubbles that made me just a little unsteady as I walked towards the bus stop after the event.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/11\/03\/20101103-d0026.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Robin Goldberg, Blurb SVP, International Markets, holds up the winning book<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/11\/03\/20101103-d0071.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2010, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>The Blurb Team<\/small><\/p>\n<p>After this morning&#8217;s session, the events continuing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/events\/londonpopup\" target=\"_blank\">London Pop-Up store<\/a> until Nov 14 are free, and I&#8217;ll be there again talking on Sunday about &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1054\" target=\"_blank\">Before the Olympics<\/a>&#8216; and my other two Blurb books. Also in Sunday&#8217;s programme are some of the Blurb winners, <em>Anton Kusters<\/em> and &#8216;<em>WassinkLundgren<\/em>&#8216; as well as <em>Jonathan Lewis<\/em>, and the day ends with a self-publishing debate with guest panellist <em>Bruno Ceschel<\/em> of <em>Self Publish, Be Happy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures from last night on <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2010\/11\/nov.htm#blurb\" target=\"_blank\">My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8216;WassinkLundgren&#8217;\u00a0 and their winning portfolio Last night I was at Eastcastle House for the start of Blurb&#8217;s London events, celebrating the new pop-up store and the 2010 Photography Book Now winning books.\u00a0 Several of the winners were present including the Portfolio category winners, Dutch photographers Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren, though we had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blurb&#8217;s London Celebratory Kickoff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}