Still time to enter photo competition

The contest is open to anyone - individuals or groups - interested in photography but the submitted images must be taken in the borough.

Entrants must submit images for one or all of four interlinked categories/scenes before the February 10 deadline.

Using the winning entries from each category/scene, writer Sarah Butler will then create an original new story around the submitted photographs.

The four key categories/scenes, which will form the basis of the story, are:

• Arrival of a stranger
• A secret is revealed
• Demanding an answer
• Looking for a way out

The judging panel - which consists of photography expert Brett Jefferson Stott and Ms Butler - will be looking for unique, imaginative entries, which capture magical images of everyday scenes as well as experimental pictures.

The judges have given entrants the following tips about what kind of photographs to submit. They are:

• Close up shots conveying the emotion of the scene and the motivations/emotions of the characters.
• Medium shots that suggest the relationships between characters and the potential action of the scene.
• Mood/scene setting shots (with or without people) - particularly unusual Wandsworth settings.

The winners will be announced at a prize-giving event in April, this year. There will also be an exhibition of Ms Butler's story and specially selected entries at Southside Shopping Centre as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival 2012.

photoWANDSWORTH: Story Stills is run by Wandsworth Council's arts and film teams. To learn more and find out how to enter visit www.wandsworth.gov.uk/photocomp

Alternatively, contact the arts team by calling 020 8871 8711 or emailing arts@wandsworth.gov.uk

Notes to editors

• photoWANDSWORTH is sponsored by Snappy Snaps, the Mango Lab and Lomography.

• Brett Jefferson Scott has been the founder and director of Shoot Experience since 2005. He has worked with major players both in the UK and globally including Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Museum of London , The British Library and London Festival of Architecture amongst others. He has been associate producer of PHOTOMONTH, the East London Photography Festival since 2008. One of his specialties is photographic judgement. Learn more at www.shootexperience.com

• Sarah Butler writes about people and the relationships between them. She describes herself as fascinated by unexpected meetings and complicated interaction. She is intrigued by places and people's relationships to the places they live work and breathe in. As well as being a writer, she runs a consultancy called Urban Words which manages literature-based projects that engage with the process of regeneration. Visit http://www.sarahbutler.org.uk/