Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism, has been announced the head judge of the Icelandic Picture of the Year 2014.
The Icelandic Press Photographers Association arranges the competition, which is divided into two groups: one for portrait, magazine, landscape and daily life + one for news, sports and series.
Each group has three jury members plus the head judge, who will work in both groups.
Søren Pagter will go to Iceland mid January to work with the jurys. At the same time he’ll do a lecture for Icelandic press photographers.
The exhibition showing the best pictures made by Icelandic press photographers will open on the 28th of february.