Issue 9_FOCUS from the AOP_September 2025 - Flipbook - Page 18
AOP AWARDS
MARTIN EVENING EXCELLENCE IN
DIGITAL RETOUCHING AWARD
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
SPANNING BOTH PHOTOGRAPHIC STILLS AND SHORT-FORM FILM,
RECOGNISING OUTSTANDING WORK IN DIGITAL RETOUCHING AND
POST-PRODUCTION.
Excellence in Digital Retouching – Open Award 2025
Digital retouching and post-production image manipulation for commissioned or personal work, applied to still and
moving imagery. Submissions must demonstrate levels of editing, grading, picture and audio finishing, deliverables
and international versioning, as well as visual effects showing a high degree of proficiency in post-production
techniques, producing images with the utmost visual impact within a contemporary creative framework.
2025 Martin Evening Excellence in Digital
Retouching Award Finalists Are
Kai Bastard - Bad Star / Rock Paper Scissors
Mark Francis - Midas Retouching
Vahakn Vorperian - Creative Director, The Retouchers
Ltd , x 2 nominations
The four judges for the 2025 AOP Open Awards are:
Ruth Clapp - Senior retoucher with 25+ years in film
and TV, including campaigns for Netflix, HBO, Pixar,
and Paramount.
Gandee Vasan - AOP Accredited Photographer and
Board Member Director
Matthew Brewin - Representing I Am Retouching,
2024 AOP Martin Evening Award Winner
About Martin Evening
This special Award, initiated by the Association of Photographers, is dedicated to
commemorating the late Martin Evening, a highly influential photographer who was an
early pioneer of digital retouching, and to acknowledge his contribution to the
excellence in digital retouching within our industry.
A long-standing member of the AOP (Membership No. 20), Martin Evening was a noted
photographer, expert digital retoucher, author and teacher. Martin had a successful
25-year career as a London based, award-winning portrait, beauty, and advertising
photographer, working with some of the biggest names in hairdressing.
2025 Martin Evening Excellence in Digital Retouching webpage
In the 1990’s, Martin turned to digital imaging. He was an early pioneer in computer retouching and an early adopter of Photoshop,
becoming a respected alpha and beta tester for Adobe for many years. His expertise in photo imaging led him to share his
knowledge by writing over 30 books on digital imaging and photography, and became a noted speaker at major international
conferences.
In 2008, Martin was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame, in recognition as a respected leader in the industry and his
contributions to the advancement and development of Photoshop.
Martin was also a founding partner in a software company called Pixel Genius and was product manager lead creator for the
product named PhotoKit Color, an award-winning Photoshop plug-in.
AOP AWARDS
