{"id":492840,"date":"2026-05-19T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:52:09","slug":"raye-nile-rodgers-to-judge-2026-abbey-road-music-photography-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492840\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye, Nile Rodgers to Judge 2026 Abbey Road Music Photography Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRaye<\/a> and Nile Rodgers<\/a> have been tapped to help judge the fifth edition of the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe free-to-enter competition<\/a> aims to recognize the best in music and concert photography from around the world. The winners of the 2026 MPAs will be announced Sept. 24 at a special ceremony at Abbey Road Studios<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe contest will be judged by a mix of pro photographers and established musicians. On the latter end, joining Raye and Rodgers will be M\u00e5neskin\u2019s Damiano David, Abbey Road\u2019s producer-in-residence King Harpoon, Lilly Fontaine of Leeds-based indie rockers English Teacher, and Japanese singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe photographers on the panel include MPA head judge and co-founder Rankin, as well as Platon, Dean Chalkley, Dennis Morris, Jackie Lee Young, Phoebe Fox, and Simon Wheatley. Rolling Stone\u2019s own Sacha Lecca will serve on the shortlist panel alongside Andreia Lemos, Rich Fury, Khali Ackford, Ebru Yildiz, and Ped Millichamp.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe MPAs also announced photographer Roberta Bayley as the recipient of this year\u2019s Icon Award. Bayley is renowned for capturing the New York City punk scene of the 1970s, capturing iconic photos of the countless artists who came up in that scene, or passed through it, such as Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and Blondie, Elvis Costello, the Clash, Richard Hell, X-Ray Spex, and more. One of Bayley\u2019s most famous images is the portrait of the Ramones that appeared on the cover of their 1976 self-titled debut album<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRoberta Bayley\u2019s portrait of the Ramones, which appeared on the cover of their debut album.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoberta Bayley<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am very honored to be receiving the Abbey Road Icon award, especially to be in the company of such great photographers as David Bailey<\/a>, Anton Corbijn<\/a>, and Jill Furmanovsky,\u201d Bayley said in a statement. \u201cThis New York punk has come a long way!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSubmissions are now being accepted for all eight open categories on the MPAs\u2019 website<\/a>. These include Festivals, Emerging Photographer of the Year, Music Moment of the Year, Live Music, Behind the Scenes, Portrait, Underground Scenes, and this year\u2019s guest category, 50 Years of Punk. There will also be two invited categories, Judges\u2019 Choice and Icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raye and Nile Rodgers have been tapped to help judge the fifth edition of the Abbey Road Music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[38864,18,117,19,17,337,38867,135563],"class_list":["post-492840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-abbey-road-studios","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-nile-rodgers","tag-raye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116602755634309130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}