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Quote: Of course you should always be able to back up your claims, if the industry recognises your work enough to award it, shouldn't your peers accept and recognise that too, rather than ignoring them?
agree 100%
however some people miss the first part - backing up the claim.
It's a bit like every CV in the world saying "self starter" and "works well in a team"
probably meant something once, now just a cliché which has not real meaning
Award-winning on its own isn't enough. A photographer needs to be "passionate about image-making" as well!
Hmm - 3 pages about not very much - maybe a case of protesting too much.
Its all BS anyway so who cares what someone puts on their advertising bumpf?
We do seem to have a lot of time to waste when we could be out creating "Award Winning Works of Art"
Rates up there with "Fine Art Prints" and "Giclee" as far as I am concerned
Let's start a campaign for honest advertising, I'll start
"I take crap pictures, over manipulate them until they look totally unreal then try to sell them to you in the hopes that you will think I'm doing something special so will pay me ridiculously high prices"
(Oh, by the way, I have an image in the Carnegie Institute of Natural History - does that make me a "World Famous Wildlife Photographer"? 
)
Not personally, but I could probably find a man who could 
http://crapsouvenirs.com/25683/
I am an award winning photographer. The award was for my tiramisu and I am a photographer.
Now I grant you that is two true statements which placed that close to each other may give people the wrong impression and even the culinary award was rather company centric in source, but what they don't know won't hurt them. If they start to suspect I will give them free tiramisu made using the Brandy I bought from a UK supermarket supplying European source that smells like turps.
Quote: We do seem to have a lot of time to waste when we could be out creating "Award Winning Works of Art"
Rates up there with "Fine Art Prints" and "Giclee" as far as I am concerned
indeed - click here for a far more riveting discussion 
lol - at least this is slightly photography rated
To answer the question on the second link - I usually ask "who's calling" - they either ring off or tell you enough for you to say you're no interested
or you can ask what they're wearing of course
I have been entering my snap shots on ephotozine for over 2 years and I have yet to make 30 votes to get a Readers Choice Award. however I could claim to be an
award winning Photographer because I won 'The Glenda Shield' in 1985 for best Slide of the year entered in the P.F T D. competitions.
PFTD = Photography for the Disabled.
I`ve one of few awards, none in photography.
Time I started calling myself an award wining photographer, sounds better than just photographer
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