Voting ends on April 6 and the winner will receive the Public's Best Picture of the Year award. The winner of the Guinness Young Photographer of the Year, part of the UK's prestigious Picture Editors' Awards, returned his title after a snafu over one of his images. The morning after the awards, he received an anonymous e-mail tipping him off about the ineligibility of one of the pictures in his winning portfolio. He immediately contacted the organizers of the competition to explain and to hand back the prize, the first time in the history of the contest. Both father and son will only say that it was an oversight.
Rules state that all pictures entered have to be taken within the past year.
The photograph showed the businessman, who had just won a long-running legal fight to stay in the UK, outside the courthouse. After a rapid re-organization of the prizes, James Williamson, a freelancer who contributes to the Scottish Daily Express, was named the new Young Photographer of the Year. Past winners include Stuart Conway , Charles Bibbey and Philip Noble . The magazine will be published every three months and limited copies are sold in New York and Europe. The large-sized magazine covers fashion, arts and graphic design.