Multi Award winning photographer Melinda Baigent  APSNZ AOPA

Melinda Bagient's Photography studio has consistently and continuously won many national and international awards. From these accolades, you know your photos are in hands of a professional with passion and perfection.

Year 2007

• WPPI: Four honourable mentions
• PSNZ: 3 acceptances
• Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Delicious Dads Calender in process.

Year 2006

• WPPI: Five Honourable mentions
• July: Show cased at The Vector "Celebration of Photography" Gala dinner in Wellington for achieving significant success in photography for New Zealand.
  
• PSNZ acceptance
• Photographer for the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Yummy Mummies Calender.

Year 2005

• Image of "point of Perfection is on show at the James Wallace Gallery in Auckland as part of the Auckland festival of Photography, hanging next to Brian Brakes image.
• WPPI: Two Honourable mentions (two silver medals in nz terms)

Year 2004

• Guest speaker at Selling photographic Society National Convention... ...And Melinda Baigent who moved us to tears with her presentation of a fireman's funeral.

Year 2003

• Photographic Society of New Zealand Gold Medal for best Monochrome Print named 'Point of Perfection'
• Guest Speaker: The Photographic Society of New Zealand - National Convention 2004

PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 2000 / 2001

• A first place, second place, a perfect score of 100, plus four Honorable Mentions at the 2000 Wedding & Portrait Photographers International World Awards of Excellence, Santa Monica, USA.
• Two first places, a third and ten Honorable mentions at the 2001 Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) World Awards of Excellence, Santa Monica, USA.

Year 2002

• Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI - worlds)
• Accolades of Photographic Mastery (APM)
• Accolades of Outstanding Photographic Achievement (AOPA)

Year 2001

• Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) Competition 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada: 1st for 'Special Effects Wedding 16 x 20 Print' and four Honorable Mentions.
• Event Two: 1st for 'Special Effects Wedding' and 3rd for Individual Portrait and 10 Honorable Mentions.

Year 2000

• Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) Competition 2000, 1st and 2nd and a perfect score of 100 (seven given out for the world) and four Honourable mentions.
• Photographic Society of New Zealand Maadi Cup and Gold Medal for best Monochrome Print

Year 1999

• Awarded Associateship of The Photographic Society of New Zealand Incorporated
• Champion Open Print Southern Regional Salon

Year 1998

• Guest Speaker at Photo Festival 1998 for the Youth

Year 1997

• Johnson & Johnson Baby of the Year Competition
• Overall Open Champion Print at the Trans Tasman Competition

Year 1996

• Photograph chosen for the New Zealand Permanent Collection

Year 1995

• Awarded Licentiateship of The Photographic Society of New Zealand Incorporated, April 1995. Melinda Baigent was the youngest person ever to be awarded a Licentiateship.

Year 1994

• Ronald Woolf Award 1994, awarded to photographers 25 and under
• New Zealand Representative for Federation International Art Photography (FIAP)

Year 1997

• Johnson & Johnson Baby of the Year Competition
• Overall Open Champion Print at the Trans Tasman Competition