The new president of the Malta Institute of Professional Photography, Stephen Busuttil, carried away no fewer than four awards - three silver and a bronze - thanks to prints he submitted in the Orvieto Fotografia professional photography awards in Italy. He placed third overall. Mr Busuttil, a former photographer of The Times and The Sunday Times, was named International Overseas Photographer of the Year 2006 by the Society of Weddings and Portraits Photographers during the society's Convention in London last January.
The subject of his panel submitted at the Orvieto Fotografia competition was the Malta Police Force.
Mr Busuttil has also gained the QIP - Qualified Italian Photographers - distinction of the Orvieto Fotografia International Foundation after submitting a panel of 12 images in the press and PR category.
He is the second Maltese photographer with this qualification.