A WORCESTER photographic expert has picked up a major international award for an audio-visual strip cartoon.
Andrew N Gagg, who lives in Hylton Road and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, scored his success at the Society's international audio visual festival in Cheltenham with his story "King Krak and the Dragon", based on a Polish legend from the city of Krakow.
His unusual treatment took the form of an animated strip-cartoon and earned him a FIAP silver medal in the competition which drew 122 entrants from fourteen countries across the world, from Australia to The Netherlands and Norway to America.
Former BBC technician Mr Gagg, who is 75 and a long time member of Worcestershire Camera Club, said: "I really enjoyed making this story, which was inspired by a stay in Krakow last year. Telling a fairy-tale, but turning it into a strip-cartoon has put me in touch with my younger side again. Although you might not believe that from the ancient character I play in it.”
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