Sunday 4 May 2014

Sony World Photography Awards: professional and overall winners announced

The veteran and altogether difficulty winners for a Sony World Photography Awards were announced final night, withSara Naomi Lewkowicz from New York winning a L’Iris d’Or Photographer of a Year Award, for her array Shane and Maggie. Other prizes went to Mary Ellen Mark, who was awarded a Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award, along with a Professional difficulty winners, and altogether winners for a Open, Student Focus, Youth, and Books categories.



The judges voted unanimously for Lewkowicz’s array that examines domestic assault as a routine and patterns of building abuse, along with a brief and long-term effects on victims, their families and their abusers. Jury chair, W.M. Hunt described a work as, “vibrating colour, crackling, thespian and full of impact, insinuate and unsettlingly provocative.”


Talking about a series, Lewkowicz describes how her instincts as a photojournalist compelled her to “stay with a story and request it in all of a nauseous truth”.


“I had been photographing a couple, Shane and Maggie, given September. we had creatively dictated a story to concentration on a problems felons face once being expelled from incarceration,” says Lewkowicz. “The story altered dramatically when one night, Shane and Maggie got into a fight. Shane began to physically abuse Maggie, slamming her adult opposite walls and choking her in front of her two-year-old daughter, Memphis. He had possession of a mobile phones, so we reached into his slot and take my phone behind when he was distracted. we handed my phone to another adult who was in a house,and educated them to call a police. we afterwards continued to request a abuse.”




The veteran difficulty winners are as follows…



Architecture – Ludovic Maillard (France), for his Typology of Concrete series, shot in Paris.



Arts and Culture – Viviana Peretti (Italy), for her array Dancing Like a Woman, shot during a Bambuco Gay Pageant.



Campaign – Spencer Murphy (UK), for his array of portraits display jockeys post competition (commissioned by 4Creative).



Conceptual – Thomas Brummett (US) for Light and Projections, a array of china gelatin prints, film-less and camera-less, combined by light being projected by an visual lens onto china black and white imitation paper, and afterwards grown in a darkroom using a accumulation of re-development techniques to bring out certain sundry aspects of a imitation grain.


Contemporary Issues – Sara Naomi Lewkowicz (US) (images as above for Shane and Maggie series).



Current Affairs – Guy Martin (UK), for his series #Gezi Park, shot final year during polite disturbance in Istanbul.



Landscape – Roei Greenberg (Israel), for Israeli Landscape 2013, examining a attribute between healthy and synthetic worlds, in a place that has been dramatically altered by conflict.



Lifestyle – Myriam Meloni  (Italy), for Behind a Absence, shot in a Rebublic of Moldovia, a lowest nation in Eastern Europe, where 100,000 children are flourishing adult but their relatives who mostly go to work abroad.



Nature Wildlife – Michael Nichols (US) for his array The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion.



People – Mario Wezel (Germany), for One in Eight Hundred, following five-year-old Emmy who was innate with Down’s syndrome in Denmark, and her family.



Portraiture – Sophie Gamand (France), for her Wet Dog mural series.



Sport – Salvatore Di Gregorio (Italy), for Red Kushti: An Old Fight, a array capturing a normal red clay wrestling in India, Pakistan and Iran.



Still Life – Amanda Harman (UK), for her array Garden Stories, Hidden Labours.



Travel – Ricardo Teles (Brazil), for his Roads of Grains series, exploring food prolongation in Brazil.



The Student Focus Photographer of a Year endowment went to Scarlett Evans (UK), for her array A Childhood in England, in response to a brief entitled Self-portraits, set for a 10 finalists.



Chen Li (China) was announced as a Open Photographer of a Year, for a picture Rain in an Ancient Town.



Paulina Metzscher (Germany) won Youth Photographer of a Year, for her picture of a immature lady on a night sight in China.



The 2014 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards were won by dual titles. Sergio Larrain: Vagabond Photographer by Agnès Sire and Gonzalo Leiva Quijada won the Best Photography Book Award. And Charles Urban: Pioneering a Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 – 1925 by Luke McKernan won Best Moving Image Book Award.



American photographer Mary Ellen Mark was awarded a Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award, in approval of her achievements in a margin of documentary photography, for a immeasurable physique of work that mostly captures aspects of amiability on a edges of society, from Indian circuses, to brothels in Bombay, to exile children in Seattle.




Read some-more about a other winners for a Sony World Photography Awards on a CR blog here. A full list of a winners and runners adult can be seen during www.worldphoto.org, including all second and third prize-winners for a Professional Awards. An muster of a winning work runs from 1-18 May during Somerset House in London. www.somersethouse.org.uk


Article source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-exclusive-man-suing-wedding-pics-speaks-15336706


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