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Jun 14
Winning snaps from Sony World Photography Awards 2014
Over one lakh photographers from hundred and sixty six nations gave their snaps in the Sony World Photography Awards 2014. The subjects of the photographs range from a line of a pride of lions walking across the Serengeti national park to beautiful Israeli landscapes.
After months of selection and narrowing down, now, the World Photography Organization has declared Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, an American photographer the as the winner of L’Iris d’Or, i.e. the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year.
Speaking about her prize, she told that she is totally stunned; there was such extraordinarily strong work, she figured there was no way she could win – she was just excited to receive one award. She is completely overwhelmed. Her photograph series named Shane and Maggie also won in Contemporary Issues category.
The winners in the fourteen categories were also declared. The groups were –Arts & Culture, Campaign, Architecture, Conceptual, Contemporary Issues, Landscape, Lifestyle, Current Affairs, Nature & Wildlife, Sport, Still Life, Travel, People and Portraiture.
The photos of the finalists are currently being displayed at Somerset House till 18th May in London and would be published in Sony World Photography Awards book.
Over one lakh photographers from hundred and sixty six nations gave their snaps in the Sony World Photography Awards 2014. The subjects of the photographs range from a line of a pride of lions walking across the Serengeti national park to beautiful Israeli landscapes.
After months of selection and narrowing down, now, the World Photography Organization has declared Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, an American photographer the as the winner of L’Iris d’Or, i.e. the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Photographer of the Year.
Speaking about her prize, she told that she is totally stunned; there was such extraordinarily strong work, she figured there was no way she could win – she was just excited to receive one award. She is completely overwhelmed. Her photograph series named Shane and Maggie also won in Contemporary Issues category.
The winners in the fourteen categories were also declared. The groups were –Arts & Culture, Campaign, Architecture, Conceptual, Contemporary Issues, Landscape, Lifestyle, Current Affairs, Nature & Wildlife, Sport, Still Life, Travel, People and Portraiture.
The photos of the finalists are currently being displayed at Somerset House till 18th May in London and would be published in Sony World Photography Awards book.
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Apr 14
Photography exhibit from Venice Biennale 2013
Direct from Venice Biennale 2013, the City Gallery delivers Lexicon. It is an exhibit by well known Dutch fashion and art photographer named Viviane Sassen. All the snaps in Lexicon were clicked in Africa. Viviane spent 3 years of her childhood in a village in Kenya. Later, when she was five years old, she and her family came back to the Netherlands. She told that her childhood days spent in Africa was a shaping experience for her.
Viviane Sassen told that to her, Africa is all about strong contrasts and vivid colors of dark and light. Working in Africa opens the doors of his subconscious widely. His dreams are vivid when she is there.
Africa is a ladened subject for Western artists.
She told that she is aware of the whole debate about her drawing black people in Africa as a white European woman, and of her being in control because she is carrying the camera. But, she is not really much interested in that argument because her work comes from a very private and personal place. When she is in Africa, she feels like she is coming home. Still, she also feels that she is not one of them.
Last year, Robert Leonard, the City Gallery’s chief curator Viviane’s Lexicon at Venice Biennale last year. He told that at first, she was totally baffled. He did not know how to read it as staged or as documentary, as fiction or fact. The work was haunted by politics, but he could not tell whether they were the photographer’s or his own. Then he realized that Sassen was intentionally provoking the mix-up situation.