2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Image: Edgar Martins, from the series Our War. © Edgar Martins
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Edgar Martins
Photographer of the Year
Edgar Martins (Portugal) was awarded this year’s Photographer of the Year title for his series Our War, an homage to his friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed during the Libyan Civil War in 2011. "Frustrated by the lack of progress in the investigation to find his mortal remains, in 2022 I took matters into my own hands and travelled to Libya. This previously unseen body of work is structured as a self-portrait of Anton Hammerl through the people he photographed and met, and others involved in the conflict. This project portrays a complex story, warped by absence, that talks of the difficulty of documenting, testifying, witnessing, remembering, honouring and imagining." said Edgar Martins.
Image: Alessandro Cinque, from the series Atrapanieblas (Fog Nets). © Alessandro Cinque
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Alessandro Cinque
Sustainability Prize
A new section, the Sustainability Prize, was introduced this year, highlighting awareness of the climate crisis. The prize was awarded to the Italian photographer Alessandro Cinque for his series Atrapanieblas (Fog Nets). After Cairo, Lima is the second city in the world to be built in a desert. In recent years, migration from rural Peru to Lima has increased significantly, but the people who manage to settle in Lima are typically very poor and their biggest problem is lack of water. One solution that gives them hope is fog nets. Consisting of two poles that support a nylon net with small holes in it, these nets can collect about 200 litres (53 gallons) of water per day. This project aims to show how this artisanal method could help combat water shortages.
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Prix Camera Clara 2023
Image: © Baptiste Rabichon, Mother’s Rooms, 2022
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Baptiste Rabichon
Prix Camera Clara
Baptiste Rabichon is the winner of the Prix Camera Clara 2023. Created by the Fondation Grésigny, the prize aims to promote a singular writing that makes exclusive use of the photographic chamber. Baptiste Rabichon was rewarded for his project Mother’s Rooms exhibited until June 30 at the Frank Horvat Studio. Mother’s Rooms immerses us in our childhood memories and those privileged moments conducive to daydreaming when, with our eyes fixed on the ceilings, we let our imagination float. Baptiste Rabichon's silent photographs, in soft hues, are an ode to the use of the photographic chamber.
CARA Fellowship
Image: E´wao "Rocky" Kagoshima, Libidoll No. 1, 1985.
Oil on shaped canvas, 122 x 107 x 6.5 cm.
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E´wao "Rocky" Kagoshima
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
CARA Fellowship
Japanese-American artist E´wao "Rocky" Kagoshima and Puerto Rican filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, are the inaugural awardees of the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) first fellowship initiative designed to support and sustain mid-to-late career artists and honor artists’ legacies. Influenced by his observations of the world, Kagoshima (b. 1945) draws from daily discoveries, extensions of his lived reality and interactions with strangers, as material for his sculpture, painting and collage-based works. As an artist working primarily in moving images, Santiago Muñoz’s (b. 1972) practice is informed by long periods of contact, observation and documentation of place, inviting non-actors as co-creators in a combination of proposed structures and improvisations.
2023 Create Change
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Image: © Gloria Lau
Create Change Residency and Fellowship
The Bedford-Stuyvesant based Laundromat Project has announced its 2023 Create Change Artists-in-Residence and Fellows. The Create Change Artist Development Program aims to support participatory and community-attuned creative projects. This year’s cohort "remind us that the art we produce and observe is the basis for public memory and for advocacy efforts that move the dial forward, ever more important in a rapidly-changing city such as New York," said Ayesha Williams, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project. The 2023 Artists-in-Residence include Shanna Sabio, Aisha Shillingford, Genel Ambrose, Faith Robinson, Pedro Juan Cruz Cruz, Joseph (Solaris) Capehart and Kira Joy Williams.
2023 New Generation Photography Award
Image: Hannah Doucet, Untitled (Princess), 2019, from the series A Wish Stays With You, inkjet print. Collection of the artist. © Hannah Doucet. Photo: Courtesy the artist
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Hannah Doucet
Wynne Neilly
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez
New Generation Photography Award
The 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award (NGPA) winners are Hannah Doucet, Wynne Neilly and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez. In her photographs, videos and installations, Doucet explores the social management of childhood illness through fantasy and wish fulfillment. A queer, trans-identified artist, Neilly creates portraits of queer and trans subjects and photographs urban and natural landscapes which, like his portraits, underscore his meditative approach to image-making. Using materials such as archival photographs, found ephemeral images, magazine interviews and film/tv scripts, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez overlays the recent past against the present, exploring how images can be still but in motion, historical yet continuously present.
