Los Angeles, Calif. - The International Photography Awards (IPA) announced that Dr. Anthony Bannon, the 7th Director of George Eastman House, has curated the Best of Show, 2007 for the Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards Competition. Dr. Bannon is a renowned critic, filmmaker, educator and award winning author.
Making this announcement, Hossein Farmani, founder of the IPA, commented, "We are so fortunate to have a curator of this caliber selecting this year's the Best of Show from the 5th Annual IPA competition. I have the ultimate respect for Tony, his vision and his remarkable contributions to contemporary photography. This is an exciting moment for the IPA!"
Describing the selection process, Dr. Bannon added "I looked for those pictures ready to embrace change, and lead me toward notions I found unsettling, in one way or another. So here it is; these are the pictures that I hope we can remember, each a lesson of earnest vision and clear thinking; fine experiences the likes of which are just a little bit different from those I had previously experienced with pictures. That was my search, looking for the Lucie I hadn't experienced before, possessed of those unique attributes that makes art - and experience - special."
The 2007 Best of Show photographers are: Patrick Barta, Jeffrey Lamont Brown, Michael Cala, Jan Cassidy, Peter Chintor Zazourian, Sebastian Copeland, Charlie Crane, Nicholas Duers, Jim Fiscus, Chris Frazer-Smith, Lucia Ganieva, Daniel Grant, Lauren Greenfield, Mark Edward Harris, Simon Harsent, Maurice Heesen, Lea Golda Holterman, Matt Hoyle, Ikeya Tomohide,
Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, Jatin Kampani, Nadav Kander, Amy Arbus, Geoffrey Lea, David Maitland, Gustavo Marx, Shannon McCook, Jim McHugh, Douglas Menuez, Rosanne Olson, Michael Poliza, Håkan Strand, Michal Sziaga, Alex Telfer, Stephen Wilkes, Christopher Young, Camille Zakharia and Zosia Zija.
The 2007 Best of Show exhibition debuts at the Splashlight Party on October 13, in New York before traveling to 8 cities internationally. Prizes include $10,000 for the International Photographer of the Year Award provided by AtEdge, $5,000 prize to the Discovery of the Year Award, provided by Pilsner Urquell and $5,000 provided to the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year. The winners are published in the IPA Annual book distributed throughout the international photography community.
The 5th Lucie Awards, presented by Pilsner Urquell, will be held at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Monday, October 15, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. Honorees and top winners from the 2007 competition will be recognized. The Lucie Awards (a non-profit, charitable foundation,) produced by the International Photography Awards (IPA), salutes the achievements of the world's finest photographers, discovers emerging talent through the International Photography Awards and promotes the appreciation of photography worldwide.
The Lucie Awards official media partner is PDN and Photo Plus International. Additional support is provided by AtEDGE, BlackBook, Canon, Dr. Garber's Natural Solutions, Hasselblad, Ilford, Kingston, Lensbabies, Photoflex, Splashlight, Wacom and Workbook.
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