Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards

Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors we read in The Guardian by Sean O’Hagen

Andrea Gjestvang has won the L’Iris d’Or at the 2013 Sony world photography awards.

The 32-year-old Norwegian photographer beat over 62,000 competitors from 170 countries in the professional competition with One Day in History, her poignant series of portraits of the young survivors of the massacre on the Norwegian island of Utøya on 22 July 2011.

On that day, 69 young people who were attending a summer camp organised by the ruling Norwegian Labour party were killed by a lone gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old rightwing extremist. Around 500 young people survived the massacre.

The series was commended by the judges for its “dignity and beauty” and described as “a quiet, thoughtful and ultimately powerful voice for the children and survivors of the massacre in Norway

A picture from Andrea Gjestvang’s One Day in History, L’Iris d’Or winner at the Sony world photography awards 2013. Click to enlarge. Photo: Andrea Gjestvang/Momen

Adam Pretty, Australia
Category: Professional/Sport
Melissa Wu of Australia practices during a diving training session ahead of the London Olympic Games on 25 July 2012

Alice Caputo, Italy
Category: Professional/Lifestyle
Series: Summer Family
The images show the photographer’s family on a seaside holiday in Liguria in the summer of 2012

Klaus Thymann, Denmark
Category: Professional/Fashion and Beauty
Series: i-D Iceland
This shot was taken on the slowly moving edges of a glacier

See more images and read the Guardian article here

William Eggleston to receive Outstanding Contribution to Photography award

The BJP tells us that William Eggleston is to be awarded a prize for his outstanding contribution to photography, can’t even think what his honest response to that might be…..try any of these

 I don’t have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It’s not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn’t do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough. 

 You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too. 

 Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other. 

 I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. 

 I am at war with the obvious. 

 I don’t look at other photographs much at all. I don’t know why. I study my own a lot. 

 There is no particular reason to search for meaning. 

 The way I have always looked at it is the world is in color. And there’s nothing we can do about that. 

“Recognised today as the pioneer of colour photography and the personal documentary style, William Eggleston has been producing cutting-edge work for over 50 years,” say the organisers of the Sony World Photography Awards, which has selected the US photographer at this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.

Untitled. 1695-1968 fr. Los Alamos, Beehive. Image © William Eggleston, Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

Untitled. 1980 fr – Lousianna Project – Hot Sauce. Image © William Eggleston, Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

Untitled, 1971-1974. Image © William Eggleston, Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

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World Photo.org

Whilst writing yesterday about the Vienna photography awards I reminded myself that I had intended to bring worldphoto.org to your attention. This has a number of partners who are all involved with photography from a number of different aspects. primarily at the moment the point of focus is on the Sony Photography awards,

“Announced at the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards in April, the current Focus Award has been awarded to Save the Children. The focus of this new collaboration is to draw attention to the millions of children caught up in disasters around the world every year. Over the last year Save the Children has responded to children’s needs in disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, the floods in Pakistan, the food crisis in Niger and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as many others which never make it onto our TV screens. This partnership will help raise the profile of children caught up in these disasters and help save many more young lives. ”

Proudly sponsored by Sony, the Sony World Photography Awards is widely recognised as the leading global photographic awards programme in existence today.

Through conducting a range of annual competitions, our mission is to discover talent across many diverse fields of photography. We support photographers beyond just receiving their award; featuring their work across the WPO website and in international exhibitions, offering unparalleled exposure through our annual marketing campaign and international media coverage, and publication inside the annual Sony World Photography Awards book.

The Sony World Photography Awards now includes more competitions and awards than ever before, with each one appealing to photographers of different levels:

• Open Competition – for amateurs and enthusiasts
• Professional Competition – for serious photographers with a true passion for the job
• Youth Award – for anyone under the age of 20
• Moving Image Award – for those experimenting with moving image narrative formats
• Student Focus – for higher education photography students aged 18 – 28
• The World Photo Organisation is more than just competitions, it also has galleries of work on themes from all around the world, there are events, forums for discussion and image critique areas. Here are some of the events arranged for London

• • Book Design Workshop

    Part of World Photo London

    Workshops

    

    27th Apr 2012 at 00:00 – 29th Apr 2012 at 00:00

    

    Somerset House

    

  • Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition

    Part of World Photo London

    Exhibitions

    

    27th Apr 2012 at 00:00 – 20th May 2012 at 00:00

    

    Somerset House

    Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition: Experience a vast collection of international contemporary photography, spanning subjects from Current Affairs, Sport, Portraiture, Landscape, Fashion and more.

    

  • City Project: London

    Part of World Photo London

    Workshops

    

    27th Apr 2012 at 18:30 – 29th Apr 2012 at 19:00

    

    Somerset House

    

  • Beginners Portrait Workshop

    Part of World Photo London

    Workshops

    

    28th Apr 2012 at 00:00

    

    Somerset House

    

  • Wine & Critique

    Part of World Photo London

    Critiquing Session

    

    1st May 2012 at 00:00 – 15th May 2012 at 00:00

    

    Somerset House

    Enjoy a glass of wine, meet fellow photographers, share your work and critique!