Six photographers are within the operating for a brand new pictures award that has been launched by Annie Leibovitz in collaboration with philanthropist and photographer Lisa Saltzman. They’re vying for the Saltzman-Leibovitz Pictures Prize, which can award $20,000 in whole to the creatives, who’re primarily based in Ukraine, the U.S., Nigeria, Romania, the Netherlands and France.
The award-winning Saltzman, who additionally works as a movie producer, began the Saltzman Household Basis in 2020 to honor her late dad and mom, Muriel and Ralph Saltzman, who had been artwork collectors, patrons and philanthropists.
Elena Kalinichenko of Ukraine; Ka’Vozia Glynn of the U.S.; Reward Hassan of Nigeria; Toma Hurduc of Romania; Trâm Nguyễn Quang of the Netherlands, and Zélie Hallosserie of France have been short-listed. They already know Leibovitz past her fame. Every up-and-coming sharpshooter had a mentorship along with her, when she was Ikea’s artist in residence. The winner of the highest prize will stroll away with a $10,000 award, whereas the second by six-place finalists will every be handed $5,000, $2,000, $1,500, $1,000 and $500, respectively.
Their skills are being critiqued by Drew Sawyer, pictures curator on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork; the curator and scholar Isolde Brielmaier; freelance picture editor Kira Pollack; Hauser & Wirth’s affiliate director Mary Grace Reeder, and Condé Nast’s head artistic director Raul Martinez.
Regardless of having lived and labored overseas, Kalinichenko selected to remain in Kyiv in the course of the warfare, working in a company job and pursuing pictures on the aspect. Final yr she gave up the workplace job and has targeted her digicam on the frontlines, in the course of the warfare between Ukraine and Russia, in addition to cultural traditions like carol singers.
By her personal account, Glynn, a 23-year-old who divides her time between Georgia and Florida, is interested by “how pictures and different image-making can carry a lot wanted modifications on the planet for on a regular basis folks.”
The Lagos-based Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and graphic designer whose portfolio contains self-portraits that mirror her travails from despair to therapeutic, in addition to work that reveals the facility of progress and self-discovery. Adept at documentary pictures, Hurdoc teaches on the Centrul de Resurse in Fotografie in his dwelling metropolis of Bucharest, and has proven his work in Romania, France and Norway.
Work from Toma Hurdoc of Bucharest.
Picture by Toma Hurdoc/Courtesy
As a cognitive neuroscience pupil in Amsterdam, Quang dives into themes of reminiscence and nostalgia, as evidenced by her “Life at House” mission. Utilizing Belgium as her base, the French-born Hallosserie has been chronicling the lives of migrants in northern France, who’re attempting to relocate to the U.Ok. In what the displaced name “the Recreation,” they’re attempting to cross the English Channel from Calais.
Trâm Nguyễn Quang is a cognitive neuroscience pupil and a photographer.
Picture by Trâm Nguyễn Quang/Courtesy
In the meantime, Leibovitz’s 50-year profession shall be within the highlight this spring, when the Mint Museum unveils “Annie. Leibovitz/Work,” which can embody movie star portraits and a few photos which have seldom been proven publicly earlier than. The present will run within the Charlotte, N.C., museum from April 27 by Aug. 31.