The Swiss-Italian photographer Claudio Rasano has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 for his portrait of a Johannesburg schoolboy.
Awards
The Croatian photographer Lana Mesić is the winner of the first Grolsch Unseen Residency. The residency offers a two-month scholarship in London early next year, giving Mesić the chance to create a new body of work in line with her unconventional approach to the urban creative landscape. The resulting work will be unveiled at the following edition of Unseen Photo Fair & Festival.
British Journal of Photography’s annual International Photography Award is a leading showcase for contemporary photographic talent. Simon Bainbridge, editor of The British Journal of Photography since 2003, and the original founder of the magazine’s signature award, is overseeing its 11th edition. When he sits down to judge the prize with an elite panel of industry professionals, what does he look for in a winner?
Mohau Modisakeng and Candice Breitz will represent South Africa with a major two-person exhibition in the South African Pavilion, at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, running from 13 May to 26 November 2017 in Venice, Italy.
Danila Tkachenko’s latest series is featured in Calvert 22 Foundation’s new prize, championing the people and countries of the New East.
Michael Mack, one of the judges of the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Prize, grew up in Zimbabwe and was educated in Yorkshire. He worked at the top of Steidl for seventeen years before launching his eponymous independent publishing company.
With the deadline for entering this year’s International Photography Award not too far away, BJP has called on each member of our elite judging panel and asked, what it is they are looking for in this year’s winning series
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This year marks the 11th edition of British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award. It…