Canon ProfiFoto Sponsoring Award 10/1: Potential Discovered

Boasting 252 participants and more than 2,000 photographs entered, the > Canon ProfiFoto Sponsoring Award < 10/1 attained a new record in submissions. Twice every year since 2006, the > Canon ProfiFoto Sponsoring Award < contest has been offering young photographers this opportunity, which aims at fostering the transposition of their images in their minds. Each of the five winners whose photographic handwriting is the most convincing and whose concepts make the judges want to see more receive an award every time and get to pick from EUR 10,000 worth of Canon equipment.

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Oliver Seltmann, a photo book publisher and ADC member, is one of the judges. He comments: “It was an inspiring round for the judges bestowing an exceptional photographic sponsoring award. I was particularly impressed with the large number of enthralling topics and the mostly very high quality of the photographic work submitted.” He and his co-judges Ina-Jasmin Kossatz (laif), Christoph Bamberg (Lumas), Bernd Sumalowitsch (Selected Views) and Guido Krebs (Canon) lauded the following five projects as the top entries:

In her project, Anna Simone Wallinger shows the living quarters of applicants for asylum in Germany, who are living in a container settlement: Snapshots moving between disempowerment and self-help strategies, martial law and everyday normalcy.

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Marina Weigl, a student at Dortmund College, visualizes the theme Wait until Dark in her project through poetic and symbolically entrenched photographic interpretations of nighttime – or rather, the emotions it evokes. A diverse range of photographic approaches is pieced together to make for one holistic presentation.

Milos Djuric, another student who hails from Hanover College, accompanies the life of a rap musician in the street, on the stage and at home through a photo journalistic report.

Julius Schrank (photo), a fellow student at the same college, will work on a report about one of Canada’s last lighthouse monitors with the assistance of the > Canon ProfiFoto Sponsoring Award <.

Maurice Baker (photo), a pupil at the Lette Association Berlin, makes the interior condition of depression come to life in images in his very personal presentation of a self-portrait.

Ina-Jasmin Kossatz: “I found it very exciting to once again have an opportunity to be a witness of all the things that photography can do: I felt my traveling bone ache; I was deeply touched, inspired, sad, surprised and also proud of the young up-and-coming talent. These young people have the courage to give us who contemplate their work deep insights into even the most complex of topics. The pictures taken by the award winners are so intense that my heart was racing the entire time while we were assessing the work. I am eager to find out where the journey will take these men and women photographers next.”

Once the work is done, the results will be published in the renowned photography magazine ProfiFoto and at an exhibition slated for the second half of 2010. Prior to that, the next contest will be opened for submission – the details will soon be published on www.canon-profifoto-foerderpreis.de.

The photograph of the judges shows the members of the panel from left to right: Thomas Gerwers (ProfiFoto), Guido Krebs (Canon), Ina-Jasmin Kossatz (laif), Oliver Seltmann (Verlag Seltmann und Söhne), Christoph Bamberg (Lumas), Bernd Sumalowitsch (Selected Views).

Interested photographers are invited to submit their entries for the >Canon ProfiFoto Sponsoring Award< 10/2 now; the deadline for submissions in July 12.

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