The announcement came a few months ago: Willis ‘Buzz’ Hartshorn, the director of the International Center of Photography (ICP), will soon step down for health reasons. These will be his final ICP Awards. Surrounded by frames containing a few of his own pictures, Hartshorn spo...

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The 28th annual Infinity Awards of the International Center of Photography were held last night in New York. This year, ten winners were honored, including two Asian photographers known for their political art, Daidō Moriyama and Ai Weiwei, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award and th...

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Lifetime Achievment - Daido Moriyama is one of Japan's leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post World War II Japan, his black and white photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that pe...

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Cornell Capa Award - Born in 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei is known for his audacious conceptual sculpture and photographs, and for his photographic images of New York in the 1980s. He gained international prominence after the Chinese government shut down his politically dissident blog an...

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Young Photographer - Anouk Kruithof was born 1981 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. She is educated as a photographer, but she considers photography more as a starting point of various possibilities. She makes photo, video, and spatial installations as well as social, in-situation wo...

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Art - Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work. Since the late 1980s, he has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, fro...

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Publication - The Worker Photography Movement [1926–1939] forms part of the research process undertaken for the exhibition A Hard, Merciless Light at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina from April to August 2011. The volume is designed to reconstruc...

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Photojournalism - Benjamin Lowy was born in 1979 in New York and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. He is currently represented by Reportage by Getty Images. In 2011 his Iraq | Perspectives work was selected by William Eggleston to win the Duke University Center for Do...

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Applied / Fashion / Advertising - Maurice Scheltens was born in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, in 1972 and Liesbeth Abbenes was born in Asten, The Netherlands, in 1970. In 2002, they put an ampersand between their names to visualize and consolidate their working relationsh...

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ICP Trustees Award - John "Launny" Steffens is the Founder of Spring Mountain Capital, LP, an alternative investment firm. Prior to founding Spring Mountain Capital, he spent 38 years at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where he held numerous senior management positions, includi...

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Writing - Writer, curator, and artist David Campany was born in London in 1967. He writes about documentary, photojournalism, conceptual art, cinema, fashion photography, archives, and architecture. He has published essays on many artists and photographers including Rinko Kawauchi,...

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During the ceremony which took place at the Hudson River’s edge, Robert Mc Neely thread his way among the guests to immortalise the event and its attendees. Can be seen faces from the photography community of New York and those of regular guests such as Nathan Lyons, David Frie...

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