EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER GRANT RECIPIENT
The recipient of the Emerging Photographer Grant 2009 is
Alejandro Chaskielberg
The High Tide
More details will follow soon.
The Judges:
Maggie Steber – Photographer
James Nachtwey – Photographer VII
Carol Naggar & Fred Ritchen – Historians-Authors-Analysts
Eugene Richards – Photographer
John Gossage – Curator
Scott Thode – Director of Photography Fortune Magazine
Gilles Peress – Photographer Magnum
David Griffin – Director of Photography National Geographic Magazine
Martin Parr – Photographer Magnum
WOW!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations ! What a contest and beautiful winner ;o)
BRAVO BRAVO!!!!!
Congratulations, Alejandro!
Bravissimo!!!!!
Bravo
congratulazioni, fantastico!!!!!!!
Hearty Congratulations Alejandro!!! Your project deserves every penny of this grant.
You must be on the top of the moon now! :)
Wish you ALL THE BEST & GOOD LUCK with your project in the coming future…it has just got the $10000 push, so we now expect the best from you…and I am sure you’ll make us proud!
BTW, to be judged by those guys above (I think) is a big honour in itself…
Congratulations to all the FINALISTS…
last but not the least…
Thanks DAH for making it happen…you deserve the BEST too…hopefully, you’ll take some much needed rest now…
wish we were spared of some of the cat fights amongst some of us…but again…BURN needs some heat to burn…so everything will be okay i suppose…
Regards to ALL…
bodo
Incomprehensible.
A new genre. Fantasy Documentary.
pushing the boundaries~
documentary work…
congratulations alejandro!!!
bravo bravo!!
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I agree with jim, photo-illustrators have done this for years. However now we can only say congratulations alejandro.
john gossage is a curator now??
Alejandro…:))))
YOU DA MAN!!!
Fantastic.
The future is pregnant both with this endorsement of approach to documentary and also with the funding of this talent.
Congratulations Alejandro!
Whatever one’s personal taste or ‘druthers, it is very hard to argue with the credibility and gravitas of that amazing board of judges that David put together. So I say, congratulations Alejandro!, but also doff my hat to David for his stewardship of this EPF project from the beginning to the end, and for calling in his chits bigtime to assemble an impeccable posse of judges. And thanks to the judges, who I’m sure took their task as seriously as anyone could ask. Very much looking forward to seeing where Alejandro goes from here.
The future is having twins? I’ll bet the astrologers didnt foresee that.
Alejandro, congratulations, and depsite what I said earlier, dont blow the money in Vegas; it makes everyone look bad.
The most original, challenging to our conception of photography, project. Good decision from the judges and congrats, Alejandro!
PS: kinda feel stupid having gone thru all these pains for 5 or 6 weeks, when in the end the first installment was it. I wonder if the best solution is not to comment on David’s and finalists and the grantee, after it’s all over.
If there’s an EPF next year, art photography would be the thing to submit, I guess.
You must be on the top of the moon now!
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Already? That’s fast! But I hope the money will be better used…. Back to the delta, Alejandro! :-)))
Jim in full form, this morning! ahahah…
Big hugs and huge Congratulations to Alejandro! Bravo Bravo!
Jim Powers
June 13, 2009 at 11:49 am
If there’s an EPF next year, art photography would be the thing to submit, I guess
If there’s an EPF next year,porn photography would be the thing to submit, I guess
( but it has to be straight & slightly overexposed )
On a serious side Jim… why do you think that James Nachtwey
(the straightest of all straight PJ’s in this universe )
voted for Alejandro?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
panos, I have no clue. Maybe he thought everything else was so bad Fantasy Documentary was the only choice?
Jim, what rafal said yesterday is true, except it’s not about EPF vs BURN entries (commenting on). It’s about Jim Powers. What difference is there between Jim commenting on EPF finalists/grantee, and Jim commenting on BURN submissions? :-)))))
BTW, from my collected words, this wasmy critique for Alejandro. Absolutely visionnary, ahahha… No, really!:
“Alejandro, cool stuff, throwing us off in the best possible way. Curious as to see if the next 9 installements will rather privilege new ways of dealing with images and subjects, opposed to good old docu style.
The technique is totally different, as well as the effect intended probably (I do not sense any irony), but the choreography with which you install people within your frames, as much objects as flesh and bones, do make me think of Martin Parr.”
Jim,
ok, all of my stoopid jokes aside…
WHY ARE YOU ACTING SO HURT?????????????????
did you submit and you are living in a “self hate” mode??????????
Hurt? Why do you think I’m hurt? It’s just sad to me that we’re now engaging in Fantasy Documentary.
Who says that Nachtwey voted for Alejandro?
I’m sure there were many votes cast for various projects.
It would be interesting to know what the vote count was…if it was close or not.
Who did Nachtwey vote for? Hmmm….
I vote for Panos. At least his photography doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t.
At least, we could be relieved the judges did not vote for…. Ahmedinajad (exact spelling optional)! :-)
PS: THE SPELL IS OUT! WE… WE….. WE JUST BROKE THE ONE COMMENT RULE. THE EP-FORTRESS HAS BEEN ASSAULTED AND CONQUERED. THE KING FLED TO C.VILLE AND WE ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE AGAIN, LOOTING, SHOOTING ANYTHING THAT MOVES… (er… Only Jim, Panos and me)
panos for (EPF) president then!
Herve, this thread isn’t under a photo or essay. Just another thread like Buzz.
Congratulations to all the finalist for making it, and to Alejandro for wining this one.
Best of luck for the conclusion of his project.
Cheers to all,
Armando
Thanks Jim, I will tell Panos we broke in the wrong place and to put back the M8s where he found them…
:-((((
Wow congratulations Alejandro,
Of the 11 finalists the essay that least looks like a conventional photo essay won. There is a lesson here for all of us.
Congratulations Alejandro and to all of the finalists.
Mike.
Luzz, Jim, Herve……….
:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
love it today……… nice and relaxed….
no more uptight comments… no more rules..
back to our regular programming…..
Life doesnt end or start with awards..
Are We Here for the LONG HAUL?????? or what,,…….????????
All, please be light, happy… go to the beach,
call a friend……
make love to your girl…..
life goes on…..
:)))))))))))
$10,000 is a small price to pay to imagine Jim spitting his cheerios all over his kitchen table this morning. :)
There were a couple of essays that I liked slightly more than Alejandro’s, but I can’t fault the selection. In reality, PJ’s pose portraits all the time, this is not much different on the surface — but it is much different in the result.
We all know how hard it is to complete something with no funding, worried about the day-to-day expenses, let alone the future. Can’t wait to to see what he can pull off with some time and peace of mind at his disposal.
My stupid vote would not have gone this way but congratulations to everyone who made it possible and participated. And may the grant money turn into great work.
great jury!
bravo
Congratulations Alejandro!!
(Please guys, give him a few minutes of limelight will you?
He’s going to have to go back to work soon..)
Alejandro,
Congratulations!!! You are big winner!
David and The Judges,
Excellent choice. Great idea. I hope it will be one of the biggest and prestigious award in photography world soon.
best regards from poland
Wonderful! Congratulations, Alejandro! And bravo to David and the judges… a choice that augurs well for both Burn and the EPF.
well done to all 11..
alejandro.
i love what you are trying to do and the way in which you are doing it – truely exploring the medium and towards an end which creats such striking illustrative documentary photography.
my hat is off to you, and the other ten.. looking forward to the books :ø)
DOWN with elevator music.. and upwards and onwards for you all..
pea’s, chip and a hearty slab of cod
david
and big ups to the look3 massv
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Congratulations Alejandro!
Bravo Alejandro,
An innovative new look!
Alberto
Bravo Alejandro! Be unique. That will take you there.
It would be dynamite if we rename Panos to Pandro Skoulidez and then only vote. It is a strategic move to get votes from Little Salvador. At least.
Pandro for President !!!
Where is DAH? Only LOOKin?
Can someone post some mug shots of LOOKers?
Congratulations……………………….great to see technique override content for once
I know we are way past the point of critiquing Alejandro’s work…he won, it’s over.
BUT…can someone please explain what is so great looking about his lighting technique?
I don’t even own a flash, am not a lover of artificial lighting but I am seriously wanting to understand…
To me this work looks severely overlit. I know he is trying to create an “unreal and mysterious” look but there are photographers like Gregory Crewdson who accomplish the same thing without having it look so over the top. I get it…it’s NOT REAL…but does it have to scream NOT REAL?
Obviously this is his intention, obviously the judges liked it.
I’d just like to know WHY? (Regarding the lighting)
……….global warming or a flash in the pan .Your choice