Sony World Photography Awards 2010

Honorary Jury

Commercial Categories

CHAIR Mark Sealy (UK), Director of Autograph – the Association of Black Photographers

Mark Sealy has a special interest in photography and its relationship to social change, identity politics and human rights. At Autograph he has initiated the production of over 40 publications, produced exhibitions, residency projects and commissioned artists globally. During his time with the organisation, Sealy has jointly initiated and developed a £7.96 million capital building project (Rivington Place) in partnership with the Institute of International Visual Arts. This is the first new build visual arts project to be built in London for over 40 years. He has guest lectured extensively throughout the UK and abroad including The Royal College of Art, Sothebys Art Institute and Harvard University, and has written for the several journals, was photography coordinator for the Africa 95 season and has been a member of the jury for World Press Photography. Sealy’s most recent curated project is, Disposable People: a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition which opened at Royal Festival Hall in London Oct 08 and Bangladesh 1971 for Autograph ABP at Rivington Place. His book project with Phaidon Press Limited titled “Different” on photography and identity with Professor Stuart Hall has received critical acclaim. Sealy was recently awarded the Hood Medal for services to photography by the Royal Photographic Society and is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University. His research focuses on photography and cultural violence.

Nadav Kander (UK) Photographer

Nadav Kander is recognized as one of the most original and highly regarded photographers of our time. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Kander, who was born in Israel but grew up in Johannesburg, began photographing at 13. Later, when drafted into the South African Air Force, he worked in the darkroom printing aerial photographs. His work appears in publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Another Man and Dazed & Confused. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Obama’s People, Kander’s 52 portraits of President Obama’s inaugural administration. Recent commissions include campaigns for Adidas, Dell, Levis, Rolex, Absolut, Stella Artois, Samsung, Puma and Nike. Exhibitions include ‘Obama’s People’ Flowers Gallery, London (2009) ‘Obama’s People’ Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2009), Yangtze From East to West, Flowers Gallery, London (2008), Shanghai Art Museum, China (2006), Keep your Distance , Palais de Tokyo (2005).

Kander was named International Photographer of the Year at the 7th Annual Lucie Awards in 2009 and has also received awards from the Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA, the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK and Epic in Europe. He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award in 2005 and 2007. Other accolades include winner of the Prix Pictet Earth 2009, and Silver Photographer of the Year Award at Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2008 in China. Kander has produced two books - Beauty’s Nothing (2001) and Night (2003), Obama’s People (2009). He lives in London and is represented by Flowers Gallery in London and Pekin Fine Arts in Beijing.

Chloe Limpkin (UK) Picture Director of Harper’s Bazaar

Chloe Limpkin worked as a freelance producer of fashion shoots with clients including L'Oreal, Diesel, Acne and Alessandro dell Acqua before going on to work on the Production team at the Rencontres d'Arles Festival in 2003. She stayed on in France to work as an Art Buyer at Ogilvy & Mather, (Paris) and since 2008 has been Picture Director of Harpers Bazaar, (UK) overseeing all photographic shoots from portraiture to beauty and covers. She is currently researching a book on the quality convergence of amateur and professional photography worldwide.

Scott Thode (US) Freelance Curator and Photo Editor

Scott Thode is currently the Deputy Picture Editor at Fortune Magazine. In 2007, he was nominated for a Lucie Award as Photo Editor of the Year. As a photographer Scott was the recipient of numerous photography awards and his work has been exhibited at The Bienalle Internazionale di Fotografia in Turin, Italy; Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France and The Colonnade Galle Washington, D.C. Scott teaches at The International Center for Photography and participates in many photo symposia, workshops and judges numerous photography awards. He is also on the Advisory Board of LOOK3 Photo Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2011 Scott will co-curate the festival with his wife, Kathy Ryan. Scott lives in New York City with Kathy and their daughter, Sylvie.

Photojournalism and Documentary Categories

CHAIR Aidan Sullivan (UK) Vice President, Getty Images

Aidan Sullivan started his career as a staff photographer for a local newspaper in the U.K. He then freelanced as a news photographer in Fleet Street covering stories, events and conflicts including Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and India. In 1986, he joined The Sunday Times as deputy picture editor, soon becoming the picture editor. In 1993, he joined the Sunday Times Magazine and was promoted to assistant editor. During this time Sullivan and two of his colleagues founded image.net, a leading distributor of high resolution publicity materials for major entertainment companies. image.net reinvented how entertainment giants distribute their publicity materials, by using a digital asset transfer system that Sullivan and his co-founders created. Getty Images acquired image.net in 2004 and he moved to Los Angeles to continue working with the image.net team. In 2005 he moved to New York and became Vice President of Photo Assignment for Getty Images, taking over assignments department including Orchard and Global assignment and creating the Reportage division. In the summer of 2008 he relocated back to London where he now runs the Photo Assignments for both Europe and North America.

Pablo Bartholomew (India) Photographer and educator

Pablo Bartholomew is a self-taught, Indian photographer. He was awarded first prize by World Press Photo in 1975 for his series on morphine addicts. In 1984, he won the World Press Picture of the Year for his iconic image of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. As a photojournalist, he documented societies in conflict and transition for over 20 years. His work has been featured in magazines like New York Times, Time, Life, Newsweek, Business Week, National Geographic, Geo, Der Spiegel, Figaro Magazine, Paris Match, Telegraph and the Sunday Times magazine, Guardian and Observer Magazines. As an artist he has exhibited internationally at the Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Another Asia”, Netherlands,2006; ChobiMela, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006; Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia 2006; Month of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 2007; Recontres d'Arles, Festival of photography, Arles, France, 2007; Private Spaces Public Places, Newark Museum, USA, 2007 & Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Act of Faith”, Netherlands 2007, Bodhi Art, New York 2008, Bodhi Berlin 2009 and Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2009.

Roberto Koch (Italy) Publisher, Contrasto and Founder of FORMA (the international Centre of Photography) in Milan

Roberto Koch began his career in photography after completing his PhD in Electronics Engineering at the University of Rome. During the 70s and 80s he photographed for the main international magazines events in areas such as Northern Ireland, Western Sahara, Egypt, Russia, India. Koch has exhibited his work in several international and Italian museums and galleries and has published a number of books of his photographs. Roberto is the founder of the photo agency CONTRASTO. Contrasto has become the most important production source of photography in Italy and has achieved important results in the field of photojournalism, being very active also in the promotion of all events related to high quality photography, like exhibitions, and public events on photography. Contrasto is also a publishing house created in 1994 with 250 titles published so far including the most prominent names of international photography. Contrasto has curated several exhibitions of photographers such Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Gianni Berengo Gardin, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, David Goldblatt and many others. Roberto has been member of World Press Photo Jury in 3 different years, and member of the Jury for the Henri Cartier-Bresson award in 2003. He is also President and founder of Forma, International Center of Photography in Milano.

Monica Allende (UK) Picture Editor, Sunday Times Magazine

Monica Allende is the Picture Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine. Having joined the magazine in 2002, she is responsible for all aspects of photography. In the past year, she has also developed and edited Spectrum - a new section devoted to powerful photojournalism from around the world. After graduating with a political-science degree from the University of London, Monica worked as picture editor for DK, APA and Pearson publishers before moving into newspapers; The Independent followed by The Sunday Times. She was recently commissioned by CAM to curate an exhibition about the Darfur conflict, which is currently being shown in Spain. Monica also teaches workshops on photography and is a committee member of the Royal Photographic society. While Monica has been working at The Sunday Times Magazine, the publication has received several awards for its photography, including: Picture Editor's award for Best Magazine in 2006; Best Feature in Photojournalism category for Amnesty International and Best Photography at the Design Awards.

Fine Art Categories

CHAIR Bill Hunt (US), Co-founder of the Hasted Hunt Gallery

Hunt is the Co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York, USA. The critically acclaimed Hasted Hunt gallery represents an international group of contemporary artists with work that ranges from portraiture, traditional landscape to conceptual photography. Hasted Hunt is a member of AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers). Mr Hunt has also been a photography collector for 35 years and a dealer for 12.

Trisha Ziff (Mexico) Curator, scholar and film maker

Trisha Ziff is a curator of photography and documentary film maker whose films, focus on the photographic image. A Guggenheim scholar, her exhibitions have been seen at major international museums including: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; California Museum of Photography, international Center for Photography New York and Centro de la Imagen Mexico City. Her exhibitions have looked at Mexican photography, the event of Bloody Sunday in Ireland, Hidden Truths and the famous image of Che Guevara, by Korda, Guerillero Heroica amongst many others. Currently she is curating an exhibition with CMP, California of the work of Mexican photographer, Maya Goded, “Mexican Women in the Shadows - sex workers, witches and the disappeared”. She is also instrumental in organizing the retrospective of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides for 2010 and is collaborating with composer/photographer Michael Nyman on his video and photo works Distractions which will be show in 2010. In Film, Trisha Ziff directed Chevolution, 2008 Magnolia Films, Red Envelope and Fortissimo Films and is currently in pre-production on her next film, LA Maleta Mexicana, the narrative of the recovery of images from the Spanish Civil War which she was personally involved in securing; images by Robert Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro. Trisha Ziff lives in Mexico City with her son Julio.

Michelle Dunn Marsh (USA) is Co-Publisher, Aperture Magazine; Editor-at-Large, Chronicle Books

Michelle Dunn Marsh is an advocate for photography and design. Affiliated with the Aperture Foundation since 1996, she currently serves as co-publisher of Aperture magazine. She also develops photo-based book projects for other institutions and private clients as an award-winning book designer and as editor-at-large for Chronicle Books. She has worked in publishing for 15 years in a variety of capacities, and has lectured nationally on art book design and publishing. Key books include a recent survey of rock and roll photographs selected by Graham Nash, and monographs by Catherine Chalmers, Carrie Mae Weems, Jock Sturges, Paul Strand, and Lino Tagliapietra, among many others. She holds an MS in Publishing from Pace University, and is on the advisory board to the Palm Springs Photo Festival and the Board of Governors for Bard College, where she received her bachelor's degree.

Bohnchang Koo (Korea), photographer

Bohnchang Koo currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea. Koo's work has always dealt with the passage of time. He captures still and fragile moments, attempting to reveal the unseen breath of life. He is a most highly regarded teacher and curator who earned his diploma in photography at Fachhochschule, Hamburg, Germany in 1985. He had over 30 solo exhibitions in Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Denmark and USA where he is represented by Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York and Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris. He curated numerous exhibitions including the show on Korean contemporary photography at FotoFest 2000, Houston with Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin and was an art director for Daegu Photo Biennale, 2008. Koo is presently working as chairman at Geonhi art foundation since 2000.