Annie Leibovitz and Lisa Saltzman Debut Photography Prize

Six photographers are within the operating for a brand new pictures award that has been launched by Annie Leibovitz in collaboration with philanthropist and photographer Lisa Saltzman. They’re vying for the Saltzman-Leibovitz Pictures Prize, which can award $20,000 in complete to the creatives, who’re based mostly in Ukraine, the U.S., Nigeria, Romania, the Netherlands and France.

The award-winning Saltzman, who additionally works as a movie producer, began the Saltzman Household Basis in 2020 to honor her late mother and father, Muriel and Ralph Saltzman, who have been artwork collectors, patrons and philanthropists.

Elena Kalinichenko of Ukraine; Ka’Vozia Glynn of the U.S.; Reward Hassan of Nigeria; Toma Hurduc of Romania; Trâm Nguyễn Quang of the Netherlands, and Zélie Hallosserie of France have been short-listed. They already know Leibovitz past her fame. Every up-and-coming sharpshooter had a mentorship together with her, when she was Ikea’s artist in residence. The winner of the highest prize will stroll away with a $10,000 award, whereas the second by way of six-place finalists will every be handed $5,000, $2,000, $1,500, $1,000 and $500, respectively.

Their skills are being critiqued by Drew Sawyer, pictures curator on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork; the curator and scholar Isolde Brielmaier; freelance photograph editor Kira Pollack; Hauser & Wirth’s affiliate director Mary Grace Reeder, and Condé Nast’s head inventive director Raul Martinez.

Regardless of having lived and labored overseas, Kalinichenko selected to remain in Kyiv in the course of the struggle, working in a company job and pursuing pictures on the facet. Final yr she gave up the workplace job and has targeted her digital camera on the frontlines, in the course of the struggle between Ukraine and Russia, in addition to cultural traditions like carol singers.

By her personal account, Glynn, a 23-year-old who divides her time between Georgia and Florida, is inquisitive about “how pictures and different image-making can deliver a lot wanted modifications on the earth for on a regular basis individuals.”

The Lagos-based Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and graphic designer whose portfolio consists of self-portraits that mirror her travails from despair to therapeutic, in addition to work that exhibits the ability of progress and self-discovery. Adept at documentary pictures, Hurdoc teaches on the Centrul de Resurse in Fotografie in his house metropolis of Bucharest, and has proven his work in Romania, France and Norway.

As a cognitive neuroscience scholar in Amsterdam, Quang dives into themes of reminiscence and nostalgia, as evidenced by her “Life at House” mission. Utilizing Belgium as her base, the French-born Hallosserie has been chronicling the lives of migrants in northern France, who’re making an attempt to relocate to the U.Okay. In what the displaced name “the Sport,” they’re making an attempt to cross the English Channel from Calais.

In the meantime, Leibovitz’s 50-year profession will likely be within the highlight this spring, when the Mint Museum unveils “Annie. Leibovitz/Work,” which can embody celeb portraits and a few photographs which have seldom been proven publicly earlier than. The present will run within the Charlotte, N.C., museum from April 27 by way of Aug. 31.