Category Archives: Awards

New work: Jan Steinhilber for Hummer, Isklar, and Nokia

We’ve got a triple shot of Jan for you today: . A personal project featuring a Hummer prototype. “It’s a 3D piece that was created especially for these images, taking a prototype as reference that never made it into the markets,” Jan told me via email. He shot the backgrounds you see here but materialized [...]

MPA names Best Magazine Advertising Campaigns of the Year

This week, the Magazine Publishers of America announced the finalists for the 2010 Kelly Awards, which honor “agency creative teams and advertising clients whose magazine ad campaigns demonstrate both creative excellence and effectiveness in meeting campaign objectives.” The selections were made by a panel of 30-plus judges from the big ad agencies. “Judges remarked on [...]

Nadav Kander honored by Germany’s prestigious Lead Awards

. Nadav’s portrait portfolio “Obama’s People,” commissioned by Kathy Ryan for The New York Times Magazine and later published in Stern, has been awarded a commendation in the Portrait of the Year category in Germany’s Lead Awards. He is one of nine photographers to be selected for the Portrait shortlist; at a ceremony on March [...]

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell to be honored at the Gold Rush Awards

. . Black List collaborators Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell will be honored at the second-annual Gold Rush Awards, scheduled for March 18 at the Red Bull Space in New York City and hosted by MTV vet Sway Calloway. The awards, which recognize “outstanding individuals in the arts for establishing groundbreaking projects,” will also honor [...]

Kai Uwe Gundlach on shortlist for Sony World Photography Awards

. The shortlist for the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards has been announced, and we were thrilled to see that our own Kai Uwe Gundlach is among the nominees in the advertising category. Congratulations, Kai! Here’s a screen shot of one of his nominated images, taken from the WPA’s website: . . .

Mobius names Fulvio Bonavia “Photographer of the Year” for his boundary-pushing imagery

. Our congratulations to Fulvio Bonavia! He’s just been named Photographer of the Year by the Mobius Awards. The Mobius Awards have been around since 1971, but this particular award is new. From the press release: “The award represents the competition’s intent to document and celebrate the image qualities that make a photographer’s body of [...]

Congratulations to our SPD awards finalists: Nadav Kander, Craig Cutler, Hans Gissinger, and Nino Muñoz

. The Society of Publication Designers has announced the medal finalists for its 45th Annual Magazine Design Competition, and we’re beyond pleased to report that four of our photographers have made this prestigious list: . Craig Cutler, for “Everything You Know About Muscle Is Wrong,” shot for the October 2009 issue of Men’s Health. Here [...]

Deadline for Sony World Photo awards coming up fast

… The deadline to enter the Sony World Photography Awards, which as its website notes is much more than just a competition—in fact, it’s a weeklong celebration in Cannes—is coming up soon. January 4, to be precise. David Zimmerman was the 2009 L’Iris D’Or winner: .. .. Nadav Kander is part of the Honorary Jury, [...]

Nadav Kander wins the Prix Pictet

… … It has been quite a week for Nadav. On Monday at the Lucies, the IPA named him International Photographer of the Year in the editorial category. And yesterday, at the Passage de Retz in Paris, Kofi Annan announced that Nadav is the winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet. Congratulations, Nadav! We’re chuffed, to [...]

Congratulations, Nadav (updated)

… Last night at the Lucies, Nadav Kander was presented with the International Photography Award for Photographer of the Year in the editorial category. Well done, Nadav! … UPDATE: I just received some great photos of that glittery night… … … …. …. … … ……                   [...]