NOMINATION
From the ten nominees selected by Simon Baker, artistic director for the 2014 edition, the Executive Committee of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, chaired by Stuart Gulliver, Chief Executive of HSBC Group, named two winners: Delphine Burtin and Akiko Takizawa.
The nominees 2014 are : Delphine Burtin, Marion Gambin, Weicheng Hua, Zhang Kechun, Emeric Lhuisset, Romain Mader, Pauline Miserez, Regine Petersen, Stéphanie Roland and Akiko Takizawa.
Each year, an artistic director, appointed to bring a new vision to the award, makes a preselection of a dozen candidates. He presents his choices to the Executive Committee, which selects the two winners. In 2014, 487 portfolios were submitted to the artistic director.
Simon Baker, artistic director and curator of photography and International art at the Tate Modern in London, had this to say about the 2014 edition of the prize:
"The work this year was excellent and came from extremely diverse experiences and practices. The ten final candidates reflected this plurality: we saw documentary projects covering both contemporary events (Syria) and past ones (falling meteorites in the 1950s), personal projects on the themes of friendship and family, reflections on the landscape and the environment (particularly in China), and more conceptual and formal works. The dominant trend was that of the “new documentary,” thematic photo essays addressing a particular subject, like retirement homes and matrimonial tourism, by relying on a variety of images, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and photographs of events of activities. Beyond their determination to tell stories visually, the artists, especially the finalists, stood out for their excellent technique, demonstrating an incredible range of approaches and colors, in black-and-white, on digital and film. These ten finalists reflect a wide diversity in terms of background (Europe and Asia in particular) and gender (the majority were women, who were also very present overall). It goes without saying that the works of the finalists, and of all the artists who participated in the contest, included hundreds of wonderful photographs, offering proof of the power of contemporary photography".
From the ten nominees selected by Simon Baker, artistic director for the 2014 edition, the Executive Committee of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, chaired by Stuart Gulliver, Chief Executive of HSBC Group, named two winners: Delphine Burtin and Akiko Takizawa.
The nominees 2014 are : Delphine Burtin, Marion Gambin, Weicheng Hua, Zhang Kechun, Emeric Lhuisset, Romain Mader, Pauline Miserez, Regine Petersen, Stéphanie Roland and Akiko Takizawa.
Each year, an artistic director, appointed to bring a new vision to the award, makes a preselection of a dozen candidates. He presents his choices to the Executive Committee, which selects the two winners. In 2014, 487 portfolios were submitted to the artistic director.
Simon Baker, artistic director and curator of photography and International art at the Tate Modern in London, had this to say about the 2014 edition of the prize:
"The work this year was excellent and came from extremely diverse experiences and practices. The ten final candidates reflected this plurality: we saw documentary projects covering both contemporary events (Syria) and past ones (falling meteorites in the 1950s), personal projects on the themes of friendship and family, reflections on the landscape and the environment (particularly in China), and more conceptual and formal works. The dominant trend was that of the “new documentary,” thematic photo essays addressing a particular subject, like retirement homes and matrimonial tourism, by relying on a variety of images, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and photographs of events of activities. Beyond their determination to tell stories visually, the artists, especially the finalists, stood out for their excellent technique, demonstrating an incredible range of approaches and colors, in black-and-white, on digital and film. These ten finalists reflect a wide diversity in terms of background (Europe and Asia in particular) and gender (the majority were women, who were also very present overall). It goes without saying that the works of the finalists, and of all the artists who participated in the contest, included hundreds of wonderful photographs, offering proof of the power of contemporary photography".