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ITS#SEVEN. MINI Clubman Photo Award at Trieste
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Fifteen talented young photographers from Italy, France, Japan, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, the UK and the USA have made it to the finals of ITS#PHOTO, the part of International Talent Support which MINI has devoted to young international artists in the field of photography. They include Mashid Mohadjerin, winner of the ITS#PHOTOweb competition. Their work, on the theme of "The Other", will be exhibited in Trieste on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July. The winner of ITS#PHOTO gets not only the cash prize of €10,000 but also the chance to set up an exclusive photography shoot with the famous photographer Sarah Moon.
This is the fourth year running that MINI is taking part in ITS# - International Talent Support (www.itsweb.org), the multidisciplinary platform for young artistic talent set up in 2001 and developed since then by Eve, with the support of Diesel (ITS#FASHION's presenting partner from the very first year), MINI (an ITS#PHOTO partner) and YKK (an ITS#ACCESSORIES partner).
ITS#PHOTO's subject this year was "The Other", and for the first time it included an online section called "ITS#PHOTOweb". As part of ITS#PHOTO, MINI offered the MINI Clubman Photo Award for the winner of the section devoted to young talent from the best international schools of photography.
The young photographer, to be named at the award ceremony, will get €10,000, publication of his/her service on MINI International, and an unprecedented chance to do a professional photography shoot alongside the famous fashion photographer Sarah Moon: the results of that collaboration will be published in a prestigious Italian magazine.
Trieste exhibition and award ceremony; patroness Victoria Cabello
Last April the ITS#PHOTO expert judging panel ? the ITS# team and Denis Curti, artistic director of ITS#PHOTO and founder of Forma Centro Internazionale di Fotografia ? picked fifteen of the projects sent in by young photographers, many of them students at twelve well-known art colleges in Italy, France, Japan, Israel, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
On Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July the work of all these finalists is to be on display, and the prize-giving itself to take place, at the former Central Fishmarket in Trieste. The grand patroness of the event will be Victoria Cabello, and the special guest of the ITS#PHOTO exhibition will be Maria Giulia Giorgiani, winner of the MINI Clubman ITS#SIX Tour, whose joint productions with Gianni Berengo Gardin have been published in GQ magazine.
The ITS#PHOTO finalists and their schools
Here are the names of the finalists in line for the MINI Clubman Photo Award, in alphabetical order:
- Celine Clanet (F), photographer and graphic designer who graduated in 1999 from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France
- Venetia Dearden (UK), of the London College of Communication, United Kingdom
- Kirk Ellingham (UK), of Newport School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales, United Kingdom
- Martine Fougeron (F), of the International Center of Photography, USA
- Gianmaria Gava (I), an Italian photographer living and working in Vienna
? Lea Golda Holterman (IL), of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel
? Asa Johannesson (S), of the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
- Matthieu Lavanchy (CH) and James Thom (CH), of the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Switzerland
? Jai Lennard (USA), of the School of Visual Arts, New York
? Kazutaka Nagashima (J), of Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
? Norma Rossetti (I), a student at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Italy
? Serena Salvatori (I), of the Escuela de fotografia Centro de Imagen, Spain
? Carly Steinbrunn (F), of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France
- Debora Vrizzi (I), of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia, Italy.
Also in Trieste: the five ITS#PHOTOweb finalists and the winner
As well as these fourteen talented young artists picked by the ITS#PHOTO panel there will be the Belgian photographer Mashid Mohadjerin, of Iranian origin, who recently won ITS#PHOTOweb, the online competition for all enthusiastic photographers who cared to submit a photographic project on the theme of this year's ITS#PHOTO, "The Other".
Mashid's project, entitled "The Other Side of Migration", was selected from over 200 works sent in for the competition's panel to judge, and he wins an opportunity to compete with international photography's most creative young talent in the ITS#PHOTO contest.
Dora Budor (Croatia), Chiara Guarducci (Italy), Marco Monari (Italy), Escapista Escapista (Italy) and Dora Rettore (Italy) were the other five finalists picked by the ITS#PHOTOweb jury; all have been invited to Trieste to enjoy the heady international creative atmosphere that the ITS#SEVEN finals always manage to produce. Their works are on display at www.itsphotoweb.it alongside that of the winner. All the information about ITS#PHOTO will also be made available on MINISpace, the new multimedia platform where details can be found of all MINI's initiatives in the world of photography, design and lifestyle.
For further details please contact
Paride Vitale
MINI Communication and PR
Telephone: +39 02 5161 0710 Fax: +39 02 5161 0416
e-mail: Paride.Vital@bmw.it
Media website: www.press.bmwgroup.com - http://bmw.lulop.com
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