I vincitori, Armida Gandini per il premio 'Best Single Work' e Matthew Humphreys per il premio 'Best Project, sono stati annunciati il 16 maggio all'inaugurazione della mostra dei finalisti a seguito delle scelte dei curatori Marinella Paderni e Paul di Felice

La selezione delle 20 opere e progetti finalisti è stata fatta dal comitato di selezione internazionale del premio:
Jim Casper, LensCulture, Parigi, Francia
Clare Grafik, Head of exhibitions, Photographers Gallery, Londra, UK
Hripsime Visser, Curator of Photography at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Bas Vroege, Director of Paradox, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi


Paul di Felice

Paul di Felice

Paul is Doctor of Visual Arts and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy and in charge of the Visual Arts Laboratory at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is representation and deconstruction in contemporary photography. He has been a workshop leader of the annual Art Workshop organized by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain in collaboration with University of Luxembourg, since 1998. He also works as an art critic and as an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions. He is an active member of AICA and co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Since 1984 he is co-editor and co-publisher of Café-Crème edition, an international art and photography magazine and edition. He has been frequently invited as a curator to international photography meetings and as a jury member for exhibitions and contemporary art biennials. He has been invited to international photography meetings such as Pingyao International Photo Festival (China, 2008) and Les Rencontres d’Arles – Photographie (France, 2013-2008). He has been frequently invited as jury member for exhibitions and was head of jury for Backlight Triennale Price, Tampere, Finland. Since 2006 Paul works as art critic for lacritique.org.
 
Marinella Paderni

Marinella Paderni

Marinella è critica d’arte contemporanea e curatrice indipendente. È docente presso l’Università IULM di Milano, l’Accademia di Belle Arti “Carrara” di Bergamo e l’ISIA di Faenza. Collabora con le riviste internazionali d’arte contemporanea “Frieze”, “Flash Art” e “Exibart”. La sua attività critica e curatoriale è incentrata sulle espressioni artistiche contemporanee e sulla fenomenologia tra i diversi linguaggi dell’arte (soprattutto fotografia, video, performance) con altri ambiti culturali, quali la scienza, l’architettura, il cinema, la danza. I suoi studi critici e teorici sono confluiti nella pubblicazione di numerosi saggi per libri, cataloghi e riviste d’arte, come pure nella partecipazione a conferenze e seminari sulla contemporaneità. Nel 2010 ha pubblicato con la casa editrice Johan & Levi il libro intitolato Laboratorio Italia. La fotografia nell’arte contemporanea con approfondimenti sugli artisti delle ultime generazioni che utilizzano la fotografia quale linguaggio di reinvenzione dell’arte. In ambito fotografico ha curato diverse mostre collettive e monografiche, tra cui vanno annoverati alcuni progetti site specific per il festival di Fotografia Europea di Reggio Emilia (edizioni 2007, 2010, 2013) e la curatela del concorso fotografico Beyondmemory (edizione 2012) e Lapsus (edizione 2013) per Celeste Network. Tra le tematiche di maggior interesse, da oltre un decennio approfondisce la condizione urbana e l’emergere di nuove istanze culturali sui temi della città, del paesaggio, delle relazioni tra arte e architettura, delle economie informali. A tale proposito ha curato alcune mostre di riferimento sulla rappresentazione del paesaggio contemporaneo, tra le quali Alto Impatto Ambientale, 2003; Suburbia, 2004 (in collaborazione con Marco Senaldi); Ground Zero. Lo spazio del nulla, 2005; la rassegna d’interventi site specific Open Air presso l’Orto Botanico di Parma (dal 2005 al 2008); White Depths, personale della video-artista Salla Tykkä presso EX3 di Firenze (2011). Nel 2008 ha curato il progetto Same Democracy (in collaborazione con Elvira Vannini), prima mostra italiana sul tema delle pratiche artistiche e curatoriali ispirate al modello dell’open source, e un progetto pubblico sul tema della sostenibilità in arte, architettura e economia della cultura dal titolo We have a dream (Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, in collaborazione con Luca Molinari e Pier Luigi Sacco) con installazioni site specific degli artisti Tomas Saraceno e Marjetica Potrč.
 
Jim Casper

Jim Casper

Jim is founder and director of LensCulture, an international photographic arts organization based in Paris. He is publisher and editor of LensCulture’s popular international online magazine which explores contemporary photography, media, and world cultures. In its November 2012 yearly round-up of the best photography websites, publications and galleries, the UK Guardian wrote: “LensCulture features essays, slideshows, audio and visual interviews and incisive criticism, making it one of the most authoritative and wide-ranging sites.” LensCulture hosts the annual international photography portfolio review conference in Paris, LensCulture FotoFest Paris, and sponsors the yearly Lens Culture International Exposure Awards competition for photography and multimedia. Jim also produces a series of audio and video interviews, titled “LensCulture Conversations with Photographers”. He serves on juries of several international photo competitions, curates shows, lectures, conducts workshops, and writes about photography. In 2013 Jim was juror in the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition.
 
Clare Grafik

Clare Grafik

Clare is a curator and Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, where she has been working since 2003. She has worked on a range of exhibitions including a retrospective of Keith Arnatt's photography, and with photographers Taryn Simon and Antoine d'Agata on solo exhibitions. She is the photography editor for Contemporary Magazine. and has written features on Anri Sala, Alan Sekula, Carlos Garaicoa and Lise Sarfati.
 
Hripsime Visser

Hripsime Visser

Hripsime is Conservator of Photography at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam since 1990. Before that, she has taught at several academies and institutions such as the Institut Francais in The Hague and ZWN in Delft. At the Stedelijk Museum, Visser has co-curated various exhibitions, among which Lewis Baltz (1992), Koen Wessing (1993), Hans Aarsman, Anton Corbijn and Bertien van Manen (1994), Oscar van Alphen (1995), Emmy Andriesse, Gerald van der Kaap and 100 x Photo, 100 Photographs from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1996), Boris Mikhailov (1997/8), Thomas Struth (1998), Beat Streuli/Gabriele Basilico (2000), Ed van der Elsken (2002), Sam Taylor-Wood (2002 and 2003), Jitka Hanzlova, and Footloose: Runa Islam, Vibeke Tandberg, Valérie Jouve (2001), Sam Taylor-Wood (2002), Rineke Dijkstra (2004 ) and Mapping the City (2007), Luigi Gariglio, Portraits in Prisons, Rome (2007). Broomberg & Chanarin (2007). She has also contributed texts to many books, catalogues, journals and magazines, such as Vrij Nederland, Perspektief (Rotterdam): Magazine for Photography, European Photography and Kunstschrif; ,lectures and is member on several boards and advisory committees of institutions related to photography.
 
Bas Vroege

Bas Vroege

Bas is director of Paradox in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and photography at Academie St. Joost in Breda. He co-founded and directed Perspektief, centre for photography in Rotterdam, and the Fotografie Biënnale Rotterdam between 1980-1992. He acted as the editor in chief of Perspektief Magazine from 1980-1995. 
Since 2003 Vroege lectures in editorial and curatorial practice at the Masters in Film and Photographic Studies (MaFPS) at the University Leiden. He is member of the International Board of Advisors of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China) and of the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo (Amsterdam).
 As an independent curator, he has been responsible for a number of cross-media festivals and exhibitions. For the 2009 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival he curated the exhibition Multivocal Histories. As director of Paradox, Bas produces photography related projects (exhibitions, books, films, websites) driven by a social agenda, such as Go No Go (on migration in Europe, with photographer Ad van Denderen). 

As a photographer and curator, Bas has been responsible for a number of cross-media festivals and exhibitions such as: Obsessions – From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace (Foto Biennale Enschede, 1995), Digital territories (Rotterdam Festivals/DEAF, 1996), Avatar (dealing with the notion of the multiple personality in digital society, 1998, Amsterdam) and EXPERIENCE (Foto Biennale Rotterdam, 2003). For the University of Sunderland (UK) and the International Photography Research Network (IPRN), he curated a symposium on the representation of work in photography in 2005. He is involved in the project OswiecimNow, dealing with the post-war history of Auschwitz. As an advisor he has worked for several institutions such as the Mondriaan Foundation (1993-1995), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (1998-2001), the MFA photography programme at St. Joost Academy in Breda (1999-2002), the bachelor photography programme of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (2002-2004). In 1995-1996 he was part of the committee appointed by the Council for Advanced Studies that reviewed the visual arts educational institutions in the Netherlands. 
He became a member of the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo in 2006.