Andrew Jackson is drawn to the idea of migration, of immigration, of lives recreated and born again in a new place. Though he was born in Dudley, United Kingdom, much of his own family moved from the Caribbean to the UK in the post-war migration, a subject that he explored in his project, From a Small Island. His new project, Everything Bad is Good for Something, examines migration from Eastern Europe.
Andrew completed an MA in Documentary Photography at Newport (University of Wales) and has since embarked on both commissioned and personal works. These works have sought to examine our emotional responses both to the spaces that surround us but also to the emotional spaces that exist between ourselves and others.His work is held in both private and public collections and he was recently nominated for the Prix Pictet photography Prize.
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Awards, Grants, and Competitions | Deadlines and Recipients | August 2012
Deadlines
The New York Photo Awards : August 17
The Times/Canon Young Photographer of the Year : August 19
The PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award : September 1
Bradford Fellowship in Photography : September 3
CGAP Photo Contest 2012 : September 3
BJP’s 2012 International Photography Award : September 15
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize : September 15
Format Festival 2013 : September 19

Photo © Kai Wiedenhöfer/ Fondation Carmignac Gestion
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award : September 30 | Related: Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award’s director speaks of prize’s importance
Terry O’Neill/Tag Award 2012 : November 22
Not really a competition, but….
Auto de Fe Magazine : Call for submissions

Photo © Carl de Keyzer
Prix Pictet 2012 Shortlist (FT)
The Deutsche Börse photography prize – review (Guardian)

Photo © Rémi Ochlik
Visa pour l’Image Perpignan 2012 exhibitions (Visa)
Announcing the 2012 Photocrati Fund Winner and Top Finalists
Torgovnik’s powerful portraits from Rwanda take top prize at Arles (Guardian)
High-resolution slideshow: 12 photo finalists Prix Pictet 2012
Lens Culture just published a high-resolution slide show of 115 images presenting portfolios of the 12 finalists for the prestigious Prix Pictet. squido lense . The broad theme this year is Power.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson has been exploring notions of identity and representation in his photographs, and his most recent work, From a Small Island, examines the legacy of post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain by his own family members. Andrew was born in Dudley in the West Midlands of the UK. He completed an
MA in Documentary Photography at Newport (University of Wales) and has since
embarked on both commissioned and personal works. His work is held in
both private and public collections and he was recently nominated for the Prix
Pictet photography Prize.
we’d be leaving home forever, but when my father hugged me on the dockside, for
some reason, I knew I’d never see him again…I still see my father; you know, in
my mind at least… after all these years…but I can’t see his face….no matter how
hard I try…I never see his face.” Amy Jackson
Andrew Jackson, Couple on sofa
Couple on sofa,
Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands, 2009
From the The Hidden Landscape series
Website – WrittenByLight.com
Andrew Jackson was born in Dudley in the West Midlands. He completed an MA in Documentary Photography at Newport (University of Wales) and has since embarked on both commissioned and personal works. These works have sought to examine our emotional responses both to the spaces that surround us but also to the emotional spaces that exist between ourselves and others. He has a specific interest in exploring notions of identity and representation and is currently examining, within From a Small Island, the legacy of post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain. His work is held in both private and public collections and he was recently nominated for the Prix Pictet photography Prize
Shared Vision: A Conversation with Sondra Gilman, Celso Gonzalez-Falla, and Mitch Epstein
In the mid-70s, Mitch Epstein was exhibiting some of his earliest work, some of the images first to elevate color photography into the realm of fine art, joining the ranks of Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. Right around that time, Sondra Gilman, who, along with her husband Celso Gonzalez-Falla, has been repeated ranked among the top photo collectors in the world by ARTnews, purchased her first photograph.
She had “tripped over a [Eugène] Atget show” at MoMA, she tells New York Social Diary in an interview (accompanied by dozens of images of the collection at home in their Upper East Side townhouse), and “literally had an epiphany.” She ended up buying three $250 prints at a time when photographs “had no value.” Since then, the couple’s collection has grown to several hundred vintage prints, and their value, surely to no one’s surprise today, has grown astronomically.
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Aperture Foundation presents a conversation with Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla alongside Epstein, whose work features prominently in the Shared Vision collection (at Aperture through April 21, 2012). This ambitious exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville, curated by Ben Thompson and Paul Karabinis, brings together their most iconic images reflecting the diverse nature of an entire century of photography. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by MOCA and produced by Aperture, including historical context for each image and photographer as well as curatorial remarks.
Epstein, who won the Prix Pictet in 2011, the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters in 2008, and the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award in 2004, also appears in the New York Times Magazine Photographs, edited by Kathy Ryan, and Aperture issue 168. A former student of Garry Winogrand at Cooper Union in the early ’70s, his work has since landed in the collections of the MoMA, the Whitney, the Getty Museum, SFMOMA, and Tate Modern in London. While his projects often start as independent explorations or excursions, he has a strong inclination to “engage with issues beyond self-reflexive ones,” he tells BOMB in a lengthy interview about how some of his latest projects including American Power, progressed from an editorial assignment, to a print series, to a book.
Watch a great video shot at Tate Modern of Epstein discussing his latest series and exploring what makes a strong photograph. Check out photos from our the walkthrough of the Shared Vision exhibition with Marcelle Polednik, Director of MOCA Jacksonville and the collectors, and the VIP walkthrough during last weekend’s AIPAD Photography Show. And find images of the installation as well as an index of the work on view at DLK Collection.
Shared Vision: A Conversation with Sondra Gilman, Celso Gonzalez-Falla, and Mitch Epstein
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 6:30 pm
FREE
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
Mitch Epstein’s series American Power wins Prix Pictet
The winner of the third Prix Pictet photography award, on the theme of Growth, was announced in Paris on March 17. landscapers .
Black River Productions, Ltd. / Mitch Epstein.
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
American photographer Mitch Epstein won the top prize for his series entitled American Power, exploring different aspects of the power industry in the USA. john nichols .
Mitch Epstein said, “I hope this prize draws attention to the ever more urgent need for governments and private enterprise to invest substantial sums into alternative energies that are healthier and safer than fossil fuel and nuclear. And the need for consumers to consume less.”
We are pleased to present Mitch Epstein’s work in a high-resolution slideshow. Also included is an in-depth statement about this important and timely project.
Black River Productions, Ltd. / Mitch Epstein.
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Black River Productions, Ltd. / Mitch Epstein.
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Prix Pictet photography prize: 12 finalists
Twelve great photographers have been chosen as finalists for the prestigious Prix Pictet award, which focuses this year on the theme of “Growth”. Lens Culture is happy to present an overview of the nominated work in a high-resolution slideshow. The winner will be announced in Paris on Thursday March 17 by HE Kofi Annan.
© Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Nominated for The Hell of Copper, 2009
According to the official statement:
“The jury looked for photographic series of the highest artistic merit that also presented a convincing narrative about the critical issues of sustainability and in particular, the theme of Growth. Growth, which lifts countless millions out of poverty, also has a huge and potentially unsustainable environmental cost. It presents one of the great conundrums facing humanity in the early decades of the twenty-first century.”
The shortlisted artists are:
Christian Als (Denmark)
Edward Burtynsky (Canada)
Stéphane Couturier (France)
Mitch Epstein (US)
Chris Jordan (US)
Yeondoo Jung (Korea)
Vera Lutter (Germany)
Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) Taryn Simon (US)
Thomas Struth (Germany)
Guy Tillim (South Africa)
Michael Wolf (Germany)
For more information about this year’s Prix Pictet, see the full article in Lens Culture.