Aperture Portfolio Prize Winners Announced
Untitled 9, 2006 © Michael Corridore
Congratulations to Michael Corridore, the winner of the 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize. From over 1,000 entries, the judges awarded the top prize to this Australian photographer for his project Angry Black Snake. Five runners-up were also selected: Saudi Arabia’s Jowhara AlSaud; Colin Blakely of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Columbia, Missouri’s Joe Johnson; Los Angeles–based Peruvian artist Hector Mata; and Elizabeth Pedinotti of San Francisco.
Aperture Foundation is also delighted to announce, for the first time ever, a special series of limited-edition prints by the Portfolio Prize winner, Michael Corridore, and runners-up: Jowhara AlSaud; Colin Blakely; Joe Johnson; Hector Mata; and Elizabeth Pedinotti. Affordably priced, the purpose is to encourage the collection of work by emerging artists.
Click here for information on entering the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
Tags: Aperture Portfolio Prize, Colin Blakely, Elizabeth Pedinotti, Hector Mata, Joe Johnson, Jowhara AlSaud, Michael Corridore
April 11th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Micheal Corridore-Excellent winner choice!
April 11th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Unbelievable. the Salon is back. Adams and Lange or spinning a 3000 rpms in there graves. You should be ashamed. Pay attention. As for me, a negative is not a qualifier of excellence, no matter how big the camera is. There are Grandmothers taking better images. These images would have been laughed out of an late 70′s art school photography department. As they should have been.
April 11th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Correction: but since you’re not so much on that I doubt you’ll publish. All the same I stand by what is, and what isn’t.
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April 11th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Unbelievable. the Salon is back. Adams and Lange are spinning at 3000 rpms in their graves. You should be ashamed. Pay attention. As for me, a negative is not a qualifier of excellence, no matter how big the camera is. There are Grandmothers taking better images. These images would have been laughed out of any late 70’s art school photography department. As they should have been.
http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=2375
April 12th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I with draw my comments. please cancel my subscription. I am out of my depth.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Well, since my comments still stand, so they will. Apparently the moderator is as asleep as the judges where, and have been in previous years. Or is “comfortable” a more apt term? Is there anybody out there with the balls to call me on this? Yes, I must be out of my depth, completely. The winner’s series should be re-titled “Smoke and Mirrors”.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
APERTURE: It Opens and Closes to suit the light.