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Daylight/CDS Photo Awards: Winners Announced!

Written by Taj

It is with great enthusiasm that we make this announcement! We are humbled by and grateful for the positive response and interest to this, the first year, of the Daylight / Center for Documentary Studies Photo Awards; we received 328 entries for the Project Prize and 405 for the Work-in-Process Prize!

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for details about the award exhibitions, multimedia production and online feature of the incredible work produced by these winning photographers.

And now (drumroll please) we present the full list of the Winners, Juror Picks, and Honorable mentions:

PROJECT PRIZE
First Prize Winner
Nandita Raman
Juror Picks
Rachel Barrett (Hank Willis Thomas)
Priya Kambli (Vince Aletti)
Jan Lieske (Jamie Wellford)
Nandita Raman (Julie Saul)
Daniel Stier (Darius Himes and Alec Soth)
Honorable Mentions
Susan Bank
Matt Eich
Jason Florio
Eamon Mac Mahon
Michael Marten
Pierpaolo Mittica
Geir Moseid
Louie Palu
Melissa Ann Pinney
Martin Roemers

WORK-IN-PROCESS PRIZE
First Prize Winner
Elizabeth Moreno
Juror Picks
Erica Allen (Hank Willis Thomas)
Paula McCartney (Darius Himes)
Elizabeth Moreno (Vince Aletti)
Martin Roemers (Jamie Wellford)
Monika Sziladi (Julie Saul and Alec Soth)
Honorable Mentions
Jessica Auer
J Carrier
Dianne Davis
Eyal Dinar
Lorena Endara
Bepi Ghiotti
Maria Gonzalez
Holly Lynton
Sarah Sudhoff
Stratis Vogiatzis

Desire....may be...this is work in progress

more additions to Cinema Play House series...

My connection to the cinema halls originates through my mother's family who owned the first talkies cinema in my hometown, Varanasi, India. My memory is full of visits to this space but I had no photographs of it. This initiated my desire to photograph these transient spaces.

As I photograph the older cinema halls, some of which are still running, I realize, each of these spaces were built in a unique way, designed mostly by the ownerhimself, unlike the homogeneous, modern multiplexes . Over many years of being occupied these halls seem to contain cues to the psyche of the people who built it and who occupy it. I feel an intriguing play of elements in these spaces that is baffling. As if the space and its arrangement is a mirror of the occupier’s interior. It is these reflections, these cues that absorb me; manifestations of interaction between the space and the people, over time.