Ian Parry Scholarship 2011 Winner: Rasel Chowdhury
We are delighted to announce that the Ian Parry Scholarship 2011 Winner is Rasel Chowdhury from Bangladesh for Desperate Urbanization, his landscape series about the pollution of the Dkaha.
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Ian Parry Scholarship 2011 Winner and finalist press release
Highly Commended Alejandro Kirchuk, Commended Jashim Salam & Valentina Quintano, Hon Mention Daria Tuminas.
News update from Ian Parry Scholarship previous winners
Leonie Hampton, formerly known as Leonie Purchas, has just published her first book ‘In the Shadow of Things ‘, available through her website www.leoniehampton.com
Ivor Prickett has been covering the Arab spring for the past few months, in both Egypt and Libya. He has had a fantastic year having recently been taken on my Panos Photo Agency, chosen for PDN 30, selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and won 3rd place in the features picture story category of the POYI awards.
David Hogsholt is exhibiting as part of the acclaimed Copenhagen Photo Festival with long-term work from Burma under the title ‘5xPersonal Projects’. The images will go on to be loaned to Amnesty International in Denmark and will toured for one year.
Irina Werning continues to work on her personal projects in Buenos Aires since the success of her ‘Chini project’, which quickly went viral [link] She has recently won the Burn Magazine grant.
Leticia Valverdes has been working with the Photographers Gallery on The World in London, a large-scale, public portraiture project timed to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The project will feature 205 portrait photographs of 205 Londoners, each being born in one of the participating countries, since moved to London and now consider it home. The final images will be exhibited as a public art project across London during 2012.
Marcus Bleasdale has been busy producing a multimedia piece for the Pulitzer Centre and Human Rights Watch. ‘Dear Obama’ went on to win a Webby Award this year. Marcus is currently shooting a year long project documenting changing society in the old whaling communities in Northern Norway.
Periscopio Photography Festival exhibits the Ian Parry Scholarship 2010
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Periscopio Vitoria Photography in northern Spain will be exhibiting the Ian Parry Scholarship 2010 exhibition. The show includes all the winning portfolios plus work from Maisie Crow, last year’s winner as well as singles images selected by Rebecca McClelland from non finalists photographers.
The exhibition is open from the 21st October to the 9th December www.periscopiovitoria.com or contact prensa@periscopiovitoria.com
IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP 2010 WINNER
“The winner displayed incredible narrative talent and great photographic skills” Marcus Bleasdale, Judge
“The judges were unanimous in their decision which bears testament to the strength of the work. The images have a traditional photojournalistic strength, which fits perfectly with the aim of the scholarship” Aidan Sullivan, Director
“It was very coherent as a story, and he managed to create something very intimate. We have all seen lots of projects shot in favelas but his work was very well put together. It was something slightly more from the leftfield.” Jon Jones Sunday Times magazine