FotoFilmic16 Awards
The first exhibition opening of the FOTOFILMIC16 International Traveling Exhibition juried earlier this year by photographer Todd Hido and 4 other esteemed curators from London, San Francisco, Vancouver and Melbourne took place yesterday evening at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica, California! Following this inaugural reception, FotoFilmic is proud today to announce who amongst the 30 exhibitors are the recipients of this year’s 5 top places and their respective awards, prizes and mentions.
The FOTOFILMIC16 Top Winners are:
First Place & $1,500 Buschlen Mowatt Nichol Foundation Cash Award Winner:
Jenny Riffle, Seattle, WA, USA
Second Place & $500 BEAU Photo Cash Award Winner:
Danielle Stine, Toronto, ON, Canada
Third Place & Lomography Equipment Prize Winner:
Matthieu Litt, Liège, Belgium
4th Place ADOX Equipment Prize Winner & Honorable Mention:
Kumi Oguro, Antwerp, Belgium/Japan
5th Place ADOX Equipment Prize Winner & Honorable Mention:
Alexis Pazoumian, Paris, France/ Armenia
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Presenting 30 promising analogue and film-based photographers from 10 countries through as many single works, FOTOFILMIC16 pictures a unique worldview of contemporary photography’s material practices. The exhibition’s underlying vision frames a defining moment and transitionary occupation of film-based photography and its rich lineage of physical craft and recording methods in the context of today’s global digital culture. Running contrarily to the fairly common but largely unfounded notion that a fundamental technological contradiction exists between digital and material photography, FOTOFILMIC16 shifts focus on photographers’ practices and how materiality at their core may inform and sometimes defines their end work. This according to FotoFilmic is an important reversal to understanding film and analogue photographic culture today.
