It is with great pleasure that we announce the results of this year’s Hariban Award
2018 Award Recipients
Grand Prize Winner
Esther Teichmann
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Esther Teichmann Artist Statement
My photographic practice works with staged images set in relationship to one another to form an imaginary, alternate orphic world. We move from beds to swamps and caves, from mothers to lover, in search of a primordial return. Working with experimental print process and painting into images, the photographic is loosened from its referent. Narratives emerging from fragments as one thing is transformed into another, sliding between autobiography, fiction and myth. The photographs, films and writings picture mothers like caves, sisters like seashells, lovers like moons, tears like waterfalls. Entering the octopus darkness of swamps and caves we find ingestion and emission, mother and daughter, sister and sister, black and white, lover and lover, surrealism’s erotic jolt: the irritant that makes the pearl. Seashells with apertures like cameras. The womb as oceanic. Lovers as moons. Holding as withholding. Day as night.
Juror’s Choice Awards
John Edmonds – selected by David Campany
Matthew Genitempo – selected by Lesley A. Martin
Daren You – selected by Masako Sato
Vanessa Winship – selected by Shoair Mavlian
Master Printer’s Choice Award
Veronique Evrard
Honourable Mentions
Raymond Meeks
Feiyi Wen
George Georgiou
Bert Teunissen
Joseph Ball
Maja Daniels
2018 Winning Photographers Work
Statement by Takumi Suzuki, CEO Benrido
It is with great pleasure to extend our congratulations to this year’s Hariban Award Winners. The level of enthusiasm for the award continues to grow each year, and out of 371 submissions, this year’s Jurors faced the difficult task of selecting the award recipients from a truly incredible pool of submissions. This year marked an exceptionally high standard of work submitted from photographers around the world and amongst them, Esther Teichmann’s submission stood out with her symbolic and intimate imagery. We greatly look forward to welcoming Esther Teichmann at the studio and her resulting collaboration with the artisans of Benrido.
代表取締役CEO 鈴木巧からのステートメント
まずはじめに、ハリバンアワードにご応募いただきました皆様ありがとうございました。また受賞された皆様に心よりお祝い申し上げます。ハリバンアワードへの関心は年々高まっており、またそれに応じて素晴らしい作品が集まる中、今年の審査を担当した審査員は371件の応募作品の中から一人の受賞者を選出するという難題に直面しました。その中から選ばれたエスター・タイヒマンの応募作品は、彼女の象徴的で心の奥底から現れてきたようなイメージを放ち際立っていました。便利堂のコロタイプ工房へエスター・タイヒマンをお招きし、職人とのコラボレーション作品が生み出されることをとても楽しみにしています。
What’s next?
Esther Teichman will be traveling to Kyoto to begin her residency here at Benrido in December. Be sure to stay tuned for updates on our blog so you can follow along with her journey.
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