World Press Photo heeft vanmiddag de shortlist bekend gemaakt met kandidaten voor de twee multimediaprijzen die dit jaar voor het eerst worden uitgereikt: een voor lineaire producties en een voor interactieve producties. Op 7 mei worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt. De jury maakte een keuze van zes uit ruim 40 nominaties.
Uit het Engelstalige persbericht:
Category linear productions (in alphabetical order):
Blanco
A production by photographer Stefano De Luigi and VII Photo Agency.
Blanco is the result of a four-year journey delving into the life of the visually impaired in 16 countries around the world.
The Home Front
A production with photography by Marcus Yam and produced by Nancy Donaldson, Catrin Einhorn and Meaghan Looram for The New York Times.
The Home Front is the story of two boys in the US who struggle to adjust when their father, a single dad and US soldier, is deployed to Afghanistan and they are sent to live with relatives.
A Man in the Forest
A production by Lei Wang.
A Man in the Forest is about a forest ranger that has lived in Hainan province rainforest in China for several years, working to monitor and protect the Hainan Black-Crested Gibbon.
Category interactive productions (in alphabetical order):
Powering a Nation
A production with photography by Mike Ehrlich, Jessey Dearing, Lauren Frohne and Elena Rue and produced by Laura Ruel, Chad Stevens and Don Wittekind from The University North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Powering a Nation is an interactive production that explores energy use across different demographics in the US.
Prison Valley
A production with photography by Philippe Brault in collaboration with author and co-director David Dufresne and produced by Alexandre Brachet and Gregory Trowbridge for Arte.
Prison Valley in an interactive production that explores the prison industry in Cañon City, Colorado in the US.
A Year at War
A production with photography by Damon Winter and Marcus Yam and produced by James Dao, Nancy Donaldson, Catrin Einhorn, Rob Harris, Meaghan Looram for The New York Times.
A Year at War examines the yearlong deployment of one US battalion in Afghanistan.
Judging
The nominated work was judged on its impact and editing, as well as its originality and innovative execution. The productions must have a journalistic storyline and still imagery must play a significant role in telling the story.
Judging took place at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam from 18 to 21 March 2011. The jury for the 2011 multimedia contest consists of five highly respected professionals in visual journalism and multimedia productions. The members of the jury are:
Chair:
• Ed Kashi, USA, photojournalist, filmmaker and educator
Members:
• Claudine Boeglin, France, multimedia producer Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Andrew DeVigal, USA, multimedia editor The New York Times
• Kang Kyung-ran, South Korea, anchor and CEO Frontline News Service
• Gideon Mendel, South Africa, photographer
Secretary:
• Alan Stoga, USA, president Zemi Communications
The chair of the jury, Ed Kashi, about the multimedia contest: ”The entries represented a growing geographical scope of productions and a broad range of production techniques and narrative approaches, which indicate very positive trends for the future development of multimedia.”
Nomination committee
Judging multimedia is a new venture for the organization, and mobilizing the networks and communication channels that have been used to attract entries for the photography contest would only cover a part of the multimedia community worldwide. Therefore World Press Photo decided, taking into consideration our successful experience working with a nominating committee for the annual Joop Swart Masterclass, to follow a similar procedure for the multimedia contest. The nominating committee consisted of recognized experts, with wider-ranging backgrounds than just traditional photojournalism. Each nominator was requested to nominate up to three productions into the two categories of the multimedia contest: linear and interactive. The full list of nominators is published on http://bit.ly/hW4dba
Awards Days
First, second and third prizes in each category will be announced during the World Press Photo Awards Ceremony on 7 May 2011. First prizes will be awarded a cash award of €5,000.
Video-interviews met drie juryleden: Ed Kashi, Andrew Devigal, Claudine Boeglin