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Jul.31.2007

Photo reports about Excellence Awards selection committee meeting

The Excellence Awards selection committee meeting for New Cosmos of Photography 2007 was held in mid - July at Canon Inc.’s HQ in Shimomaruko, Tokyo. Six Excellence Award winners and 27 Honorable Mention award winners were selected in a stiff competition with about 1,300 entrants.  We show you some photos taken at the meeting.

The following are the winners of New Cosmos of Photography 2007. The prize - winning works will be exhibited at New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo exhibition 2007 to be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in November. During the exhibition, the Grand Prize selection committee meeting will be held, which is open to the public.

Excellence Award winners: (Honorific titles omitted)

Megumi Kurosawa (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki)
Daisuke Nakashima(selected by Kotaro Iizawa)
Yuki Aoyama (selected by Fumio Nanjo)
Noriko Takuma (selected by Daido Moriyama)
Shinya Nakazato (selected by Ryoichi Enomoto)
Toshifumi Tafuku (selected by Bohnchang Koo)

Honorable Mention award winners: (Honorific titles omitted)
Araki’s selections : Momo Okabe, Hiroyuki Sato, Tetsuomi Sukeda, Masashi Nakata, Riichi Yamaguchi
Iizawa’s selections : Katsuyuki Uomoto, Ryusuke Kagioka, Shunsuke Tamura*1, Takashi Musou, Sun Woo Yan
Nanjo’s selections : Naoko Kaneda, Yousuke Takeda, Naoe Tani, Satoshi Nishizawa*2, Tsuneto Fujita
Moriyama’s selections : Masahiro Ito, Masaru Eguchi, Arnel Javier, Kenichi Minamiguchi, Aiko Fujita
Enomoto’s selections : Eri Adachi, Minami Sakamoto, Satoshi Nishizawa*2, Hideaki Matsumoto, Keita Yoshitani
Koo’s selections : Kouichiro Ootaki, Masayuki Kuriyama, Shunsuke Tamura*1, Satoshi Nishizawa*2, Sayuri Hirama

*1 : Selected by two judges   *2 : Selected by three judges

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