Jul.24.2008
Winners of the New Cosmos of Photography 2008 Announced
The New Cosmos of Photography 2008 Excellence Award Selection Committee Meeting was held in mid-July at Canon Inc.’s Shimomaruko headquarters in Tokyo. Six individuals were chosen for the award out of a pool of 1,517 applicants—the largest the competition has ever seen. Their works will be exhibited at the New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2008 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in November. The Grand Prize Selection Committee Meeting will be held during the exhibition, and the public is welcome to attend.
Winners of the Excellence Award:
Ayano Hoya (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki)
Miyuki Motoki (selected by Kotaro Iizawa)
Kohei Koyama (selected by Fumio Nanjo)
Okabe Tokyo (selected by Ryoichi Enomoto)
Kenya Sugai (selected by Katsumi Omori)
Masanori Hata (selected by NOGUCHI RIKA)
Applicants of Honorable Mention:
| Nobuyoshi Araki : | Takao Aoki, Masaru Eguchi, Madoka Sakamoto, Maimaiko, Mao + Sun Woo Yan* |
| Kotaro Iizawa : | Takami Uehira, YUMEIPPEI, Koji Sekimoto, Satoshi Nishizawa, Marcin Pajdosz + Marcin Morawicki |
| Fumio Nanjo : | Naoki Uchida, Tamaki Saito, Masato Taguchi, Yusuke Hishida, Meta Sato |
| Ryoichi Enomoto : | Yosuke Takeda, Hiroyuki Takenouchi, Mari Dote, Yoshimasa Yabuzaki, Mao + Sun Woo Yan* |
| Katsumi Omori : | Naoto Okamoto, Tomohiko Maeno*, Daisuke Yokota, Shohei Yoshida, Seiko Watanabe |
| NOGUCHI RIKA : | Man Iiyama, Koji Sato, Tomohiko Maeno*, Natsuko Yanagimoto, Yu Yamauchi |
* Selected by two judges
