Aug.7.2009
Winners of New Cosmos of Photography 2009 Announced
The New Cosmos of Photography 2009 Excellent Award Selection Committee Meeting was held in mid-July at Canon Inc.'s Shimomaruko headquarters in Tokyo.
Five Excellent Award winners and 18 Honorable Mention award winners were selected from among 1,340 entrants.
Some photos taken at the meeting are shown below.
The following are the winners of New Cosmos of Photography 2009.
Their works will be exhibited at the New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2009 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in November.
Excellent Award winners:(Honorific titles omitted)
Makoto Yasumori (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki)
Hitomi Takahashi (selected by Kotaro Iizawa)
Adam Hosmer (selected by Fumio Nanjo)
Masanao Sugiyama (selected by Ryoichi Enomoto)
Misato Kuroda** (selected by Mika Ninagawa)
Honorable Mention award winners: (Honorific titles omitted)
| Nobuyoshi Araki : | Nami Iwase, KILICO, Misato Kuroda**, TATSUYA YOSHIHIRO |
| Kotaro Iizawa : | Shunsuke Ikushima, Harumichi Saito, sumi (Takeshi Horinouchi), Takemi Yabuki |
| Fumio Nanjo : | syu ikeda, Shota Ohkawa*, Akinori Tao, Yusuke Tsuchida |
| Ryoichi Enomoto : | Shota Ohkawa*, Toshie Takeuchi, Mari Dote, Harutsugu Hasegawa |
| Mika Ninagawa : | Tomomi Sugimoto, sesamespace, Yuu Takehara (***) |
*Selected by two judges (Honorable Mention award)
**Selected by two judges (Excellent Award and Honorable Mention award)
***Because of a resignation, Honorable Mention awards will be given to three people.
