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Photo Academy Award 2013

14 Sep — 27 Oct 2013

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The Hague Museum of Photography and the Fotoacademie school of photography in Amsterdam are currently holding the 11th in the series of Photo Academy Award competitions. This is the most prestigious competition for young photographers in the Netherlands and Belgium. Once again, the response has been overwhelming: entries have come from 141 photographers attending 21 professional photography courses in the two countries. Following an exciting preliminary round, the nominees were announced in July. The names of the winners will be announced at a celebratory award ceremony at the Hague Museum of Photography on 19 September.

This year, 48 works have been nominated in the various categories. They come from 26 students on 6 courses in the Netherlands and 3 in Flemish-speaking Belgium. Some of them have received more than one nomination. For example, David Joosten (KABK, The Hague) has been nominated no fewer than five times, while Anna den Drijver and Roy Soetekouw (both of the Fotoacademie, Amsterdam) have each received four nominations. Sanja Marusic (KABK, The Hague) and Juliette Polak (Fotoacademie, Amsterdam) have each been nominated three times, and eight other contestants have been nominated twice.

The expert jury was chaired by Lars Boering, director of the federation of professional photographers in the Netherlands and founder of the Lux Photo Gallery, and composed of Caroline Brugman (ELLE), Kaat Celis & Eric De Mildt (De Morgen), Ross McCurrach (Happiness Brussels), Heike Gülker (Volkskrant magazine/V), Muriel Mager & Ronald Schmets (Sophie Maree), Jan Paul Mioulet (P/f), Edie Peters (PhotoQ), Piet Sloot & Stephan Peters (ÈPOS|PRESS) and Robert Theunissen (SHUTR). The nominated entries will be exhibited at the Hague Museum of Photography and compete for nine different category prizes in the form of publications, exhibitions and commissions, plus three overall prizes and a public’s prize. Visitors to the www.photoacademyaward.com website between 19 July and 28 August (inclusive) can help select the winner of the public’s prize by voting for their favourite work. The overall winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of € 2,500, donated by the Hague Museum of Photography. Following the show in The Hague, the winning works and runners-up will be exhibited in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam and other places in the Netherlands and Belgium.