TOKYO, July 30, 2018—Canon Inc. announced today that the prize winners have been selected for its New Cosmos of Photography 2018 (41st edition) photo competition—Canon's cultural support project that aims to discover, nurture and support new photographers.
The Excellence Award Selection Committee
2017 Grand Prize winners deliver their presentation to the selection committee last year
The New Cosmos of Photography accepted entries for the 2018 competition from April 20 to June 15, attracting 1,992 submissions from around the world. Of those, seven Excellence Award winners and twelve Honorary Mention Award winners were selected.
The award-winning works will be displayed as part of The New Cosmos of Photography 2018 Exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from October 27 to November 25. The exhibition will be held alongside "Another man's floor," an exhibition of new work by the Grand Prize winners of the New Cosmos of Photography 2017, Trond Ansten and Benjamin Breitkopf.
The New Cosmos of Photography 2018 Grand Prize winner will be chosen from the Excellence Award winners at a public meeting of the Grand Prize Selection Committee1 to be held on November 2. Each candidate will give a presentation and face questioning by the selection committee, after which the committee will deliberate and choose the Grand Prize winner. Before that, on October 27, a presentation session will be held where the award winners will introduce their works and the intention behind them.
On November 3 and 4, a special event will be held featuring a portfolio review session and lectures by members of the Grand Prize Selection Committee Emilia van Linden and Sandra Phillips and former selection committee member Minoru Shimizu.
| Entrant | Entry title | Selected by2 |
|---|---|---|
| Shinichiro Uchikura | Collection | Tomoko Sawada |
| Susumu Okuda | create new value | Sandra Phillips |
| Kyosuke Sasaki | Street View | Kunie Sugiura |
| Song-Nian Ang | Hanging Heavy on my Eyes | Emilia van Linden |
| Derek Man | What Do You See, Old Apple Tree? | Hiraki Sawa |
| Masashi Beppu | 2011–2018 | Takashi Yasumura |
| Megumi Yamakoshi | How to hide my Cryptocurrencies | Noi Sawaragi |
| Entrant | Entry title | Selected by2 |
|---|---|---|
| Mai Ishida | One's memory | Sandra Phillips |
| Keita Otsuka | Night Window | Emilia van Linden |
| Shinichiro Kitamura | Dream Journal | Kunie Sugiura |
| Yusuke Kito | ROLLER FREAKS | Tomoko Sawada |
| Kim Kyungbong | Philosophy of Elegance | Takashi Yasumura |
| Hisashi Kobayashi | That's life isn't it | Noi Sawaragi |
| Cai Yuan-qi | It is sad to find out last summer's t-shirts are worn out | Hiraki Sawa |
| Yukari Sasaki | Grandma's House | Hiraki Sawa |
| Azusa Takade | ballerinas | Kunie Yasumura |
| Daisuke Takeya | Fukushima NO ALICE | Sandra Phillips |
| Ryosuke Higo | oozing | Tomoko Sawada |
| Kimi Mikawa | Fiction | Noi Sawaragi |
Shinichiro Uchikura
"Collection"
Selected by Tomoko Sawada
Susumu Okuda
"creating new value"
Selected by Sandra Phillips
Kyosuke Sasaki
"Street View"
Selected by Kunie Sugiura
Song-Nian Ang
"Hanging Heavy On My Eyes"
Selected by Emilia van Linden
Derek Man
"What Do You See, Old Apple Tree?"
Selected by Hiraki Sawa
Masashi Beppu
"2011－2018"
Selected by Takashi Yasumura
Megumi Yamakoshi
"How to hide my Cryptocurrencies"
Selected by Noi Sawaragi
| Artists | : | Trond Ansten and Benjamin Breitkopf |
| Title | : | Another man's floor |
| Artists' intent | : | A narrative is built through performative acts in a dialog between the south of Europe and the North. The ceiling of our story is formed on the drift ice of the Greenland Sea and spans to a lake of Anthropocene origin in the Black Forest. Bricks of stories expand from one another and form the visual poem of "Another man's floor." |
