URBAN 2022: Susan Meiselas will choose the winner of the “Book Award” section
The thirteenth edition of URBAN Photo Awards is just around the corner: submissions will open on Tuesday, March 1, 2022!
In the meantime, we are happy to finally announce the first super-juror with the task of choosing the winner of the URBAN Book Award section: Susan Meiselas, one of the most influential documentary photographers in the world, member of Magnum Photos agency and president of the Magnum Foundation.
Another living legend of international photography will therefore honor us with her presence in the contest jury, after Bruce Gilden, Paolo Pellegrin and Francesco Cito (2021), Alex Webb (2020) and Martin Parr (2019).
The URBAN Book Award section is dedicated to extended projects (“dummies”, sketches of photo books), ideal for photographers who feel the limit of 12 photos set for the Projects & Portfolios section as a restraint. The award offers the winning photographer the opportunity to see their authorial project published as a paper volume and presented in the international setting of the Trieste Photo Days 2022 festival.
Susan Meiselas will be one of the main guests of Trieste Photo Days and will personally award the winner of the URBAN Book Award section during the Award ceremony of the contest, Saturday 29 October 2022. At the festival, Meiselas will also hold an exclusive talk and will be one of the protagonists of the project WOW: Worlds of Women.
In the next few days we will announce the other members of the “super commission” of the jurors: the President of the Jury, who will choose the Winner Overall of the Single Photos section, and the juror who will choose the winner of the Projects & Portfolio section.
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003) Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room Of Their Own (2017) and Tar Beach (2020).
Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo and is presently on view at the Kunst Haus Wien. Mediations also opens at C/O Berlin on April 29, 2022.
She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.
