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null 23rd vfg Prize for Young Talents in Photography

17.06.2019 | Jurying

23rd vfg Prize for Young Talents in Photography

On June 14th, 2019, the jury members of the 23rd vfg Prize for Young Talents in Photography («vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis») with Peter Bialobrzseki (Photographer, Hamburg), Brigitte Lustenberger (Photographer, Bern), Nora Mathys (Photo historian, Musée d’Élysée, Lausanne), Lizzie Sadin (Photographer, Paris), Salvatore Vitale (Photographer and editor-in-chief YET Magazine, Lugano) have selected ten projects of young talendet photographers. 
The ten finalists 2019

in alphabetical order:

 

Mikhail Bushkov  -  Zürich
Tomasz Fall  -  Le premier homme
Pierre Emmanuel Fehr  -  Leros
Vlora Imeri   -  Il était une fois
Clément Lambelet  -  Inextinguishable Flowers
Yann Laubscher  -  Ceux du Monde
Diego Saldiva  -  Break of Day
Maxi Schmitz  -  EGOTOPIA
Florian Spring  -  Behind the Fence
Fred Walter Uhlig  -  Fünf Betrachtungen über das, was man gemeinhin als das Vergangene bezeichnet

 

Congratulations!

 

View the works of the ten finalists here. 

From left to right: Salvatore Vitale, Brigitte Lustenberger, Lizzie Sadin, Nora Mathys, Peter Bialobrzeski. Photos by Gian Vaitl
From left to right: Salvatore Vitale, Brigitte Lustenberger, Lizzie Sadin, Nora Mathys, Peter Bialobrzeski. Photos by Gian Vaitl
Award ceremony and exhibition

The «vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis» is committed to the promotion of young talents and supports young photographers by giving them the opportunity to present their work to a wider audience (one catalogue, five exhibitions). 

 

The award ceremony – Keystone-SDA supports the «vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis» with the 1st prize - and the vernissage of the exhibition of the ten selected projects will take place on September 5, 2019, at the Photobastei in Zurich. The exhibition will then travel and be shown in Lausanne (Galerie l’Elac), Basel (Oslo 8), Schauffhausen (Kammgam West) and Stuttgart (Art Space).