2009 LensCulture Exposure Awards

Photographs by the winners and honorable mentions of the 2009

LensCulture Exposure Awards

© Marco Vernaschi (Italy) The team of soldiers who executed the President, photographed seven hours after they accomplished their task, in the Military Headquarters in Bissau. Grand Prize Winner, Portfolio Category, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Brad Moore (United States) Korean Methodist, Fullerton, California, 1st Prize, Single Image Category, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Stella Johnson (United States) Mytilene, Greece. 2nd Prize, Single Image Category, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Laura Pannack (Great Britain) Graham – Teenage Anorexic. 3rd Prize, Single Image Category, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Edmund Clark (Great Britain) From the series "Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out". Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Sylvain Deleu (Great Britain) Gdansk Shipyard "Hull in Construction". Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Julie Denesha (United States) "Outcasts of Slovakia": Simonka Mirgova and Patko Polhous sing and dance as Sonja Polhousova cares for her nephew Adrian Pista in the home she shares with her parents and siblings. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Johan Ensing (Netherlands) Masaai shepherds with their goats on the dry plains of Amboseli. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Peter DiCampo (United States) Children wait to fetch water at a drilled borehole well in Wantugu, Ghana, December 21, 2006. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Kate Geraghty (Australia) Godelive Ntamushobora, 45, with her husband Kadogu Sebishimbo, 60, in front of their half-finished makeshift home in the Kibati (IDP) Internally Displaced Persons' camp where tens of thousands of IDPs live, Democratic Republic of Congo. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Leah Giesler (United States) From the self-published book: "In India: Self-Representation (Whether You Like It or Not)". Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Colin Gray (Great Britain) "In Sickness and Health" from "The Parents" series. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Jessica Hines (United States) From "Odd Stories", found and constructed images. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Jan Grarup (Denmark) A man sitting on top of his house in the outskirts of Gaza city, January 2009. Beneath lies his entire family of seven people killed by bombs dropped by Israeli fighter planes. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Elin Hoyland (Norway) Brothers, Harald and Mathias, lived under the same roof for 75 years outside the small village of Vaagaa in Norway. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Priya Kambli (United States) Transience and split cultural identity caused by the act of migration from India to the US. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Mischa Keijser (Netherlands) Bulb Fields.Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Sarbil Olivier (Thailand) Planting land mines around the base camp of the KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army), Burma. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Rania Matar (United States) Anna, 18, Winchester. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Zubin Pastakia (India) From "The Cinemas Project", which visually traces the lives of Bombay's single-screen cinema halls. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Adam Panczuk (Poland) The Karczebs are people in Poland who are strongly attached to the land they cultivate. A Karczeb is also called a stump with roots still stuck in the earth after the tree has been cut down. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Paolo Patrizi (Japan) European Starlings, Rome, Italy. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Alexis Pike (United States) From the series "Claimed: Landscape". A Teton, St. Anthony, Idaho. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Michelle Sank (Great Britain) From the series "End of the Line", produced in Mid Wales around a coastal and hilly town called Aberystywth, at the end of a railway line. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Mahesh Shantaram (India) From the "Neighbourhoods" series, Bangalore, India. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Yisook Sohn (Korea) "Wine and Sup" Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Daniel Traub (United States) Man on Ridge Avenue, North Philadelphia, 2008. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Raina Vlaskovska (Bulgaria) Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

© Danielle Voirin (France) The head of Carole, a cross-bred calf who lived her 5-month-long life on a farm in Normandy, France. She was brought to slaughter in March of 2008. On the day of this photo, her body returned home in boxes and was labeled, frozen, cooked and re-chopped on this kitchen table. Honorable Mention, LensCulture Exposure Awards 2009

We’re thrilled to present the winners of the 2009 LensCulture Exposure Awards. 

On this page we include one photo for each winner, as well as links to their websites, so you can discover more about each of them and their remarkable work.

The range of work submitted for this year’s Awards was impressive. It varied richly in subject matter, genre, technique, and artistic approaches. In fact, a few of the winners use photography merely as a starting point in their captivating multi-media artwork. The number of submissions was well over 6,000 and were submitted by artists from 47 countries.

For the members of our world-class jury, the process of looking critically at such a body of work was at once daunting and exhilarating. We hope you will enjoy this diverse selection of photography from around the world as much as we do.

The award winners for 2009 are:

Portfolio Category
Grand Prize: Marco Vernaschi

Single Image Category
Grand Prize: Brad Moore
2nd Prize: Stella Johnson
3rd Prize: Laura Pannack

Honorable Mention Awards
Edmund Clark
Sylvain Deleu
Julie Denesha
Peter DiCampo
Johan Ensing
Kate Geraghty
Leah Giesler
Jan Grarup
Colin Gray
Jessica Hines
Elin Hoyland
Priya Kambli
Mischa Keijser
Rania Matar
Adam Panczuk
Zubin Pastakia
Paolo Patrizi
Alexis Pike
Michelle Sank
Olivier Sarbil
Mahesh Shantaram
Yisook Sohn
Daniel Traub
Raina Vlaskovska
Danielle Voirin 


Cheers to everyone who participated. And heartfelt thanks to every member of our jury this year.

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