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This picture by Chinese

photographer Yang Yongliang

was among those shortlisted

for the prestigious Prix Pictet

photography prize.

The award, sponsored

by Swiss wealth and asset

managers the Pictet Group,

is described as the world’s

leading prize in photography

and sustainability.

The winner was announced

by Kofi Annan, honorary

president of Prix Pictet, at

the Musée d'Art Moderne

de la Ville de Paris, where

pictures by the 12 shortlisted

photographers were exhibited.

The award went to Paris

photographer Valérie Belin,

who received 100,000 Swiss

Francs (about £66,000).

An exhibition by the

12 shortlisted photographers

will travel to Maxxi in Rome,

International Red Cross and

Red Crescent Museum in

Geneva, Westbau in Zurich,

Contemporary Art Brussels,

Palau Robert in Barcelona and

the Museum of Photographic

Art in San Diego.

Rock star Brian May has designed

a special Victorian Gem box for

people interested in stereoscopy.

The Queen guitarist has long

had an interest in stereoscopy,

which is the Victorian art of 3D

pictures. He is the owner of the

London Stereo Company, which

publishes stereoscopic work, and

has designed a viewer to enable

stereoscopic viewing.

Now London Stereo have

released a Victorian Gems

box containing a pack of 12

stereoscopic portraits of an

Oxfordshire village taken in

the 1850s by TR Williams,

a pack of 12 diableries cards

featuring ghoulish scenes from

the 1860s, a pack of 12 Poor

Man’s Picture gallery cards

imitating Victorian paintings,

a booklet with a history of

stereoscopy and a dedicated

stereo viewer.

The Victorian Gems box

is available price £95 but

Black+White Photography

readers can buy one at the 10%

discounted price of £85.50.

Simply go to the website and

enter this code: VGBWP

londonstereo.com

A prize pool of $30,000 is on

offer for the winners of the Sony

World Photography Awards.

The competition aims

to reward the world’s best

contemporary photography

from 2015. As well as cash,

prizes include Sony camera gear,

inclusion in the Sony World

Photography Awards exhibition

at Somerset House in London

and in the 2016 awards’ book.

The deadlines for entry are

5 January for open, youth and

national awards and 12 January

for professional awards. Category

details are on the competition

website. worldphoto.org

Photobooks investigating issues

such as modern conflict, the

financial world and newspaper

journalism have won prizes

in the Paris Photo–Aperture

Foundation PhotoBook Awards.

The winner of the First

Photobook category was You

Haven’t Seen Their Faces by

Daniel Mayrit, the Photography

Catalogue of the Year was

Images of Conviction: The

Construction of Visual Evidence

by Diane Dufour and Xavier

Barral, and the Photobook of the

Year was Illustrated People by

Thomas Mailaender. A special

jurors’ mention went to Deadline

by Will Steacy.

Thirty-five books will be

displayed at Aperture Gallery

in New York (until 8 February),

Huis Marseille in Amsterdam

(December to January),

Scotiabank Contact Photography

Festival in Toronto (1 to 31 May),

Riga Photomonth in Latvia

(12 May to 3 June), Festival

of Photography in Poland

(9 to 19 June) and Landskrona

Foto Festival in Sweden

(19 to 27 August).

Black & white photojournalism

by German photographer

Christian Werner was among

the winners in the Felix

Schoeller Photo Awards.

The second edition of the

international competition for

professional photographers has

established itself worldwide,

with participants from 65

countries. The Gold Award went

to Karolin Klüppel from Berlin.

BIG PRIZE

ANNOUNCED

SEEKING THE WORLD’S BEST

GOING

GLOBAL

STEREOSCOPY BOX

Artifi cial Wonderland II –

Travellers Among Mountains

and Streams (detail)

by Yang Yongliang.

© Yang Yongliang

© Christian Werner, winner Photojournalism/Editorial

Photography category, Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015

© Nikhil Rasiwasia / 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

From the series 74 by

Christian Werner.

Life is a competition by Nikhil Rasiwasia, an entry into

the Sony World Photography Awards.

BROUGHT

TO BOOK

Brian May with

the Victorian

Gems box

and (above)

one of the

stereoscopic

pictures.

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