Marie-Noelle Boutin - 36, lives in France "Highly representative of this new school of landscape photography, combined with an openly expressed desire for "personal involvement."
Julia Fullerton-Batten (2007 laureate) - 36, lives in England "She diverts the equipment and approach of the advertising photo. Her aim is to explore the image of adolescence on the fringes of the stereotypes."
Cynthia Cappe (Artistic Advisor's Discovery) - 30, lives in France "A distancing approach to time, both pictoral and photographic, by superimposing an era and a way of looking at it anew."
Remi Guerrin - 45, lives in France "The classical rigour of the compositions and the subtlety of the process used contribute to an exemplary approach."
Emilie di Nunzio Joly - 31, lives in France "She presents beautifully embroidered vegetables and fruit and produces extremely mannered prints."
Shai Kremer - 33, lives in the USA "How can one represent the daily violence of the Israel-Palestine crisis? An intelligent and exemplary way of projecting us into a less dismal future."
Alain Le Bacquer - 47, lives in France. "These images seized on the instant, these ambiguous and grimacing characters, could be anywhere and nowhere, but evoke the current artistic and literary scene of Beijing."
Johann Rousselot - 36, lives in France. "A very personal and poetic universe, the result of a commission from the Délégation aux Arts Plastiques."
Christian Lutz - 34, lives in Switzerland - "Ambiguity is at the centre of his work, which juxtaposes real images of political power and staged photographs, while using the equipment and approach typically reserved for creative photography."
Banya Sim - 31, lives in France "Images processed and reworked to symbolise the feeling of drift and solitude of a Korean woman in Paris."
Cédric W Marsens - 35, lives in Switzerland "Bearing 'impartial' witness to the calamities of war, eschewing both sensationalism and staging..."
Yang Yu - 29, lives in China. "A small black mirror in the streets of Beijing, symbolising a younger generation that is losing its markers and its roots."
Matthew Pillsbury (2007 laureate) - 34, lives in the USA. "He records his images using only the light of a screen, whether television screen or computer monitor."
Commentary by Alain Sayag- 2007 Artistic advisor of the Fondation HSBC pour la photographie
EXHIBITION TOUR 2007/8
The touring exhibition of the laureates work began in Madrid during the 10th anniversary of Photo España (May 30th to July 22nd, 2007)
- From July 3rd to September 7th, 2007, Contemporary photography exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, France: winning artists selected by the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, during the 2007 edition of Rencontres d'Arles
- From September 4th to 22nd, 2007, at the Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris.
- From October 10th to 19th, 2007, at Phillips de Pury in New York.
- From December 4th, 2007 to February 2nd, 2008, at the Le Réverbère gallery in Lyon
