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Keniff
Mar 28, 2009, 02:15 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/default.stm

I'm in the wrong game...

:confused:


£30K = $42K/€32K

More info Here (http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/141770/Paul+Graham+wins+Deutsche+Börse+Photography+Prize+.html)


Benguitar
Mar 28, 2009, 02:16 PM
Where can I enter this contest? lol jk :D

Seriously though, wtf?
Blue Velvet
Mar 28, 2009, 02:25 PM
More info Here (http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/141770/Paul+Graham+wins+Deutsche+Börse+Photography+Prize+.html)


So, if you read the linked piece, you see that he didn't win the award for this photograph. He won the award for the '12 individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary USA' of which this photograph was but only one in one of twelve volumes of images.

But don't let me get in the way of any philistinism.
JNB
Mar 28, 2009, 03:11 PM
So, if you read the linked piece, you see that he didn't win the award for this photograph. He won the award for the '12 individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary USA' of which this photograph was but only one in one of twelve volumes of images.

But don't let me get in the way of any philistinism.

After all, Bohemians have to eat, too. :p