Supporting programme

Exhibition and awards ceremony at photokina
Photography is very popular among children and teenagers. There are more amateur photographers age 25 or younger taking part in this year’s competition than have ever participated in the past. More than 15,000 photos were submitted, images that address either a theme selected by the participants themselves or the theme specially conceived for the competition — “Ganz schön alt” (A ripe old age). The best photos, which will be selected by a jury, are to be presented at photokina 2008 in Cologne (Entrance East, intermediate level Halls 10/11). The awards ceremony will take place on September 28, 12:00 noon, in Hall 1.

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photo example for German Young Photographer Prize 2008:

Together with the magazine Audio Video FotoBild , SIGMA — a leading supplier of lenses, cameras and flash devices — is searching for Germany’s best photographers, in six different categories. The competition will be held entirely online. Visitors to the website www.deutschlandsbesterfotograf.de judge the images by means of an online voting procedure, and a jury of experts then selects a group winner in each category from among the entries that received the highest ratings from the visitors to the site. In addition to a specially organized photography tour, each group winner takes home the title “Germany’s Best Photographer.” The best images from the competition will be presented in an exhibition in Hall 5.2.

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The newspaper DIE ZEIT will exhibit the best photographs from its popular series "I Have a Dream" at photokina in Cologne.  

Every week, the newspaper's supplement ZEITmagazin publishes a feature in which a prominent public figure reveals his or her lifelong dream. The article is accompanied by a photo of the person in question with his or her eyes closed, taken by an international star photographer. Ever since the series, titled "I Have a Dream," began in 1999, more than 400 actors, politicians, musicians, painters, architects, and other outstanding personalities have had their photos taken.   A selection of these photographs will be on show at photokina 2008, including portraits of Jörg Immendorf (photographed by Oliver Mark), Tilda Swinton (Albrecht Kunkel), Bono (Sam Jones), Hanna Schygulla (Lillian Birnbaum), 50 Cent (Marcus Gaab), Michael Ballhaus (Attila Hartwig), and Ray Davies (Jim Rakete).

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photo example for DIE ZEIT:

The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) is an alliance of European multimedia experts. Members represent over 50 leading specialized magazines from 19 European countries. This year, members of the EISA Photo Panel asked photographers from all of Europe to contribute works on the subject of global warming to the competition. The photo exhibition will show a selection of the best photos on the theme. Following a selection process in each country, the best submitted photographs will be chosen in Hungary at the end of June. photokina 2008 will host the special awards ceremony in the presentation area in Passage 4/5, on September 24 at 5:30 p.m.

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photo example for EISA:

The fascination of architectural photography. The unique architectural photography prize from architekturbild was awarded in 2007 for the seventh time. The international award, which has been presented every two years since 1995, has become a major feature of the photography scene. To enter the contest, each participant submits a series of four photos. The first prize is worth €4,000. In addition, two second prizes (€1,000 each) are awarded. The photos by the prize-winners and the following 25 best entries are published in the award catalogue and exhibited in various cities, which have included St. Petersburg (1999) and Singapore (2008). The spectrum of changing themes ranges from “Mankind and Architecture” (1995) to “New Homeland” (2009). The theme of the latest award was “My favourite place”, and these photographs will be exhibited at photokina 2008. A total of 310 participants from 24 countries entered their photo series in the competition. The winners were selected by an international panel chaired by Hans Eberhard Hess, editor-in-chief of Photo International . The award ceremony was held in the Federal Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn in May 2007. The 28 best series of pictures for this renowned architectural photography prize will be displayed at photokina 2008. An exhibition catalogue (in German and English) has been published by av-edition (available from book retailers for €24.80). The image series from all the architectural photography prizes published since 1995 can be viewed at the website of the architekturbild society: www.architekturbild-ev.de (>award > Dokumentation).

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photo example for European Architecture photography:

For the first time, the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank will present at photokina 2008 a selection of images submitted for the European ECB Award. The ECB has chosen the medium of photography for its project, which fosters cultural exchange between European countries. The annual ECB Award is aimed at all kinds of photographers. One of the questions posed by the competition is “How do photographers perceive their own culture and other cultures, and how do they express their perceptions visually?” Participants are then able to develop ideas in order to frame their own answers by photographic means. In each of the participating 27 European countries, a curator will pick the best pieces and nominate them for the final round. From these entries, an international jury of photo experts will choose ten finalists and three award-winners. The exhibition at photokina 2008 will show a selection of the competition entries.

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fotocommunity, the biggest online photographic community, is looking for the best photographers of 2008 in eight main areas — Motifs, Special, People, Nudes, Nature, DigiArt, Youth, and Our World. Each month until the start of photokina, fotocommunity will be accepting competition entries in each of the eight areas. The winners will then be selected from these fields of entries by a jury of renowned experts. All eight of the winners will be presented with the fotocommunity Award at a festive celebration and ceremony during photokina — and each of them will have their own exhibition.
www.fotocommunity.com

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There will be a photo exhibition of all the winners of Germany's largest nature photography competition in 2008. One of the photos submitted in the competition in 2008 was unforgettable for the members of the jury. It depicted the penetrating gaze of a lion, and the jurors found that their eyes were repeatedly drawn back to the eyes of the lion. Among the many other outstanding photographs submitted, this one was therefore named the overall winner. It's an unusual image that reflects the photographer's attempt to capture the essence of this beautiful feline predator in a portrait.

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photo example for Glanzlichter Nature Photography highlights:

Following the successful exhibition “60 Years of Peace!” at photokina 2006, this year’s supporting program will once again feature an impressive show of large-format black-and-white photos by Karl Hugo Schmölz, the famous photographer specializing in architectural images. The theme of this year's presentation is "Photographs of Classic Movie Theaters“. The exhibition shows movie theaters from the 1950s and revives the glamour of the movies' heyday, using large-format digitally reproduced photographs. The images presented are from the archive of the Hugo Schmölz photography workshops, © Wim Cox Archive.

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photo example for Cinema as a place:

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