The Lucie Awards were held last night. Always an exciting event because the honorees, presenters and nominees are the luminaries of the photography industry and the winners get to walk up on stage and accept a statue. Here are the winners:
International Photographer of the Year went to Majid Saeedi
Discovery of the Year Award went to Anna di Prospero
International Photographer of the Year – Deeper Perspective Award went to Daniel Beltrá
Picture Editor of the year went to Kira Pollack, Time Magazine
Photography Magazine of the Year went to ZOOM
Fashion Layout of the Year went to W Magazine for Tilda Swinton, photographed by Tim Walker
Book Publisher of the Year went to Chris Boot, Ltd for Infidel by Tim Hetherington
Photography Curator/Exhibition of the Year – Kohle Yohannan for Beauty Culture at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
The 2011 honorees were:
Dawoud Bey for Achievement in Portraiture
Bill Eppridge for Achievement in Photojournalism
Rich Clarkson for Achievement in Sports
Nobuyoshi Araki for Achievement in Fine Art
Nancy McGirr and Fotokids for Humanitarian Award
Eli Reed for Achievement in Documentary Photography Award
The International Center of Photography received The 2011 Spotlight Award
Congratulations to everyone.