Los Angeles, Calif. (September 24, 2008) - The International Photography Awards (IPA) announced that Bill Hunt, avid collector and co-founder of the Hasted Hunt Gallery, has curated the IPA Best of Show, 2008 for the
Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards Competition. The exhibition, open to the public, debuts on Saturday, October 18, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. at
Splashlight Studios, Soho. Making this announcement,
Hossein Farmani, founder of the IPA, commented, “We are so fortunate to have Bill curate this year’s Best of Show exhibition. He was the clear choice for the task at hand given his experience not only as a curator but also as an esteemed educator around the process of curating. I am delighted that Bill has curated this show, culled from over 350 winners’ works.”
Describing the selection process, Mr. Hunt added, “I am drawn to fresh ways of seeing. I want to be taken to unfamiliar places, to look with another’s eyes. As a curator, what I can then do is to lead you then as audience to those works, and to put them together so that any commonality gives that added weight.”
The 2008 Best of Show photographers are: Beata Bajno, Robin Bowman, Kate Brooks, James Campbell, Tim Clayton, Dylan Collard, Livia Corona, Antony Crossfield, Michael Crouser, Richard Daniels, Roy Dayan, John Delaney, Mitch Dobrowner, Oleg Dou (Duryagin), Julia Fullerton-Batten, Malcolm Gilbert, Maciej Grzegorzek, Jessica Todd Harper, Simon Harsent, Mark Holthusen, Chase Jarvis, Nadav Kander, Suthep Kritsanavarin, Murphy Kuhn, Markku Lahdesmaki, Jimmy Lam, Lung Liu, Pawel Mlodkowski, Wojtek Moskwa, Nigel Parry, Scott Peck, Paolo Pellegrin, Murat Sayginer, Howard Schatz, Brent Stirton, Simon Stock, Alex Telfer, Christian Vium and Vikki Wilson.
The images in this exhibition were printed by master printer Richard Jackson and his staff at
Hance Partners, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ. www.hancepartners.com
Hance Partners printed last year’s Best of Show receiving high acclaim and the IPA is thrilled to once again have their participation in this important Lucie Foundation event.
Aperture Foundation will have a table at the
Best of Show at Splashlight where they will have for sale an assortment of its acclaimed books as well as offer attendees the chance to subscribe to the award-winning
Aperture magazine, (winner of last year’s Lucie Award) at a special one-night only offer. Titles will include recently published books featuring work of this year’s honorees: Invasion 68 Prague, photographs by Josef Koudelka, Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979, photographs by Susan Meiselas, Golden Gate, photographs by Richard Misrach.
The 2008 Best of Show exhibition debuts at the Splashlight Studio in Soho on October 18, in New York before traveling to 8 cities internationally.
The 6th Lucie Awards, presented by Pilsner Urquell, will be held at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Honorees and top winners from the 2008 competition will be recognized. The Lucie Awards (produced by the Lucie Foundation, a non-profit, charitable foundation,) salutes the achievements of the world’s finest photographers, discovers emerging talent through the International Photography Awards and promotes the appreciation of photography worldwide.
The Lucie Awards official media partner is PDN and Photo Plus International. In addition to title sponsor Pilsner Urquell, support is provided by Amvona, AtEDGE, Blurb, Canon, and Splashlight Studios. For more information regarding the Best of Show exhibit debut at the Splashlight Studios, Saturday, October 18, please email sarah@photoawards.com
Tickets for the Lucie Awards are available at
http://www.lincolncenter.org/About the International Photography Awards/ Lucie Foundation 
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