Hans-Christian Schink Wins Inaugural REAL Photography Award
By Ryan • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20.
Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white print of water and mountains, which he produced using a technique known as true solarization. The image is part of a series of 12 photographs depicting Earth’s movement.
“We were drawn to, and intrigued by the exquisite landscape between the violent gash that streaked across an otherwise tranquil landscape. This, we discovered, was the mark of the sun as it aired across the sky in the one hour it took to make the exposure,” said Roger Hargreaves, the jury chairman and Curator of London’s National Portrait Gallery, in a press release. “Hans-Christian Schink’s photograph has reinvigorated black and white photography with a new contemporary verve and has created a visual tension that hints at trouble to come in a wilderness paradise.”
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