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Sony World Photography Awards 2009The Prince's Rainforests Project Award
On 22nd September The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) announced its partnership with Sony Europe and the World Photography Awards to create a new prize category – The Prince’s Rainforests Project Award – at the world-renowned event. To download the full press release, click here (pdf 160KB). Press |
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Left to right: Briony Mathieson, Ruth Eichhorn, Stuart Franklin, Scott Gray,
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| Left to right: Ruth Eichorn, Briony Mathieson, James Kennedy, Scott Gray, Stuart Franklin, Vanessa Winship |
The Judges for the PRP Award
To read the full biographies of the PRP Award judges, please click here.
John Sauven
John Sauven has been Executive Director of Greenpeace UK since September 2007. With a background in forests he was instrumental in getting protection for the Great Bear temperate rainforest on the west coast of Canada. It was from the lessons learnt in the Great Bear campaign that similar tactics were used elsewhere including in Indonesia, the Congo in central Africa and the Amazon. John Sauven co-ordinated the international campaign to secure a moratorium on further destruction of the Amazon by soya producers, which was one of Greenpeace's most successful campaigns to protect large areas of the world's last intact rainforests providing both climate and biodiversity protection.
Roberto Smeraldi
Roberto Smeraldi, is the founder and director, since 1989, of Amigos da Terra - Brazilian Amazonia, a leading Brazilian NGO. As journalist and author, he has published essays and books on environment, development, sustainable enterprises, the Amazon, forestry, travel and culinary arts, as well as founding the website www.amazonia.org.br. He currently co-chairs the "Climate and Forest Dialogue" and serves on the board of "The Forest Dialogue", both hosted by Yale University. He is also a member of the board of the global Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels (since 2007), hosted by the Swiss government. He chaired the International NGO Steering Committee for the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1989-92) and represented Friends of the Earth International at UN-ECOSOC in 1989-1999. From 1996 to 2004, he served as member and Chair of the International Advisory Group to the G-7 Pilot Program for Brazilian Rainforests. In 2000, he was awarded with the Henry Ford Prize for Environmental Conservation.
Cristina Mittermeier
As a photographer since 1996, Cristina has help produce 9 books, including a series published with Conservation International and Cemex. Books she has coauthored include: Megadiversity: Earth's Wealthiest Countries for Biodiversity (1996); Hotspots: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered ecoregions (1998); Wilderness Areas: Earth's Last Wild Places (2002) and Transboundary Conservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas (2005). A Climate for Life is due to be released in Autumn 2008. From the popular to the scientific, her work has appeared in major magazines around the world including the USA, Mexico, Brazil and China among others.
Cristina is Executive Director of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), a prestigious group of photographers which she founded in 2005. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Nature's Best Foundation, the Chairman’s Council of Conservation International and is a Board Member of the WILD Foundation.
Stuart Franklin
Stuart Franklin studied photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design. His photographic career began when he started to work for the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph Magazine in London and later with Agence Presse Sygma in Paris.
Stuart was invited to join Magnum Photos in the summer of 1985, and has been a full member since 1989, serving most recently as the agency’s President, a post to which he was elected in 2006.
In 1997 Stuart embarked on a period of academic study, graduating with a first class degree in geography from Oxford University, and completing his doctoral thesis there in 2002. In 2005 he undertook the series of large-format photographs of Europe’s changing landscape that has led to his forthcoming book, Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux (autumn 2008). Stuart’s previous books include: The Time of Trees (1999), La Città Dinamica (2003), Sea Fever (2005), and Hotel Afrique (2007).
Kathy Moran
Kathy Moran is National Geographic magazine’s first senior editor for natural history projects. A twenty-seven year veteran of the Society, Moran has been producing projects about terrestrial and underwater ecosystems for the magazine since 1990. Recent highlights include editing a special edition of National Geographic magazine “100 Best Wildlife Photographs”. She was also project manager for the NGS/Wildlife Conservation Society’s award-winning collaboration of photographer Nick Nichols and Dr. Michael Fay’s trek across Central Africa. The resulting stories were the impetus for the creation of Gabon’s national park system.
Moran has edited several books for the Society, including Women Photographers at the National Geographic and The Africa Diaries – An Illustrated Life in the Bush. She was named “Picture Editor of the Year” for her winning portfolio in the 2006 Pictures of the Year competition.
Moran is a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers and serves on the Executive Committee.
David de Rothschild
In 2005 David de Rothschild founded Adventure Ecology, an organisation that uses adventure and storytelling to captivate the imagination, raise global mass media awareness and inspire individuals, communities and industry to take positive action for our planet.
In early 2007 David wrote the 'Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook', which was the official companion book to the Live Earth concert series and in the the summer of 2008 he was the editorial consultant for Earth Matters, a children's book published by Dorling Kindersley. Most recently, US channel Sundance commissioned an eight part documentary series, working title 'Eco-Truth - The Real Cost of Living' which will see him investigate the life-cycle of everyday consumer products, this series is set to launch in Autumn 2009.
National Geographic has awarded David the accolade of 'Fellow', Clean Up The World has invited him to be an international ambassador and the World Economic Forum made him a 'Young Global Leader'.
Tom Stoddart
Tom began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his native North-East of England. In 1978 he moved to London and began working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time Magazine.
During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international events as the war in Lebanon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela, the bloody siege of Sarajevo and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. In 1997 Tony Blair gave Stoddart exclusive behind the scenes access to his election campaign, as Labour swept to victory after 18 years of Conservative government. Ten years on he photographed Gordon Brown as he replaced Blair as Prime Minister. His recent extensive work on the catastrophic AIDS pandemic blighting Africa has been widely published and exhibited.
Now established as one of the worlds most respected photojournalists, Stoddart continues to produce powerful photo-essays on the serious world issues of our time.
Helena Christensen
Born on Christmas day in 1968 to a Danish father and Peruvian mother, Helena grew up in Denmark. Her childhood interests included music and photography. In 1986 she was selected as Miss Denmark and competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Following this experience, Helena left her home for Paris at the age of 18 to pursue a modelling career. There she excelled immediately, after a shoot for Elle Magazine and within a short period, Helena was getting prominent contracts from leading designers on both sides of the Atlantic. It is for her work for Victoria's Secret that she is perhaps best known to most.
In addition to these more traditional modelling opportunities, Helena has also worked in various film and television projects. These include the MTV fashion show Fashionably Loud, the 1992 independent film Inferno and Chris Isaak's hit music video Wicked Game.
Helena is also a photographer, her photos appearing in magazines such as Marie Claire and ELLE, and her exhibition A Quiet Story, curated by Jim Cook, having premiered in Rotterdam in 2006. The exhibition is scheduled to be mounted at Chanel Tokyo's NEXUS Gallery in 2010.
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