During the annual Eurosonic Nooderslag festival in Groningen Holland, the Lex Van Rossen Award, to showcase young talent in rock photography, has been presented to a European music photographer.
The prize is named after Rockarchive contributor Lex Van Rossen, one of Holland's best photographers, who died in Feb 2007. The prize consists of EU 2500, but the winner also benefits in many other ways especially from much media attention in Europe.
Last year's winner was Dutch photographer Annie Hoogendoorn, this year the coveted prize was awarded by ESN director Frank Vreeke and PopView's Floor Boogaart to Belgium photographer Tom Verbruggen.
RA's Jill Furmanovsky was in the Noordelicht gallery to open the exhibition and also to give a talk about rock photography to delegates at the festival. "The standard of the PopView awards was awesome and inspiring. We had a lot of trouble picking just one winner"
As well as winner Tom Verbruggen each one of the finalists - Patrick Ryming (DK), Danny North (GB) Jordi Huisman (NL), Kalle Bjorklid (FI), Julien Bourgeouis (FR) and Charlie de Keesmaeker (BE) was well worth seeing.
Later in 2009 Rockarchive intends to show highlights at the Roundhouse gallery in London.
More at Rockarchive.com
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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