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11.03.2024 - 12:53 / forbes.com / Art
American photographer Keisha Scarville is the winner of the Saltzman Prize, a new award for the best Emerging Photographer in the world. This annual prize is a $10,000 award and additional funds to support a solo exhibition of the winning photographer’s work at Photofairs New York each September. The Saltzman Prize is presented in cooperation with the Center for Photography Woodstock (CPW) and Photofairs New York. The winner will also be honored on 20 April 2024 at the CPW Vision Awards.
The other nine shortlisted artists were: Hady Barry, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Eric Gyamfi, Accra, Ghana; Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Juneau, AK / New York, NY; Nhu Xuan Huay, Paris, France; Hailun Ma, Shanghai. China / New York, NY; Rory Mulligan, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Trina Michelle Robinson, San Francisco, CA; Caroline Tompkins, New York, NY; and Wilfred Ukpong, Oxford, UK / Clermont-Ferrand, France / Eket, Nigeria.
This years’ Saltzman Prize nominators include MoMA curator Oluremi Onabanjo, British curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy, New York-based curator and writer Lyle Rexer, American photographer Deana Lawson, and The New York Times Opinion photo director Jacqueline Bates. Each nominator put forth two photographers to create a shortlist for the Prize. From the shortlist, CPW’s jury panel of three photography experts selected the year’s emerging photographer. The jury this year was MacArthur fellow and photographer Deborah Willis, the President of the Magnum Foundation Susan Meiselas, and the Director of Asia Society Yasufumi Nakamori.
Brooklyn-based photographer Keisha Scarville weaves together themes of transformation, place, latencies and the elusive body. Since the early 2000s, Scarville has been exploring ideas around belonging, place, and embodied narratives across mediums, particularly photography. Scarville’s personal background merges two distinct geographies, Guyana and America, which act as a large source of inspiration throughout her work.
Many of her works reflect on the symbolism of West African figures and the immigrant experience of her Guyanese-American parents. In one of her most important series, Mama's Clothes, Scarville created portraits using her dead mother's clothing, making a collaboration between absence and landscape to foster a space that enables the reemergence of her mother’s presence through her own body and identity. Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem; ICA Philadelphia; The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute; and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Scarville recently published a new artist booklick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound (MACK, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First PhotoBook Award.
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