Hariban Award

It is with great pleasure that we announce the results of this year’s Hariban Award.

Grand Prize Winner｜Maude Arsenault

Presented by the Benrido Collotype Atelier, the HARIBAN AWARD, now in its seventh year, combines a 160-year-old analogue technique with the new vision of digital-age photography. Professionals and amateurs alike were invited to submit black and white photographs for a chance to win this remarkable award. Arsenault will receive a trip to the ancient city of Kyoto to participate in the production of collotype prints and will be exhibited in a solo exhibition in the Fall of 2021.

“You have this ability to have a relationship with an expert…to collaborate between an artist and a master printer… they will be able to benefit from the exchange of ideas and from the exchange of expertise.” — Simon Baker, Director Maison Européenne de la Photographie

• Two-week residency in The imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years, today the city of Kyoto is the last bastion of many traditional arts and artisan crafts.
• Benrido Experience & Collotype Prints while in Kyoto, the Grand Prize Winner will collaborate with master printers of the Benrido Collotype Atelier. Working closely with printers of superlative technical expertise, the artist will enjoy a rare opportunity to participate personally in the complex process of collotype printing and will produce eight museum-quality collotype prints of her winning photographs.
• Solo Exhibition in 2021 : The Grand Prize Winner’s collotype prints will be exhibited in a solo exhibition of her works in 2021. Previous venues have included: Kousei-in Temple (Awoiska van der Molen solo exhibition, 2014), Sfera Exhibition (Antony Cairns solo exhibition, 2015), Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden & Museum – Zonkoro (Claudio Silvano solo exhibition, 2016), Kiyomizu-dera Temple – Jojuin (Stephen Gill solo exhibition, 2017), Murin-an (Esther Teichmann solo exhibition, 2018), Noguchi Residence – Karaku-an (Margaret Lansink solo exhibition, 2019).
• Competition Catalogue: 2021 All finalists will receive a catalogue for the award printed in collotype and hand-bound by traditional binders in Kyoto, Japan.

Juror information

Lucy Gallun, Curator｜MoMA
Lucy Gallun is Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has curated or co-curated multiple exhibitions for the Museum including Being: New Photography 2018; Projects 108: Gauri Gill (at MoMA PS1); Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection; Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015; Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War; and Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971; and collaborated on many others. Lucy is also co-editor of Photography at MoMA, a three-volume history of photography at the Museum.

Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography FT Weekend Magazine
Emma Bowkett is Director of Photography at the FT Weekend Magazine. She has curated exhibitions for the Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Peckham 24 and an exhibition with young Londoners as part of the Create Jobs programme. She is a university Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication (LCC), and regularly participates at international workshops, portfolio reviews, festivals, art fairs and awards. She is part of Magnum Photos Professional Practice, which supports young and emerging photographers. She won the inaugural Firecracker Contributors Award.

Felix Hoffmann, Chief Curator｜C/O Berlin
Felix Hoffmann is an art historian and art theorist, and is currently Head Curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation. He is the initiator of C/O Berlin’s Talents program for young photographers and art critics, and has acted as curator of numerous international exhibitions including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh (2011), Gordon Parks (2014) or Araki (2018), and group shows like The Last Image: Photography and Death (2019) or The Uncanny Familiar- Images of Terror (2011). He has also published numerous books and texts.

Ma Quan, Professor, Designer & Artist
Ma Quan is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Visual Communication Design, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. He has been constantly committed to exploring the possibility of spatial narrative and transboundary design; he has more than 30 years of design education experience. He published books including “Visual Reconstruction of the City”, articles and papers related to visual design in urban space, and carried out a large number of practical activities and researches related to urban space visual design. In the past decade, Dr. Ma has successively used integrated media including ink, devices, image, music, prints to create experimental projects.

Au milieu de la tempête, 17x22 po, 2020