Los Angeles, CA (Oct. 18, 2017) - The 15th Annual Lucie Awards present this year’s Support Category Nominees, from which seven individuals or organizations in the creative community will be recognized on Sunday, October 29, at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. All nominees have proven essential to the process of crafting the exceptional images and are celebrated at the Lucies. Tickets are on sale at
www.lucies.org. The nominees for the Support Categories are:
PICTURE EDITOR OF THE YEAR (awarded to picture editor) nominees:
Andrew Katz, Senior Multimedia Editor, TIME for
AFTERWARD. – REFLECTIONS ON THE WEIGHT OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
Robin Daughtridge, Associate Managing Editor for Photography and Video, and Todd Panagopoulos, Director of Photography, Chicago Tribune for Portraits of a child shooting victim in Chicago
Marielle Eudes, Photo Director, Agence France-Presse for
Rescued From the Rubble
Mary Cooney, Director of Photography, Los Angeles Times for
Brazil’s war on Zika
Moe Doiron, Editor, Globe and Mail for
Standing RockPRINT ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR: (awarded to photographer) nominees:
Advantage Y&R, Windhoek, Namibia for
African Trash Masks. Client: Greenpeace Africa. Photographed by Shawn Van Eeden
Agencia3, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for
Absolute Confidentiality. Client: Disque Denúncia. Photographed by Aderi Costa, Ian Costa
JWT, Brazil for
Womanity Campaign. Client: Womanity Foundation. Photographed by Gabriel de Moura
Ogilvy & Mather for
Switch It Off. Client: Amnesty International. Photographed by Sergej Chursyn; Andrew Reed Weller
R/GA for
We Are America. Client: The Ad Council. Photographed by Mark Seliger
The Lucie Awards are a celebration of photography’s greatest achievements the world over. The Lucie Foundation and the global photography community will recognize this year’s extraordinary honorees and the talented winners from the 2017 International Photography Awards (IPA) juried competition - the Foundation’s sister-effort. Awards presented will include Lucie Honorees, IPA prizes, Support Category Awards, a special tribute to those in the industry who have passed on.
The 2017 honorees who will join the distinguished group of 133 previously recognized photographers are: Larry Fink for Achievement in Documentary, Dominique Issermann for Achievement in Fashion, Abelardo Morell for Achievement in Fine Art, Judith Joy Ross for Achievement in Portraiture, Steve Schapiro for Achievement in Photojournalism, Art Shay as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award and, Josephine Herrick Project as the recipient of the Humanitarian Award.
Tickets for The Lucie Awards are on sale at http://www.lucies.org/
About Lucie Foundation - Lucie Foundation's mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent and promote photography appreciation worldwide. The Lucie Awards ceremony is held annually to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the international photography community, recognizing those whose life’s work deserves the highest acclaim. This is also where the Foundation's sister enterprise, the International Photography Awards (IPA) competition, announces the winners of the Photographer of the Year, the Discovery of the Year, the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year, and the Moving Image Photographer of the Year awards. Cash prizes and statues are awarded. The Foundation presents year-round programming to support high school students through SNAPSHOP! The Foundation also offers financial funding through the Lucie Scholarship Programs in support of both emerging and professional photographers. MOPLA (Month of Photography LA) has become the west coast destination for a unique month of distinctive programming for photographers and those who appreciate the craft. Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation. http://www.luciefoundation.org
