Wonder Foto Contest invites well-known photographers, gallery managers and marketing brand supervisors as judges, to interact with photography from different professionals and aspects.
Eligibility
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All exhibitors will be automatically enrolled as the contestants of Wonder Foto Contest.
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Awards
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Jury’s Award, Curator’s Award, Wonder Foto Day Grand Prix.
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Judging
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Jury’s Award / One chosen by each jury member.
Curator’s Award / One chosen by each curator. Wonder Foto Day Grand Prix / One chosen by judges and curators’ mutual decision. |
Prizes
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All prizewinners receive an award certificate, prizes or cash offered by sponsor, inclusion in Wonder Foto Award Exhibition, and also chances to attend invitation exhibitions.
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2016 WFD
Jury
Miho Odaka
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Shingo Wakagi
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Yichiu Chen
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Diane Zhang Goldberg
Diane Zhang Goldberg is an archaeologist and art historian. She earned a Ph.D degree in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Paris Research University. Since 2013 she is a board member of the French National Museum of Asian Arts - Guimet Museum in Paris. She is a keen art collector and has been very supportive of young artists in visual and performing arts. |
Yoshihiro Taniguchi
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Yves Zlotowski
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Yen-Wen Fang
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Anna Yun-Ching Han
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Massimiliano Scaglione
CEO of Listlab publishers and founder of Blacklist Creative Partners, an international branding agency based in Barcelona. He studied art and design at the Escola Massana, Barcelona, and went on to work and collaborate with the prestigious ACTAR publishers in Barcelona, until 2007.He also directed the design "bookazine" MOM, from 2005 to 2009, and established Crehate, a network of artists and designers that produced exhibitions and events about the arts and design in Europe. ListLab publishers is an international editorial laboratory with a multidisciplinary approach to architecture, urban planning, arts, photography, and design. In the last ten years of activity, ListLab publishers has published more than 150 titles, and printed over 60,000 volumes, disseminating new knowledge and research paths in the field of design and the arts. |
Pahparn Sirima Chaipreechawit
Born in 1988, Bangkok Based Photographer, Curator, Producer, Nike Thailand Ambassador, Graduated B.A. School of Communication Arts - Faculty of Films Sirima made her debut into the art circle as the Creative Manager of The Jam Factory where she was also the Gallery Director and the Co Founder/Editor of "The Jam Mag." Magazine. A publication which helps discover new and emerging artists to display their talent and voice their stories. Her goal is to interweave artists from different fields to engage with the public and also to open relations and opportunities with leading brand names such as Sony/ Nike/ Samsung/ Epson etc. She is also the founder and creator of the “Art Ground” festival, a well known art fair in Bangkok that started in 2016. The movement involved local and international artists. Sirima is also one of the judges in the art fair "UNKNOWN ASIA Art Exchange Osaka" in Japan. Recently she worked with Chamni’s Eye studio, one of Bangkok’s well known commercial production studio, as a Project Manager, creating workshops to further the knowledge in different fields of art, film and production design. In another role that she is respected for, Sirima is also a Street Photographer member of Street Photo Thailand, a collective group of many talented photographers. Sirima stands out for her Unique Black and White photography, for her, photography is a reflection of her own self; her view and her thought, at the best she could possibly express. She is a well known patron to artists and designers. Her position as an editor connected her to a lot of people which gave her a lot of experience in various types of work, with a goal to push society forward through the power of the arts. |
KANA KAWANISHI
Director and curator of KANA KAWANISHI ART OFFICE/GALLERY. Graduated Japan Women's University (Tokyo) and studied at Fordham University (New York) with a B.A. in history of fashion, Kawanishi has served as the Tokyo coordinator and editor for Rizzoli New York since 2006. After working at an artist management/editorial office and an exhibition curation foundation, she founded KANA KAWANISHI ART OFFICE in 2014 and KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY in 2015. The gallery represents works by domestic and international artists who exemplify social and universal phenomena in their own form and showcase exhibitions in their two gallery spaces; KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY located in Kiyosumi Shirakawa for contemporary art, and KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY located in Nishiazabu dedicated to presenting photographic art. |
Joanna Fu
Curator and Columnist. Graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Journalism and Information Communication School. Currently living and working in Shanghai, and travel frequently between global cities like London and New York. The Golden Award prizewinning curator of Dali International Photography Exhibition 2015 by curating “Beneath the Surface—Taiwan Contemporary photography Exhibition”. Writes for magazines and newspaper including Chinese Photography, Photo World, City Pictorial, China Life Magazine,ELLEMEN, Pivot, China Photo Press and People Photo, and published “Creating a Solo Renaissance”. |