Top of the week: Nominations for the Swiss photography prize EWZ.selection announced

The jury has nominated 18 out of 465 works for the four categories Advertising, Editorial Photography, Fine Arts and Free. The winners will be announced on May 8, 2009 at the opening night in Zurich. The evening will be hosted by Jeroen van Roojien. The main prize of CHF 15,000, the EWZ.selection Award, will be presented for the eleventh time. The category prizes are endowed with CHF 5,000: the vfg vereinigung fotografischer gestalterInnen photo prize in the Advertising category, the SonntagsZeitung photo prize in the Editorial Photography category, the photo prize in the Fine Arts category and the photo prize in the Free category. The Swiss Photo Award exhibition at the EWZ Selnau substation in Zurich will showcase the 18 best works from May 9 to 17. The international jury consists of William A. Ewing, Directeur du Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Valérie Fougeirol, Director of the Magnum Gallery, Paris, Andrea Gothe, Director of photography Stern, Hamburg, Hans Hansen, photographer, Hamburg, Jitka Hanzlová, photo artist, Essen, and Walter Keller, curator and publicist, Zurich.