My friends at American Photo posted a great entry about the Fashion Industry Photo awards..OOOPs, the [1] ICP awards. One has to wonder, who nominated Karl Lagerfield and GAP? [2] GAP can’t even find a CEO. In a time where photojournalism has great talents while suffering from an onslaught of wire service one shot photos, one would have thought they would have followed the [3] French Government in awarding legendary Goksin Sipahioglu with a Lifetime Achievement Award. No offense to William Klein or other Christopher Morris, already highly recognized photographers, but wouldn’t these awards serve a better purpose if they actually awarded new and unknown talents.

On a brighter note, [4] Tendance Floue, one of my favorite collective, has won an award. Is that a sign [5] collectives will start to  become mainstream: magazines, photo editors, are you listening ?