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In January 2008 Benjamin A. Monn’s Art-Work “CASSIDA” has been honoured and selected for the Celeste Art Prize catalogue, which will be presented at the 5.Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art on the 5th of April.

Out of 410 Artists from all over Germany the Jury selected 30 Finalists and 180 Artworks for the catalogue.

In March 2008 Benjamin A. Monn received the 6th prize at Rodenstock Photo Award International.

The winning photographs “Candela 4” as well as the honoured photograph “Candela 1” both from the art series “Candela”, will be exhibited at the Linus Rodenstock Photo Exhibition from April 4th to May 4^th, 2008 at the IHK in Munich Germany.

In February 2008 BAM has been nominated fort he Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes 2008. Works of his artseries “Fragmente” and “Deep Forest” are shortlisted in the professional category “Abstract”. From a total of 44,641 professional photograph entries, the selected nominations have unearthed the images of today from an overwhelming number of submissions in its first year.

The shortlist has been selected by the World Photographic Academy, a judging panel of over one hundred of the industry’s elite. The Awards will be celebrated in Cannes, France from 21st to 25th April 2008 with a series of events and photographic exhibitions, culminating in a VIP Gala Evening and Awards Presentation on 24th April. The I’iris d’or will be awarded to the overall winner, who will gain the title of Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year and be awarded $25,000.

In January 2008 Benjamin A. Monn`s Art-Work “CASSIDA”  has been honoured and selected for the Celeste Art Prize Catalogue which will be presented at the 5.Berlin Biennale for  Contemporary Art on the 5th of April.

Out of 410 Artists from all over Germany the Jury selected 30 Finalists and 180 Artworks for the catalogue.

During the 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art from 1st April to 27th April the Celeste Art Association will exhibit the 60 chosen finalists artworks in the former brewery Patzenhofer Brauerei. Under the patronage of the Italian Embassy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the borough mayor of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Dr. Franz Schulz, the Art Association will award the prize money of 20.000 Euros for the first time in Germany during the exhibition on the 5th of April. The finalists were selected from 500 submissions. Entries arrived from all over Germany and international artists living and working in Germany. 260 of them were selected from a reputed jury to be published in the Celestecatalogue and 60 of them are presented in the final exhibition. During the exhibition the finalists will have the opportunity to vote for the artist they consider pre-eminent amongst their peers, thus awarding the prize money themselves in the categories Celeste Artist (12.000 Euros) and Celeste Student (8.000 Euros). Paola Coppola, the managing director of Celeste Art Prize says: “All 60 finalists who will choose the overall winner in each section are the actual winners of the Celeste Art Prize.”Exhibition and award ceremony will take place in the Patzenhofer Brauerei,

Landsberger Allee 54, 12459 Berlin. The exhibition opens on 1st April, at 6 o’clock in the evening. The award ceremony will be held on the 5th April, at 6 o’clock in the evening.

The event is kindly supported by the patronizing association “Landsberger Allee 54” and it is part of the extensive revival of the former brewery “Schultheiss-Patzenhofer Brauerei” location as a creative profitable centre.

Benjamin Antony Monn wins Hasselblad Masters Award 2008. Given in recognition of a photographer’s contribution to the art of photography, the Hasselblad Masters Award is judged on photographic ability, encompassing creativity, composition, conceptual strength and technical skill.

The team at Hasselblad began the rigorous judging process at the beginning of December, before the international jury, comprising the editors of five respected photographic magazines, selected the 10 winners from the 100 finalists, 1.700 entries and over 17.000 photographs.

The ten winners will each receive a framed diploma and the free use of a superb Hasselblad H3DII DSLR camera system for four months.  During that time, they will be able to use the equipment as they wish, although they will also use it to capture images to be included in the production of a unique, high quality, photographic book, to be launched at Photokina in September 2008.

The book, a special Masters commemorative collection of photographs, will feature pictorials showing images from each winning photographer, who will be asked to interpret the theme ‘passion’ in their own style.  Aware that almost every photographer dreams of having their own creative work showcased in a book, each winner will also receive 50 copies of the book.  Printed in English by German publisher teNeues, the book will also be available in more than 70 countries and will retail at around €60 each.

Christian Nørgaard, Hasselblad’s newly appointed Photographer Relations Manager, says, “We have been delighted by both the large number and extremely high quality of entries.  We now look forward to seeing the results of the winners’ individual interpretations of ‘passion’, using the best cameras in the world, and to choosing the finest of their images for the commemorative book.”