2012 Judges
Best Photography Book Award
Lindsey Stewart (Chair) is an historical photography expert. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Lindsey Stewart studied Documentary Photography at Newport College of Art in Wales and worked at Stills Gallery, one of the first galleries in Britain to include historic photography as one of its specialities. From 1981 until 2002 she was responsible for regular photograph auctions at Christie’s in London. Since 2005 she has been a specialist consultant to the antiquarian booksellers, Bernard Quaritch in London, where she runs the department of photographs and photography books and publishes books on aspects of photographic history.
Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, and photographic critic. He has written extensively for the photographic press, and has curated a number of exhibitions. His own work is in a number of public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Arts Council Collection, and The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. He has written introductory essays to many photographic monographs, including those of such photographers as Stephen Shore, John Gossage, Martin Parr and Chris Killip. Among his books are Collecting Photography (Mitchell Beazley, 2002), The Genius of Photography (Quadrille, 2007), and (with Martin Parr), The Photobook: A History (Phaidon, Vol. 1, 2004, Vol.2, 2006), winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Prize in 2007. His book of essays on photography, The Pleasures of Good Photographs (Aperture Ideas, 2010), won the ICP New York Infinity Writer’s Award in 2011.
Jem Southam is one of the UK's leading photographers and is renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until the present. His work is included in many important collections including Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Museum Folkswang, Dusseldorf, and the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven. He is Professor of Photography in the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University.
Best Moving Image Book Award
Sandra Hebron (Chair) was Artistic Director of BFI Film Festivals from 2003-2011, having joined the BFI in 1997 from Manchester's Cornerhouse, where she was Cinemas Director. With over twenty years experience of independent film exhibition, Hebron has spearheaded two of Europe's leading film showcases: the BFI London Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has also worked as a funding officer in film and photography, and has been a board member of numerous arts and cultural organisations, including chairing the board of Lux, the artists’ film and video agency from 2001-7. In 2010 she was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, in recognition of her services to cinema. She has served on international festival juries around the world, has made several short films of her own and regularly writes and broadcasts about cinema.
Nigel Floyd has been a film critic for 30 years. He contributes regularly to Time Out magazine and a number of BBC radio programmes, including Radio 4's The Film Programme, Radio 3's Night Waves, BBC Radio Scotland's The Movie Cafe and the World Service's arts show, The Strand. Together with Boyd Hilton, he also sits in for Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo on their BBC Radio 5 film review show.
Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. Vincendeau was educated at The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, gaining a degree in English and at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a doctorate in Film Studies. Before assuming her post at King's, Vincendeau was Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. A regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, she has written widely on French and European cinema. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (Cassell/BFI, 1995) and the author of, among others, Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (Continuum, 2000), Jean-Pierre Melville, an American in Paris (BFI, 2003) and La Haine (I.B Tauris, 2005). She is currently completing a book on Brigitte Bardot and has co-edited A Companion to Jean Renoir (Wiley/Blackwell), both of which will be published in 2012.