Dale Yudelman has won the Ernest Cole Photographic Award, a new prize designed to assist photographers to complete an existing project. Administered by UCT library, and funded by private donors Peter Brown, Gavin Relly Educational and Kirsh Family Trusts, the prize consists of a sum of R150 000, towards the project’s completion, its exhibition and the publishing of an accompanying book. 

According to the award’s site, the new prize focuses on ‘creative responses to South African society’. Says...

Dale Yudelman has won the Ernest Cole Photographic Award, a new prize designed to assist photographers to complete an existing project. Administered by UCT library, and funded by private donors Peter Brown, Gavin Relly Educational and Kirsh Family Trusts, the prize consists of a sum of R150 000, towards the project’s completion, its exhibition and the publishing of an accompanying book. 

According to the award’s site, the new prize focuses on ‘creative responses to South African society’. Says Yudelman of his project, ‘From the Hip’, it was ‘inspired by the Ernest Cole exhibition I saw in February this year, which documented life under apartheid. My series looks at life ‘under democracy’ and consists of vibrant daily reflections; shot in passing, with the simple motivation of noticing what is’. 

Four honorable mentions were awarded to: Jabulani Dhlamini, Marc Shoul, Graeme Williams, and Thabiso Sekgala.