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\nThe centrepiece of the show – not photography<\/em><\/p>\n
BMW are the sponsors of the BMW-Paris Photo Prize<\/a>, a contest that has always turned up some rather odd entrants and chosen peculiar winners. The entrants are nominated by the galleries taking part in the show, which accounts for some fairly unlikely submissions.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most unlikely this year was the winner, Yao Lu\u0092s New landscape part I \u0096 Ancient Spring Time Fey, 2006<\/a>. <\/em>Yao Lu was nominated by the 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing. He photographs mounds of garbage covered by green nets and digitally manipulates them to resemble traditional Chinese paintings.\u00a0 It’s more bad Photoshop than photography as I know it, though, as the pdf file says “speaks of the radical mutations affecting nature in China as I took some time going round the works shortlisted for the prize that were on show in Paris, and picked my own top five (not in order): Janne Lehtinen<\/a> from Finland, Yuki Tawada<\/a>, Ken Kitano<\/a> (click on the pictures to see them larger) and Nobuhiro Fukui<\/a> from Japan and Atta Kim<\/a> from South Korea.<\/p>\n But this, as I’ve mentioned previously, is the year of China<\/a>, thanks to the Beijing Olympics, so perhaps Yao Lu’s victory should not have come as a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A major area at the very centre of Paris Photo is devoted not to photography but a car showroom.\u00a0 As someone who was a friend of the earth before the Earth officially had Friends (and who got rid of his first and last car in 1966) I find it inappropriate and distasteful, even more so … Continue reading Paris Photo: BMW Prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/11\/12\/20081112-d0118.jpg\")
\nShortlisted work for the prize displayed on the upper level<\/em><\/p>\n
\nis it subjected to rampant urbanization and the ecological threats that endanger the
\nenvironment<\/em>.” But I still think its a shame that a jury that included one photographer and one curator I admire couldn’t pick something more photographic.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/11\/12\/20081112-d0125.jpg\")
\nLooking at the winning entry<\/em><\/p>\n