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The Winner
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Announcement
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About the Prize
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Regulations
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Jury
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Application form
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עברית
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JURY

Recipients of the prize will be selected by a jury of leading international photography experts, chaired by Nissan N. Perez, Horace and Grace Goldsmith Senior Curator of the Israel Museum’s Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography.  Inaugural jury members will include:

• Dr. Shlomo Lee Abrahmov (Yakum) – Artist, Researcher and and Lecturer, Holon Institute of Technology, and Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, representing the Shpilman family
  
  
• Mr. Peter Galassi (New York) – Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art
  
  
• Ms. Marta Gili (Paris) – Director, Jeu de Paume Museum
  
  
• Prof. Hanan Laskin (Tel Aviv) – Founder, Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design; academic advisor to art schools and other cultural institutions in Israel.  

The jury will meet in Jerusalem in the summer of 2010, and the winner will be announced by August the same year. Consequently, a jury will be convened every two years for each subsequent prize. A detailed protocol of the selection process and deliberations will be kept for the archives of the prize; however these will not be made public. Members of the jury will not have to justify their decision.