One of the judges for LensCulture’s 2022 Street Photography Awards selected a member of the photo collective he is a part of as a winner, leading to questions of bias or impropriety.
“I have been a fan of Éléonore Simon’s photographs from Valparaiso for a while now, so I was pleased to see them entered into the LensCulture Street Photography competition this year,” Stuart wrote. “I love the mystery, surrealism and complications she makes in her photographs, there is still one that I can’t quite work out!”directly to express his displeasure and confirmed that after he brought the issue to LensCulture, the organization refunded his entry fee.
“Given Matt would have been paid a fee to judge, off the back of all our entry fees, it also promotes the very collective he is a leading member of. To have done this so blatantly is arrogance in the extreme, thinking no one would notice. I have now successfully had my entry fees refunded by LensCulture, but they have refused to comment on the issue.
“For this reason and from the outset, I decided to judge all the work entered as impartially as I could and solely on its merits, not on my relationships with entrants,” Stuart says.
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