The Hariban Award is an important acknowledgement of excellence in the photography community. By supporting the collotype process, it expands the reach of the photographic medium into the graphic community, where it had an important place in the 19th century. With the revival of a kind of purism around the early 20th century, photography historians have gravitated away from the experimenters with process, and have chosen instead to advocate for a more anonymous stance, a purer kind of photograph. The so-called documentary style, espoused in the United States especially by Walker Evans, was prized, and anonymous works – in the form of postcards and snapshots by unknown or seemingly anonymous authors was preferred. Now in these times of post-modernism and beyond, we again turn to more expressive kinds of photographic works. We are grateful that Benrido has been so supportive of this expansion of our aesthetic possibilities.

– Sandra S. Phillips Juror, HARIBAN AWARD 2022

Sandra S. Phillips is Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has been with the museum since 1987, and assumed the position of Senior Curator in 1999. In 2017 she assumed the position of Curator Emerita. Phillips has organised numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions of modern and contemporary photography including Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Diane Arbus Revelations, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence and An Uncertain Grace: Sebastião Salgado. She holds degrees from the City University of New York (Ph.D.), Bryn Mawr College (M.A.), and Bard College (B.A.). Phillips was previously curator at the Vassar College Art Museum, and has taught at various institutions including the State University of New York, New Paltz; Parsons School of Design; San Francisco State University; and the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome and received a grant from The Japan Foundation in 2000.

– Lekgetho Makola Juror, HARIBAN AWARD 2022

Lekgetho Makola is the CEO of Javett UP (The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, South Africa). Formerly the head of Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, he also sits on the International Advisory Committee to the Board of CatchLight – San Francisco, and Curatorial Advisory Committee of the 2017 Bamako Encounters – Mali. Lekgetho Makola has a Fine Art degree from Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. His artistic achievements include a Bronze Sculpture commission for President Nelson Mandela. He is an International Ford Foundation Fellow on Social Justice 2009, and a Graduate of Howard University in Washington DC, USA with a MFA in Film Studies 2013 which he used to start initiatives like Kali TV, Parallel Film Collective and Local Equals Global. He worked for the Durban Art Museum, Robben Island Museum including an internship at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. He also founded an independent production company KGETHI IMAGES (Pty) Ltd in August 2014 South Africa, which focuses on film, photography and art productions. Lekgetho is an active member of the virtual continental network Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa.