Dear Adri,

CONGRATULATIONS on being a Winner at the 20th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with:

1st Place – Outstanding Achievement in Nude | La Tasha 

2nd Place – Merit of Excellence in Portrait | 50 Years of Marriage

Honorable Mention in Nude | Carlas_Soul_Re_Ignited

Nominee in Nude | Trancending Allegory, Trancending Dimensionality
Nominee in Nude | Transference
Nominee in People | Sleeping Beauty Saigon
Nominee in Silhouette | Karst Mountains Northern Laos

5,834 entries were received from 64 countries and your work received a high percentage of votes overall. Certainly an achievement, well done!

The Jury represented the industry’s biggest names and tastemakers including Tate Modern, London; Sotheby’s, New York; Serpentine Galleries, London; Artnet, London; Ogilvy, New York; Financial Times, London; Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp; The ArtFactory Club, Vienna; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas; Hales Gallery, New York; Project 14C, Jersey City; Kunstbroker, Switzerland; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Tori Fujii Creative, Tokyo; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Switzerland; Goldsmiths, University of London; GSA Gallery, Stockholm; Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig/Berlin; Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris; David Hill Gallery, London; Chiara Badinella, Art Advisory and Appraisals, Milan; Paola Anselmi Contemporary Art, Perth; Smudajescheck Galerie, Munich; 1851 Gallery, Istanbul; Clemenger BBDO, Sydney; Nuud.Berlin Gallery, Berlin; Metro Gallery, Santiago de Compostela; Auckland Art Gallery; MUDEC, Museo Delle Culture di Milano, Milan; and Galerie Bugada Cargnel in Paris who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 517 title awards and 492 nominees in 33 categories. The Awards could not have wished for a better group of professionals to work with.

Congratulations once again, we wish you a most successful photography year.

Basil O’Brien
Creative Director