Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced

The Photography Prize Shortlist is always one to watch. Each year they call attention to the best of photography. Many times I know the photography but just as often the work is new to me. So, I get to learn about new and exciting image makers working on thought provoking art. This year is no exception and interestingly dominated by strong woman photographers. A welcome change. Take a look -

Anna Fox (b.1961, UK) is nominated for her exhibition, Cockroach Diary & Other Stories at Ffotogallery, Cardiff (28 July - 10 October 09), initiated by Impressions Gallery, Bradford.

Gallery site: ffoto gallery: Anna Fox – Cockroach Diary and Other Stories

Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is nominated for her retrospective exhibition, ZOE LEONARD: Photographs, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (1 April - 5 July 09), initiated by Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Watch Zoe Leonard. Photographs / Retrospective at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich | VernissageTV art tv

Sophie Ristelhueber (b.1949, France) is nominated for her retrospective, Sophie Ristelhueber at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (20 January - 22 March 2009).

slide show: Sophie Ristelhueber photographs at the Jeu de Paume | World news | guardian.co.uk


Donovan Wylie (b.1971, UK) is nominated for his exhibition MAZE 2007/8 at Belfast Exposed (27 March - 1 May 2009).

Check out more info on this work here: Belfast Exposed: Exhibitions

The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography in Europe between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009.

This year's Jury is: Olivia Maria Rubio (Director of Exhibitions, La Fabrica, Spain); Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, Design Artists Copyright Society, curator and writer); James Welling (artist, USA); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Borse, Germany). Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers' Gallery, is the non-voting Chair.

Ryan Mcginley wins Cannes Lions, Press Grand Prix

This years press Grand Prix was won by FFL Paris for its Wrangler campaign shot by the photographer many seem to love to hate, Ryan McGinley. I have to admit when I first saw Ryan's work I wasn't so sure about it. But Ryan has won me over with work like this. Sure not everything he makes is a winner in my book but it seems like he works really hard and consistently and eventually pulls through some gems.

See the rest of the campaign here:
http://work.canneslions.com/press/

and some more images here with some jealous comments.:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/back-issues/creative-review/2008/october-2008/wrangler-print-ads

to see the full camping check out the FRED & FARID, PARIS website.

via aphotoeditor.com

NYPHA'09 Nominations

I am happy to say I have been included it the large list of Nominations for the 2009 New York Photo Awards. I have been accepted into two categories, Advertising Series for my Microsoft I'm a PC work and Student Fine Art Series for a series of images on Beijing I made this past August. I'll update this page with an image from that series soon.

Last year I had fun going through the list of nominations and linking to their portfolio pages. This year I think there are way too many with almost 300 nominations! So, until I get an intern I'll let you google them this time.

If you going to be around this weekend let me know I would love to run into people at the festival. I am not sure how much of it I can make since I have a very busy weekend with Graduation on Friday! but you should check out the festival's schedule here.

from the Press Release:

NYPHA'09 Nominations
The Jury of the New York Photo Awards 2009 (NYPHA'09) is pleased to announce the following Nominees.

To be named a nominee of the New York Photo Awards 2009 means that one has been selected for the final round of judging, during which time only three finalists will be chosen (Winner and two Honorable Mentions). Considering the number of rounds that the Jury has already been through, being nominated is truly an award in and of itself. We are very proud of this year’s Nominees. It is clear that they represent the Future of Contemporary Photography, and we wish them continued success.

The Winners and Honorable Mentions will be announced (and their work presented) at the Gala Ceremony for the New York Photo Awards 2009 on Friday, May 15th at 8pm in the St. Ann’s Warehouse Auditorium. This is a special ticketed event, there are only 415 seats, and they are selling out fast. Last year, we packed the place to the gills, and still had another 200+ people flowing out to the streets. So, if you want a seat, you have to have a ticket. Festival passes and tickets can be purchased here.

Without much further ado, the Nominees for the New York Photo Awards 2009 are:

NEW YORK PHOTO AWARDS 2009

NOMINEES

Editorial Single Image

Larry Louie
Bob O’Connor
Christopher Wahl
Pierre Alivon
Michael Goermann
Niels Ahlmann Oleson
McKay Jaffe
Erik Swain
Felix Hug
Ed Kashi
Ryan Carter (5 images)
Marieke van der Velden (3 images)
Carol Allen Storey
Mike Callaghan
Christopher Petersen
Emily Shur (2 images)
Sarah Bones
Patrick de Warren
Thomas Leffeldt/Ekstra Bladet (3 images)
J Carrier (3 images)
Jens Honore
Marc Josse
Jenn Ackerman
Gleb Garanich
Jessica Rinaldi
Jonathan Ernst
Goran Tomosevic
Finbarr O’ Reilly
Nadav Kander (4 images)
Charles Ommanney
Mads Nissen
Elene Usdin
Stephen Mallon
Toby Smith

Editorial Series

Dirk-Jan Visser (2 series)
Dima Gavrysh
Ricardo Garcia
Albertina d’Urso (2 series)
Denis Rouvre
Gary Dwyer
Michael Goermann
Coco Amardell
Emilio Morenatti
David Guttenfelder
Oded Balilty
Jerome Delay
Lynsey Addario
Espen Rasmussen (2 series)
Ed Kashi (2 series)
Ryan Carter
Gerald Slota
Christian Als
Ethan James
Gabriele Stabile
Jagath Dheerasekara
Thomas Lekfeldt/Ekstra Bladet
Moises Saman
Matthieu Paley
Clemence de Limburg
Tim Gruber
Finbarr O’Reilly
Alex Majoli
Charles Ommanney
Shaul Schwarz
Tiana-Markova-Gold
Q. Sakamaki
Carol Guzy
Michael Corridore
T.J. Kirkpatrick

Fine Art Single Image

Amro Hamzawi
Christy Karpinski
John Offenbach (3 images)
Marco Munoz
Wai Yan Lam
Anthony M. Puopolo (2 images)
Ognian Gueorguiev
Robert Burton (2 images)
Steph Tout (2 images)
Romulo Bosch Sans
David Finnegan
Dana Matthews
Niobe Syme
Mara Catalan
Richard Sandler
Arsian Sukan
Mike Whelan
Claudio Uema
Finn O’Hara
Richard Pak
Andrew Maccoli
John Clang
Anna Moller
Lottie Davies (2 images)
Stephanie Diani
Marti Belcher
Erik Swain
Burkhard Schittny
Matthew Besinger
Elise Bruccoliere
Joel Redmen
D. Yee
Adam Makarenko
Lisa Wiseman
Carla van de Puttelaar
Sarah Sudhoff
Kathleen Wilke
Adriana Zehbrauskas
Doug Menuez
Davina Feinberg
Michelle Sank
Lucas Bori
Konrad Junkiewicz

Fine Art Series

Eliot Ross
Sabrina Jung
Lydia Panas
Horst Josch
Odette England (2 series)
Natasha Bedu
Sarah Wilmer
Shi Xiofan
Kevin Miyazaki
Ingrid Baars
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Jessica Kaufman
Chiara Goia
J Bennett Fitts
Daniel Traub
Eric Percher
Patricia Martin
Justin James King
Francesco Bittichesu
Damion Berger
Brad Moore
Juliane Elrich
Louis Ingalls Sturges
Greg Miller
Alexander Gronsky

Advertising Single

Linda Jansen
Sanjay Kotahari (2 images)
Lorenzo Vitturi
Bryce Pincham
Raul Krebs (2 images)
Adam Hinton
Kai-Uwe Gundlach
Dominik Sklarzyk
Lauren Greenfield
Fedrick Clement
Emir Haveric
Marcel Christ

Advertising Series

John Offenbach
Harlan Erskine
Mark Janssen
Julia Fullerton-Batten
John Clang
Raul Krebs
Giullyani
Adam Hinton
John Midgley
Nadav Kander (2 series)
Lauren Greenfield
Morad Bouchakour
Doug Menuez

Photo Book

Benjamin Antony Monn
Michael Limbert
Marc McAndrews
Ernesto bazan
Lisa Pram
Michael Grecco
Lynn Saville
Gino Sullivan
Fran Forman
Dana Lixenberg
Danelle manthey
Martine Fougeron
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Michal Chelbin (2 books)
Joni Sternbach
Jane Hilton
Jona Frank
Naomi Harris
Ellen Rennard
Adam Hinton
Simon Brown
Alexandra Avakian
Shen Wei
Charlotte Oestervang
Matthew Sallee
Scarlett Coten
Rob Hornstra
Priya Kambil
Eric McNatt
Herman van den Boom
Doug DuBois
Alexandra Lier
Emrie Foster
Nina Berman
Brooke Mayo
Jorge Albarracin
Simon Roberts
Darcy Padilla
Glenn Lockitch
Andrew Borowiec
Ghada Khunji
Otto Snoek
Barbara Crane
Tiny Vices (Kenneth Cappello, Allan Macintyre, Jason Nocito, Robin Schwartz and Jamie Warren)
Hank Willis Thomas
Jacqueline Hassink
Joshua Lutz
Henry Horenstein

Student Editorial Single

Andy Spyra
Alberto Lizaralde (2 images)
Connie Zhou
Jamie Hopper
Erica Fahr Campbell
Manuel Gil
Andrea Star Reese (5 images)
Aki Takematsu
Helga Traxler
Peter Ash Lee
Ben Franke
Sean Rizzotti
Kitra Cahana
Ed Ou

Student Social Documentary Essay

Andy Spyra
Alberto Lizaralde
Ryan Gauvin
Erik Shirai
Carl Kiilsgaard
Isadora Kosofsky
Andrea Star Reese
Natan Dvir
Luca Tommasini
Edith Wagner
Ani Kington
Taylor Weldman
Daniel Schumann
Andre Hermann
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Nina Flauaus
Mikko Takkunen
Rafaela Persson
Ed Ou
Ilana Panich-Linsman


Student Fine Art Single

Emily Burke
Ward Roberts
Lora Jude Dewolfe
Frederic Gosselin
Dorothee Smith
Dina Gold
Marikei Lahana
Todd McVey
Mark Fernandes
Laure Amanou (3 images)
Jaime Permuth
Jun Ahn
Mark Kasumovic
Natan Dvir (2 images)
Marton Perlaki (2 iimages)
James Thomson & Hannah Huddy
Willemine Pernette
Bridget Collins
Takaki Oishi
Tyler Brown
Fellsia Tandiono

Student Fine Art Series

Amy Burchenal
Elliot Wilcox
Ward Roberts
Harlan Erskine
Thomas Lobenwein
Fabiano Busdraghi
Ivonne Thein
Tara Cronin
Grant Willing
Aislinn Leggett
Tammy Mercure
Wayne Liu
Laure Amanou
Liang-Pin Tsao
Pedro Lopez
Yijun Liao

Student Photo Book

Robin Maddock
Wassily Zittel
Wayne Liu
Patrik Budenz
Johanna Heldebro
Louise Ingalls Sturges
Alinka Echeverria
Felix Kindermann
Kristoffer Axen
Vanessa Bahmani
Adam Lau

Winners announced for the LINHOF YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD '09

©2008-2009 Harlan Erskine. From the series "Imaginary Wars," The Phantom Brigade 20 x 37 inches.

I am happy to announce that my School of Visual Arts thesis project has been awarded 3rd place in the Linhof Young Photographer Award '09. The above image is a sample of what will be shown at the June thesis show for the at the School of Visual Arts Gallery on 26th Street in New York. I will be posting more images in the next few weeks and I'll post the upcoming School of Visual Arts thesis website so you can browse the rest of the class of 2009. Take a look at the Linhof Award's Press Release below.


LINHOF YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD 09

On April 24, 2009 the jury met in in the headquarters of Linhof Präzisions-Systemtechnik / Munich for selecting the winners. 468 participants from 39 countries had sent more than 3.500 images. The ratio of female to male photographers was almost exactly 1 : 2.

The Linhof company and the jury were surprized by the big number of international participants of the competiton despite of tough restrictions relating to the age and the theme. The theme was "HUMAN CITYSCAPES" and the photographic realization should comprise the urban environment "City" showing contrasts or unity of citizens and architecture.

The jury had a hard job. Quite often excellent images were submitted but missing the conceptional work. Some photographers submitted individual images but did not follow the concept for their whole series whereas the judging always referred to the total entry.

The entries from 39 countries also revealed rational preferences for contents and aesthetics. Most of the entries originated from Germany. These 169 participants often referred to the theme fairly strictly combined with conceptional architectural photography - at high quality standard. Entries from China (81) can be described as more formal experimental. Many-sided but also individually were the works of the English (31) and American (21) participants.

The jury has evaluated the image series for a position reflecting the changing impression of human beings in relation to his environment.

Members of the jury were:

Thomas Weski (Associate Director, Haus der Kunst Munich, Curator of photography)

Professor Peter Bialobrzeski (High School for Arts/Bremen, Photographer)

Brigitte Nusser (Collectioner of photographs)

Anna Wondrak (Historian for Arts)

Barbara Wolff (Photographer). All three living in Munich.

The first prize, a Linhof Camera equipment to the value of 10.000 Euro goes to the 28 years old Russian photographer Alexander Gronsky (link 1, link 2) living in Talin/Estonia. His series "The Edges" is about exploring the boundaries of Moscow city. In almost surrealistic scenes he shows people and animals disintegrated from the city and put in the abstract plane of the snow.

The second prize, a Linhof Camera equipment to the value of 3000 Euro goes to the team Philipp Diettrich and Matthias Keller (High School for Design/Karlsruhe and High School for Arts/Bremen) for their work "Kolonia Megawatt" dealing with the Polish border city Bogatynia. The series shows the transformation of the town and the people. Destruction, re-building and the strongly dominant power plant create a peculiar cosmos visible in the series of images.

The third prize, Linhof Camera accessories to the value of 1000 Euro goes to Harlan Erskine, New York (School of Visual Arts/New York). His series "Imaginary Wars" show games of his childhood in New York with imaginary foes lurking around the corners. Children play games in which they imagine themselves in adult roles that they may not fully grasp. In the images the photographer stretches his memories into an apocalyptic world.

The Linhof Prazisions Systemtechnik being the organizer of this competition says many thanks again to all participants. The company plans to issue such a contest bi-annually with new topics thus establishing this competition as an important international photographer award.

The winning images will be posted soon on Linhof's web site. For further information see: www.linhof.de

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note: If you know of any better links for the first and second place artists please send them to me and I will update this post.

The 2009 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize goes to Paul Graham

©Paul Graham, Untitled (Pittsburgh 1), From the series "a shimmer of possibility," 2004, Pigment ink print

I think The Photographers' Gallery made the right choice here. I like all the nominees this year but British/American Photographer Paul Graham's "a shimmer of possibility" is just a bit more successful for me and a bit more current / new. A few nights ago Paul Graham was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the £30K that accompanies it.

From the press release (PDF):

Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK), has been awarded the 2009 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.

The Award was presented at a special evening ceremony on Wednesday 25 March 2009. Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused, presented the £30,000 award.

The Prize is presented by The Photographers' Gallery and sponsored by Deutsche Borse group.

Paul Graham was selected by the Jury for his publication, a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).

Now in its thirteenth year, this annual Prize of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to photography in Europe, through either an exhibition or publication, over the past year.

The other shortlisted artists in this year's Prize, each awarded £3,000, are:

Emily Jacir (b.1970, Palestine) nominated for her installation, Material for a Film, presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (7 June - 21 November 2007).

Tod Papageorge (b.1940, USA) nominated for the exhibition Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (7 March - 12 April 2008).

Taryn Simon (b.1975, USA) nominated for her exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at The Photographers' Gallery, London (13 September -11 November 2007).

The Jury this year: David Campany (writer/lecturer, University of Westminster, UK); David Goldblatt (photographer, South Africa); Chus Martinez (Chief Curator, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Borse, Germany). The Director of The Photographers' Gallery, Brett Rogers is the non-voting Chair.

© Paul Graham, Untitled (New York/North Dakota), From the series "a shimmer of possibility," 2005, Pigment ink prints, 15 pieces, Edition of 5 + 2 a.p.


© Paul Graham, "a shimmer of possibility," 2005

I like how the book and the photography installation work with each other. Each is similar but changes to fit the ideal conditions for viewing. The 12 Book collection (photo-eye was too expensive for me but there is a compiled version on its way in April.

This is quite a year for Graham with solo shows at MoMA, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Greenberg Van Doren Gallery and Salon94 currently up, and now this award.

Check out this interview with Paul Graham and PDN here. There is also an article in the Telegraph

Another solarized sun discovery.

Hans-Christian Schink, 2/23/2006 4:04 pm - 5:04 pm N: 34° 03.712' W: 118° 20.979', 2006, Silbergelatine-Abzug, Auflage 5+3

Amazing how the internet has brought work together that was made around the same time. Just ten years ago it would have been very hard to find other artists working with similar themes around the world. Maybe because of this there are also more artists working today? just a theory.

So, I was looking through Mrs Deane a blog about photography run by Beierle + Keijser and I came across this post: congratulations hans christian schink! Hans Christian Schink, represented by ACE gallery in America and GALERIE ROTHAMEL in Europe. He recently won the newly created "REAL Photography Award" brought to you by ING Real Estate. The award was announced in March of 2008 so the sustainability of this award is certainly in question considering the current state of financial markets and especially real estate. But all economic worries aside I am quite interested in Schink's project and the parallels between it, Chris McCaw's Sunburn project and my Black Sun Project. I wonder how many from the Award show's jury were aware of McCaw's work which is quite similar? And, if they were what were their thoughts on them and why one is more worthy of the award that the other project.

Another Emerging Photographers Auction

Sarah Palmer, Smog, South Mountain, 2008 E1DA

Daniel Cooney Fine Art is staging their second Emerging Photographers Auction via iGavel. The bidding began on January 2nd and will end on 21st. It's interesting to see the online space for 'art' photography grow. I don't think ultimately this will be the new way that people buy art. It seems like it might be degrading the value of art and moving it more into commerce. Sure its easier, more accessible to a wider audience and as convent as buying on eBay but when you think about it isn't is a bit odd to buy at auction a piece in an edition that's not sold out? How can value be determined when there are still 5 or more prints unsold? I'm all for selling art prints online in the right way with open and set prices. It just seems a little ahead of the game to auction an editioned print before the edition is sold out.

Either way there are a bunch of good pictures included from a large group of Photographers:
Juliana Beasley, Timothy Briner, Nina Buesing, Tom Chambers, Megan Cump, Clayton Cotterell, Adrienne De Boer, Matt Eich, Sam Falls, Jon Feinstein, Mark William Fernandes, Amy Finkelstein, Lucas Foglia, Kyle Ford, Chuck Hemard, Oded Hirsch, Whitney Hubbs, Michael Itkoff, Dave Jordano, Christopher La Marca, Nyra Lang, Shane Lavalette, Pixy Liao, Walter Lockwood, Jennifer Loeber, Oz Lubling, Sara Macel, Jay Matthews, John Mann, Eri Morita, Carolyn Monastra, Nik Mirus, Sarah Palmer, Lydia Panas, Toni Pepe, Bradley Peters, Jeffrey Rich, Nadine Rovner, Noel Rodo Vankeulen, Shen Wei

You can bid on the Auction or just browse and watch the spectacle/experiment(?) of the commerce of emerging art.

Guggenheim Fellowships in Photography, 2008

Builder Levy, Bushwick, Brooklyn 1987

After yesterday's Thanksgivingness today I have been on a bit of a web photography research bender. Among the millions of places that prove useful to look at once a year would be the winners of the Guggenheim Fellowships in Photography. I found the original article from Artnet. The finalists are listed on the Guggenheim Foundation's new fellows listing page.

Although this is kind of old news, maybe like me you missed it. The selection was announced in April.
The 2008 Fellows in Photography are:


Michael P. Berman
Elijah Gowin
Builder Levy
Fredrik Marsh
Greg Miller
Ardine Nelson
David J. Taylor

I also appreciate how this list of photographers can be looked at as an anti-Chelsea and anti-internet popularity selection of artists. Most of these photographers have never shown in New York. I wonder what their projects will look like now that they have a nice cash infusion? who is your favorite?

Shortlisted artist announced for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2009

above image from “a shimmer of possibility” by Paul Graham (steidlMACK 2004-2006)

The Photographers Gallery in London has announced the four shortlisted artists in the running for the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. I have been following this photography award since I first learned of it while I was living in London and attending University of Westminster. The first time I learned about the Photography prize was in 2000 when the winner was Anna Gaskell. The following year I finally made it to the exhibition when i snuck into the ticket opening. That year the nominees were Roni Horn, Hellen van Meene, Boris Mikhailov, Jem Southham and hanna Starkey. Looks like this year's big winner is the prestigious german photography publishersteidl with three of the four artists selected published from there.

The Prize was founded by Citibank Private Bank in 1996 to reward the individual judged to have made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography over the previous year. Deutsche Börse has sponsored the £30,000 prize since 2005.

In its five year history, The Photography Prize has consistently recognised a high calibre of winners: Walid Raad /The Atlas Group, Lebanon (2007), Robert Adams, USA (2006), Luc Delahaye, France (2005), Joel Sternfeld, USA (2004), Juergen Teller, Germany (2003), Shirana Shahbazi, Iran (2002), Boris Mikhailov, Ukraine (2001), Anna Gaskell USA (2000), Rineke Dijkstra, The Netherlands (1999), Andreas Gursky, Germany (1998) and Richard Billingham, UK (1997).

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009

This annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography in Europe between 1 October 2007 and 30 September 2008.

The four shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 are:

Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK) is nominated for his publication, “A Shimmer of Possibility” (steidlMACK, October 2007).

Emily Jacir (b.1970, Palestine) is nominated for her installation, “Material for a Film,” presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (7 June – 21 November 2007).

Tod Papageorge (wiki) (b.1940, USA) is nominated for the exhibition “Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park” at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (7 March - 12 April 2008).

Taryn Simon (b.1975, USA) is nominated for her exhibition “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” at The Photographers' Gallery, London (13 September -11 November 2007).

The Jury this year is: David Campany (writer/lecturer, University of Westminster, UK); David Goldblatt (photographer, South Africa); Chus Martínez (Chief Curator, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany). The Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, Brett Rogers is the non-voting Chair

Paul Graham's book “A Shimmer of Possibility” although very expensive is still available at Amazon. Sadly, way out of my price range. Anyone know if the Library has a copy?

Taryn Simon's book “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” is in its second printing. I bought a copy of this book when Taryn Simon spoke at Aperture a few years ago and its a book I find i keep going back to for inspiration and intrigue.

Tod Papageorge's book “Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park” is available from Amazon. Although, I haven't purchased this book yet I must say I really enjoy looking at the old Central Park, the Central Park from my childhood.

The Photography Prize consistently points out new photographers that I haven't learned about. Although this year I was familiar with everyone who was nominated I'm sure they will continually surprise me. And hopefully, one day they'll give me 30,000 pounds!