Growing up as white, male, Jews in apartheid South Africa, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin saw the impact photographs can have on the world at large. They became both fascinated and repulsed with the way that iconic images can twist and bend public opinion in different directions, and have spent their careers examining that power play by pushing the boundaries of traditional photography.

Adam and Oliver’s 15-year friendship and collaboration has led to the publication of numerous books, including the award-winning War Primer 2, and dozens of international art exhibitions. Their work has led them to psychiatric hospitals in Cuba to the cave of the dying Yasser Arafat. They became increasingly concerned about the potential “political, cultural and economic currency of images,” and have since gone on to evaluate that relationship through their work.

They share this year’s publication prize for Holy Bible, which mimics the structure and content of the King James version, and uses images from the Archive of Modern Conflict to comment on the nature of violence in religion. Following the theology of Adi Ophir, who observes that God uses catastrophe as his means of governance and operation, Adam and Oliver use photographs of violence, war and catastrophe to highlight correlations between the bible and modern government.

Broomberg and Chanarin co-founded Chopped Liver Press and have published 11 of their own limited edition books, as well as work by other artists. Their work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and is in the permanent collection of leading museums worldwide including

The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Galleries, the Stedelijk Museum, and the International Center of Photography. Broomberg and Chanarin are also Visiting Fellows at the University of the Arts London. In 2013, they were awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for War Primer 2.

Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards. The awards ceremony is also ICP’s primary fundraising benefit, with its revenues assisting the center's various programs.

Harbers Studios commissioned MediaStorm, on behalf of ICP, to create a short film about each of the recipients to screen at the awards ceremony and to later remain online. The films serve as an introduction of the recipients to the audience as well as a showcase of their work, highlighting the motivations for honoring them with Infinity Awards.

There is an incredible amount of thought and purpose that goes into each project by Adam and Oliver, and their interview was like an advanced class on the theology of photography. We had to ensure that the intention behind each project was clear to the audience, so they could fully appreciate the work that was presented on screen.

We created the script so that each bridge between sections or themes had context that would inform the visuals, and the subject matter that they were discussing.

MediaStorm interviewed the recipients and gathered images to create stories about each of their careers. The resulting films serve individually as biographical glimpses into the recipients’ work and collectively as a portrait of some of the important contributors to photography today.

This film was a collaboration with Harbers Studio and the International Center of Photography.

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