WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art today announced the nominators and nominees for the international Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers – an award of $20,000, given every two years to an emerging photographer on the leading edge of their field, but who has not yet had a solo museum exhibition.

The nominees are:

• Clare Benson (American, born 1985), who practices photography and interdisciplinary work in video, sculpture, and writing, was nominated by Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen

• Elizabeth Bick (American, born 1980), who is known for mixing performance art, choreography, and documentary photography, was nominated by Iranian photographer Shirin Neshat

• Alexandra Hunts (Ukrainian, born 1990), who is recognized for abstract digital and analog photography, was nominated by Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra

• Wesley Stringer (American, born 1985), who works in photography and crafts hand-made books, was nominated by English photographer Michael Kenna

“This year’s nominees are among the youngest of the emerging photographers to have been nominated to date,” said Tim B. Wride, the Norton’s William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography. “They reflect the cross-disciplinary nature of today’s artists for whom photography is a tool like any other in the artist’s arsenal. Each uses photography in conjunction with sculpture, hand-made books, video, and/or performance. One has the distinct impression that these artists’ selection of medium is driven by and is as important as their ideas.”

The work of the nominees will be presented in a group exhibition, opening on November 10, 2016. The winner will be selected by the Norton’s Photography Steering Committee, comprised of Norton curators, collectors, and trustees, and announced on January 5, 2017. Past winners of the award include Argentine Analia Saban, nominated by John Baldessari, in 2012; and Israeli Rami Maymon, nominated by Adi Nes, in 2014.

The Rudin Prize is named in honor of the late New York City real estate developer Lewis Rudin, father of Beth Rudin DeWoody, who is a member of the Photography Committee at the Norton and President of The Rudin Family Foundations and Executive Vice President of Rudin Management Company.

“We are grateful to Beth Rudin DeWoody for her continued support of this program and to our esteemed nominators for bringing these emerging photographers to our attention,” said Hope Alswang, Director of the Norton Museum of Art. “Each of these young photographers is pushing the field into new and exciting directions, and we are excited to share the future of photography with our visitors.”