💥💥Congratulations to Hajar Benjida @hajarbenji who has just been announced as this year’s series winner of The British Journal of Photography International Photography Award! @bjp1854 💥💥💥 Excited to be presenting her first U.K. solo show this December as part of the prize. It’s the 8th year we have proudly supported the award and the amazing winners 🔥🔥🔥In her ongoing series, Atlanta Made Us Famous, Hajar Benjida takes viewers behind the scenes at the iconic Magic City strip joint, once frequented by 2Pac and the Notorious BIG. The Morrocan-Dutch photographer was interning at a nearby photo studio in 2018 when she first visited the club. “I’d heard of the place because of all the music videos shot there and the number of times it has been name-dropped in songs,” she says. “I thought it was huge inside but in reality, it was a pretty small and cozy stage. Way smaller inside than I had expected.” Her bold, tender portraits of dancers speak to an alternative, intimate, female-centred perspective – as mothers or mothers-to-be, for example. “Often in Hip-Hop photography made by men, these women are shown as side subjects to the music artists. But all their videos and album covers are nothing without these women.” 💥Benjida receives a £5,000 production grant thanks to print and frame sponsors @beyond_print 🔥Thank you to the judges @davidcampany, Fotografiska’s @fotografiska.newyork Amanda Hajjar, @foam_amsterdam Claartje van Dijk, @jurgen_maelfeyt, Allie Haeusslein @haus_of_allie and BJP’s @izaradz 🙏David Campany noted “the closeness of attention” paid by this year’s winners: “In the end photography is about paying attention, which is easier said than done”🔥 Look forward to announcing more information on the exhibition nearer the time so stay tuned and huge congrats to Hajar again💥💥💥