Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Zoltán Balogh started teaching himself photography in 2006. In 2008 he was elected photographer of the year by the Hungarian National Association of Photographic Artist Groups and became a member of the Studio of Young Photographers. In 2009, he turned to freelance photography. Since then, his work has been exhibited around the world in exhibitions, magazines and books. In 2015, he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency as a photojournalist.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Xaume Olleros is a Spanish-born photographer who started his photographic career after a four-year stint as a marketing manager in a Spanish bank. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and Time, among other publications. In 2016, he moved to Dakar in Senegal to report on west and east Africa.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Born to American and French parents, Valerie Leonard has always been surrounded by a world of images. Her mother was a painter, and her father, Herman Leonard, was a photographer. When she presses the shutter, she remembers her father’s words: “Always tell the truth, but in terms of beauty.” Valerie looks to show the dignity of women and men, particularly in hostile environments.
Valerie Leonard is the second place winner of The Other Hundred Educators Edition.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Tolojanahary Ranaivosoa was born and lives in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. The main subject of his photography in recent years has been urban life. His work has been shown at exhibitions in Africa and elsewhere, including the Life in my City Art Festival, Photo Africa and the Observe Collective.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Tali Kimelman first came in contact with images when she was taking a master’s degree in biomedical engineering and working with magnetic resonance imaging, taking pictures of people from inside. Now a full-time professional advertising photographer in Uruguay, she works for local and international clients.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Tadej Žnidarčič is a documentary photographer mainly focusing on social issue stories. He has traveled in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the USA photographing stories for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The shown in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Sutanta Aditya is an Indonesian independent photojournalist. He was a winner at the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards (2012) and has four times won prizes at the Indonesian Photojournalist Association Awards. He has worked as a contributing photographer for Barcroft Media, Indonesian media and Agence France-Presse.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Sudipto Das, since 2005, has worked as a principal photojournalist for The Times of India. He has also worked for Associated Press, European Press Photo Agency, BBC News, SPAN and India Today. He has received more than 130 international and national photo awards and recognitions and has exhibited his work widely in countries around the world.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Stefano Borghi was born in Rome in 1975. He learned to travel and take pictures as a young child, and at 20 he started a post-production company in Rome. In 2009, he moved to Paris to make a living through photography. After discovering free-diving, he brought his passion for photography into the unusual environment of water.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Sofie Knijff is a Dutch-Belgian photographer based in Amsterdam. Initially a student of theatre performance, her background in theatre continues to be reflected in her photographic work. Her recent artistic projects have received grants from the Mondrian Foundation and been shortlisted for the Unseen Photo Fair Dummy Award (2012), Mack Book Award (2013) and Best Photobook Award Kassel (2015).
Winning Story: Mongolia
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Sélim Harbi is a Tunis-born documentary photographer and multimedia storyteller whose work focuses on using visual experimentation to explore new storytelling techniques, subnarratives and contemporary issues. He is based between Tunis and West Africa. In 2013, he founded Afreekyama, the first pan-African collective dedicated to multimedia storytelling.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Samuel Zuder lives in Hamburg. Besides his commissioned work as a freelance editorial and documentary photographer for international magazines, he has also worked on a number of personal photo projects, among them the book, Face to Faith | Mount Kailash | Tibet (2016). His work has been widely exhibited in exhibitions across Europe and Asia.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Rui Farinha was born in Lisbon in 1958. He is currently a freelance photojournalist with Agency NFactos. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Expresso and Visão and with the Lusa agency. In the past, he has worked for Olympus Portugal, Sonae Portugal, FNAC Portugal and Porto’s Publico newspaper.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Since 1983, Reza has been a volunteer committed to training young people and women from conflictridden societies in the language of images. Since 2013, he has conducted workshops through his association, Reza Visual Academy. His recent work has included workshops at the Kawergosk refugee camp in Syria, and at the Kabarto and Arbat refugee camps near Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Rebekah Bowman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After completing a BA in German/ German literature at the University of Salzburg, she managed the UK-based Kreisler String Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss chamber orchestra. She then lived in Mexico and Scotland before returning to the US in 2008. Her most recent project, “Portrait of the Cuban School of Ballet”, explores ballet practice at the National Ballet School in Havana, Cuba.
Rebekah Bowman is the third place winner of The Other Hundred Educators Edition.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Rebecca and Elio met while documenting a live music event in 2009. Since then they have worked together on projects and commissions around the globe. The two of them are experienced in many forms of photography and film, but most enjoy the art of visual storytelling, blending portraiture, journalism and long-term documentary work to reflect upon, question and celebrate our humanity.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Ramón Lepage, born in Venezuela in 1965, is a founding member of Venezuela’s Orinoquiaphoto Agency. His work has been widely published in magazines and other publications. He is now based in Panama with Getty Global Assignments, working on a personal photography project about the coasts of the Panamanian isthmus.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Putu Sayoga, born in 1986, is a documentary and travel photographer based in Bali. An autodidact, he taught himself photography during his college days. He is also co-founder of a documentary photographers’ collective.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Petar Kürschner is an award-winning photographer and film production manager. His work has appeared in GEO, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Der Stern, Traveller, Gloss and many other publications. In the last couple of years, he has also worked as production manager, researcher and photographer for German-French documentary film organisation ARTE.
