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
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
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
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
Oscar B Castillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1981. His work as photographer is mainly directed towards socio-political subjects. His work has taken him to Mexico, Haiti and Venezuela, and his photographs have been published by publications including Time, The New York Times, Leica Magazine and Days Japan.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Mónica Quesada Cordero is a Costa Rican photojournalist who has worked for national and international publications, in commercial photography and for photography workshops. Her latest project documents 101 centenarians in Costa Rica.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
A photographer and a musician, Mateo Caballero was born in La Paz, Bolivia, where he still lives. He studied photography in Madrid, Spain. He currently works as a freelance photographer for media and institutions in Bolivia and abroad. A selection of his photographs was included in Fotografia Boliviana (2012), a collection of work by some of Bolivia’s leading photographers.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Marianne Borowiec was born in 1984 in Salzburg, Austria. She studied fine arts photography and multimedia arts at art school in Graz. In 2010, she moved to Berlin to study cinematography at the German Academy for Film and TV. She followed journalist Amos Roberts to shoot a story on Danish forest kindergartens for SBS Dateline. She now lives in Berlin and works as a photographer and filmmaker/director of photography.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Luke Duggleby is a freelance British photographer who has spent most of his adult life living and working in Asia. After graduating with a degree in photography, he left the UK for Bangkok, where he has been based ever since. He is a roster photographer for Redux Pictures in New York.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Lukas Berger is an Austrian photographer and director. He currently lives in Hannover, Germany, where he is working on several photography and film projects. His travels have taken him to Burkina Faso, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Turkey and much of Europe. His work “Circus” has appeared in many well-known magazines, including Time and Accent.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Jürgen Freund is a wildlife photographer whose underwater and nature photography has been widely published around the world. He is a prizewinner in international competitions, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Jasmin Brutus, 35, is a documentary photographer living in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His work has appeared in major domestic and international newspapers and magazines, including Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Jan Banning, born in Almelo in 1954 and now living in Utrecht in the Netherlands, studied history before becoming a photographic artist. His photograph in The Other Hundred Educators comes from his most recent book Law & Order, about criminal justice in four different countries.
Winning Story: Uganda
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | LInkedin
Ivan Abreu has been a professional filmmaker, photographer and multimedia journalist for more than fifteen years. As a storyteller, he seeks to work on long-term, in-depth projects connected with new ways of visual narrating. He is currently based in Hong Kong.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Imran Ahmed was in his early teens when he moved to the United Arab Emirates from Bangladesh in 1976. In early 2009, he began taking pictures of life around Dubai’s historic open harbour area of Deira. Eighteen months later this led to the publication of Dubai Creek.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Giles Clarke, born in 1965 in England, is a photojournalist with Getty Images Reportage based in New York City. His work has been featured by American Photography 31 and 32, Amnesty International, CNN and Yahoo News, among others. Recently he has been on the road with Ban Kimoon, documenting the UN secretary general’s last year of tenure.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Essam Al-Fetori is a professional photographer. Born in 1975 in Benghazi, Libya, he has been a photographer for more than 15 years. For the last five years, he has worked as a photojournalist for Reuters, covering the revolutions in Libya and Egypt. His own studio was destroyed during fighting in Benghazi.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Elie Gardner is a visual journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a regular contributor to the Fuller Project for International Reporting and previously worked as a photographer and editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Oscar Durand is a Peruvian photographer and videographer. Oscar discovered visual storytelling by accident while studying industrial engineering in Lima. He then moved to the United States where he began his career as a freelance photojournalist. He is currently, he is based in Istanbul, Turkey working for news and humanitarian organizations.
