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
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
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
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
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
Nyadzombe Nyampenza is a Zimbabwean freelance photographer. His work has been shown at the Zimbabwe National Gallery in Harare and Bulawayo, and at Village Unhu. From 2011-13, he worked with Savanna Trust documenting the International Protest Arts Festival. In 2015, he participated in the Bamako Encounters Biennale in Mali. He is also a member of the Zimbabwe photography collective Gwanza Arts, with whom he exhibited annually from 2011–15.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linkedin
Nicolas Réméné was born in Paris and grew up in Aix en Provence. Based in Bamako, Mali, since 2009, and a professional since 2011, his work focuses on social and environmental issues. His photographs have appeared in Libération, Le Point, Afrique Magazine, Vice News, Yahoo News, La Nacion, The New York Times and others. Nicolas is represented by Le Pictorium Agency.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Mila Teshaieva, born in 1974 in Ukraine, uses photography as a long form of storytelling. Her work has received multiple awards, including first prize in NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2010 and Critical Mass Book Award 2013, and has been exhibited in Haggerty Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery and Museum Art of West Coast. She is the author of three monographs: InselWesen, Faces and Stories of Entrepreneurs and Promising Waters.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Michael Sakas is an American documentary photographer living in Asia. He describes his work as being about “interesting people doing amazing things”. He splits his time between commissioned work and working with NGOs around the world.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Mattia Vacca is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. He has covered news events for Italy’s Il Corriere Della Sera for more than a decade and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sony Photography Award, Royal Photographic Society Awards, Unesco Humanity Photo Awards Renaissance Prize, New York Photo Awards, Moscow Photo Awards and the International Photography Awards.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Mark Tipple is a documentary photographer. He is the principal photographer of The Underwater Project, an ongoing reportage showcasing Australia’s relationship with the ocean. His clients include the BBC, Salvation Army, World Vision, Christian Surfers, House With No Steps, Planet Ocean, Beyond Water, Nanda Dian Foundation and 100Revs. His work has appeared on the BBC and Discovery Channel and in publications including The Australian, The Independent and National Geographic.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Mariusz Smiejek is a freelance photojournalist and the proud father of a three-year-old son. His work concentrates on exploring the issues of post-conflict territories and societies. He has lived in Belfast since 2010, documenting a long-term project about everyday life in Northern Ireland during its transition to peace.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Lee Tan is a full time postgraduate research candidate at RMIT University in Melbourne. She has worked as a freelance environmental and development consultant, including several years as the Technical Adviser for Timor-Leste national environmental NGO, the Haburas Foundation.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Jen Osborne, born in 1984, is a Canadian photographer living between Kyiv, Vancouver and Berlin. Her photographing career began with a one-year work contract at COLORS Magazine in Italy in 2007. She has since published and exhibited work in a multitude of international magazines and galleries.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Hamde Abu Rahma is an award-winning Palestinian photojournalist, an activist and the author of Roots Run Deep – Life in Occupied Palestine. His work as photojournalist focuses on the life of Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Elyor Nematov was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. He currently works as a freelance photojournalist and teacher of documentary photography workshops. In 2012, he received a grant from the Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project for a project about labour migration from Central Asia. He is currently working on a project about gender equality and women’s rights in Kyrgyzstan.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Photographer, documentary filmmaker and plastic artist, Eleani Martínez has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Veracruz, with a specialization in cultural policy and cultural management from the University of Barcelona. She has worked on many cultural projects in rural and urban areas in Mexico, Spain and Morocco.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Dean Sewell made his name as an independent documentary photographer concentrating on the social implications of the globalised world economy and the environmental consequences of climate change. His numerous awards include being Australian Press Photographer of the Year in 1994 and 1998, winner of Moran Contemporary Photography Prize in 2009 and 2010, and receiving three World Press Photo Awards, in 2000, 2002 and 2005.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Dana Romanoff is a visual anthropologist who uses still and motion imagery to tell stories. Her photography and films have won numerous awards, including being a Pulitzer Prize runner up. Her work has been exhibited around the globe and appeared in many publications, including National Geographic Magazine, GEO and The New York Times. Dana is represented by Getty Global Assignments.
