Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Danish photojournalist Carsten Snejbjerg, born in 1966, became interested in photography during a 3,400-kilometre bicycle trip through China and Vietnam in 1997. He has since won several awards including the Grand Prix Care du Reportage Humanitaire (2010), first prize for POYi Issue reporting (2008) and several awards in the Danish Picture of the Year competition.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Antonio Aragón Renuncio has been involved with photography since the mid-1990s. He founded and chairs “Nostromo” Photographers Association (Spain), has been a university photography professor for more than fifteen years, and organises and directs the Photography Festival of Santander. He is the publisher of Xplorer Magazine (Nicaragua) and the general manager of Xtreme PhotoWS (Burkina Faso).
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Annette Nijenbanning graduated from the Academy of Arts in Utrecht in 1995. Although she has been taking photographs for half a lifetime, she only started her professional education at the photo-academy in Amsterdam in 2014. In 2015 she was awarded Honorable Mention in Fine Art at the International Photography Awards.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Anne Milloux trained as a printer and designer, and then worked as a litho-artist. She acquired her first camera and started her career as a freelance photographer. Today, she continues to follow her passion in Strasbourg, France.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Ana María Robles is a veterinarian and social psychologist with a passion for photography. Ana has won many national and international awards. Her work has been widely exhibited across Argentina.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Abdulla Shayagan was born in 1990 in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province into a farming family. His interest in photography began during a three-month journalism training programme that in turn led to him enrolling in a 3rd Eye photojournalism training programme. Now an active member of 3rd Eye, his work has been exhibited in Afghanistan and abroad. He now works as a freelance writer and photographer.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Richard Wainwright is a committed and passionate teller of humanitarian-focused stories. For more than fifteen years, he has reported on social justice and human rights issues around the world through the media of photography, film and first person interviews, primarily for development agencies and international NGO’s. He is based in Perth, Western Australia.
Year of Winning Submission; 2016
Jenny Matthews is an award-winning photographer and teacher. Since 1982 she has been documenting social issues in Britain and abroad, particularly focusing on the consequences of war on the lives of women and children and the issues of dispossession and human rights. Her project “Women and War” resulted in a book and touring exhibition.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Since 2009, Hamburg-based Bente Marei Stachowske has worked as a photojournalist documenting social and environmental issues. Her work has taken her to Malawi, South Sudan, Gambia, USA, India and Chile. She also undertakes assignments for non-governmental organisations, enterprises and newspapers. Her work has been exhibited in California, London, Hamburg and Quito.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Alessandro Vincenzi is a self-trained documentary photographer with a special interest in stories about Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. His career as a photographer started at the end of 2008 after working for almost five years with Medecins Sans Frontieres as a biologist. He is based in Barcelona, Spain, where he lives with his partner Rosemarie and his son Matias.
