Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Gary George first became a photographer when he moved to Haiti in 2011. He started taking pictures that showed children uninhibited in their natural and candid moments. Today he continues his explorations as a photographer, residing with his wife in San Diego, California.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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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
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
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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.
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
Daniel Gonzalez Acuña has a PhD in archaeology and a postgraduate degree in photojournalism and documentary photography, both from the University of Seville. As a photojournalist, he covers breaking news, sports and performing arts for several news agencies.
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.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Claudia Wiens is a German photographer and author based in Seville, Spain. She previously lived and worked for ten years in Egypt and seven in Turkey. Her work has appeared in international publications, such as GEO, Stern, New York Times Magazine and The Guardian and she works frequently for a number of organisations, including UNICEF, GIZ and Johns Hopkins.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Clara Braddick is a New York-based photographer and user experience designer. Her photography focuses on the interactions connecting people, space, and environment. Clara has a BFA in photography, and is currently enrolled in Hyper Island’s Interactive Art Director program in Stockholm, Sweden.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Christian Bobst, born in 1971 in Switzerland, studied graphic design and then worked for almost 15 years as an art and creative director for major advertising agencies in Switzerland and Germany before becoming a documentary photographer and photojournalist. From his base in Zürich, he covers stories around the world. In 2016 he was one of the prizewinners of the World Press Photo Awards.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Chris Grodotzki is a Berlin-based photographer and founding member of the Jib Collective, an organisation that promotes progressive multimedia journalism. After going freelance in 2011, he studied photojournalism at the Hannover University of Applied Arts from 2012.
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
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Carlotta Cardana is an Italian portrait and documentary photographer based in London. She currently divides her time between personal projects and commissions for magazines. Her work has won numerous awards and been exhibited at festivals and galleries across Europe and the United States.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Brett Davies is an Australian who has spent the last nine years in Sri Lanka. A passionate photographer, he has been taking street scenes and portraits in Sri Lanka since he arrived, seeking images that capture feeling, colour and honest simplicity.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Biel Calderon is a multimedia producer with more than eight years of experience working in visual communication, journalism and island hopping. He is currently a multimedia producer for Greenpeace South-east Asia, based out of Bangkok.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Bernice Wong, born in 1988, is a documentary photographer based in Singapore. In 2014, she was awarded top prize for “Themed Body of Work” as part of the CDL Singapore Young Photographer Award. She has since published her first photo book, School of Hard Knocks. Her work has also been selected to be part of the Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase hosted by Objectifs.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Aydin Cetinbostanoglu was born in 1954 at İzmir, Turkey. His photographic career began as an apprentice to a master photographer in the 1960s. He studied political science and history in Ankara University, graduating in 1978. His work has featured in more than sixty photo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.
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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).
