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
Liu Junyang was born into a Tujia ethnic minority community in Qianjiang, Chongqing, China. He is a member of the China Photographers Association and Images Copyright Society of China. His works have been awarded or featured in provincial, national and international competitions and have been exhibited in numerous international photography exhibitions.
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
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Khaula Jamil is an independent freelance documentary photographer, photojournalist and an entrepreneur. Born and raised in Karachi, she has an MFA in photography from Parsons School of Design. Her most far-reaching and popular project is the Facebook-based “Humans of Karachi”, which she started in 2012, inspired by Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York”.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Kelly Johnson has lived and worked as a photojournalist in Somalia, Chad, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Kelly currently works as a refugee employment specialist in Eastern Washington, empowering people to write their stories of life in the USA.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Kazuhiro Yokozeki was born in Osaka, Japan. He studied photography at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, New York. In 2007, after working as a contract photographer at the Asahi Shimbun Publications Division in Tokyo for three years, he became a freelance photographer making documentaries. He is now based in Tokyo, Japan.
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
Julia Gunther is a Berlin-born photographer who specialises in documentary projects. Julia’s most prominent collection of work is her “Proud Women of Africa” project, which documents the lives of strong women she has met during her travels through Africa.
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
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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
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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
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Jacob Balzani Lööv is an Italian photographer based in Milan and Zurich primarily interested in working on underreported social and environmental issues. Before becoming a full-time photographer, he worked for several years as an environmental researcher. He has worked around the world, but one place he keeps returning to is the Caucasus.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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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
Ibrahim Malla is a Syrian-Italian professional photographer specialising in social and humanitarian issues. His photographs have appeared on the BBC and CNN and in the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian. He is the winner of several international photography awards and his work has featured in exhibitions across Europe
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Hynek Glos, born in 1973 in Prague, became a professional photographer at 21. He regularly participates in both Czech and international photography competitions, and has won several awards at the Czech Press Photo Competition.
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
Habibul Haque has worked in photography for more than 15 years and is currently head of the photography department of Drik Picture Library in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His work explores issues of human rights, the environment and culture.
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.
