Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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Pablo Izquierdo is a graduate of the Universidad del Pacífico, where he majored in creativity and art direction. He has worked for advertising agencies, foundations and companies in Chile and Argentina. In Chile, he co-founded the Gancho Studio. Working mostly in documentary photography, poverty, people with mental disabilities and the elderly are the central themes of his current work.
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
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
Nikt Wong worked in finance and information and communications technology industries before becoming a professional photographer in 2003. Also a writer, his travel and documentary stories have appeared in many Malaysian and regional magazines. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Nikt works for publishers, companies and private clients.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
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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
Nataliya Kharlamova was born in 1978 in Moscow. She started photography in 1998. In 2002, she graduated from the faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Currently, she is working on several documentary photography projects, including “Autism: Adult Children”, about the prospects of children with special needs, and a photo/video exploration of Tuva in Siberia.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Muhammad Ilham Ismail, 26, lives in a small city in Brunei. A wedding photographer for the last six years, his dream is to become one of Wedding & Portrait Photography International’s top one hundred photographers. For his work in this book, he was helped by Ashidayu Pg Hj Ali, who acted as storywriter.
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
Mohammad Faqrul Islam was born in 1981 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he still lives. Although not a professional photographer, he spends all of his leisure time on photography.
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
Matjaz Krivic is a documentary photographer specialising in capturing the personality and grandeur of indigenous people and places. His intense, personal and aesthetically moving style has won him several prestigious awards, including World Press Photo. Most of the time he can be found travelling with his camera between the Sahara and the Himalayas.
Year of Winning Submission: 2016
Matilde Gattoni, born in 1974, is an award-winning French-Italian photographer. She started her career in 2000 covering the second intifada in Palestine. Since then, her work has appeared in Time, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, The Observer, Die Zeit, and GQ, among others.
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
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
Mark Edward Harris’s assignments have taken him to 92 countries on six continents. His award-winning editorial work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Life, Time and GEO, amongst other publications. His books include The Way of the Japanese Bath, North Korea, South Korea, and Inside Iran. North Korea was named Photography Book of the Year at the International Photography Awards.
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
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
Born in Parma in 1976, Marco Gualazzini began his career as a photographer in 2004 with his hometown’s local daily, La Gazzetta di Parma. He has covered Africa since 2011. His work has appeared in titles including Time, Internazionale, Io Donna, D di Repubblica, L’Espresso, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times Magazine, Wired and Paris Match.
