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Copyright: © Sebastian Gil Miranda, France, Winner, Campaign, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
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Le verdict est tombé, voici les photographes primés dans les catégories suivantes : « L’Iris d’Or / Photographer of the Year », « Professional competition category winners plus 2nd and 3rd position », « Open Photorgapher of the Year », « Youth Photographer of the Year », « Student Focus Photographer of the Year ».
Image Name: Schoolyard
Photographer Name: Armin Appel, Open Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: : I took this image while paragliding over Räumliches Bildungszentrum, in Biberach an der Riss. It was an early morning in May, it had rained all night, and it was perfect conditions to get good contrasts. I took five flights between 2013 – 2014 trying to get the perfect shot, with perfect contrast and shadows, until I finally got it this morning in May 2014
Copyright: © Armin Appel, Germany, Winner, Open Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Intimate Room, Targsor Penitentiary, Romania, 2011
Photographer Name: Cosmin Bumbut, Architecture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: I was taking pictures at the Aiud prison when Romania joined the EU and reformed the prison system – the biggest change was the right to private visits. I had the idea of photographing “private rooms” since then, but I did not find the time to visit all Romanian prisons until 2014.
Series Name: Intimate Rooms
Series Description: Once Romania joined the European Union in 2007, the whole prison system went through major revamp and the biggest reform was to introduce the right to private visits. This means that a prisoner who is married or in a relationship has the right to receive, every three months, a two-hour private visit which takes place in a separate room inside the prison compound. Plus, if a prisoner gets married in detention he or she can spend 48 hours with the spouse in the special room and is allowed visits once a month in the first year of marriage. I started photographing the private rooms in 2008 and I have now photographed the private rooms inside all Romanian penitentiaries (35 penitentiaries).
Copyright: © Cosmin Bumbut, Romania, Winner, Architecture, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Intimate Room, Tulcea Penitentiary, Romania, 2013
Photographer Name: Cosmin Bumbut, Architecture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: I was taking pictures at the Aiud prison when Romania joined the EU and reformed the prison system – the biggest change was the right to private visits. I had the idea of photographing “private rooms” since then, but I did not find the time to visit all Romanian prisons until 2014.
Series Name: Intimate Rooms
Series Description: Once Romania joined the European Union in 2007, the whole prison system went through major revamp and the biggest reform was to introduce the right to private visits. This means that a prisoner who is married or in a relationship has the right to receive, every three months, a two-hour private visit which takes place in a separate room inside the prison compound. Plus, if a prisoner gets married in detention he or she can spend 48 hours with the spouse in the special room and is allowed visits once a month in the first year of marriage. I started photographing the private rooms in 2008 and I have now photographed the private rooms inside all Romanian penitentiaries (35 penitentiaries).
Copyright: © Cosmin Bumbut, Romania, Winner, Architecture, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Tweeting Prom
Photographer Name: Aristide Economopoulos, Arts & Culture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: A girl tweets during her prom. For many teenagers, social media has become integral important outlets of who they are.
Series Name: Prom Night
Series Description: Across New Jersey and the rest of America, every spring high school seniors go through the right of passage of their high school prom. An event where everyone looks their best wearing elaborate gowns and tuxedos where one can’t differentiate their social or economic background. Teens spend hundreds of dollars for the special night.
Copyright: ©Aristide Economopoulos, US, Winner, Arts & Culture, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Dance Floor
Photographer Name: Aristide Economopoulos, Arts & Culture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Students at Newark’s Arts High School keep the dance floor busy at the Richfield Regency in Verona.
Series Name: Prom Night
Series Description: Across New Jersey and the rest of America, every spring high school seniors go through the right of passage of their high school prom. An event where everyone looks their best wearing elaborate gowns and tuxedos where one can’t differentiate their social or economic background. Teens spend hundreds of dollars for the special night.
Copyright: © Aristide Economopoulos, US, Winner, Arts & Culture, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Ball religion
Photographer Name: Sebastian Gil Miranda, Campaign Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: This picture was taken as part of the social project Uniendo Caminos; in the Chapel Our Lady of Lujan, in Villa La Carcova; Jose Leon Suarez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the country.
Series Name: Shoot Ball, not Gun
Series Description: This is a documentary work performed as part of the social project « Uniendo Caminos » in the Chapel « Nuestra Señora del Lujan », in Villa « La Carcova », Jose Lejan Suarez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is one of the most dangerous « villa » in the country, in the words of Father Pepe, a social reference in the neighbourhood, two armed drug gangs dispute the neighbourhood, leading to dozens of deaths per month. Children « shoot » the ball inside the containment walls of the centre, but outside there are other « shots » that resonate. The children say that every night they hear gunshots, this has become part of everyday life. Children who take in this project are aged between 6-11 and most have family that are linked to gangs, with parents, brothers and close friends imprisoned, killed, or somehow involved in the network of drug trafficking. The activities at the centre help give them an option to keep away from the same future, which otherwise seems inescapable.
Copyright: © Sebastian Gil Miranda, France, Winner, Campaign, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Rahul Talukder, Conceptual Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: Faded history of the lost
Series Description: On April 24, 2013 the world witnessed the biggest garment factory accident till date. Rana Plaza, An eight story commercial building collapsed during morning rush hour in Savar, Bangladesh and resulted in a death toll of more than eleven hundred and over two thousand five hundred injured. While the search goes on for those buried under collapsed walls, another wall gets filled with pictures of the missing. The posters are a last cry for help, as the ghosts of the victims wouldn’t even recognize themselves in these poster weathered down by the rain and the sun as they come and go – taking with them slowly any hope of more victim rising out of the rubble. We don’t know these people on the posters; just like we didn’t know those men and women who worked there day after day. But as they get wet with rain, and wrinkled by the sun – they stare out at you and me and whisper « I was somebody. Do not forget me. »
Copyright: ©Rahul Talukder, Bangladesh, Winner, Conceptual, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Butterflies chapter 3 photo 4
Photographer Name: Scott Typaldos, Contemporary Issues Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: : Documentary project on mental illness
Series Name: Butterflies Chapter 3
Series Description: In Ancient Greece, drifting souls were often represented by butterfly symbols. This was a direct link to Psyche, the soul goddess, who was similarly depicted with delicate lepidoptera wings. When looking for a title for my work on the mental condition, I wanted a word that elevated the individuals I had met above the stale socially created traumas and stigmatizations, which had ruined their lives. The word “Butterflies” soon imposed itself as an image of a delicate but radiant state of being. A description of freedom constantly terrorized by the outside world and an unstable condition made splittable by a misplaced caress. This soul vulnerability constantly immersed in fear became my main obsession while photographing the men and women waiting in institutions or healing centers.
Copyright: © Scott Typaldos / Prospekt, Switzerland,Winner, Contemporary Issues, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Blue Room
Photographer Name: John Moore, Current Affairs Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Omu Fahnbulleh stands over her husband Ibrahim after he fell and died in a classroom used for Ebola patients.
Series Name: Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian Capital
Series Description: In the summer of 2014 Monrovia, Liberia became the epicenter of the West African Ebola epidemic, the worst in history. Although previous rural outbreaks were more easily contained, once the virus began spreading in Monrovia’s dense urban environment, the results were described by Medecins Sans Frontieres as « catastrophic ». With a tradition of burial rites that include the washing of the dead bodies of loved ones, Liberians became infected at alarming rates. Only a decade after a long civil war, Liberia’s fragile health system was unable to cope, international agencies were slow to react, and the country struggled. President Sirleaf declared a state of emergency, and a military quarantine of the nation’s largest township of West Point, proved futile. Slowly healthcare workers, both Liberian and foreign, made progress in slowing the spread of the disease, but by year’s end the outcome of the regional epidemic was far from certain.
Copyright: © John Moore / Getty Images, US, Winner, Current Affairs, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Sister’s Grief
Photographer Name: John Moore, Current Affairs Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her away.
Series Name: Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian Capital
Series Description: In the summer of 2014 Monrovia, Liberia became the epicenter of the West African Ebola epidemic, the worst in history. Although previous rural outbreaks were more easily contained, once the virus began spreading in Monrovia’s dense urban environment, the results were described by Medecins Sans Frontieres as « catastrophic ». With a tradition of burial rites that include the washing of the dead bodies of loved ones, Liberians became infected at alarming rates. Only a decade after a long civil war, Liberia’s fragile health system was unable to cope, international agencies were slow to react, and the country struggled. President Sirleaf declared a state of emergency, and a military quarantine of the nation’s largest township of West Point, proved futile. Slowly healthcare workers, both Liberian and foreign, made progress in slowing the spread of the disease, but by year’s end the outcome of the regional epidemic was far from certain.
Copyright: © John Moore / Getty Images, US, Winner, Current Affairs, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Mt Kenya 1963(a)
Photographer Name: Simon Norfolk, Landscape Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Mapping with a pyrograph, the melting away of the Lewis Glacier on Mt. Kenya. 1963 The flame line shows the Lewis Glacier’s location in 1963.
Series Name: When I Am Laid In Earth
Series Description: These fire lines I have drawn indicate where the front of the rapidly disappearing Lewis Glacier was at various times in the recent past; the years are given in the titles. In the distance, a harvest moon lights the poor, doomed glacier remnant; the gap between the fire and the ice represents the relentless melting. Relying on old maps and modern GPS surveys I have rendered a stratified history of the glacier’s retreat. Mount Kenya is the eroded stump of a long-dead, mega-volcano. Photographically, I hope to re-awaken its angry, magma heart. My fire is made from petroleum. My pictures contain no evidence that this glacier’s retreat is due to man-made warming (glaciers can retreat when the don’t get sufficient snow, or if the cloud cover thins, for example,) but it is nonetheless my belief that humans burning hydrocarbons are substantially to blame.
Copyright: © Simon Norfolk/INSTITUTE, United Kingdom, Winner, Landscape, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: 5_Ethnic Yi People Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains of China
Photographer Name: Li Fan, Lifestyle Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: Ethnic Yi People Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains of China
Series Description: Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains in southwest Sichuan province of China, the ethnic Yi people experienced a great societal change from the slave society to the socialist society after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Back in the depth of the Great Liangshan Mountains with backward economic development, they are living a self-sufficient farming way of life and their indigenous way of life is one of the best preserved among ethnic minorities in western China. This photo series represents the life of ethnic Yi people living in the Great Liangshan Mountains in southwest China.
Copyright: © Li Fan / Lon Gallery, China, Winner, Lifestyle, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: 9_Ethnic Yi People Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains of China
Photographer Name: Li Fan, Lifestyle Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: Ethnic Yi People Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains of China
Series Description: Living in the Great Liangshan Mountains in southwest Sichuan province of China, the ethnic Yi people experienced a great societal change from the slave society to the socialist society after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Back in the depth of the Great Liangshan Mountains with backward economic development, they are living a self-sufficient farming way of life and their indigenous way of life is one of the best preserved among ethnic minorities in western China. This photo series represents the life of ethnic Yi people living in the Great Liangshan Mountains in southwest China.
Copyright: © Li Fan/ Lon Gallery, China, Winner, Lifestyle, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Giovanni Troilo, People Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Vadim, a painter who uses live models, creates a work inspired by an existing painting in his studio in Molenbeek.
Series Name: La Ville Noire – The Dark Heart of Europe
Series Description: Charleroi, La Ville Noire, small town close to Bruxelles, symbolizes the whole of Europe. The collapse of the industrial manufacturing, the rising unemployment, the increasing immigra- tion, the outbreak of micro-criminality, the lack of a shared identity. This feature is a journey to the roots of my family, which moved from Italy to Charleroi in 1956 to work in the steel industry. Two generations have already succeeded and now everything has changed. The roads, once blooming and neat, appear today desolated and abandoned, industries are closing down and spontaneous vegetation eats the old industrial districts. A perverse and sick sex, race hate, neurotic obesity and the abuse of psychiatric drugs seem to be the only cures able to make this endemic uneasiness accettable. Does it make any sense to stay together when the initial mission has almost failed? Will it be possible to have another chance? This is the question for Europe, and for Charleroi, the dark heart of Europe.
Copyright: © Giovanni Troilo, Italy, Winner, People, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Ruben Salgado Escudero, Portraiture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Construction workers dig a household latrine in Pa Dan Kho Village, Kayah State.
Series Name: Solar Portraits in Myanmar
Series Description: In Myanmar just 26% of the country’s population has access to the electrical grid, at least half of whom live in cities. In a country where almost all rural labour is still un-mechanized, candles – expensive and dangerous – are the only source of light available once the sun sets. Solar energy is a much-needed solution that has the potential to improve the lives of millions immediately. Small, inexpensive photovoltaic power (PV) systems can provide households with at least 12 hours of light during the night. These portraits depict the lives of inhabitants of remote areas of Myanmar who, for the first time have access to electricity through the power of solar energy. Each subject was asked how having electricity has affected their life. The portraits were set up within their environment, according to what they expressed. The scenes have all been lit only by solar powered light bulbs which are contributing to the improvement in these people’s standard of living.
Copyright: © Ruben Salgado Escudero, Spain, Winner, Portraiture, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Ruben Salgado Escudero, Portraiture Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Ko, 20 years old. A Shan farmer with his cow in Lui Pan Sone Village. Kayah State.
Series Name: Solar Portraits in Myanmar
Series Description: In Myanmar just 26% of the country’s population has access to the electrical grid, at least half of whom live in cities. In a country where almost all rural labour is still un-mechanized, candles – expensive and dangerous – are the only source of light available once the sun sets. Solar energy is a much-needed solution that has the potential to improve the lives of millions immediately. Small, inexpensive photovoltaic power (PV) systems can provide households with at least 12 hours of light during the night. These portraits depict the lives of inhabitants of remote areas of Myanmar who, for the first time have access to electricity through the power of solar energy. Each subject was asked how having electricity has affected their life. The portraits were set up within their environment, according to what they expressed. The scenes have all been lit only by solar powered light bulbs which are contributing to the improvement in these people’s standard of living.
Copyright: © Ruben Salgado Escudero, Spain, Winner, Portraiture, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Riccardo Bononi, Sport Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: When I was working in the San Pedro prison in La Paz I met a woman living inside the jail and leaving only during the weekend for a fight. That made me curious to follow this woman in her world of the Bolivian female lucha libre.
Series Name: Las Valkyrias de Bolivia
Series Description: Bolivia is proud of being the Latin American country with the highest the number of actively working women. Bolivian women no longer are the subject for the “weaker sex” prejudice, they are rather associated with the outstanding physical stamina, the inclination to struggle and the great brute strength. Then must not be surprising the fact that, in the poorest neighbourhood of La Paz (4000 mt), a bunch of female farmers from the countryside get together every Sunday in the ring for a public fight. Wearing the traditional cholitas (the term originally refers to the “indigenous mixed race” people) clothes and bowlers, Bolivian Valkyries deal with even more demanding fights once they get off the ring, raising their children all by themselves and working between the fields and the urban street markets.
Copyright: © Riccardo Bononi / IRFOSS, Italy, Winner, Sport, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Riccardo Bononi, Sport Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: When I was working in the San Pedro prison in La Paz I met a woman living inside the jail and leaving only during the weekend for a fight. That made me curious to follow this woman in her world of the Bolivian female lucha libre.
Series Name: Las Valkyrias de Bolivia
Series Description: Bolivia is proud of being the Latin American country with the highest the number of actively working women. Bolivian women no longer are the subject for the “weaker sex” prejudice, they are rather associated with the outstanding physical stamina, the inclination to struggle and the great brute strength. Then must not be surprising the fact that, in the poorest neighbourhood of La Paz (4000 mt), a bunch of female farmers from the countryside get together every Sunday in the ring for a public fight. Wearing the traditional cholitas (the term originally refers to the “indigenous mixed race” people) clothes and bowlers, Bolivian Valkyries deal with even more demanding fights once they get off the ring, raising their children all by themselves and working between the fields and the urban street markets.
Copyright: © Riccardo Bononi / IRFOSS, Italy, Winner, Sport, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Donald Weber, Still Life Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: Molotov Cocktails
Series Description: Molotov Cocktails have been the weapon of choice for the EuroMaidan protestors in Kiev. Using fire to their advantage, the protestors were able to defend their barricades, extend their lines and fortify their positions. In order to set fire to tanks, armoured vehicles, buses, and tires in opposition to local cops, Kiev’s protestors used thousand and thousands of Molotov Cocktails, inspiring and mobilizing people throughout the city to collect as many bottles as possible.
Copyright: © Donald Weber / VII Photo Agency, Canada, Winner, Still Life, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Donald Weber, Still Life Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: Molotov Cocktails
Series Description: Molotov Cocktails have been the weapon of choice for the EuroMaidan protestors in Kiev. Using fire to their advantage, the protestors were able to defend their barricades, extend their lines and fortify their positions. In order to set fire to tanks, armoured vehicles, buses, and tires in opposition to local cops, Kiev’s protestors used thousand and thousands of Molotov Cocktails, inspiring and mobilizing people throughout the city to collect as many bottles as possible.
Copyright: © Donald Weber / VII Photo Agency, Canada, Winner, Still Life, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Bernhard Lang, Travel Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: The colourful umbrellas create amazing geometric patterns which contrast dramatically with the golden sand and azure-coloured sea. From the air it is possible to see how almost every inch of sand is used on a busy summer’s day on the Adriatic coastline.
Series Name: Aerial Views Adria
Series Description: Aerial photographs of the Adriatic coastline between Ravenna and Rimini, Italy. Photographed in August 2014. As thousands of sun worshipers lazed on the golden sands, sheltering underneath massive beach umbrellas, photographer Bernhard Lang took these photographs.
Copyright: © Bernhard Lang, Germany, Winner, Travel, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Bernhard Lang, Travel Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: The colourful umbrellas create amazing geometric patterns which contrast dramatically with the golden sand and azure-coloured sea. From the air it is possible to see how almost every inch of sand is used on a busy summer’s day on the Adriatic coastline.
Series Name: Aerial Views Adria
Series Description: Aerial photographs of the Adriatic coastline between Ravenna and Rimini, Italy. Photographed in August 2014. As thousands of sun worshipers lazed on the golden sands, sheltering underneath massive beach umbrellas, photographer Bernhard Lang took these photographs.
Image title: Untitled
Copyright: © Bernhard Lang, Germany, Winner, Travel, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Shooting ball
Photographer Name: Sebastian Gil Miranda, Campaign Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: This picture was taken as part of the social project Uniendo Caminos; in the Chapel Our Lady of Lujan, in Villa La Carcova; Jose Leon Suarez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the country.
Series Name: Shoot Ball, not Gun, Campaign Photographer of the Year
Series Description: This is a documentary work performed as part of the social project « Uniendo Caminos » in the Chapel « Nuestra Señora del Lujan », in Villa « La Carcova », Jose Lejan Suarez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is one of the most dangerous « villa » in the country, in the words of Father Pepe, a social reference in the neighbourhood, two armed drug gangs dispute the neighbourhood, leading to dozens of deaths per month. Children « shoot » the ball inside the containment walls of the centre, but outside there are other « shots » that resonate. The children say that every night they hear gunshots, this has become part of everyday life. Children who take in this project are aged between 6-11 and most have family that are linked to gangs, with parents, brothers and close friends imprisoned, killed, or somehow involved in the network of drug trafficking. The activities at the centre help give them an option to keep away from the same future, which otherwise seems inescapable.
Copyright: © Sebastian Gil Miranda, France, Winner, Campaign, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Back Alley
Photographer Name: Yong Lin Tan, Youth Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: This is the back alley of my grandmother’s house in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. I shot this during Chinese New Year last year when the sky is the clearest and brightest with stars. A flower plant can also be seen flourishing with limited resources and space, there is a lot of cats wandering around the back alley usually after dinner time, waiting to be fed by the good people around here.
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Series Description:
Copyright: © Yong Lin Tan, Malaysia, Winner, Youth Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
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Photographer Name: Svetlana Blagodareva, Student Focus Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: On the way to the edge
Series Description: This series is about people who live on the edges of the city. In the morning mist they struggle with the remainder of sleep, in the dawn they drowse. Only the subtle envelope of unconsciousness makes each feel comfortable in between the skyscrapers, bridges and overpasses, so inhospitable in the darkness.
Copyright: © Svetlana Blagodareva, Russia, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, winner, Student Focus, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
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Photographer Name: Svetlana Blagodareva, Student Focus Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description:
Series Name: On the way to the edge
Series Description: This series is about people who live on the edges of the city. In the morning mist they struggle with the remainder of sleep, in the dawn they drowse. Only the subtle envelope of unconsciousness makes each feel comfortable in between the skyscrapers, bridges and overpasses, so inhospitable in the darkness.
Copyright: © Svetlana Blagodareva, Russia, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, winner, Student Focus, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Butterflies chapter 3 photo 6
Photographer Name: Scott Typaldos, Contemporary Issues Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Documentary project on mental illness
Series Name: Butterflies Chapter 3
Series Description: In Ancient Greece, drifting souls were often represented by butterfly symbols. This was a direct link to Psyche, the soul goddess, who was similarly depicted with delicate lepidoptera wings. When looking for a title for my work on the mental condition, I wanted a word that elevated the individuals I had met above the stale socially created traumas and stigmatizations, which had ruined their lives. The word “Butterflies” soon imposed itself as an image of a delicate but radiant state of being. A description of freedom constantly terrorized by the outside world and an unstable condition made splittable by a misplaced caress. This soul vulnerability constantly immersed in fear became my main obsession while photographing the men and women waiting in institutions or healing centers.
Copyright: © Scott Typaldos / Prospekt, Switzerland,Winner, Contemporary Issues, Professional, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Mt Kenya 1934 (b)
Photographer Name: Simon Norfolk, Landscape Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Mapping with a pyrograph, the melting away of the Lewis Glacier on Mt. Kenya.1934 The flame line shows the Lewis Glacier’s location in 1934.
Series Name: When I Am Laid In Earth
Series Description: These fire lines I have drawn indicate where the front of the rapidly disappearing Lewis Glacier was at various times in the recent past; the years are given in the titles. In the distance, a harvest moon lights the poor, doomed glacier remnant; the gap between the fire and the ice represents the relentless melting. Relying on old maps and modern GPS surveys I have rendered a stratified history of the glacier’s retreat. Mount Kenya is the eroded stump of a long-dead, mega-volcano. Photographically, I hope to re-awaken its angry, magma heart. My fire is made from petroleum. My pictures contain no evidence that this glacier’s retreat is due to man-made warming (glaciers can retreat when the don’t get sufficient snow, or if the cloud cover thins, for example,) but it is nonetheless my belief that humans burning hydrocarbons are substantially to blame.
Copyright: © Simon Norfolk/INSTITUTE, United Kingdom, Winner, Landscape, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Image Name: Untitled
Photographer Name: Giovanni Troilo, People Photographer of the Year
Year: 2015
Image Description: Philippe passes most of his time in his beautiful house in one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in Charleroi
Series Name: La Ville Noire – The Dark Heart of Europe
Series Description: Charleroi, La Ville Noire, small town close to Bruxelles, symbolizes the whole of Europe. The collapse of the industrial manufacturing, the rising unemployment, the increasing immigra- tion, the outbreak of micro-criminality, the lack of a shared identity. This feature is a journey to the roots of my family, which moved from Italy to Charleroi in 1956 to work in the steel industry. Two generations have already succeeded and now everything has changed. The roads, once blooming and neat, appear today desolated and abandoned, industries are closing down and spontaneous vegetation eats the old industrial districts. A perverse and sick sex, race hate, neurotic obesity and the abuse of psychiatric drugs seem to be the only cures able to make this endemic uneasiness accettable. Does it make any sense to stay together when the initial mission has almost failed? Will it be possible to have another chance? This is the question for Europe, and for Charleroi, the dark heart of Europe.
Copyright: © Giovanni Troilo, Italy, Winner, People, Professional Competition, 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
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