VIPA 2021 JURY

Photographer

Hardijanto Budiman

Hardijanto Budiman aka.Hardibudi, a Visual artist base in Jakarta, Indonesia. I don’t classify myself as ‘pure’ Photographer. My works is like the Journey of my life! It all about the expression of Imagination, Emotion & Experiences of my life.
Art wouldn’t be exist without any ability to actualize the ideas! and I actualizing, my ideas into Artworks through Photography. I call my Artworks “Imaginary Story Pictures” and I am The Imaginary Story Teller!
My Signature style is Conceptual Contemporary Photography! and I really love anything about Surreal Art! That’s the reason a lot of my works strong influence by Surrealism. In 2019 I joined Nikon Indonesia as Nikon Indonesia Official Photographer.

Business & Clients :
Yellowkorner, French. 1x Photo Print Gallery, Sweden . BBA Gallery, UK.
Some well known Indonesian Artist, Musician, Movie Producers and Public figure
such as Melly Goeslaw, KLA Project, Merry Riana, Addie MS and many more that I can’t mention their name.
Exhibition:
-2019 Miami International Photography Festival USA.
-2019 MIPA Exhibition , Malta
-2019, SIPA Exhibition, Siena Italy.
-2019, Sente Antu Photo Exhibition, Jinlin, China
-2020 Gauting International Photoweek, Munich, Germany.
-2020 Siena International Photo Exhibition, Siena Italy.
-2020 Shanghai International Photo Festival, China
-2020 15th China Yixian Photo Festival, China

Media & Publication:
Forbes magazine, Vogue Magazine, DPReview, Photo & Tech, Pro Photo Daily,
Digital Camera Magz, Photographize Magz, Detik, Kompas, China PhotoPress and many more.

AWARDS

More than 200 Awards
⁃ Gold medal Trierenberg Super circuit salon Wina Austria 2013/2014
⁃ Gold medal Trierenberg Super circuit salon Wina Austria 2017/2018
⁃ Bronze medal Trierenberg Wina Austria 2017/2018
⁃ Silver medal Nikon photo contest 2013
⁃ Bronze medal SFI 34 ( Salon Foto Indonesia ) 2013
⁃ Gold medal SFI 35 ( Salon Foto Indonesia ) 2014
⁃ Bronze medal SFI 35 ( Salon Foto Indonesia ) 2014
⁃ Silver medal SFI 36 ( Salon Foto Indonesia ) 2015
⁃ Bronze medal SFI 38 ( Salon Foto Indonesia ) 2017
⁃ Gold medal Nikon photo contest 2016/17
⁃ Merit Award HIPA photo contest 2014
⁃ Merit Award HIPA photo contest 2016
⁃ Gold medal & Bronze medal Black and white Oneyeland Photo Contest 2018
⁃ 1st prize winner Fine Art photography Award 2018
⁃ 3rd place National Sony World photography Award 2018
⁃ Silver medal PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2018
⁃ Indonesia Top Ten Fashion photographer Rank #1 Oneeyeland 2018
⁃ Eyewin Photographer of the Year 2018, India, 3 Gold medals & 2 Silver medals + 5 Honorable Mention
⁃ Salon Foto Indonesia 2018, Gold medal in Color Category & Silver medal in Creative
⁃ Monovision Photography Awards 2018, HM Fineart Category
⁃ Sigma Spring Photo Contest, USA 2018 HM Portrait Category
⁃ 1st Place International Photo Awards 2018 Category Advertising Conceptual photography

⁃ Honorary mention in
4 category IPA 2018, NYC USA
⁃ Gold Medal in Photo Club Kumanevo, Macedonia 2018
⁃ 2 Honorary Mentions on Sharjah Exposure International Awards 2018 Category Creative
⁃ ND Special photographer of the year 2018.
⁃ND Gold Special category award 2018.
⁃ND Honorary mention conceptual photograph 2018.
⁃ Honorable Mention Central Bank Republic of Turkey Craft photo competitions 2018
⁃ 1 PSA Gold Medal, 3 CCC Medal, 3 HM Cross Continental Circuit Salon Photo 2018
⁃ 3 Silver awards at Better Photography Contests Australia 2018, Category Creative & Portrait
⁃ 2nd place Chromatic Awards 2018 Conceptual category,
⁃3 HM Chromatic Awards 2018, Fine Art category & Photo Manipulations
⁃ 1st place Malta International Photography Awards Abstract Category, Top 15 & Top 25 Abstract Category 2018
⁃ 1st place winner – Fine Art Photographer of The year Monochrome Photography Awards 2018
⁃ 1st place winner – Photo Manipulation of The year Monochrome Photography Awards 2018
⁃ HM IKEI Photo Contest 2018
⁃ 1st National Winner Sony World Photography Awards 2019, Creative Category & 2 Shortlist Sony World Photography Awards 2019, Category Creative, UK
⁃ IAAP Ribbon & GPC Ribbon AFAN International 2018 , Iran
⁃ FIAP Gold Medal 12th NBPC, India Salon of Photography Award 2019
⁃ Top 10 Finalist at Smithsonian Magazine Category Altered Image 2019 US
⁃ 1 IAPAI Gold Medal, 2 IAPAI Silver Medal, 3 IAPAI Bronze Medal, 5 HMA Award at International Academy of Photography Art of Image 2019, China
⁃ 1st Prize winner at MiamiPhotoFest 2019, Single Category International Emerging Photography Awards
⁃ Top 10 Best Photographer of The World 2019, Sente Antu, Jinlin, China
⁃ Professional Nominee in 4 category FAPA Awrds 2019
⁃ Gold medal as 2nd winner Fine art category at Moscow International Foto Awards MIFA 2019
⁃ Gold medal in Advertising/Fashion category at Moscow International Foto Awards MIFA 2019
⁃ Gold Awards San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition 2019
⁃ FIAP Bronze Medal & HM at X International PC Sant Just Desvern, Spain 2019
⁃ FIAP Bronze Medal & HM at Unicipality Buyukcekmece 10th International Photography Contest Turkey 2019
⁃ Siena International Photography Awards ( SIPA ) 2019 Category Winner, Honorary Mention and Remarkable Artworks.
⁃ 2 Silver Distinction Awards at WPPI First Half 2019
⁃ 2 Honorary Mention Monovisions Photography Awards 2019, category Conceptual & Fine Art
⁃ Top 10 Malta International Photo Awards 2019 Category Technology
⁃ Silver Awards & Finalist at RISE International Photography Awards 2019
⁃ 4 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals, 1 Bronze Medals & Title Digital Artist of the Year 2019, EyeWin Awards Photo Contest 2019, India.
⁃ 7 Honorary Mention in the category Fine Art, Conceptual & Others International Photography Awards 2019, USA
⁃ Shortlist & Finalist in American Photography Open 2019, NYC USA
⁃ Honorary Mention Category Fine Art in Budapest International Photo Awards 2019 ( BIFA ) .
⁃ 1 PSA Gold Medal, 1 FIAP Gold Medal, 1 CCC Medal, 4 CCC HM Medal and 15 Acceptance from Cross Continental Circuit 2019
⁃ 4 HM in ND Awards 2019, category Open theme & Fashion
⁃ 3 HM Chromatic Awards 2019, category Conceptual & Fine Art
⁃ 4 Awards Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019 ( TIFA 2019 ), 2nd place Awards Winner in Fine Art Category, Gold Awards Winner in Fine Art Category, Silver Awards Winner in Advertising-Self Promotion Category, Silver Awards Winner in Fine Art-Collage Category
⁃ AVTVIso Excellent Awards RGB Salon India 2019
⁃ 1 Silver Medal & 4 Honorary Mentions on GPIC International Photo Contest 2020, China
⁃ 5 Honorary Mentions on Monochrome Photography Awards 2020category Profesional Fine Art & Conceptual
⁃ 1 Bronze medal & HM at 7th Khayyam International Photo Exhibition
⁃ 2 Honorable Mention Category Fine Art & Journalism at Annual Photography Awards 2019 ( APA 2019 )
⁃ Merit Awards All About Photo 2020
⁃ 4 Nominations in Fine Art Photography Awards 2020
⁃ 3 HM International Photo Awards IPA 2020
⁃ Creative Photographer of the Year Creative Photo Awards Siena International Photo Awards 2020, 3 Runner Up, 1 Hight Commended & 2 Commended
⁃ 3rd Place Winner Malta International Photo Awards 2020, Abstract Category
⁃ HM Fine Art Category Monovision Awards 2020
⁃ HM Fine Art Category PX3 2020
⁃ 2nd & 3rd Place Winners Creative Category RISE Awards 2020
⁃ 1st Place Category Special/Other International Photography Awards 2020
⁃ 2HM Category Fine Art International Photography Awards 2020
⁃ Honorary Mention in ND Awards 2020 Fine Art Category
⁃ Gold Medal Smile World International Photo Awards 2020 Category Open
⁃ Silver Medal Smile World International Photo Awards 2020 Category Mobile
⁃ 2 HM Smile World International Photo Awards 2020 Category Open
⁃ Gold Medal FAF Asisa Photo Contest Spain 2020 Category Travel
⁃ Silver Medal CEF Asisa Photo Contest Spain 2020 Category Maternity/Children
⁃ Bronze Medal FIAP Asisa Photo Contest Spain 2020 Category Open
⁃ 2 HM Asisa Photo Contest Spain 2020 Category Monochrome & Nature

Photographer

Leyla Emektar

Leyla EMEKTAR, was born in 1972 in Adana. After completing her primary, secondary and high education in this city, she graduated from Çukurova University, Art Department of Faculty of Fine Arts. She started her career as Visual Arts Teacher and she is still pursuing her job. She taught part time at Kocaeli University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography.

-The photographer who gives lectures as workshops to photography societies and groups, was rewarded the degree of AFIAP in 2012 and EFIAP by “Federation ınternationale de L’art Photographique (FIAP)”.

– She was given the degree of GPUCR2 by Global Photographic Union in 2014.

– In both national and international contests, her works won over 250 prizes.

– 2013, by the Digital Arts Museum in California, her artworks were given Stellar Art Awards.

– 2015, in the documentary portfolio competition organized by China HPA and Unesco –the official partner-, by achieving a great success she was invited to China.

-Winning “The Alfred Fried Photography Award” which is held in Austria, she was invited to the Ceremony of Peace Photography and she became one of five photographers who deserved to get Peace Photography Prize in 2016.

-Her artwork was perenially taken to the Parliament Museum in Austria.

-In the International Photography Festival that is held in Siena, 2016, among 127 countries and 45000 photographs.

– she deserved to get the first prize, she was invited to Italy and brought Pangea Prize to her country.

– 2010, 2012, 2014, she got the Success Prize for three times in the Government Photography Contest in the section of Creative Works.

-Together with Professor Güler Ertan, she has compiled and published Turkish anthology of photography in a 374-page book since 1960.

-Her personal interviews were published in the leading International Photography Magazines.

– 2017, HIPA award in the category of digital manipulation.

– 2017, Xposure Sharjah İnternational phtography award received award in the category of photojournalism.

– 2018, Xposure Sharjah İnternational phtography award received award in the category of digital manipulation.

– 2018 yılında has won many awards including Şinasi Barutçu Cup, which is a prestige Cup of Turkey.

– 2018, she became one of the ten photographers invited to China, ranking in the documentary photography contest organized in China with the motto of the world’s 10 best photographers.

-2018, she won the grand prize at the global photography competition in Japan and was invited to Japan.

– invited to the Dong Gang International Photo Festival held in Seoul in 2019 and his photographs were exhibited in Seoul during the festival.

-Took part in many national and international photography festivals with her personal and group exhibitions.

-Takes part as a member of jury in many national and international photography competitions.

-Keeps working on Creative Photography.

Photographer

GMB Akash

I have received more than 100 international awards and my work has been featured in over 100 major international publications including: National Geographic, Vogue, Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Fader, Brand Ein, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Colors, The Economist, The New Internationalist, Kontinente, Amnesty Journal, Courier International, PDN, Die Zeit, Days Japan, Hello, and Sunday Telegraph of London.

-2002 I became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. In

-2004 I received the Young Reporters Award from the Scope Photo Festival in Paris — once again, the first Bangladeshi to receive this honour.

-2005 I was awarded “Best of Show” at the Center for Fine Art Photography’s international competition in Colorado, USA.

-2006 I was awarded World Press Photo award and released my premier book “First Light”.

-2007 I became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the 30 Emerging Photographers (PDN 30), sponsored by Photo District News Magazine, USA. I won the 7th Vevey International Photography Grant from Switzerland

-2009 and in the same year, I took home the international ‘Travel photographer of the Year” title at the International Travel Photographer of the Year Competition (TPOY 2009) in the UK.

the most prestigious award in travel photography. I was one of the speakers in the fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference, held at Lillehammer, Norway in 2008 and as well I was the first Bangladeshi in Ted talk at TEDxOporto 2011, in Portugal. I was one of the speaker of “7th Forum of Emerging Leaders in Asian Journalism”, Yogyakarta / Indonesia”.

-2011 Nikon has selected me as one of the 8 influencers in Asia pacific (APAC region).

I presented the results of my 10-year project in 2012 which was published in a book entitled `SURVIVORS`

– 2012 and which was reviewed by the prestigious Geo magazine. The proceeds from the book and subsequent exhibitions go to helping the subjects in that book set up small businesses for which I train them and monitor their progress in order to make them and their families self-sufficient.

I founded the FIRST LIGHT INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY in Bangladesh in August, 2013. We now have hundreds of students from all over the world. I’ve also launched an exclusive One on One Photography Workshop a year ago and since then the program has been received with excellent reviews. So far, participants have come from Germany, the USA, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia, Netherlands, Austria and Puerto Rico. The proceeds from this are to help achieve my ultimate objective of providing basic education for street children, unprivileged talented students, and child laborers.

I performed as a Jury member in several international photo contests such as Friends of the Earth International Photo Competition (The Netherlands), The Worldwide Photography Gala Award (UK),The 2014 Garuda Indonesia World Photo Contest, Fine Art Photography Awards, (UK), Siena International Photography Awards SIPA, (Italy), VIPA 2016, ‘Fine Art Photography Awards 2017’

I have had Solo Exhibitions from 2006 to 2016 in Bangladesh, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, the USA in New York, N.Y. and Charleston, S.C, Czech Republic as well as in Greece. .

Photographer

Michele Bavassano

Michele Bavassano, was born in 1996 in Orvieto and grew up in a small town located on the border between Umbria, Lazio and Tuscany. Since he was a child he is strongly attracted to the nature that surrounds him to which he devotes all his interest.

For several years now he has been contemplating nature through his camera trying to share his emotions with those who look at his photographs.

The long wait for the moment, for the scene and for the perfect light, combined with the careful study of the composition and the search for strong expressiveness in the subjects, give his photographs a very personal style that often approaches a “dreamlike” vision of nature.

Career:

With his rapid success on the web in a short time Michele creates a community with over 250,000 followers from over 130 countries. becoming one of the most followed “wildlife” photographers on the web. His images get millions of views and shares from around the world and have been shared by the Discovery Channel and the BBC.

In recent years Michele has been very active on the issue of protecting and safeguarding the environment. He has collaborated several times with the WWF by donating his images in favor of endangered species and with the Lipu.

In 2015 he obtained the 2nd place in the World Championship of young photography in Oman.

In September 2019 he collaborated with ENEL Energia by inserting some portraits of animals from all over the world in their e-magazine, paying attention to eco-sustainability.

In June 2020 he was part of the jury within the artistic project “The cities of the future” proposed by ICS International School which involved important names such as Gianna Nannini, Carlo Cracco, Igino Massari, Elisa.

In August 2020 he was part of the “Prints for Wildlife” project by donating two of his best images to a fundraising campaign for African parks hard hit by the Covid pandemic, helping to combat poaching and the protection of protected areas with an inestimable naturalistic value. Crowfounding raised over $ 600,000.

Business:

Michele manages an important network of events related to the world of photography.

It offers on-line post-production courses and basic and advanced photography workshops. He currently runs a series of nature photography workshops in the main Italian parks including: the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the Gran Paradiso National Park, the Sibillini Mountains National Park, the Circeo National Park, the Parco della Maremma, the Monte Rufeno Nature Reserve and in some WWF and Lipu Oases such as: the WWF Oasis of Alviano Lake, the Lipu Castel di Guido Oasis and the Lipu Mediterranean Habitat Center in Ostia.

Since 2019 he offers photographic trips to the main destinations for nature photography on all continents. Europe, Asia, America and Africa.

Collaborations:

The constant work in the field led him to find many collaborations in the world of photography and beyond. From May 2018 Michele became Ambassador of the important GITZO brand and in 2019 he started a collaboration with Canon Italy. From September 2020 he has collaborated with Swarovsky Optik becoming the brand’s “Opinion Leader”.

In recent years he has also collected several collaborations including Canon, Wacom, Manfrotto, Pluto Trigger, WWF Italy, Scubla, BenQ, Revolution Race, Easy Cover, XP-Pen, Wise, Pulsar.

Publication:

-“Ray of light” – “Digital Camera Magazine” July 2015
-“The white in the Black” and “BreakFast” 2016 FIAF yearbook
-“Face to Face” – “Panda” WWF 3rd issue of 2017.
-“Face to face” – WWF 2018 calendar.
-“Simmetry” – cover of “Digital Camera Magazine” of May 2018
-9-page interview on “Digital Camera Magazine” of June 2018
-“Autumn Mood” – cover of the book “La seta”
-Interview on “Tablet di Roma” of March 2019
-12 images from all over the world on the “E-Magazine” n ° 27 September 2019
-“Roe Deer” Used in the annual calendar of TV Hören und Sehen
-“SeaLevel” – Image used in the prestigious German weekly Die Zeit

Exhibitions:

-“My nature” Castel Viscardo 26-27-28 August ’15
-“PAF 2015 – Photo & Art Festival” Monteleone d ‘Orvieto 4-5-6 September ’15
-“Obiettivo Mammals” Museum of the flower, Torre Alfina. 31 October / 27 December ’15
-“Eyes of the nature” – Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto. 8-9-10 January ’16
-“Biodiversity Objective” – Flower Museum, Torre Alfina. 12 March / 8 May ’16
-“Atomic Garden. The Gardens of Creativity ”- Fortezza Albornoz, Orvieto. 12/14 August 16

Photographer

Tobias Friedrich

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”
– Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)

During his childhood Tobias Friedrich just loved to watch the adventures of the Calypso featuring Jacques-Yves Cousteau as its captain. The beauty of the world that is below the ocean’s surface mesmerized Tobias. It still overwhelmes him every time he has the chance to dive. He loves the elegance and calmness of the world under water contrasting to the hectic atmosphere above.

Tobias is based in Wiesbaden Germany. Conveniently close to the Frankfurt Airport, a major hub for Germany. This facilitates his international travels for assignments around the globe. He first started taking pictures with a DSLR underwater in 2007. Since then his images have been published in prestigious scuba diving magazines and newspapers around the world. Several underwater photographic competitions, have honoured his work. Resulting in over 50 awards with 30 1st places. Recently he has been awarded “Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018” in the prestigious UPY London competition. In addition he is “German Photographer of the Year 2019” in the Worldshootout. Tobias feels at home in all waters; ranging from subzero to 30° Celsius, as long as there are captivating images to shoot, he is game.

Another great passion of his is leading international expeditions and workshops where he invites everybody to join and share his love for the underwater world.

Awards

-1^st place in the “The Beauty of Nature” category at the Siena International Photo Awards 2020.

-2^nd place in the wreck category at the Festival des mondes sous-marins de Trebeurden 2020.

-1^st place for the best portfolio in the CIMASUB 2020 San Sebastian.2020|09

-2^nd place in the wideangle category in the 11th International Underwater Film Festival of New Caledonia 2020.2020|08

-2^nd place in the Cold Water category in the Ocean Art Safe Under The Sea contest 2020.2020|05

-1^st place in Compact Camera category (taken with a Sealife DC2000) in the Underwater Photo Marathon 2020.2020|05

-1^st place in Compact Camera category (taken with a Sealife DC2000) in the Scuba Diving Magazine contest 2020.2020|04

-Overall winner and 1st place in the category ‘Menschen und Landschaft’ at the Fotoforum Award 2020.2020|03

-1^st place in the category ‘Diversity of all other Animals’ at Glanzlichter 2020.2020|02

-1^st place in wreck and 3rd place in wideangle at UPY London 2020.2020|01

-Shortlisted at the “Sony World Photo Awards 2020“.2020|01

-“German Photographer of the Year” and 3rd place in “Best 5 Images” at Wordshootout 2019.2020|01

-2^nd place in Wide-Angle and 2nd place and Coldwater category at the Ocean Art Contest 2019.2019|08

-Highlight at “Glanzlichter 2019” in the “Magnificent Wilderness” category.2019|02

-“Underwater Photography book of the Year 2019” at UPY London.2019|02

-1^st and 2^nd place at FestiSub 2019 in “Ice” category.2019|01

-2^nd place at Ocean Art 2019 in “Reefscapes” category.2018|02

“Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018” at UPY London.2018|02

-1^st and 3^rd place in the wreck category at UPY London.2017|12

-2^nd place & Honorable mention at Chromatic Photo Awards 2017.2017|08

-Honorary mention at OASIS photo contest 2017.2017|05

-Runner Up at Ocean Geographic 2017 contest at seascapes w. models category.2017|03

-1^st place portfolio award at PAV Tachov 2017.2017|03

-1^st place black & white photography at PAV Tachov 2017.2017|03

-Top photo award at PAV Tachov 2017.2017|02

-1^st and 3^rd place category “animals” at Foto Forum Award 2017.2017|01

-1^st place “macro” category at Worldshootout 2016.2017|01

-3^rd place “Best five” category at Worldshootout 2016.2016|03

-Commented at UPY London 2016 in Wideangle category.2016|01

-3^rd place “Wideangle” category at Worldshootout 2015.2015|11

-Finalist at CANON Iconic images competition 2015.2015|03

-1^stand3^rd place at Underwater Photographer of the Year UPY 2015 London in International Wrecks category as well as Commented place in Internantional Macro category.2015|02

-3^rd place in Sea Trio category at FestiSub 2015 contest.2014|06

-Finalist at the Save our Seas Photography Grant 2014.2014|05

-1^stand3^rd place at SCUBACAM 2014 in Colour Marine and Ocean category as well as 2^nd place in Freshwater, 2^nd place in Colour Macro, 3^rd place in EcoPhoto and 3^rd place in Black and White category.2013|12

-2^nd place at Ocean Art Contest in Cold Water category.2013|11

-3^rd place at Worldshootout in SHARKS category.2013|04

-2^nd place at Acqua 2013 Roma in Portfolio & Behaviour category.2012|11

-1^st place at HP Red Sea in FISH & FASHION category.2012|11

-1^st place at Worldshootout 2012 in SHARKS category.2012|10

-2^nd place at Festival de sous marine Marseille in Color category.2012|10

-3^rd place at Festival de sous marine Marseille in Portfolio category.2012|05

-9^th & 10^th place at Ocean Views 2012.2012|04

-1^st place in “Pairs of Animals” category at Glanzlichter 2012 – Fuerstenfelder Naturfototage.2012|04

-2^nd place at PAF Tachov 2012 in the fresh water category.2012|03

-1^st and 3^rd place in ‘Duo Sea’ category at FestiSub 2012 contest.2011|12

-“Best of Show” at the 2011 Ocean Art Photo Contest. 1^st place Wide Angle and 2nd place Coldwater category.2011|10

-1^st place “Salzkammergut UW-Trophy” and 2^nd place Overall ranking at the UW Photo Days 2011 Attersee.2011|10

-1^st and 2^nd place at the monthly Dive Photo Guide contest with the topic “Blue Water”.2011|09

-Special Commendation and Honour of Destinction at the Celebrate the Sea Festival 2011 in Singapore.2011|05

-1^st place at the Festival Trebeurden at the Wreck Ambiance & Wreck Portfolio category. 2^nd place at the Wreck Bio category & public vote winner.2011|04

-Best Overall at the University Miami Rosenstiel School Underwater Photography contest.2011|03

-1^stplace at the Beneath the Sea 2011 competition in the Macro / Closeup category.2010|11

-1^st place at the Epson Red Sea 2010 Eilat Shootout in the “Mayor’s Prize” category & Competition Album Cover.2010|11

-1^st place at the Epson Red Sea 2010 Eilat Shootout in the “Fish of the Year” category.2010|11

-1^st place at the Epson Red Sea 2010 Images of the World competition in the “Best Wreck black & white” category.2010|11

-Winner model category at the NELOS Festival 2010.2010|10

-1^st place at the UW Photo Days 2010 live shootout at the Attersee in Austria.2010|09

-3^rd place at the Visions contest from the ‘unterwasser’ magazine. Topic was ‘Fisheye’.2010|03

-3^rd place at the Visions contest from the ‘unterwasser’ magazine. Topic was ‘waste as artificial habitat’.2010|03

-3^rd place at the Beneath the Sea 2010 competition in the ‘General’ category.2010|02

-2^nd place at the FestiSub 2010 festival.2009|11

-1^st place at the Epson Red Sea 2009 Images of the world competition in the “Best Wreck” category.2009|09

-1^st place (jury winner) in the monthly Tauchen online contest.2009|06

-2^nd place in the Amateurs category at the Aphrodite Cyprus Live-shootout in Larnaca, Cyprus.2009|02

-1^st place at the Beneath The Sea international competition in the Point & Shoot Category.2008|12

-2^nd place at the SEA & SEA 2008 calendar contest in the “SNAP” category.2008|04

-1^st place in the Wide Angle Photography Category of the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival 2008.2008|03

-2^nd place in the Scubapro Young Category at the British Underwater Image Festival 2008.2008|03

-2^nd place at the Portfolio contest from the nullzeit Magazin & UnderwaterVisions.net.2007|10

-One of my pictures reached the final stage at the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the year. 2006|12

-2^nd place at the Unterwasser Visions contest November.

Photographer

Azim Khan Ronnie

Azim Khan Ronnie, was born in Dhaka and brought up in Bogura, Bangladesh. He has an utter passion for photography and photography has been his passion. As a photographer, his essential aim is to capture the moments of life and give them significance by making them static in time. He loves to travel and be in different places, meet new people, and enjoy the experience that photography offers, which is to capture Earth’s beautiful and awe-inspiring moments. He also loves to experiment with his photography.

He is working for a news channel as a senior camera person in Bangladesh. More than 15 years Azim Khan Ronnie worked in News Channel back to camera. That’s why he gained a lot of photographic knowledge. He completed a foundation course from Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. He has taken part in many International Photography contests and till now he has won more than 400 international photography awards.

Awards

-Grand prize winner from American Photography Open 2020.

-HIPA Merit Medal Award 2018.

-Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest Winner 2019.

-Grand prize winner and Travel category winner in Better Photography Magazine Photo of the Year Award 2020.

– Photographer of the year from Shatto Gallery International Photography Awards, USA.

-Gold Award in the Mobile category and Excellence Award in the Open category from Smile World International Photography Award 2020.

– 1st place winner in “Drone Still Photography” Section from JDFF2020, Korea, SIENA International Photography Award 2019 & 2020.

– Winner of the Drone Photo Awards 2020 include 5 awards, Two awards from Drone photo contest 2019,

– 2nd Place in Event-Traditions and Cultures.

– Honorable Mention in People -Traditions / Culture, Special-Travel / Wanderlust, Event-Traditions and Cultures from IPA 2020-IPA.

– Remarkable award from Urban Photo Awards 2020, Winner Agora images.

– 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize category winner from Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award 2020.

– 1st Place Winner in “Your Best Shot” Organized by Blank Wall Gallery, Greece.

-Honorable Mention winner in VIENNA International Photo Award 2020.

-3rd prize from ACAF International photo contest 8th “Human Rights” Italy.

-Whalebone Photo Contest 2020 sponsored by B&H, USA.

-FIAP Bronze medal from Orhan Holding 15th International Photo Contest 2019 in Turkey.

– Merit Awards from prestigious.

-2nd prize from HERITAGE for PLANET EARTH® travel photo competition 2018.

-HERITAGE for PLANET EARTH® 2019 International Photo Contest.

– Winner WOW Photo Awards 2019.

-Golden Dragon Photo Award.

-Silver Award in the San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards, USA 2020.

-BBC Wildlife Photo Contest winner 2017.

-1st prize winner of City Competition from I SHOT IT.

-1st prize in Securing Water For Food Global Water-Agriculture Photo Contest 2017.

-FIAP Bronze Medal from 15th Adana Rotary Club International Photography Contest.

-3rd Place winner from Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 international photo contest organized by Wikipedia. PSS – Dr. Gibson Hill Memorial.

-Gold Medal (Best of Section) from Singapore International Photography Awards (SIPA) 2017.

-1st prize winner from COMPAS photo competition 2017 in UK, Runner up winner from COMPAS photo competition 2018 in UK.

-1st Prize winner from 35AWARDS 2016 Russia.

– 2nd prize winner from The 4th Student Photography Contest, organized by Global Photography, China.

-Grand Prize winner of Endless Summer Photo Contest from Skylum, Two times MARUMI Photo Contest.

-Silver Prize winner from Japan.

– Honorable mention award from ND Awards 2017.

-Top 10 Winners of Click India Photography Contest 2017.

– 3 awards winner from “Golden Orchid International Photo Awards” 2017.

– 1st & 3rd Prize winner from International photo contest & exhibition in China 2015 .

– 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th & 9th total 5 awards from Bangladesh’s Wiki Loves Earth 2017 Photo Contest.

-1st, 2nd & 7th winner from Bangladesh’s Wiki loves monuments 2017 photo contest.

-3rd Prize from Dhaka-Kolkata International Photo Contest 2017.

-The Nature Conservancy’s 2017 Top 100 Photo Contest.

– Anjan Kumar Majumder Memorial Trophy for Best Local Nature” from MahfuzUllah Memorial International Photo Contest 2017.

– Honorable Mention (TIFA).

– Honorable Mention IPA

– Gold Medal Award winners in the San Francisco Bay International Photo Show.

– Grand prize winner from Chania Photo Festival, Greece 2018.

-Awards from VOUBS are: 1st Prize in best Landscape.

– 1st Prize in best Lifestyle.

– 1st Prize in best Travel Photo.

-1st Prize in best Eyes Photo.

– 1st Prize in best Pet Photo.

-1st Prize in best Reflection Photo.

-1st Prize in best Flower Photo.

-1st Prize in best Sunrise/Sunset Photo.

-1st Prize in best Spring photo.

-1st Prize in best Travel photo 2018.

-1st Prize in best People

-1st Prize in best Travel photo 2018.

– 1st Prize in best People Photo.

-1st Prize in best Waterfall Photo.

-1st Prize in best Baby Photo.

-Finalist HIPA 2018

-Finalist Smithsonian 15th annual photo contest.

-Finalist Siena International Photography Awards 2017 & 2018.

-Finalist dotART Urban 2017 photo awards.

-Hourly Winner of CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year Photo Competition 2018, Landscape Diversity’

-1st Prize Winner of We Said Go Travel Photo contest 2018.

– Grand prize winner in Chania Photo Festival, Greece.

-First place prize in the Social Life category in Ikei Photo Contest, Spain, 2019.

– Highly Commended CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year 2016.

-One of the photographs has been selected for the 2019 New Internationalist Almanac and many more.

Published

His photographs was published in more than 200 different international newspaper & magazine include BBC, CNN, The Times, The Sun, The Guardian, The Journal, Daily Mirror, The Telegraph, Forbes, Daily Mail, New Atlas, BBC Wildlife Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Yahoo News, The Week-USA, Smithsonian Magazine, Whalebone Magazine, The Atlantic, F-Stop Magazine (also cover photo), Edge of Humanity Magazine, Swiss newspaper Blickamabend, France daily newspaper (LaDépêche, 20minutes), France magazine Le Figaro, Le Parisien, View magazine in Germany, in China CCTV, Global Times, Beijing Television (BTV), Russian magazine Вокруг света (One of the oldest popular magazines in the world), GEO Magazine, The People, Popular news magazine Newsweek, SangSaeng Magazine-Korea, Canon (France, UK, Europe), Politiko, Iconstyle, in Tirana, Albania, The Week Junior-UK, SAAW Inland-Germany, Terra Mater-Germany, Jo-Germany, Focus-Italy, LAD Bible-UK, Xataka Foto-Spain, France Television, Paris Match Magazine, Bored Panda-USA, Sputnik-Russia, NTV-Turkey, Art Vibes-Italy, Tabula-Georgia, Rossiya Segodnya-Russia, All about Photo etc.

Art Directo / Photographer

Elena Paraskeva

Elena Paraskeva is an international Conceptual Photographer and Art Director. Having lived and worked in the U.S for a decade, she now resides in Cyprus, but often travels for assignments.

Elena loves to create surrealistic conceptual work bathed in color and is often inspired by everyday life and popular culture.

AWARDS

-Chromatic Awards 2020 – First Place Portrait, Professional Category

-Fine Art Photography Awards 2019/2020 – Finalist

-13th International Color Awards -Finalist Advertising, Finalist Portrait

-LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019 – Jurors’ Pick

-Digital Camera Photographer Of The Year 2018

-Neutral Density Awards 2018 – Gold Medal in Advertising

-Trierenberg Supercircuit 2019 – Gold Medal in Series

-Trierenberg Supercircuit 2018 – Gold Medal in Series

-Trierenberg Supercircuit 2017 – Gold Medal in Portraiture

-Prix De La Photographie, Paris 2018- Silver in Portraiture

-Prix De La Photographie, Paris 2017 – Silver in Advertising/Fashion

-Prix De La Photographie, Paris 2017- Silver and Bronze in Children Portraiture

-Monovisions Photography Awards 2018 – Bronze in Conceptual

-American Photography Open 2018 – Shortlisted

-International Photography Awards (IPA) 2018 – Honorable Mention

-One Eyeland Awards 2017 – Silver in Advertising/Conceptual

-Moscow International Photography Awards (MIFA 2017) – Bronze in Portraiture

-Chromatic Awards 2017 – Bronze in Fashion/Beauty

-Neutral Density Awards 2017 -Bronze in People Category

-International Photographer Of The Year (IPOTY 2017) – 3 Honorable Mentions in Portraiture

-London International Creative Competition 2018,2017 – Honorable Mention

-International Photography Awards (IPA) 2017 – 3 Honorable Mentions

-WPPI – Second Place Individual Portrait Division 2017, First Place Individual Portrait Division 2016

FAPA 2017 – Honorable Mentions Conceptual & Portrait Divisions

-PDN World In Focus 2016 – Second Place

-Neutral Density Awards 2016 – Bronze in Advertising/Conceptual

-International Photographer Of The Year 2016 – Honorable Mention

-Monochrome Photography Awards 2016 – Honorable Mention Fashion/Beauty

Exhibitions

-Aperture Foundation, New York City – April 2019

-Menier Gallery, London UK – 2018

-NEC, Birmingham UK – 2018

-Photo Oxford 2017, Oxford UK

-Design Center, Linz Austria – 2017

-Espace Baurepaire, Paris – 2017

-Opus 39 Gallery, Cyprus – 2017

-Thalassa Museum, Cyprus – 2017

-The Printspace, London UK – 2015

Publications

Photography Masterclass, Digital Camera, Digital Photographer, N-Photo, PDN, Dodho, Digitalis Foto Magazin, The Photographer, Good Light, Economia, Fileleftheros Newspaper, Blurred, Omikron, Volition, Vantage, Icon, Ellements, Elegant, Incredible, LoveBite, La Plus Belle, Surreal, AAP Magazine etc

Photographer

Christophe Verot

Christophe Verot is a french based photographer.

His first meeting with artistic photography was across art history lessons dispensed at Saint-Etienne Fine Art school where he was student. Despite a personnal work more oriented on sculpture and design at this time, he used photography to documentaries purpose, to keep a print of his works. It has been nearly the same along the fifteen following years and during those of his galerist and jewels creator activity witch lead him to expose others creators and his own artwork. Exhibitions and catalogs needed some tabletop photos which can be reproduced on different supports.

Today, it’s the creative aspect of numeric photography that he explores. He mix painting, sculpture and photography to reinterpret the classical theme of Still Life through a personnal approach. He always search minimalist compositions and creating a dialogue between man-made shapes and natural elements.

Awards

– Nominee “Category Fine Art” – 5th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) – 2019

– 2sd price ” Category Fine Art, Still Life” – International Photography Awards (IPA) – 2018

– 3rd price ” çà se mange” – Mondiaphoto – 2016

Exhibitions

– Expo photos et encadrements d’art ( Guest of honor) – St Cyr en Val – France – 2020

– “Still life” (Personnal exhibition) – Romorantin – France – 2019

– Expo photos – Mont-prés-Chambord – France – 2019

– “Objectif Photo” – Saulgé – France – 2019

– “Place à la Paix” – Blois – France – 2019

– Week-end des artistes – Mennetou-sur-Cher – France – 2019

– “12éme Printemps de la Photographie et des Arts” – Romorantin – France – 2019

– “Le printemps de la poésie” – Vineuil – France – 2019

– “Lights and Shadows” – Galleria Bottega – Firenze – Italia – 2018

– “Les ateliers s’emportent” – Vendôme- France – 2018

Publications

– “The gift of photography” – 1X.com – 2020

– “The magic of negative space in photography” – 1X.com – 2020

– “A still time, a still life photography” – 1X.com – 2020

– “Breaking through the frame of ordinary still life ideas” – 1X.com – 2019

– “Creative ideas make good photographs” – 1X.com – 2019

– “The poetry of simplicity” – 1X.com – 2019

– “Christophe Verot photographer of the week ” – 1X.com – 2017

– “Still Life is still alive” – 1X.com – 2017

– “Between Nature and Culture by Christophe Verot” – The Artbo.com – 2016

Photographer

Wesley Dombrecht

Wesley Dombrecht, is currently best known for his personal photography work and art-series in the ”fine-art / still-life” genre, mostly working around food.
Through a graphic approach and elaborately staged compositions, his personal work offers the viewer a different perspective on food – mostly there is an underlying story connected to his series..
In the years he developed a signature style for his personal work, utilising dramatic lighting, minimal sets and an unsaturated colour palette, what gives his images a very aesthetic, painterly, appearance.

STORY

Wesley Dombrecht(1979) is a Belgium-based commercial and artistic food photographer, his interest in photography and art began at young age beside his passion for food. He followed this passion and first started with commercial & editorial food photography, in 2015 he also took the leap towards the artistic side of photography & started to experiment with conceptual food images in series.

AWARDS

-1st place winner, Pink Lady Food Photographer Award, Cream of the crop // Smocked Mackerel, 2017
-GOLD Award, TIFA, Fine-Art ‘Still-Life’ // Serie ‘Sprouting & rotting’, 2017
-BRONZE award, One Eyeland Photography Awards, Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Sprouting & rotting’, 2017
-2st place winner, IPA , Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Germinating’, 2018
-BRONZE , TIFA , Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Germinating’, 2018
-SILVER, ONE EYELAND PHOTO AWARDS, Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Germinating’, 2018
-BRONZE, ONE EYELAND PHOTO AWARDS, ADVERTISING // Serie ‘LUXURY FOOD’ 2018
-BRONZE , IPA , Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Marine Species’, 2019
-SILVER, BIFA , Advertising / Food // Serie ‘Luxury Food’, 2019
-SILVER, TIFA, Fine-Art / Still-Life // Serie ‘Marine Species’, 2019
-BRONZE, TIFA, Fine-Art / Still-Life // Serie ‘Luxury Food’, 2019
-BRONZE, ONE EYELAND PHOTO AWARDS, Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Marine Species’, 2019
-Nomination, Fine Art Photography Awards, Fine-Art // Serie ‘Marine Species’, 2020
-Top 10 Fine Art, ONEEYELAND PHOTO AWARDS
-SILVER // Fine-Art ‘Still-Life’ // Serie ‘Marine Species’ // LANGOUST //, 2020 -BRONZE, ONEEYELAND PHOTO AWARDS™ –Top 10 Fine Art Photographers, Conceptual // Serie ‘Reminisce’, 2020
-BRONZE, IPA , Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Reminisce’, 2020
-SILVER, BIFA , Fine art ‘Still life’ // Serie ‘Reminisce’, 2020 -Gold, TIFA, Fine Art / Still Life, Serie ‘Reminisce’ 2020

EXHIBITIONS

–London // Pink Lady Awards // Smoked Mackerel //
–Berlin // InArte Gallery // Floating serie //
–Italy // Nowart exhibition //
–Denmark // FOODPHOTO exhibition 2019 //

Designer/Digital Artist

Ingo Lindmeier

Ingo Lindmeier / Digital Artist
According to my birth certificate I was born 1969 but I never really grew up and have always remained a child. After several important steps in my career, in 2008 I dared the leap from media designer to what I would call today a pixel scientist . Since then I have been active under the name spiel-sinn. spiel-sinn is a German play on words and I think the best translation could be the sense of playing to immerse into the creative process. An extended sense somehow. In addition to working as a freelance graphic artist and web designer, I started to play with digital art (image processing or composing) in 2016.
Initially just out of fun and curiosity to create new realities, I use my know-how in the field of digital art now also for many customer requests. Inspired by life, I always understand my own creations with a wink.
Nowadays people will most probably be aware of compositing art, which can be created with Photoshop. A lot of my artworks are more surreal so you can call those works surreal compositing. This is just one of my playgrounds. I’ve been creating music for many years, drawing, graphic & web design, writing … looking backwards my whole life is a mixed media process.
My partly humorous, partly critical discussion should encourage people to smile and think at the same time. Word games often play a central role in all my creative work. Adobe Photoshop & Stock are my control centers. With the option of drawing directly on the screen using a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24, countless ideas are still waiting to come to life.
I am based in the South of Germany in a little town named Lörrach close to the Swiss and French border. It’s at the foot of the beautiful Black Forrest.
With respect to creativity I constantly dream of the freedom to create … and I am already living that dream in many of my days. Since I started working as a freelancer, the creative space has changed and grown where I experience a gift of potential to develop myself.

Some milestones so far :

-Video production for Adobe Stock #StartWithStock 2020
-Creating a whole fable world called Fabuleon … the printed book will be released 2021
-Working as an author for the german DOCMA Magazin and publication of 4 articles in the issues 94,95,96 & 97 2020/2021
-Digital interpretations of artworks from Joey Schmidt-Müller shown in his back catalog from 2020
-Publication in the Pictures Magazin issue 7-8 from 2019, Titel “Haushaltstiere”
-Various CD releases as a composer with the project “polygon”
-Cooperation works with Matthias Schwaighofer, Jose Francese
-Development, creation and illustration of teaching materials for young people on the subject of new media in the field of prevention 2019