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International photography contest for photographers of all levels.
The creativity and expressive capacity of the projects were especially valued.
A total of €5,250 in prizes, distributed among 5 winning projects.
With no less than 419 projects, from 338 authors from 52 countries, and more than 4,400 photographs (!) this has been another great edition of our popular contest.
The 3 specialists of the jury have selected these 5 winners, where the decision about the 3rd prize winner has been taken by the staff of the organization, the Mercè Rodoreda Library:
Juan Luís Duran Guinot, 1955, Castellón. He lives in Valencia where, despite the fact that in his youth he wanted to study Fine Arts, he studied pharmacy and has worked as a pharmacist. He began his studies in art and photography around 1975 and combined photographic practice with a passion for traveling. Recognized with dozens of national and international awards and mentions on photography, he says: “It keeps me alive and despite the effort it takes over the years, each session, each attempt to find the beautiful, the obscene and the sacred, is a pure celebration. This is my breath.”
“Miners” is a project carried out in Romania focused on the conditions of manual work of miners. This work is, like many others, the result of chance and premeditated work, planning and perseverance. It took more than three years of insistence to get permits from the Romanian government, and afterwards to carry out numerous interviews, equipment inspections and preparations on safety issues, before being able to take the first photograph.
Subrata Dey, Bangladesh, is a 45-year-old documentary photographer and freelance journalist. He was a sailor in his youth and this led him to travel, to visit multiple countries and to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the world identifiable in his work. A creator passionate about the human condition, one of his main objectives in each work is to connect with the people he portrays, avoiding being seen as “an outsider with a grotesque machine”.
“Dissonance Harmony“ shows us the Damodar dispensary in Chandanais, founded 142 years ago with the aim of providing Ayurvedic treatment to cure mental illnesses. Although since Bangladesh’s independence nearly 3,000 patients have recovered and returned to their lives, this clinic gradually became known as “a prison of madmen” and today only a few patients are treated there. The author comments that the project is motivated by his willingness to show the humanity of “how they continue to provide treatment to these people to try to help them recover.”
Mahdi Zabolabbasi is a 46-year-old Iranian photographer based in the city of Mashhad, Iran. A graduate in Art, he has been recognized as a winner and finalist of numerous international competitions. He is certified as an expert photographer and photographic artist by the World Federation of Photography (EFIAP/s), and has combined his professional work and personal projects with photographic teaching for 23 years
“Spinning“ is a black and white project where the author shows us the situation of a woman, an old woman who lost one of her legs and who now lives alone after being abandoned by her spouse. To be able to barely survive, she spins wool at home. Mahdi explains that her motivation in this work is to try to make this woman’s situation visible so that she can get help and reverse her situation.
Marina Fernández Fernández, 28 years old, Barcelona. A psychologist by training, she combined her studies in psychology with training in photography at centers such as the IEFC, FUGA and IDEP. At this time she has interrupted her work as a psychologist to focus on her development as a photographer and visual artist. She combines photography with writing and focuses her work on personal and social aspects from a psychological perspective.
“Veintiocho” is a project focused on his grandfather and that receives this name because he was born on the 28th of the year 1928 and died on the 28th of the 8th month. The work shows us how Valentín, his grandfather, gradually fades away in his last years, and the care offered by his wife Ofelia. Marina explains that: “the project not only focuses on portraying human relationships, the material relationship, but also the relationship after death, the spiritual one.”
Josep Boada, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, is a 28-year-old freelance economist and photojournalist.
After studying economics and a collaborator stay in North India,
awakened his interest in the image and later did a postgraduate degree in photojournalism at the UAB, since then he collaborates with different NGOs and with the Catalan newspaper Directa.
“The Silence of the Species” is part of a graphic investigation into the consequences of animal abandonment and exploitation, from the critical perspective of the lack of social responsibility towards their rights and freedoms. Josep plans this work with the aim of promoting legislative changes, lobbying to improve animal protection laws and supporting organizations that work directly for animal welfare causes.
