04 Aug Finalists XIII Educating the Eye Contest
We are very excited to announce the 10 finalists of the XIII edition of the International Photography Contest Educating the Eye.
This edition has been a special challenge to reach our international photographic community. Between conflicts affecting different regions of the world, the increasing saturation of social networks and the blocking of IP addresses from some countries (applied for cybersecurity reasons), we are aware that many of our regular participants probably did not get to know about this year’s call.
Even so, the level of participation has once again been extraordinary. We have received 262 projects, submitted by 191 authors from 41 countries, with a total of 2,732 photographs that reflect the diversity of views, cultures and ways of understanding contemporary photography.
After an intense deliberation by the jury, made up of professionals from the world of photography and art, and after a double tie-breaker resolved by the Mercè Rodoreda Library team, these are the ten finalist projects:
- Abdoulmonam Eassa (France) — Sudan War, a Nation Trapped
- Apostolos Kaloudis (Greece) — Children of the Weeping Steppe
- Javier Arcenillas (Spain) — Drought
- Lourdes Torres Montoliu (Spain) — Un espai compartit
- Miguel Gómez Muñiz (Spain) — The Forgotten Lessons
- Rodrigo Illescas (Argentina) — The Cathedrals of Nostalgia
- Sara Sansani (Iran) — We Get Repeated and Monotony (two finalist projects)
- Sergi Grau Arasa (Spain) — Korida
- Tony Tirado (Spain) — Serviam
- Valentina Acrement (France) — Growing Up Programmed
We have already contacted all the finalists to request the high-resolution images. Once the material received has been verified, during the month of September we will announce the final decision of the jury and we will announce the winning projects of this edition.
We would like to sincerely thank all the authors who have participated. Each project received has contributed to making this edition a new example of the enormous talent, sensitivity and capacity of photography to explain the world in which we live.
Finally, our thanks to the City Council of Castell d’Aro, Platja d’Aro i S’Agaró and the Mercè Rodoreda Library for continuing to bet on visual culture and making possible, once again, this international contest open to photographers from all over the world.
