Previous Nominations
- 2024
- Marlon Del Aguila Guerrero
- South America
‘Flow of Resilience’ captures the symbiotic relationship between the people of the Amazonian Region in Peru and the rivers that traverse their land. This relationship can be understood through two key, complementary elements: the physical and resource-based connection with the rivers, and the metaphorical impact of the rivers on shaping the locals tenacity and ability […]
- 2024
- Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen
- South America
The crisis of incarcerated women in Latin America significantly fuels crime and disrupts family structures, leaving dependents vulnerable. A single woman’s imprisonment can have profound societal effects. Gender inequality deepens injustices in the legal system. In El Salvador, severe penalties for abortion equate it with murder, while in Venezuela, women are imprisoned for political protests. […]
- 2024
- Molly Peters
- North America
The United States of America as we know it today was founded through deception and genocide of the Indigenous people who were stewards of this land since time immemorial. “A Sacred Unity” is a collaborative project documenting the Apache Stronghold’s fight to heal from the past by protecting sacred sites, religious freedom, and the environment […]
- 2024
- Sandro Miller
- North America
Crowns, My Hair My Soul My Freedom is a celebration of the diversity, artistry, and power of black women’s hair. This project is about highlighting the many ways in which black women around the world embrace their freedom of choice and express their creativity through their hair, no matter the style or texture, whether they […]
- 2024
- Natela Grigalashvili
- Europe
Mountainous Adjara is one of the most distinguished regions of Georgia. The traditions and the old ways of life have been preserved to this day in this area. The isolation and alienation of inhabitants of this mountainous area has been an ongoing issue for a long time. Last several decades have been especially difficult for […]
- 2024
- Ingmar Björn Nolting
- Europe
On a global scale, Germany‘s intentions are ambitious. The country aims to become a climate-neutral industrial nation by 2045. This places Germany among the international pioneers in the fight against the climate crisis. The path to climate neutrality is the „greatest modernisation and prosperity safeguarding project since World War II“, according to Dirk Messner, the […]
- 2024
- Bronislaw Kozka
- Australia Oceania
“Coastal: a slow journey along the coastline of Australia & New Zealand” offers a profound exploration of the shorelines (and rivers) of Australia and New Zealand, capturing the intricate relationship between land and sea through the lenses of photography, moving image, and mixed media practices. This project embarks on a visual and introspective journey, revealing […]
- 2024
- Talia Greis
- Australia Oceania
What propels us to dive? In its most basic form, we dive to observe. To become spectators in a world transcending space and gravity, surrounded by weird and wonderful creatures only imagined in books. From the moment I laid eyes on these animals, I was gripped by a wave of nostalgia. Patterns and colours brought […]
- 2024
- Fikret Dilek Yurdakul
- Asia
Brick kilns in Southeast Asia are notable for causing environmental pollution, violating children’s rights, and working conditions that violate the most basic of human rights. Soot and harmful gases from the factory chimneys fill the air. Without respiratory masks, the polluted air finds its way straight to the lungs. In addition, and in violation of […]
- 2024
- Rony Zakaria
- Asia
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and 60 percent of its territory consists of the sea. Unquestionably, the sea has been a major element for most of its people living in the archipelago and fishing is an integral part way of living for the coastal people. Most of the fishing tradition […]
- 2024
- Edith Chiliboy
- Africa
Ukubuta is a personal reflection on my place in the world, how I see myself and how my life experiences have shaped me. Ukubuta is a Bemba word that describes the everyday child play, in which we learn our place in society and how we interact with each other. My images investigate different aspect of […]
- 2024
- Andrew Esiebo
- Africa
My project, Pneumacity: “A Tire Never Dies,” seeks to highlight the end-of-life journey of tires, focusing on their transformation and impact within the bustling cityscape of Lagos. From the meticulous work of road vulcanizers—who fix tires with the precision of surgeons—to the various ways tires are upcycled or discarded, this project examines the environmental challenges […]
- 2023
- Gabriel Chaim
- South America
The clandestine gold that circulates in the world leaves the lands where the Yanomami indigenous population lives and leaves a trail of misery, hunger, disease and death. The Yanomami are in the news due to malnutrition in their villages and the invasion of 25,000 miners into their territory. The land charred by predatory deforestation and […]
- 2023
- Johanna Alarcón
- South America
Cimarrona, I am black because the sun looked at me is a photo documentary essay that explores the story of the daughters and granddaughters of black women who survived slavery in Latin America.This project aims to remarks women empowerment for black liberation through spiritual legacy that remains alive through the preservation of ancestral practices as […]
- 2023
- Erin Trieb
- North America
In 2009 I began documenting U.S. military troops deployed to war in Afghanistan. I have continued to photograph the lives of same military service members for the past decade in Afghanistan and at Fort Drum’s U.S. military base in New York – documenting soldiers at war, as they make their way home from deployment, and […]
- 2023
- Stefan Falke
- North America
My “Keep Going New York !!” project focusses on the resilience of my fellow New Yorkers, on moments of normalcy under exceptional circumstances during the challenging year of the pandemic in 2020. The positive attitude in most of the photographs of my chosen hometown show New Yorkers doing what they always do: They keep going […]
- 2023
- Chantal Pinzi
- Europe
The project Shred the Patriarchy focuses on the stories of some Moroccan women who practice skateboarding despite the hard social and family repercussions that are forced to suffer for this choice not yet accepted within the moroccan society. The international reputation of Morocco as a reformist and progressive country it is still contradictory when it […]
- 2023
- Mario Heller
- Europe
There is a tradition in Barentsburg: Whenever you are on the mainland, you should hug a tree because you will find none of them here. The Russian settlement on Spitsbergen in the Arctic is so remote that reaching it is only possible by helicopter, snowmobile, or ship – if the extreme weather allows it at […]
- 2023
- Charlotte Piho
- Australia Oceania
Emotions are categorised using words such as love, happiness, pleasure, fear and vulnerability. Every photograph here is a brief of moment of stillness and connection between myself and the animal/(s) where we both replace fear with love and vulnerability. Allowing the animals ethereal beauty, emotions and personality to be felt by viewers of the photographs. […]
- 2023
- Shane Hulbert
- Australia Oceania
Shane Hulbert’s photographic practice acknowledges landscape as a relational space between people, culture and nature. Through a range of photographic devices and processes he images the complexity of the Australian landscape and its connection to place, myth and history. Import/Export explores the collective national identity through the popular iconography and myths that celebrates and defines […]