Best Photographer
This series by photographer Adam Ferguson shows migrants in Mexico waiting for the right moment to cross the border into America.
Using a medium format camera and a cable release, the photographer then stepped back from the action to let the people take control of documenting a hazy journey.
landscape
The earth has been viewed by humans as a kind of fertile deity for centuries.
Water is considered the most terrestrial of all elements and keeps organisms alive.
There is an untamed world between magic and holiness, where stillness accompanies the essences of life, where the outer and inner worlds coincide.
This is what the Italian photographer Lorenzo Poli is looking for in his work “Life on Earth”.
still life
Haruna Ogata and Jean-Etienne Portail used the corona pandemic to try out their studio in Paris.
The result is the series "Constellation".
She doesn't follow any deeper concept, she just wants to be pure still life photography.
environment
Japanese photographer Shunta Kimura took these images in Gabura Union, on the southwest coast of Bangladesh.
A region that is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
The country is suffering from landslides, rising salt water levels and fewer and fewer sources of drinking water.
Causes are the many tropical cyclones that hit the coast again and again.
With his work and the special visual language, Shunta Kimura wants to depict the situation of the residents who live quietly and unobtrusively in this area.
Sports
The Kuarup is a ritual performed by the Brazilian indigenous Xingu tribe to commemorate their departed.
It is a kind of farewell and concludes the phase of mourning.
Once a year, the ritual takes place in different villages and lasts three days.
The highlight is a competition called Huka-Huka.
It is reminiscent of a form of martial arts.
Photographer Ricardo Teles won the sports category with his documentation of this competition.
wildlife and nature
“I spent almost every evening at the window in my house in the middle of the forest for more than eight months.
It was Corona and at some point the young vixen appeared in my yard and roamed around for hours.
I studied their paths and started setting up lights in advance, like in a photo studio, to highlight them.
It sometimes took a very long time for her to enter my scene.
Both sides inevitably got closer during the lockdown.” This is how the photographer Milan Radisics reports on his work.
Best student work
In this work, Ezra Bohn photographs the last remaining traditional costumes of the Dutch.
The traditional costume groups have little in common with today's society: they share pride, authenticity and a strong sense of community.
Today it is about being as individual as possible and social pressure and the striving for recognition have the upper hand.
Many people from the city live cut off from their cultural origins.
The photographer hopes that with her work she can create a little return to original, cultural values.
“In my very romanticized paintings, I create a perfect world that you want to be a part of.
These cultures, full of their fancy, detailed clothing, where each part has its own meaning, tell an anecdote about the history of their community," says the photographer of her work.