Paris Photography Prize (PX3) winners announced

11 September 2020

Winners in the international Paris Photography Prize (PX3) have recently been announced for the 2020 competition across Professional, Non-Professional, and Student divisions. Established in 2007, PX3 has become one of the most prestigious photography awards in Europe.  

The 2020 Edition of the PX3 competition attracted over 5,000 entries from photographers in more than 90 countries around the world. Entries were judged by an international jury.

Photographers named Photographer of the Year (pro category) and New Talent of the Year (amateur category) were selected from amongst the category winners. Others recognised in the competition, apart from the runners-up, received gold, silver, or bronze awards, or an Honourable Mentions.

Mr. Hossein Farmani, creator of the awards, praised the contestants for their resilience in hard times: "This year has been a challenging one, but I have a deep respect for these artists and how they have been able to channel their creativity and bring us these important stories from around the world. These works of art show us the true strength of humanity: we push on, even when faced with unimaginable challenges."

Photographer of the Year

Alberto Giuliani

Alberto Giuliani’s series, San Salvatore, depicting the doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care Unit at the San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, won the $5,000 cash prize and the Photographer of the Year title for its honest demonstration of heroes of the COVID-19 crisis.

The photographer's birth city has been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. The photos were taken after twelve-hour shifts without break. "In the deep imprints left by their protective masks, I found a symbol of their sacrifice, but, above all, I found evidence of the pain, fear, and helplessness of standing before an unknown enemy," Giuliani said.

© San Salvatore Alberto Giuliani Photographer of the Year. These are the doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care Unit - San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, the city of my birth and where I once again reside, and which from day one has sadly been at the top of the COVID 19 contagion and death charts. I photographed them at the end of their shifts—twelve hours without a break during their fight in an unequal war. In the deep imprints left by their protective masks, I found a symbol of their sacrifice, but above all, I found evidence of the pain, fear and helplessness of standing before an unknown enemy. Full series here: https://px3.fr/winners/special/2020/66/
© Alberto Giuliani. San Salvatore. Photographer of the Year. "These are the doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care Unit - San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, the city of my birth and where I once again reside, and which from day one has sadly been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. I photographed them at the end of their shifts—twelve hours without a break during their fight in an unequal war. In the deep imprints left by their protective masks, I found a symbol of their sacrifice, but above all, I found evidence of the pain, fear and helplessness of standing before an unknown enemy." Full series here.

Best New Talent

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan’s series, The Last Savings, touched the hearts of the jury with its deep insight into the despair-filled hunger emergency sweeping over Bangladesh. People who are out of work are living from day-to-day, with as little as 40 Taka (50 US cents) at home to feed the family. The photo series shows their last food supplies, with many families anticipating the worst-case scenario: "We have to drink poison, if we cannot go out for work. Who will save us from hunger?" said one of the subjects, Hamida Begum.

Hasan was awarded a $2,000 cash prize and his works will be exhibited at the PX3 Exhibition in Paris.

© Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. The Last Savings. Best New Talent. The number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million. For Bangladesh it has become a human and food crisis catastrophe both. House maid Hamida Begum who is now out of work said, “We only have forty Taka (50 US Cents) at home. We have to drink poison, if we cannot go out for work. Who will save us from hunger?” The sufferings of approximately 7 million slum dwellers around Dhaka city are multiplying due to fall in income and price hike of consumer goods. Their empty food storage and remaining little food supply can not save them from starvation in coming days. Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a documentary photographer and visual artist. He has is currently pursuing a Certificate of Higher Education in History of Art at the University of Oxford and also studying an MA in Photography at Falmouth University. Hasan holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila University.
© Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. The Last Savings. Best New Talent. The number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million. For Bangladesh it has become a human and food crisis catastrophe both. House maid Hamida Begum who is now out of work said, “We only have forty Taka (50 US Cents) at home. We have to drink poison, if we cannot go out for work. Who will save us from hunger?” The sufferings of approximately 7 million slum dwellers around Dhaka city are multiplying due to fall in income and price hike of consumer goods. Their empty food storage and remaining little food supply can not save them from starvation in coming days. Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a documentary photographer and visual artist. He has is currently pursuing a Certificate of Higher Education in History of Art at the University of Oxford and also studying an MA in Photography at Falmouth University. Hasan holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila University.

Category winners

 Fine Art

© Sandro Miller. Broken Rainbows. Fine Art Photographer of the year. Broken Rainbows is an art project I created for my galleries to exhibit. The work depicts the hurtful names and labels that are put on people daily. With the new Trump administration came a new breed of person in America that felt they have the right to use these racist slurs and labels to demean anyone that was not WASP. These labels are hurtful to the receiver to the point it breaks down their confidence and moral and often leads to suicide. The Installation was also accompanied by a poem from Poet Lorient, Patricia Smith.
© Sandro Miller. Broken Rainbows. Fine Art Photographer of the Year. "Broken Rainbows is an art project I created for my galleries to exhibit. The work depicts the hurtful names and labels that are put on people daily. With the new Trump administration came a new breed of person in America that felt they have the right to use these racist slurs and labels to demean anyone that was not WASP. These labels are hurtful to the receiver to the point it breaks down their confidence and moral and often leads to suicide. The Installation was also accompanied by a poem from Poet Lorient, Patricia Smith."

Architecture

© Peter Plorin. Colored Underworld. Architecture Photographer of the Year. Colored Underworld is about to show the beauty of these underground facilities through the dynamics of the colors, and to decouple them from your builder, operators and users. Grown up in the sixties in a small town in the Lower Rhine Area, he has been influenced by the Lower Rhine landscape and also by industrial heritage and architectural diversity. This affected previously his work as painter. Later on, with the coming of the digital age, he swapped back to photography, which he had performed occasionally before with analogue cameras alongside the painting. His Main topics are expressive and high-quality photographic images out of the subject’s architecture, landscape from many different countrys, Sport and People photography.
© Peter Plorin. Colored Underworld. Architecture Photographer of the Year. Colored Underworld is about to show the beauty of these underground facilities through the dynamics of the colors, and to decouple them from your builder, operators and users. Grown up in the sixties in a small town in the Lower Rhine Area, he has been influenced by the Lower Rhine landscape and also by industrial heritage and architectural diversity. This affected previously his work as painter. Later on, with the coming of the digital age, he swapped back to photography, which he had performed occasionally before with analogue cameras alongside the painting. His Main topics are expressive and high-quality photographic images out of the subject’s architecture, landscape from many different countrys, Sport and People photography.

Nature

© Johannes Bosgra. Murmurations. Nature Photographer of the Year. Starling murmurations form abstract landscapes in the sky in a sublime musical rhythm. Tens of thousands of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns. This ballet is executed as a perfect choreography, the birds manage uncertainty while also maintaining consensus. Starlings accomplish this by paying attention to a fixed number of their neighbors in the flock, regardless of flock density — seven, to be exact. In following this role of seven, the birds are part of a dynamic system in which the parts combine to make a whole with emergent properties — and a murmuration results. Johannes Bosgra (b. 1979, NL) has travelled to the most desolate places on earth from a young age to create his contemplative work, from Antarctica to Alaska. He is selected as GUP New Dutch Photography Talent 2020. Bosgra explores the links between classical music and visual art.
© Johannes Bosgra. Murmurations. Nature Photographer of the Year. Starling murmurations form abstract landscapes in the sky in a sublime musical rhythm. Tens of thousands of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns. This ballet is executed as a perfect choreography, the birds manage uncertainty while also maintaining consensus. Starlings accomplish this by paying attention to a fixed number of their neighbors in the flock, regardless of flock density — seven, to be exact. In following this role of seven, the birds are part of a dynamic system in which the parts combine to make a whole with emergent properties — and a murmuration results. Johannes Bosgra (b. 1979, NL) has travelled to the most desolate places on earth from a young age to create his contemplative work, from Antarctica to Alaska. He is selected as GUP New Dutch Photography Talent 2020. Bosgra explores the links between classical music and visual art.

Press

© Yusuke Suzuki. Power game. Press Photographer of the Year. Nine years have passed in March since the democracy movement that began in Syria in 2011 turned into a war. What was initially a simple structure of Syrian government forces vs. rebels has been replaced by an influx of various forces from outside the country. On October 9, 2019, Turkish forces began to invade Rojava, an area of effective Kurdish control across the border, as if waiting for news of President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops, announced three days earlier. Turkey, Russia, U.S., ISIS, Kurds and Syrian Forces are in. Now, the war in Syria has entered a new phase.
© Yusuke Suzuki. Power game. Press Photographer of the Year. Nine years have passed in March since the democracy movement that began in Syria in 2011 turned into a war. What was initially a simple structure of Syrian government forces vs. rebels has been replaced by an influx of various forces from outside the country. On October 9, 2019, Turkish forces began to invade Rojava, an area of effective Kurdish control across the border, as if waiting for news of President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops, announced three days earlier. Turkey, Russia, U.S., ISIS, Kurds and Syrian Forces are in. Now, the war in Syria has entered a new phase.

Special

© Suk Eun Kim. Story of tree family. Special Photographer of the Year. Trees that don't look real (Surreal). The tree family story of Sumba sea. I want to talk through this tree family. Human beings are hugged by their parents when they are born. But this tree cannot hug a child born from its roots. Yet they are happy They can always look to each other and pray Modern people are too busy to meet their families. But don't forget your family like trees that always look at each other and pray.
© Suk Eun Kim. Story of tree family. Special Photographer of the Year. Trees that don't look real (Surreal). The tree family story of Sumba sea. I want to talk through this tree family. Human beings are hugged by their parents when they are born. But this tree cannot hug a child born from its roots. Yet they are happy They can always look to each other and pray Modern people are too busy to meet their families. But don't forget your family like trees that always look at each other and pray.

dwdwqddqw

© Alwyn Coates. The Road to Cemetery Bay. Advertising Photographer of the Year. Retro Fashion Love story. Alwyn is an Award winning photographer, shooting fashion and celebrity portraits. He's published in the book silver footprint. A fantastic set of photographs from some of the world's greatest photographers. A charity book Hidden Gems 25 of Britain's leading photographers take 100 shots of famous individuals. His image of Jerry Hall was included in her
© Alwyn Coates. The Road to Cemetery Bay. Advertising Photographer of the Year. Retro Fashion Love story. Alwyn is an Award winning photographer, shooting fashion and celebrity portraits. He's published in the book silver footprint. A fantastic set of photographs from some of the world's greatest photographers. A charity book Hidden Gems 25 of Britain's leading photographers take 100 shots of famous individuals. His image of Jerry Hall was included in her "life in pictures" book and chosen for the cover with Norman Parkinson on the back cover.

Books

© Chris Crisman. Women's Work. Book Photographer of the Year. Today, young girls are told they can do—and be—anything they want when they grow up. Yet the unique challenges that women face in the workplace, whether in the boardroom or the barnyard, have never been more publicly discussed and scrutinized. With Women’s Work, Crisman pairs his award-winning, striking portrait photography of women on the job with poignant, powerful interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have told them no. Full series here: https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2020/11593/
© Chris Crisman. Women's Work. Book Photographer of the Year. Today, young girls are told they can do—and be—anything they want when they grow up. Yet the unique challenges that women face in the workplace, whether in the boardroom or the barnyard, have never been more publicly discussed and scrutinized. With Women’s Work, Crisman pairs his award-winning, striking portrait photography of women on the job with poignant, powerful interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have told them no. Full series here.

cph-newsletter
Get more stories like this delivered
free to your inbox. Sign up here.