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Congratulations to all IPA 2021 Winners!
The International Photography Awards is delighted to announce the category winners and finalists of 2021.
A stellar international jury of renowned photography experts judged nearly 14,000 entries from 120 countries around the world to finally select the Photographer of the Year and Discovery of the Year.
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have been announced!
IPA 2021 Photographer of the Year and Discovery of the Year Awards have been announced!
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THE CATEGORY WINNERS OF THE
International Photography Awards 2021
have been announced!
THE CATEGORY WINNERS OF THE International Photography Awards 2021 have been announced!
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Professional Category Winner, Advertising: John Huet, “Rush”
Professional Category Winner, Analog / Film: Angélique Boissière, “Marées”
Professional Category Winner, Architecture: Julia Anna Gospodarou, “Flying Away”
Professional Category Winner, Book: Delphine Blast, “Flowers of the Isthmus”
Professional Category Winner, Deeper Perspective: Bob Newman, “Shadows of Emmett Till”
Professional Category Winner, Editorial / Press: Mel D. Cole, “Capitol Riot 1.6.21”
Professional Category Winner, Event: Chong Kok Yew, “Qingshan King Festival”
Professional Category Winner, Fine Art: Mikael Owunna, “Infinite Essence”
Professional Category Winner, Nature: Liselotte Schuppers, “Beyond Horses”
Professional Category Winner, People: Art Streiber, “Lady Gaga”
Professional Category Winner, Special: Howard Schatz, “Growing Up”
Professional Category Winner, Sports: Andre Magarao, “Action and Light”
Professional Category Winner, Still in Motion / Video: Shilpa Narayanan, “Embers – a Fashion Film”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Advertising: Antonio Coelho, “Consumption”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Analog / Film: Chris Round, “Boat Hire, Lake Jindabyne”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Architecture: César Cedano-Brea, “High Rise Anxiety”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Book: Sue Park, “Monovision”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Deeper Perspective: Joanna Boroweic, “W was born in a camp”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Editorial / Press: Sharwar Hussain, “Tears of River Erosion”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Event: Brian Wotring, “Unconditional Surrender”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Fine Art: Jiale Liu, “One”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Nature: Javier Rupérez, “Jumping Spider Eyes Viewed at 20x”
Non-Pro Category Winner, People: Elisa Miller, “Contact”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Special: Bernd Schirmer, “Pizarros Amor De Oro”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Sports: Masatoshi Ujihara, “Blue Rain Track”
Non-Pro Category Winner, Still in Motion / Video: Aitor Del Arco, “Chronicles of Fallen in Love”
❮ ❯IPA 2021 PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR
IPA 2021 NON-PROFESSIONAL AND STUDENT CATEGORY WINNERS
THE LUCIE AWARDS
The Lucie Awards is the premiere annual event honoring the most outstanding achievements in photography. The photography community from around the globe pays tribute to the most exceptional people in the field. Each year, the Lucie Advisory Board nominates deserving individuals across a variety of categories. Once these nominations have been received, an honoree in each category is selected.
This year the Lucie Awards was held online on October 26th, 2021. We have revealed the top two prizes during this live-streaming event, Photographer of the Year (Professional) and Discovery of the Year (Amateur / Student) of the IPA 2021 Edition.
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IPA BEST OF SHOW EXHIBITION
The International Photography Awards “Best of Show 2020”,
featuring the following winners and Photographs selected by the guest curator, Anne Morin,
is available online as a virtual exhibition.
IPA 2020 “BEST OF SHOW” PHOTOGRAPHERS
Curated Selection
Xiaopeng Liu, Wei Fu, Chloe Meynier, Jasper Goodall, Michaela Salvo, Mariano Belmar Torrecilla, Hossein Fardinfard, Rebecca Moseman, Marcello Vigoni, Petra Barth, Leo Fellner, Jamie Johnson, Midhat Poturovic, Sandro Miller, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Beatrice Heydiri.
Category Winners
Rebeka Legovic, F. Dilek Uyar, Chloe Meynier, Hossein Fardinfard, Elena Litvinova, Peter Li, Teodelina Detry, Wei Fu, Nicolo Filippo Rosso, babak mehrafshar, Aaron Chuo, Augusto Bartelle, Simone Francescangeli, Mike Dodd, Paulius Makauskas, Jesús M.Chamizo, Tim Evans, Katja Ogrin, Sebastian Copeland, Kiran Ridley, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Brian Hodges, Ari Rex, Howard Schatz, Iwona Podlasinska, Sawyer Russel.
2021 Jury
Christina Force
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Guo Jing
Freelance
Caroline Metcalfe
CMC consulting
Benoit Lagarde
SPLASHLIGHT STUDIO
Susan Baraz & Anne Morin
Spotlight
IPA 2021 BEST OF SHOW CURATOR
ALICE GABRINER
Alice Gabriner led TIME’s photo department through the election and inauguration of Barack Obama and for the first two years of the Obama administration, she served as Deputy Director of Photography.
Alice oversaw the magazine¹s award-winning coverage of the Iraq War, and worked with TIME’s notable team of photographers during the 2000 Presidential election of George W. Bush which resulted in two monographs.
Gabriner photo edited The New Yorker photo essay Ghost Towers which was nominated for an ASME award in 2020. She produced TIME’s year-long multimedia project Finding Home and it received the top prize in the 2018 World Press Photo contest for Innovative Storytelling, and a 2018 Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding New Approaches Documentary category.
Alice Gabriner is a visual editor, curator, and educator with more than 30 years of experience in journalism at The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Geographic, and TIME.
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