Hope

• Photographer
  Radek von Hirschberg
• Date of Photograph
  2021
• Technical Info
  1/30, 100, 5.6, 18mm, Lightroom
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.radekvonhirschberg.eu

• Biography
  My lens mostly captures landscape and people. The camera is an indispensable part of my everyday life, and that is why I began creating reportage series. I am a natural light enthusiast but I have nothing against working in the studio, especially in fall and winter. Sometimes I focus on the message and sometimes I am only interested in the form of the photos. I do edit some of them, but this is more the exception than the rule. My works are published in magazines and albums, and also exhibited in public space. They can be found in the collections of institutions and private persons.
• Awards
  I place and Gold Medal in the 2023 BIFA Budapest International Photo Awards in the Fine Art / Porftolio category. In addition, Distinctions in this competition in 2022-2023 (Category: People – Portrait, Editorial – Fashion, Nature – Landscape); I place (Platinum and Gold) in the London Photography Awards (Category: Fine Art, Architecture – Historic, Landscape, Black & White), 2024; Winner in the International Lab Rome’22 Competition organized by Malamegi Lab, Rome, 2022; Winner of the X-Trophy One Eyeland #1 Poland’s Black & White Photographers 2022 statuette and a Bronze Medal in the One Eyeland Photography Awards main competition in the Fine Art / Portrait category for “Ladder to Heaven, 2022”. In addition – in TOP 10 thematic competitions – three Silver Medals (Portrait, Architecture and Street), five Bronze Medals (various categories) and finalist status for other works, 2022-2023; II place and Nominee in the reFocus – Color Photography Contest (Category: Landscapes, Portrait), 2023; II place in the Avalanche Competition, Ruda Slaska (Category: Mountains), 2022; III place and Honorable Mentions in the International Chromatic Awards – International Color Photography Contest (Category: Landscape, Photomanipulation, Portrait, Fine Art), 2021-2022; III place and Honorable Mentions in the IPA – International Photography Awards (Cetegory: Architecture, Industrial, People), New York, 2022; III place and Honorable Mentions in the TIFA – Tokyo International Foto Awards Competition (Category: Fine Art, Portrait), 2023; I place in the national Competition Gazeta Wyborcza, “Switzerland-Places to which I return” (Category: Landscape / Mountains), 2022; V place in the Competition entitled “Emotional Portrait” organized within the Fotoforma Festival, Warsaw, 2024; I place and Mentions in the Competitions “Photography tells the story”, Jelenia Góra Photographic Society (Category: Portrait, Mountains, Architecture, Landscape), 2022-2023. Winner of RANK #6 World’s Top 1