Honorable Mentions 2009
The following photographers have received a Honorable Mention from the 2009 PhotoStory jury:
Conceptual
INNER SPACES
By Dirk Hanus
ANNONYMOUS-NESS
By Andy Reynolds
EXPOSURE ACTS
By Anna Bodnar
CHILDREN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
By Saverio Truglia
THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANS
By Kirsten Wilmink
VISITOR 2009
By Ozzy Yorulmaz
NOW
By Paul de Ridder
MODEL TREES IN A MODEL LANDSCAPE
By Jean-Luc Brouard
MY WHITE NIGHT
By S.H. Graafland
MATHEMATICS
By Adria Garriga Far
ASPER
By Karianne Bueno
THE DARK ROOM, A MENTAL SPACE
By Frederic Fontenoy
REVEALED
By Scott Indermaur
TALES FROM THE ISLAND
Jiri Makovec
FILM NOIR SERIES
Dana Simmons
Documentary
INTENSIVE CARE
By Andrea Stultiens
T’GA ZA JUG
By Marcin Sojka
NACHKLANG
By Uwe Schober
CALIFORNIA LOST
By Keith Skelton
WENZHOU
By Xiao Xiao Xu
NAVAL BOLIVIANA
By Andrea Stultiens
LIVING ON WHEELS
By Gordon Welters
DE PROEFTUIN
By Inge Stolwijk
AFTERMATH
By Kerry Mansfield
THE ONLY WAY OUT
By Sergi Camara
GO HOME
By Mu Ge
FORD DUNTON
By Nick Ballon
LEARNING TO FLY
By Rafael Arocha
PIR-SHALIAR
By Maciej Moskwa
OE MENIA - WITH ME
By Bieke Depoorter
View all 2009 Honorable Mentions here.
Photo’s and video exhibition!
Last Thursday we opened the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Exhibition and celebrated the winning photographic narratives of Francesco Giusty and David Favrod in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. It was a great evening where the digital event turned very physical. It was great to shake hands and speak to so many people face to face. Check out the short video below!
Opening Viewbook PhotoStory Exhibition from Viewbook on Vimeo.
Check a slideshow of the evening right here
Winners 2009 announced!
We are honored to announce the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 winners. The first annual Viewbook PhotoStory contest has been won by Francesco Giusti and David Favrod with remarkably strong contemporary documentary and conceptual photographic narratives. Naturally the jury had a very difficult task selecting the best works out of the 500 already pre-selected photo stories. The level of submissions were absolutely hight.
Italian photographer Francesco Giusti won the documentary category with an inspiring portrait story of the members of the SAPE, a group of remarkably elegant gentleman from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, Africa. The story reflects the wish of young people in particular not to be left apart by society.
Swiss - Japanese David Favrod has won first prize in the conceptual category with a very personal story GAIJIN. ‘Gaijin’ is a Japanese word meaning ‘foreigner’. David; “It is from the feeling of rejection and also from a desire to prove that I am as Japanese as I am Swiss that this work was created. Gaijin is a fictional recital, a tool for my quest for identity, where auto-portraits imply an intimate and solitary relationship that I have with myself. The mirror image is frozen in a figurative alter ego that serves as an anchor point.”
Both artists won prizes with a value exceeding $12.000 including lifelong subscriptions to Viewbook PRO online services and GUP magazine, book publications and an exhibition in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Other prizes
The following artists have also been commended in the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Awards:
Jury Prizes
2nd Prize-documentary: Khaled Hasan for ‘Living Stone: A community losing its Life’
3rd Prize-documentary: Matteo Armellini for ‘In the Middle of Nowhere’
2nd Prize-conceptual: Ilse Leenders for ‘Tokyo Monogatari’
3rd Prize-conceptual: Thorsten Kirchhoff for ‘Alibi’
Public vote prizes
1st Prize-documentary: Khaled Hasan for ‘Living Stone: A community losing its Life’
2nd Prize-documentary: Galanakis & Galanou for ‘Gavdos’
3rd Prize-documentary: Jonathan P levy for ‘In Svalbard’
1st Prize-conceptual: Can Eren for ‘Inside of Out’
2nd Prize-conceptual: Maria Rudnaya for ‘Insensible addiction’
3rd Prize-conceptual: David Favrod for ‘Gaijin’
Book publications
All winning photo stories will be published in single books with Blurb, as well as a complete Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 yearbook which covers all winning 2009 stories. The books will be available for sale on 1 November 2009 at www.viewbookphotostory.com
Exhibition
From 19 - 29 November the winning works SAPE by Francesco Giusti and Gaijin by David Favrod will be exhibited in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. The opening takes place on Friday 19 November, with words and drinks on the house. More information will be available soon on www.viewbookphotostory.com
Remarkably successful first year
The first edition of the Viewbook PhotoStory contest received close to 1000 entries from all over the world in just three months time. After a critical pre-selection more then 500 photographic narratives got published on the contest website and 100-thousands of people viewed, voted and commented. An internationally renowned jury selected the three best narratives per category. Viewbook PhotoStory functions as a premium platform for emerging talents to face the establishment. The annual online competition aims to discover inspiring, high-quality photo stories within the photography community and bring them to a broad audience. Submissions for the next years event open March 2010.
Submissions 2009 closed
The submission phase for the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 ended at Wednesday 30 September 11:59 PM Los Angeles Time. We are very excited about the many quality photo stories that are submitted over the last months and the involvement of so many great photographers from all over the world.
All last received submissions are now processed for the pre-selection and will be placed on the site shortly. The jury will then start reviewing the photo stories and 19 October the winners will be announced on this site. The public voting is open until 19 October as well.
The submissions for the 2010 edition of Viewbook PhotoStory will open March 2010 .
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Viewbook PhotoStory call for entries
Today Viewbook PhotoStory 2009, a new global photography contest opened its submissions. All documentary and conceptual photographers around the world are encouranged to submit photographic narratives in the form of self created online galleries, that are judged by the public and an international panel of industry professionals.
The competition is all about the art of shooting a strong series, making a critical selection, determining the right order, writing captions and an appealing title. And it’s about the impact that a photo story has on the audience.
Viewbook PhotoStory is open for pros and emerging talents alike at no cost. All participants can easily create and submit their online gallery by signing up for a free, no-obligation, 60 day Viewbook Pro account.
Submissions open at 20 June 2009. All photographers can upload, edit and submit their works until the closing date of 1 October 2009. We encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible to get the most out of the public voting and get your photo story seen by as many people as possible.
