JOOP SWART MASTERCLASS NOMINATION OFFERED TO 2017 GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Thanks to the ongoing support of World Press Photo, the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 IAFOR Documentary Photography Award will once again be automatically included in the final list of nominees for the prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass (if they...
THINK TANK PHOTO RETURNS AS PRIZE SPONSOR IN 2017
In support of emerging talent, Think Tank Photo has once again generously agreed to give our Grand Prize, Second and Third Place Winners and Commended Entries a Think Tank Photo camera bag as part of their prize package. Think Tank...
WINNERS 2016
Announcing the winners of the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award 2016
GRAND PRIZE – ALEXEY FURMAN
Alexey Furman Project Title: Life After Injury Project Description “Do you hear the birds outside, singing? It is beautiful,” I hear him saying. His name is Evhenii, and he looks at me from the hospital bed he is lying on....
SECOND PLACE – ISADORA KOSOFSKY
Isadora Kosofsky Project Title: Vinny and David Project Description Vinny and David begins with Vinny, then 13, when he was incarcerated for stabbing his mother’s assailant, and shadows him and his older brother, David; the long-term photo essay focuses on...
COMMENDED ENTRY – HASHEM SHAKERI
Hashem Shakeri Project Title: Iran, Multi Piece Identity Project Description “He who knows one, knows none,” says Goethe. We can generalise this saying and say “he who knows only one thing, does not actually know that thing” or “he who...