WINNERS 2019
Announcing the winners of this year's IAFOR Documentary Photography Award.
GRAND PRIZE – EMILIENNE MALFATTO
Emilienne Malfatto “Al-Banaat” Project Description “Al-Banaat” (“the girls” in Arabic) is an intimate journey through the world of two little sisters in Iraq. It is a long-term personal project I carried out, exploring the meaning of freedom and childhood from...
SECOND PLACE – MAXIMILIAN MANN
Maximilian Mann Fading Flamingos Project Description Largely unnoticed by the world public, a major environmental disaster is taking place in Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran. Where ten years ago the waves splashed against the walls of the villages, today you...
THIRD PLACE – RAFAEL HEYGSTER
Rafael Heygster “I died 22 times” Project Description My home country, Germany, has officially been at peace for more than 70 years. The photographic work “I died 22 times” shows and questions the way our culture deals with “warfare” outside...
HONOURABLE MENTION – ALBA DIAZ
Alba Diaz ‘1936 | 2020’ Project Description The project ‘1936 | 2020’ is the story of the forced disappearance and subsequent execution of my great-grandfather, Jose, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The way in which this second...
HONOURABLE MENTION – MOHAMMED ZAANOUN
Mohammed Zaanoun Project Description On the 30th of May 2018, Palestinian protesters started pouring into the buffer zone to claim their rights of return to their lands. So far, the protests have left 261 dead and more than 21,900 injured...