Category: IAFOR Documentary Photography Award
HONOURABLE MENTION – DANTE DENNIS V. DIOSINA JR
Dante Dennis V. Diosina Jr The War on Drugs Project Description The war on drugs issue in the Philippines is so different. It is a strong campaign that has been underway since the newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte won the...
HONOURABLE MENTION – KEVIN FAINGNAERT
Kevin Faingnaert Føroyar Project Description Føroyar is a series about life in remote and sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands, a cluster of 18 islands in the middle of the North Atlantic, halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The roughly...
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...
