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...
COMMENDED ENTRY – YUYANG LIU
Yuyang Liu Project Title: 5986 Kilometers Project Description As a result of violent events led by Uyghur’s separatist forces that have been frequently taking place in China since 2009, the Chinese central government is providing the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...
