For this new international photography award, we invited 20 influential experts from around the world to review the submissions — asking each of the experts to select three personal favorites to win a Critic’s Choice award — and to explain what they particularly liked about each of their picks.
Photographers from over 150 countries took advantage of this opportunity to get their work seen by this large group of experts. And the results are — amazing!
We encourage you to dig in to appreciate the wide range of topics and artistic approaches and diverse points of view. This is a chance to discover lots of fresh new inspiring work — and also a unique opportunity to learn directly from the experts what makes these photographs and series so special in their eyes.
Please take your time to discover all 48 photographers, and be sure to read the statements from each critic to understand why an image or series resonated so strongly with them, some of the most influential minds in the industry.
CATHERINE PANEBIANCO
No Memory is Ever Alone
Catherine Panebianco’s work beautifully demonstrates how photography can create a realm in our minds and souls we call “home“. Despite having been deprived of a steady home in her childhood, the repetition of the same images and stories being told by her father achieved almost the same sense of belonging, which continues to this day. By matching the old slides with her present environments, Panebianco creates visual proof of photography’s “magical powers”.
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GLORIA SALGADO GISPERT
Childhood Memories
The rhythm created by three images in Gloria Salgado Gispert’s “Childhood Memories” series rely on a continuity of form among them, whether it be the patterning of clouds and waves, the transparency of a bubble, or the silhouette of a hand. They are dreamy and universal with each triptych belying a specific narrative in favor of an emotional sequence that implies freedom and play.
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VIKTORIA SOROCHINSKI
INsideOUTside
I first discovered Viktoria Sorochinski’s work judging an earlier LensCulture contest (Exposure Awards 2017), and was impressed by the nuance she brought to a subject that had been photographed many times before. Her personal connection to her subjects was evident, as was the sense of a photographer on a journey of discovery through her work, both of her own past, and her chosen medium. In this latest series, shot in spring 2020 during the coronavirus lockdown in Berlin, she takes that process a step further, using the extended time alone in one place to turn her lens on herself and engage the inevitable self-reflection within the situation. The results are both beautiful and pertinent, embracing the constraints to work entirely intuitively, exploring a desire to reconnect with nature – something that will feel very familiar to many of us who quarantined in cities.
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