20 Award-Successful Pictures From 1839 Awards’ Photographer of the Year

1839 Awards introduced the winners of its International Photographer of the Year Contest. The successful photographers within the Professional and Non-Professional classes reveal glorious creative and technical achievement in images, as do the extra successful photographers throughout many various classes.

1839 Awards International Photographer of the Year — Jaime Travezán

Photojournalist turned portrait and style photographer Jaime Travezán is that this 12 months’s International Photographer of the Year. His award-winning sequence, “Dream,” was shot as promotional materials for the style designer Ade Bakare and options wealthy, vibrant colours, artistic compositions, and progressive photograph modifying strategies.

The photographer explains that he shot this marketing campaign proper after coming back from a visit to Namibia, and Travezán says he was nonetheless “under the spell of the red desert in Sossusvlei. He “wanted to bring some of that landscape into the work.”

“We photographed the strikingly beautiful Ololade in a London studio against a plain white backdrop,” the photographer explains. He and his group later mixed these portraits with black-and-white panorama pictures from Namibia, which had been creatively processed to look vibrant and colourful.

“For ‘Dream,’ the Namibian desert demanded the use of red. Because the series is about an oneiric state, I pushed that red to its limits,” Travezán explains.

1839 Awards International Discovery of the Year — Li Tung

Taiwanese photographer Li Tung, who has been creating visible art work for eight years, gained the Non-Professional class within the International Photographer of the Year Contest. His picture, which additionally gained the “Abstract” class within the Non-Professional competitors, reveals three nude our bodies from behind.

“This work is an extension of my long-term art series Form (體). I have always been deeply fascinated by the fragmented nature of human self-perception,” Tung explains of the successful shot, “Embodied Syntax.”

Selected Category Winners

The remainder of the class winners for each the Professional and Non-Professional sections of the 1839 Awards Photographer of the Year are available on 1839 Awards website. NSFW Warning: Please be suggested that the gallery incorporates nudity.

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