A PRESTIGIOUS
JUDGING PANEL
Our jury is comprised of world-class photographers, curators, agency directors and editors. They select a shortlist and winning photographers, as well as providing feedback.
Ask any street or urban photographer who inspires them, and they’ll probably mention Jesse Marlow: an Australian street photographer celebrated for his ability to find beautiful moments of surprise and coincidence within the mundane.
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Alex Snyder is Senior Photo Editor at The Nature Conservancy, where he works to showcase the beauty and urgency of environmental conservation through powerful imagery across the organization’s magazine and other channels.
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Alixandra Fazzina is a British and Irish photographer and author renowned for her compassionate and deeply human approach to documenting the lives of displaced individuals and the consequences of war.
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Corey Arnold is an American photographer whose stark and cinematic work explored our complicated and often precarious relationship with the natural world.
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Bronwen Latimer is Editor of Special Initiatives at The Washington Post where she is transforming themed projects into more visually-compelling narratives to gain new audiences.
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Smita Sharma is an acclaimed Indian photojournalist and TED Fellow whose work focuses on human rights, gender issues, environment and social justice, particularly in South Asia.
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Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish photographer known for his intimate depictions of the human condition, combining a documentary approach with a fine art sensibility to create visually striking and emotionally resonant images.
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Alison Morley is a photography coach, Photobook editor and educator, and chair Emerita of the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography.
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Petros Koublis is a photographer known for his deeply philosophical and poetic fine art photography inspired by the natural world.
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Larry Louie is an award-winning Canadian photographer whose work masterfully blends his dual careers as an optometrist and documentary photographer – two very different but complementary fields of visual perception.
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Dr Amao is an assistant curator for photography at the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has co-curated exhibitions such as Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018) and Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, Tate, Getty, 2019) and co-edited the accompanying catalogues.
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She is the author of Eli Lotar et le mouvement des images (2017) and has contributed to numerous publications including Bernar Venet. Photographies ; James Barnor. The Roadmaker (2021) ; Variétés et l’esprit contemporain (2019), Le Spectre du Surréalisme (2017), Vivian Sassen. Phosphor (2023), George Hoyningen Huene (2023).
Marcin Ryczek is a fine art photographer whose meditative work draws on minimalist and symbolic themes, under a self-proclaimed philosophy of “minimum form, maximum content”.
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It was a real privilege to judge the competition. I was looking for images that both intrigued and surprised me, and in many cases created powerful emotional engagement. There was a wide range of work submitted to this category, which made it even harder to distil my list of shortlisted candidates.
Tim Flach, judge for Animal Kingdom (2020)
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Over the past 12 years we’ve had the chance to collaborate with some of the industry’s top photographers, gallerists and editors.
Martin Parr
Richard Mosse
Emma Lewis
Alex Prager
Steve McCurry
Roger Ballen
Marion Tandé
Ron Haviv
Mona Kuhn
Olivia Bee
Phaedra Brown
Tsoku Maela
Pixy Liao
Murray Fredericks
Dilys Ng
Olivia Arthur
Richard Sandler
Rebecca Morse
Holly Andres
Djeneba Aduayom
Samantha Clark
Todd Hido
Nick Brandt
Valerie Blair
Aaron Huey
Damarice Amao
Stephen Wilkes
Sanne De Wilde
Jonas Bendiksen
Tim Flach
Clement Saccomani
Marcin Ryczek
Helen Healy
Hellen Van Meene
Bruce Gilden
Alison Morley
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Amanda Hajjar
Pipo Nguen Duy
Jonas Tebib
Ami Vitale
Eric Bouvet
Lu Hui
Karolin Klüppel
Marta Weiss
Charlie Hamilton James
Lauryn Hill
Melissa Farlow
Hengki Koentjoro
Shana Lopes