Photography Award 2013 - the winner is announced
The winner of ‘Home, my Place in the World’Photography Award 2013 is Menno Aden from Berlin.
Menno Aden’s work sets out to illustrate how young people in Berlin find themselves homeless due to the gentrification of deprived areas by affluent people whose property investments insidiously squeeze them out. The winning photographs portray the modest interior of abandoned homes and have been taken from an unusual bird's-eye perspective.
Judging the submissions were Anne Williams, London College of Communication - Francesca Marocchino, Guimet Museum, Paris - Neil Couzens, Wandsworth Museum, Michael Pritchard, The Royal Photographic Society, Keith Barnes, Director, Oxford School of Photography, Roberta Cremoncini, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art - Roger Tooth, The Guardian - Tom Martin, Martin & Martin.
The Panel of Judges also applauded the submissions of the following top participants:
2. Carlo Gianferro
3. Stefano Morelli
4. Karolina Jonderko
5. Kai Loeffelbein
6. Sebastian Keitel
7. Michela Frontino
8. Mustafa Canbay
9. Janos Torok
10. Bradley Secker
11. Fabian Weiss
12. Florian Zyba
13. Samuel Ivin
14. Gregory Michenaud
15. Rasmus Degnbol
16. Francesca Cirilli
17. Dionysis Kouris
18. Mattia Vacca
19. Joanna Szot
20. Karolina Sobel
Speaking for the Jury, Angelo Iudice, chairman of the organisation commented “The quality of this year’s submissions has been outstanding. The panel had a most difficult task identifying the winner. I would like to thank all participants whose magnificent works raises awareness on such important issues’
Home, my Place in the World, Photography Award 2013 received the patronage of Amnesty International, the British Council, the European Commission and the International Organisation for Migration and the Government of Apulia. The project’s sponsors are: Harrods Casa Londra, E. Marinella, Fedeli Cashmere, Food & wine Promotions, Gattarella Resort, Metro Imaging, San Domenico House.
