OPEN CALL 2023 – Preselections
WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE PRESELECTED ENTRIES FOR THE IWPA OPEN CALL 2023 !
Your talent and passion for photography were truly impressive making the preselection process both inspiring and challenging. The diversity of stories and global coverage in terms of photographers’ origins have far exceeded our expectations.
Entries were reviewed for creativity, originality, emotion conveyed, technical proficiency, and compelling visual narrative.
The competition has been a true testament to the power of visual storytelling and its capacity to promote positive change in our society.
Thank you all for participating.
Arantza Aramburu-Hamel (President)
Sandra Saito (Award Manager)
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PRESELECTED PHOTO AMATEURS :
Olufunmilayo Oladipo Werre – Spirits explore the world
Natalia Garbu – Moldova Lookbook
Huahua Jia – Neighbors
Mahsa Jarchi – Haven
Yuwei Mao – Living
Eszter Halasi – The Last Travellers
Anastasiia Didenko – Don’t play with food
Irina Tavčar – A-normality
Sara Bennett – Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences
Lisandra Alvarez Valdés – Documento de una niña adulta
Yuki Furusawa – A Truly Normal Family
Khadija Al Maamari – Extinction
Eliane Band – Live and Die in Smoke
Mo Zhou – The Figue Tree
Ana Puit Juste – Victory belongs to the Girls
Mina Rabiee Faradonbeh – Ayyame Fatemiye (Fatemiye Days)
Grace Pui Wan Ho – The Decline of Chinese Opera in Malaysia
Rumela De – Sultana – The born blind Girl
Hotmaria Siregar – Lisa, a Silverbusker
Eloina Viveros – Carnaval Almolonga
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PRESELECTED PHOTO PROFESSIONALS :
Ana Amado – Lavadoiro
Silvia Alessi – Hair Revolt
Corina Gertz – Averted Portrait
Pola Rader – Monotown
Sitara Thalia Ambrosio – Fragile as Glass : LGBTQ+ People in the Russian invasion against Ukraine.
Natthaya Thaidecha – As she calls her breath back
Magda Gibelli – Ballet without Barriers
Serena Dzenis – 2021 ± II: Utopia Broadcasting
Celina Lovera – Tamers of Parana.
Corinne Vachon – Kyrgyz : The Celestial People
Vanessa Vettorello – Fixing You
Anna Franciska Legát – Different, still the same
Christina Simons – Uncertain Land : Climate change and the plight of the internally displaced population of South Sudan
Stanislava Novgorodtseva – Ruska Roma
Michela Balboni – We called it banana
Maud Delaflotte – Memorial Ride Sioux Dakota
Paules Maya – Solastaligia
María Ximena Borrazas Cataldo – The Hidden Genocide
Camille Michel – Inughuit : Sentinels of the Arctic
Luisa Lauxen Dörr – Imilia
Anne-Francoise Tasnier – Kibera, the power of the ghetto
Cassandra Klos – Mars on Earth
Nayeli Cruz – El hambre en Guatemala
Ros Postigo – Artisanal fishing in Tambo de Mora
Wendy Marijnissen – Always the Guest
Khatia Nikabadze – Georgian Azerbaijanis and the Spring Jubilee
Ophélie Giralt – Sagnir
Aurélie Scouarnec – Ferae
Morgana Vargas Llosa – The burden of gold in Madre de Dios, Peru
Bettina Flitner – The Village of the Witches
Lujza Hevesi-Szabó – Hidden in the dirt
Alena Grom – Stolen Spring
Shaghayegh Shayankhah – Hidden Dream
Kitra Cahana – Caravana Migrante
Sylvie Léget – Giving Birth in Exil
Nava Jamshidi Goharrizi – Lost Live
Margaret Albaugh – Meimei Jiejie
Olga Papina – One day in the life of Nadezha Yakovlevna.
Lee-Ann Olwage – The Right to Play
Louise Amelie – Missing Member
Fatma Fahmy – The Lost Lake
Rehab Eldalil – The Longing of the Stranger whose path has been broken
Karine Pierre – The Deep Play
Dima Assad – Huda
Rayito Flores Pelcastre – Chirping Crickets
Mahka Eslami – Tales of Women at Sea
Lorraine Turci – The Resilience of the Crow
Jiyeon Lee – Combings : We are the granddaughters of all witches you could not burn !
Chiara Fabbro – Take me Home
Elke Scholier – Slay by Slay
