Svetlin Ivanov, Winner in the Single Image Section Chloe Meynier, Winner in the Series Section
The Jurors OF 2021 EDITION.
We believe that an Award is as significant as the quality of its judging team. This is why we have invited a group of seven jurors that have in common to be master portrait photographers. Selected images in this Portrait Award will be chosen and backed by masters with different selection criteria. However, all will be focusing on five main aspects of the photograph: concept, execution, boldness, creativity and emotional impact, making the viewer think and feel what the image is transmitting.
ADAM FERGUSON. Image by Kathy Ryan. Ferguson first gained recognition for his work in 2009 when he embarked on a sustained survey of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan, where he worked as a photojournalist contributing to The New York Times, Time Magazine and National Geographic. Since that time, he has worked internationally with a focus on civilians caught amidst geopolitical forces. He has been the recipient of multiple awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, American Photography, Photo District News, The Overseas Press Club of America, Columbia University and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, among others. In 2018, Ferguson was named both ‘Photographer of the Year’ by Photo District News and ‘Freelance Photographer of the Year’ by Pictures of the Year International.
ART STREIBER. Image by Steven Spielberg. Art Streiber is a Los Angeles-based photographer / director specializing in reportage, portraiture, corporate, entertainment and advertising projects. His clients include Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, New York, Fortune, ESPN, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, A&E, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, TBS, TNT, The CW, IFC, MTV, SyFy Channel, Showtime, TVLand, Universal Studios, Columbia-TriStar, Dreamworks, Paramount, STX, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Studios. Art has lectured at the International Center of Photography, The Santa Fe Workshops, Art Center College of Design, and PDN's Photo Plus. He has been honored by American Photo Magazine, the Pacific Design Center and the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
BARBARA DAVIDSON. Barbara is a three-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning photographer/ director. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her project Caught in the Crossfire, and directed a 30-minute documentary, Caught in the Crossfire: Victims of Gang Violence, receiving the 2011 Emmy Award for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming. Davidson is a 2019-2020 Guggenheim Fellow recipient. A staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times until 2017, Barbara spent much of the past decade photographing women and children trapped in a culture of poverty and guns. She also covered the San Bernardino terrorist attack which earned a Staff Pulitzer Prize, in 2016. In 2014, she was awarded Pictures of The Year International’s award for Newspaper Photographer of the Year.
JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN. Julia Fullerton-Batten is a worldwide acclaimed and exhibited fine-art photographer. Her body of work now encompasses twelve major projects. Fullerton-Batten has won countless awards for both her commercial and fine-art work and is a Hasselblad Master. She was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in London to shoot portraits of leading people in the UK National Health Service. These are now held there in a permanent collection. Other images are also in permanent collection at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland. She is widely interviewed about her projects by professional photographic magazines from around the world and is sought after as a speaker at international events and as a judge for prestigious international photographic competitions.
JUSTINE TJALLINKS. Portrayed with gallerist Roy Kahmann. Justine Tjallinks (1984) is an Amsterdam-based Dutch Artistic Photographer. Justine aims to capture the uniqueness of individuals and the diversity of human beauty, often backed by a story of social importance. For the first years of her photographic career, she was mainly inspired by the master painters from the Dutch Golden Age. Fashion design is used as an additional means of expression, but never as a leading role. Even though a sense of nostalgia speaks through her art, the aim is to always remain in line with the contemporary zeitgeist. Justine’s works have been exhibited in national and international venues and she has won multiple international photography awards. She is currently represented by Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam and MC2Gallery in Italy.
SANDRO MILLER. Image by Marc Hauser. As a young teen, Sandro Miller embraced the idea of making photographic portraits after seeing the portrait imagery of Irving Penn. He began photographing at the age of sixteen and has since devoted his 30+ years career to creating expressive images. Sandro is one of today's most respected commercial and fine art photographers. Sandro has a working relationship with the camera giant Nikon and is responsible for introducing their latest technology to the professional photographic world. For the past few years, in juried competitions within the industry, Sandro has been voted one of the top 200 advertising photographers in the world, and has been honored with multiple awards, including the Lucie Foundation’s International Photographer of the Year award, in 2014 and 2015.
STEVE McCURRY. Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a local newspaper. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Travelling with little more than a bag of clothes and a roll of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera. For Steve, photography is literally about wandering, observing and telling stories whether it's portraiture, human behaviour, or how we live on this planet
We Look For Portraits Made By Photographers That Are:
BOLD
Photographers having the required boldness to grab a shot, no matter what others may be thinking or which the market trends may be.
ORIGINAL
Photographers capable of creating awesome images based on an awesome and original concept.
AWARE
Photographers who are aware that it is impossible to consistently create their best work every time they shoot and set a goal to steadily improve by continually expanding their body of work.
UNCONVENTIONAL
Photographers who constantly catalyze the passion for their projects motivated to pushing past conventional boundaries.
CREATIVE
Photographers motivated by creative exploration or, in other words, photographers pursuing the creativity that truly feeds a creative soul.
MOTIVATED
Photographers with the necessary state of mind to be motivated and inspired to create magnificent work, obsessed with the idea of creating their magnum opus.
The Rules
ELIGIBILITY
Professional and Non-Professional Photographers, worldwide, over 15 years of age.
No restrictions regarding the date submitted images have been taken.
Photos submitted to previous competitions organized by The Worldwide Photography Gala awards or FotoNostrum are allowed to enter this competition, even if they have won awards.
SELECTION PROCESS
All submitted images will be pre-screened by the editorial staff on an ongoing basis.
Those approved will be showcased on this page. After the deadline, approved images will be juried by the jurors’ team, who will choose the winners and finalists. Additionally, each juror will select her or his personal selection of three artists. All decisions are final.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
To submit your work to the FotoNostrum Portrait Award, you must fill out this ENTRY FORM. before the final deadline.
The form will allow you to upload your work and pay the entry fees. Registration forms can be edited at any time until the final deadline.
AWARDS
$1,500 for each Winner in Single and in Series Sections. $500 for two Runners Up in Single and Series Sections. Winners, Runners Up and up to 30 finalists will be exhibited in FotoNostrum Gallery in the spring of 2022 at the FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona. All exhibition expenses including printing and framing will be borne by FotoNostrum.
SINGLE IMAGES & SERIES
You may submit single images and/or series of 4 to 6 images.
A series should be a coherent body of work and will be juried as a hole. Single images will be juried independently.
Jurors will select winners in both sections (Single and Series).
DEADLINE & ANNOUNCEMENT
Extended Deadline: May 2, 2021 - Jurors’ Announcement: July 2021
Some images selected by FotoNostrum’s editors will be showcased on this website, on an ongoing basis. Not all photographs submitted will be publicly visible. Not being showcased does not affect the status and rank in the contest since the judgement starts after the final deadline.
USAGE
Submitters warrant that their photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting the FotoNostrum Portrait Awards as well as the Gala Awards’ competitions, in catalogues, posters, postcards, publications, and on the Internet. Such use is granted for no more than two years after the announcement of the works selected in this competition.
SPECIFICATIONS
File Type: jpg (tiff, png or any other file other than jpg are not accepted). Profile: sRGB or Adobe RGB. Resolution: 72 dpi (please no larger or smaller resolution). Size: The dimension of the file should be 1800 pixels on the largest side. Filename: see filename format in the registration form.
Submission can be edited at any time before the final deadline.
COMPENSATION
Submitters grant the promotional usage of their photographs without any payment to the photographer or featured models. Photographers will receive credit for each use. Photographers allow FotoNostrum to sublicense their photographs to the press for reproduction in connection with The FotoNostrum Portrait Award.
COPYRIGHT
All submitters warrant that they own the work submitted and that they have the exclusive copyright. The Gala Awards recognizes that the author retains full ownership of the image copyright. Submitters confirm that any person portrayed in the photographs has granted permission to be portrayed as shown.
FotoNostrum has the right to reject and remove any entry that contains defamatory, racist, obscene or pornographic content, or that may be considered a criminal offence or violate any law or copyright.