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On December 9th we celebrated the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 winners and opened the exhibition in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam.
Read moreThe following photographers have received a Honorable Mention from the 2010 PhotoStory jury.
Read moreWe welcome you to the opening of the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 exhibition, to celebrate the winning photographic narratives of this year’s event! You are invited to enjoy the remarkable photo stories of Daria Tuminas and Luis Lazo with drinks on the house.
Read moreWe are honored to announce the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 winners! The second annual Viewbook PhotoStory contest has been won by Daria Tuminas and Luis Lazo with remarkably strong photographic narratives. Naturally the jury had a very difficult task selecting the best works out of the 500 already pre-selected photo stories.
Read moreThe public prize winners are: Documentary - 1st Imran Ahmed (1419 votes), 2nd Thanasis Lomef Zacharopoulos (1418 votes), 3rd Gianluca Cecere (1411 votes) Conceptual - 1st Laura Petreike (1150 votes), 2nd Dwi Anoraganingrm (866 votes), 3rd Julia Katharina Ziegler (482 votes)
Read moreThere are three days left to vote for your favorite photo story. November 5th at 12AM Amsterdam time the public voting will close. Parallel to the public voting the jury reviewed all series for the more weighty part of the competition. The jury prize winners will be announced on November 5th.
Read moreThe extra dimension that series of images have, results in an exponentially growing diversity of idea’s, angles and concepts, which are more often discovered between the images than in the images itself.
Read moreBecause of the enormous amount of submissions the pre-screening and publishing takes another day. The public voting will open on Wednesday October 6th.
An e-mailing will be send out to all participants as soon as the public voting opens.
The submissions for the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 contest closed at October 1st 12PM. The incredible amount of submissions that have been submitted the last days will be pre-screened and published the coming week. On October 5th the public voting will start and the Jury will start the judging process.
Read moreWe are very excited to announce the opening of the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 competition. Today the submissions opened and we welcome all serious photographers around the world to submit their most compelling narratives.
Read moreThe following photographers have received a Honorable Mention from the 2009 PhotoStory jury.
Read moreLast Thursday we opened the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Exhibition and celebrated the winning photographic narratives of Francesco Giusty and David Favrod in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam.
Read moreFrancesco Giusti and David Favrod win the international Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Awards with strong contemporary documentary and conceptual photographic stories.
Read moreThe Watchers Network
The Watchers Network is a network of photography industry leaders who follow the Viewbook PhotoStory competition closely and actively scout for talented photographers. Read more
Watchers Highlight
Alison Zavos
Publisher of Featureshoot.com, USA
"The idea behind the work is usually the first thing that draws me into a photo series. The subject matter should be current, or if not, then shot in a new and interesting way. Image quality should be consistent throughout the series and leave me wanting to see more." Read more
Other Watchers:
Frank Kalero
Artist, OjodePez, Berlin, DE
Grant Scott
Editor, Professional Photographer, UK
Peter Bas Mensink
Publisher GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, NL
Tim Clark
Editor, 1000 Words Photography Magazine, UK
Jury 2010
The submitted photo stories will be judged by an international panel of industry professionals. They will assess the photo stories on their narrative strength, photographic excellence and artistic brilliance.
Marcel Feil - Curator FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
Sam Barzilay - New York Photo Festival, USA
Ernesto Bazan - International Photographer, Mexico
Roy Kahmann - Curator Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Kadir van Lohuizen - Photojournalist, Amsterdam, NL
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