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Documentary Photography Awards 2023 - Shortlist Selection

Documentary Photography Awards 2023

RPS Member Shortlist Selection

Nina and Karina, who is thriving.
Roland Ramanan - from the series Gillett Square
Billy chooses medicine in Boots, holding onto OuOu’s lead. He rests on her shoulders on a backpack that doubles as a cat bed and litter tray. Billy also carries cat biscuits, milk, water, litter and a scoop.
Alice Chapman - from the series OuOu and Billy
Anneleen Lindsay - from the series Electric Visions, Chapter One System Error - EEG
Monitoring the flamingos through binoculars, so as not to disturb the nesting birds.
Philip Joyce - from the series Keepers
Immigrating from Democratic Republic of the Congo to a Glasgow housing estate as a youth exposed Rudy to gang culture.
Sofia Conti - from the series Return, O Backsliding Children
Robert McKenzie - from the series Crystal Rain Falls from Dark Clouds

Open Category Shortlist Selection

Malwina with her son Jamal – district’s well known residents. They settled in an abandoned apartment, but got evicted some months later. They are still looking for a suitable place to live. Mixed families are a rare curiosity in Polish towns.
Amadeusz Smith - from the series The Miracle District
Anya Tsaruk - from the series Mother Land
ChinHo Shin - from the series Stories of people suffering in Myanmar’s civil war
An old woman trembling with fear. Bombs rained down from the sky, and the entire village was engulfed in flames. She trembles in fear whenever she hears a loud noise from somewhere.
Zia Silvana. Cuneo, Italy, 2022
Mauro Curti - from the series Riturné
Poznań Zoo caretakers unloading a wolf brought-in with one of the transports. It would stay in quarantine before moving to an appropriate asylum, thanks to an extraordinary framework for evacuation set-up by Dr Zgrabczyńska. As the animals were takenover from the black market they were not compliant with CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) so no institution could legally answer the desperate call for help to evacuate the animals from Kyiv.
Michal Siarek - from the series Saving exotic animals from Ukraine
Yan Jiacheng - from the series Nights in the Suburb
The Turkish city of Van, the first stop for refugees from Iran, is witnessing the construction of a 534 km border wall to curb illegal immigration. migrants without assessing their asylum claims. Home to 3.9 million refugees, many migrants in Turkey live in illegally. The “Cemetery of the the human cost and calls for a fairer refugee policy.
Stefanos Paikos - from the series Reaching for Dusk

Student Category Shortlist Selection

Giovanna Laiso - from the series Drag queen yet?
Mönchengladbach, Germany
Mirja Kuberka - from the series Die Kirche im Dorf
Driver’s license, military ID, welder’s license
Anna Poloneeva - from the series I’ll be where eternity is
After the abduction of Ismail Hossain Baten, with the loss of the primary breadwinner, Nasrin Jahan took on a job teaching at a primary school and giving private lessons to other students to support her family financially. For safety reasons, they acquired a dog named “Rocky” to provide comfort and security for the child while Nasrin is away from home. The photograph was taken in Dhaka, on July 1, 2022.
Mofiqur Rahman Johan - from the series Resisting Enforced Disappearance
Jubair Ahmed Amob - from the series Victims of Poverty
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