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2012 Zebra Awards An international celebration of the beauty of black and white photography It is our pleasure to announce the results for the 2012 Zebra Awards, our inaugural competition that rejoices in the beauty of Black and White.

The competition attracted entries from over 40 countries. The entries were pre-judged by the TZIPAC editorial team, entries which passed were then scrutinized by our four fantastic jurors whose scoring determined our eventual Finalists, Category Winners, and Grand Winners. Our esteemed judging panel included: Larry Louie, 2013 Finalist of the Spider Awards International Black and White

Photographer of the Year; Binh Trinh, 2011 Black and White Photographer of the Year as chosen by the Black and White Magazine; Monika Brandt as well as Dominic Rouse, two highly acclaimed black and white artists who have both garnered a variety of major international awards and publications for their stunning artworks.

Our Esteemed Jurors Binh Trinh After sucessfully pursuing his PhD in food engineering, Binh Trinh quickly discovered his joy for photography and never looked back. His love for black and white photography has motivated him to study and experiment with the magic of light and dark and every shades in between.

His forte is in editorial portraits as well as nude photography.

Binh’s accolades include: * the 2011 Black and White Photographer of the Year * 2010 Hasselblad Masters Finalist, * 2008 WPPI Grand Award,

Larry Louie International award-winning documentary photographer Larry Louie leads a dual career. His work has been extensively published and exhibited around the world. Larry was recently Runner Up for the International Black and White Photographer of the year at the 2012 Spider Awards. He was also the 2010 Travel Photographer of the Year, recipient of the Lucie Award in 2007 from the International Photography Awards, as well as winners of many other international awards and accolades.

Dominic Rouse Dominic Rouse began a career in photojournalism at the age of 16. His work has received international acclaims and has been showcased in publications and exhibitions across the European community as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia.

The eminent British Journal of Photography described his prints as “masterpieces” when they were shown in London. America’s Black White Magazine called him “a master of manipulation” and The Photo Review’s editor lauded his work as “spectacular”.

Monika Brand Monika’s stuning portraits have earned her international accolades, including two-times winner of the prestigious “Outstanding Achievements in Category” from the Spider Awards.

Scott Gilbank - Grand Winner “I am still in amazement after hearing about the results of The 2012 Zebra Awards. I feel very honored and humbled to be the grand winner for The 2012 Zebra Awards.

My photography at the moment has taken me more in the direction of finding the souls and character of people in remote locations around the world.

There is a saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul; I try to extract this from my subjects.

This particular shot was taken in the far north of Vietnam. There were many days of heavy low lying fog and mist in this mountainous region. I was walking at the edge of the town and I noticed a small boy emerging from the foggy street with what appeared to be his sister being carried on his back. He stopped

in front of me and looked at me as intensely as I looked at him. I had my camera set hanging by my side and my speed light / soft box held in preparation by my assistant.

There were 2 frames taken before he walked on…..the first frame tells all….

I love the timeless feel that resonates in black and white photography. It shapes and gives mood to subjects that would look ordinary captured in colour…

So many people have commented that this shot has a oldage feel, as though it was captured many decades ago…”

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Professional - Photojournalism/Documentary

Scott GILBANK Street Life

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Landscape/Waterscape/Seascape

Uwe LANGMANN Time

“Winning the Grand award came as a big surprise for me, I felt very honored to win such a great award. Seeing that my photography speaks to the judges as well as to an audience gives me confidence to go on making images the way I feel them.”

Uwe Langmann - Grand Winner “My aspiration in photography is less about showing the world as it is, I’m more interested in showing the poetry in the ordinary. Like a painter creates an abstraction of what he sees, I try to show a personal interpretation of reality that can only be seen with the help of certain photographic tools.

As I plan my images to be interpretable rather then direct in their message I don’t want to spoil the viewers imagination by giving away my own interpretation oy my image, it means whatever the viewer sees in it, it’s an invitation to stop reality and get lost in the artwork for a moment. The titles however is, like with many of my Mostly I work with small objects images, a fragment of my personthat often get overlooked when al interpretation of what I saw in you just take a shallow look at a the specific image. certain place, for me those things often contain the little magic that I do most of my work in Black & makes those places special, they White because I like the more are, for me, the essence of the concentrated form of it, it’s alplace. This essence I try to ab- ready a slight abstraction from stract from the surrounding clut- reality and often helps to see certer to achieve images that are very tain things clearer, I only use color simple and direct in their aestehti- when the color itself adds to the cal/formal presentation but mul- meaning of the image.” tilayered and interpretable on the emotional and contentual side.

My inspiration comes directly while wandering through known and unknown landscapes on small trips I take. Absorbing the atmosphere of the surroundings in the hope to find something, that tickles my mind or speaks to my soul.

Category Winners

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Abstract/Pattern/Texture

Buzzichelli ANDREA imaginary world (the dolphin)

2nd Place ARTIST

Non-Professional - Abstract/Pattern

Buzzichelli ANDREA

TITLE

imaginary world (the elks)

3rd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Abstract/Pattern

Buzzichelli ANDREA imaginary world (the wolf)

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Professional - Nudes/People/Portraits

JAIME TRAVEZAN Sting

2nd Place ARTIST TITLE

Professional - Nudes/People/Portraits

Katya EVDOKIMOVA Alter Ego

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Sports

Chan Kwok Hung .

Taken in

2nd Place ARTIST: TITLE:

Non-Professional - Digital Manipulation/Fine Art

Gregoire A. MEYER Surface

2nd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Landscape/Waterscape/Seascape

Alamsyah RAUF The Empty Chair

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Nudes/People/Portraits

HONG LINH LE Litle Girl And Monkey

2nd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Landscape/Waterscape/Seascape

David BYRNE Lindisfarne Boats

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Architectural

Nigel BULLERS Grand Central Noir

3rd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Landscape/Waterscape/Seascape

David BYRNE Natures Struggle

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Advertising/Commercial/Fashion

Ivan ZAYATS Vogue

2nd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Nudes/People/Portraits

Donna Feldman LASKY Old school beauty

2nd Place ARTIST TITLE

Professional - Photojournalism/Documentary

Felix HUG Window

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Professional - Architectural

Jason WITHERSPOON Symposium: IV

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Digital Manipulation/Fine Art

Cristina VENEDICT Too little for this BIG world

3rd Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Nudes/People/Portraits

DAMJAN VOGLAR Nomad Girl

1st Place ARTIST TITLE

Non-Professional - Photojournalism/Documentary

YEW KIAT SOH Trance dance

Click here for the full 2012 Zebra Awards Winners Gallery

The 2nd Zebra Awards is now open.

Seeking the finest in Black and White Will you be among our winners and selected Artists?

Will you be our Black and White Photographer of the Year?

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Ansel Adams

Black and White Photographer of the Year

US$2000 Grand Prize TZIPAC Prestigious Medals Be featured in 43mm Magazine Worldwide Exposure

Š Uwe Langmann

Entry fee from only $1 per image for Stage 1 Closing Deadline - 31 December 2013 www.tzipac.com

Editorial Choices:

An exposition of selected Finalists

JAIME TRAVEZAN

Jim KAZANJIAN

Nigel BULLERS

Caryn HILL

Chan Kwok Hung

Yingting SHIH

Ronny RITSCHEL

Michele BOIERO

RIFAT MURAT GULMAN

Nino CANNIZZARO

Isabel ESPINOSA AGUARELES

Shakil Mahbub HUSSAIN

Hansa TANGMANPOOWADOL

David BYRNE

Naci ALTUNHAN

Donna Feldman LASKY

Mikael SACCHI

Issue 2 - Monochrome - Coming soon

Larry Louie Clayton Bastiani Jackie Ranken Scott Gilbank Uwe Langmann Monika Brand Dominic Rouse