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Portfolios from The 2nd Zebra Awards Winners

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Grand Award Winner Daniel Fojt I was born in 1980 in Budapest, Hungary. My interested in photography started 1999 during my school years and my first chance to take photographs. I decided to move and to build a career in another country and the UK became my new home in 2009. Now that I had won this amazing competition one of my dreams has comes true. Winning the first prize seems as if a door has been opened to a whole new world for me. Also by winning this sensational prize I am now able to fulfil my second dream which is to visit New York. Something I thought would never happen for years.

I have had great success with my Manchester and London series in the UK and now able to go the USA. I can start on my New York series and I am hoping to create a series in Paris after that. I entered the competition because I wanted know what chances is I would have in an international field. Obviously I was hoping to win but never thought it would happen. I am just so thrilled with the first prize.

http://www.fojtfoto.co.uk

Jaime Travezan

In 2013, after two years work, I’ve finalised Proyecto Mírame, Lima, a series of 50 family portraits aiming to reflect the cultural, ethnical, religious diversities present within the peruvian capital. It has won the 2013 SEE ME Awards for Photography, and the 2013 PDN Awards. Two of the images have been selected for exhibition at the Once settled in Europe, I started to National Portrait Gallery of London as work as a photographer. Always following my curiosity, I explored many part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2012 and 2013. sides of this profession: fashion and portraiture, commissioned by glossy Besides that I’m always interested in magazines (Elle, Vogue, Tatler, ID, etc) new challenges and that’s the reason and photojournalism, publishing in why I have been taking photographs different newspapers (The Times, El of architecture and then doing collages Pais, L’Événement du jeudi, La Tercera, with most of the pictures. etc), covering subjects such as the Kosovo War winner at The Guardian Photography Prize, among others. While studying architecture in my hometown, Lima, I got a job as a journalist in a local newspaper. Many of the articles had to be documented with photographs, this made me take a camera and start to do my first pictures.

www.jaimetravezan.com

Darren Moore

I am 36 year old a self taught photographer living and working in Surrey, England. I have had a passion for photography for many years now and in the last few years have taken steps towards it becoming a full time profession. I have been fortunate enough to have exhibited my work in the USA, Canada, France and here in the UK - Picking up a number of international awards along the way. Primarily working in Black & White I specialise in a technique called ‘Daytime Long Exposure’ using Neutral Density (ND) filters attached to the lens. ND filters cut out the amount of light coming into the lens allowing the shutter to be left open for much longer than normal, capturing movement with an ethereal aesthetic. My images range from 30 second exposures to 15+ minutes.

The sea and the surrounding coastline of the UK is my greatest source of inspiration. Having grown up in a coastal town, the sea has always held a sense of mystery and wonder for me, with its seemingly endless horizons, something which I like to try and incorporate into my images today. So it’s no surprise that it features heavily in my work – unfortunately I don’t live near the coast at the moment, but use any and every opportunity to return and photography allows me to do just that. My hope with my photography is to allow the viewer an escape from reality. There’s too much reality these days, for me at least! Nothing wrong with a little escapism. If my images can evoke that feeling in another person, even for a fleeting moment. I’m very happy indeed.

http://www.darrenmoorephotography.com/

Le Hong Linh

Living in Ho Chi Minh city - Vietnam, Linh started his passion for the art of photography in 1990. He’s currently the Chairman of the Art Council of The Vietnam Association Photographic Artists and has judged many international photographic competitions. His main interests in photography are portrait, children and daily life… Linh has won more than 500 photography awards in 40 countries. 21 of his Photographic works are exhibited permanently in the International Photography Museums and among of them has four outstanding works that selected as the masterpieces of the world photography. In the feature, Linh would like to introduce his 10 images that he took of the children in the Vietnamese Countryside. He felt such joy and happiness recalling the images of himself in the past. That the children had so much love and compassion to give, despite lacking so much in the material aspects of life, is indeed a miracle. http://www.lehonglinhphoto.com/

Jukka Laitila

I am originally from Finland, but for about a year now, Ihave lived on the beautiful and rugged North Sea coast in St Andrews. Experiencing space and time directly alters the entire process that goes into photography, and indeed,Scotland has had a vital influence in discovering and experimenting with my own technique, workflow and style. My favourite part of the photography process is to be out in the field and to scout new, interesting locations and to wait for the right lighting and weather conditions; the often physically laborious process of experiencing the elements can be immensely rewarding. An image that might take a few seconds to look at often has taken an entire day’s work to create.

photographs – be it water, clouds or people. While technical knowledge is,unquestionably, important up to a point, I don’t examine photographs from a solely technical point of view. For me, visually exploring the texture and ambience of what I see and feel in the environment are the most important aspects of photography and, essentially, photography for me is a dialogue between the visual, the corporeal and the nature. http://www.jukkalaitilaphotography. com/

Many of my photographs are long exposure shots,and the sea is a particularly suitable element for the technique. I am not so much interested in portraying the landscape in realistic terms, but I’d rather add some surreal elements to it, something a naked eye cannot see. I am fascinated by capturing seconds, often minutes, which is why I like to include moving subjects in my

Scott Pierson

Art is the perception or vision, through one’s soul, of their universe put forth for others to sense (touch, feel, emote, taste, embrace). If you think about what a person is. The physical manifestation of small pieces of the universe gathered together in a random order. We are that and the combination of our experience (Memory). We are always evolving who we are as individuals based on those factors. The really wild mix in this is that we like things based upon that which we can’t explain. So I am this little thing in the universe – I have my own way of doing things and looking at things and way that I like to be. I have my own perception of my little universe and who I am. Much of what I shot is similar to many other people, and a good bit of it that only a few people

can identify with. I strive to connect with people …. Try and let them see what I see. Walk in my shoes. That way I don’t feel so alone and desolate. I feel like I am part of the universe. I strive to get pictures that have feeling and emotional content, introspection to allow their persona to be shown in an outward expression. A glimpse of whom that person is in the moment of the click of the shutter and show the beauty that is in each of us.

http://magiccimagery.tumblr.com/

Olga Rook

Olga Rook is a photographer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her artistic approach can be characterized as poetic conceptualism, grounded in ideas but flavored with poetry. Olga obtained her master’s and PhD degrees in History and specialized in Renaissance culture. She believes that training as a historian and a habit of being able to “live in different times at once” helps her expand the borders of everyday perception. Olga’s fine art imagery is about the “magical” side of everyday life – the symbols, meanings and hidden “dimensions” discovered and constructed through our observation and imagination. Potential meanings and messages are behind everything we see, and whole parallel universes are to be evoked by imagination. Olga’s photography is an attempt to explore ideas and emotions through an interpretation of visible reality. Olga has always been intrigued by perception, imagination and illusion. It is fascinating how our mind interprets our senses, continuously constructs alternative realities and attaches varying meanings to these simulacra. In her work Olga seeks to explore these virtual universes, space twists and time warps – essentially, a travel through the subconscious and, thus, a way to confront oneself. www.lifefixation.com www.olgarook.com

Bruna Martini

My work is all about analogue double exposures and manipulation of images. The editing process is, for me, the most important part of creating a photograph. I have an idea in mind (usually an emotional state). That’s my starting point. Then I choose a model for my scene. After that, it’s all about editing. I look through my collection and mix negatives of details with my subjects. I cut the image, reassemble its parts and photograph it again. I don’t really want to tell a story with a beginning, development and end, but I want to communicate a moment, a feeling.

Creating double exposures in the darkroom is a very technical experience, all based on calculating the exact amount of seconds you need to leave your photos floating in the liquids. With analogue doubleexposures you make the time, not only the abstract time that will show on the image, but also the real ‘clock’ time. There isn’t any other tool that gives you so much control on the image-making process. http://www.photography.brunamartini. com/

Elad Koren

I am a self taught photographer who began my photography work on the fauna, strength, and great fragility of Africa. I chose to use natural colours of the land to help me portray the animals in almost humanizing way, I plays on shadow, light and contrast, to immortalize rare scenes of nature, constantly trying to capture the magnificence of the animals behaviour and the emotion of their look. I want to show the vividness of the animals that are more endangered than ever. I realizes that through photos I can create a strong public awareness about the importance of preserving and protecting our wildlife. I’m based in Israel, but spend most of my time in Africa. Most of my photos emphasize attitudes and animals with almost human looks. I do so by using frontal and close up shots to highlight the animals character traits, as well as the intensity of their gazes and the majesty of their postures. My work can be seen in galleries around the world, magazines, wildlife and landscape sites. Whenever I succeed in capturing a frame, that feels like a unique and special moment, it is then I know I have touched the “divine” state called Art”... http://www.elad-koren.com/

Scott Fowler

For me black and white photography is about story telling, so when I am taken by an image, I try to bring the emotion that I felt when I took the image out, so the viewer can enjoy it as much as I did capturing it. Most of my images are controlled in one or more ways. I often construct the story I see in my head into black and white imagery. I run photographic workshops on a New Zealand Merino Sheep station, where I encourage the participants to tell stories using black and white photography, and don’t let the confusion of colour get in the way. For me the black and white image has always been the core, the essence & the soul of photography. It has a simplicity, elegance & beauty that can define description. I share my thoughts in my photography with the viewer, the good days & the bad. It is in the images you just have to look. http://www.scoiwi.com/

Efrat Weidberg

“Happy Hour” is a part of a portrait series I took back at 2009, while working as a bartender in Lower Manhattan. That period of my life was my “in between”. I left my first job, as a designer in advertising, to explore the opportunity of becoming a photographer, an artist or maybe a writer. I was taking time to be an observer and thought that learning others by watching and even creeping will help me get to know myself. Although my intention was to tell other people’s stories, I realized I was eventually telling my own. I am currently working as a UX designer, and use photography as a creative outlet whenever I want to tell a story. I am interested in the complicated relationship between the self and selflessness in portrait photography and photojournalism. http://efrat.me/

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