TIFA Announces 2020 Winners
February 4, 2021Tokyo International Foto Awards
Announces Winners of 2020 Competition
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Selection of 2020 TIFA Winners (from top to bottom and left to right): Fresh Meat by Sh Sadler, Where is Adam? by Cheraine Collette, Requiem Pour Pianos by Romain Thiery, A Sheep by Claudia Guido, Butterflies in the Stomach by Carlos Gamez de Fransisco, Fishermen of the Mangroves by Les Sharp, Garbage in the Cloud by Piotr Zwarycz.
Los Angeles, February 3rd, 2020 – The Tokyo International Foto Awards is delighted to announce the category winners and finalists in its 2020 Photography Competition for the professional and non professional/student categories.
A stellar international jury of renowned photography experts judged a the entries
from more than 100 countries around the world to finally select these outstanding category winners.
Sebastian Copeland was chosen Photographer of the Year for his truly humbling photography book, Antarctica – The Walking Giant, showing us the least explored continent and the danger it faces due to climate change. The book was made under a collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio to spread awareness of the crisis of global warming.
Antractica – The Walking Giant by Sebastian Copeland
The Discovery of the Year award was given to Diana Cheren Nygren for her work When The Trees Are Gone. Her work explores the concept of city folk searching for a moment of peace in the urban jungle, where nature has been taken over by by human-made buildings.
In order to support and honour the outstanding work of both professional and amateur photographers around the world during the COVID-19 crisis, International Photo Awards will match the cash prizes that are awarded this year to the Category Winners with an equal cash donation to the charity of the winning photographer’s choice in their community.
When The Trees Are Gone by Diana Cheren Nygren
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Professional Category Winners of 2020
ADVERTISING – Fresh Meat by Sh Sadler
ARCHITECTURE – Requiem Pour Pianos by Romain Thiery
BOOK – Antarctica – The Walking Giant by Sebastian Copeland
EDITORIAL – Women Protesting Over Abortion Ban in Poland by Bartosz Mateńko
EVENTS – Beneath the Surface of Competitive Seadiving by Kohei Ueno
FINE ART – Fishermen of the Mangroves by Les Sharp
NATURE – A Sheep by Claudia Guido
PEOPLE – A Painful Necessity by Gabriele Micalizzi
PORTFOLIO – Butterflies in the Stomach by Carlos Gamez de Fransisco
SCIENCE – Viveria by Ela Kurowska
Women Protesting Over Abortion Ban in Poland by Bartosz Mateńko
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Student/ Non-Professional Category Winners of 2020
New Faces and … In The Class, Automotive Class by Marcin Majkowski
ADVERTISING – New Faces and … In The Class, Automotive Class by Marcin Majkowski
ARCHITECTURE – Snake’S Zaha by Roberto Corinaldesi
BOOK – The Consolation of Dew by Joel Pulliam
EDITORIAL – Hong Kong Conflict by Wei Fu
EVENTS – Timoncap 2019 by Sergio Ferreira Ruiz
FINE ART – Urban Tetris by Mariyan Atanasov
NATURE – Ribbon Dance by Richard Li
PEOPLE – Promised Land by Michal Konrad
PORTFOLIO – When the Trees are Gone by Diana Cheren Nygren
SCIENCE – Pathology Atlas by Oltea Sampetrean