PX3 State of the World Winners

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) photo competition has now announced the winners of the 2022 edition. Brilliant photographers from around the globe, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next “PX3 Photographer of the Year”, cash prizes, publication in the PX3 Annual Book, and inclusion in an exhibition to be shown in Paris as well as in galleries around the world.

The PX3 jury, made up of international photography luminaries, editors, curators, evaluated thousands of entries from all over the world. Photographers have submitted their outstanding works in the following categories: Advertising, Architecture, Book, Fine Art, Nature, Portraiture, Press and Special, all of them a testament to the immense talent they possess.

The State of the World special curated selection that reflects unadulterated images documenting events and highlighting current issues from every corner of the globe, will be announced next week.

PX3 Photographer of the Year 2022: Ron Haviv/VII

PX3 Photographer of the Year 2022 is Ron Haviv, bringing the viewers a heartbreaking eyewitness account on the first three months of the war on Ukraine. The images show us the destruction and unimaginable human suffering that the Ukrainians have to live through.

Ukraine - The Beginning...
A look at the first three months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians surprised the world with their ability to defend the capital and surrounding areas from the Russian offensive. Yet ethnic cleansing, as well as large displacement of Ukrainians, took place. As the Russians withdrew, the world discovered a litany of war crimes against the civilian population.

Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War.

A co-founder of the photo agency VII, his work is published by magazines worldwide. Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the Louvre, United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He has published critically acclaimed collections of his photograph with the books, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul, Haiti: January 2010 and The Lost Rolls.

PX3 Best New Talent 2022: Athanasios Maloukos

PX3 Best New Talent 2022 is Athanasios Maloukos, a powerful Portraiture photograph depicting an important commemoration, in the Christian world during Holy Week, in the village of Canosa di Puglia, Italy.

La Desolata
La Desolata, is of the most poignant processions in the Christian world during Holy Week, in the village of Canosa di Puglia, Italy.

The women of Sorrow cover their heads and hide their faces under a large black veil. Completely dressed in total black, they intone the “Stabat Mater”, a 13th century, highly suggestive hymn, honoring the pain of Desolate Mary for the loss of Her Child, the ultimate suffering of any mother:
“…Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep…”

Professional Category Winners
Advertising Photographer of the Year: Frauke Fischer - All Beauty
Architecture Photographer of the Year: Fabiano Parisi - Empire of Light
Book Photographer of the Year: Adam Rountree - Fighting For Soul
Fine Art Photographer of the Year: Joseph Ford - Invisible Jumpers
Nature Photographer of the Year: Maartje Roos - CULTURAL LIVING HERITAGE ‘the last of their kind’
Portraiture Photographer of the Year: Alena Grom - Between borders
Press Photographer of the Year: Ron Haviv - Ukraine The Beginning...
Special Photographer of the Year: Branden May - You're Late

All Beauty © Frauke Fischer

Non-Professional/Student Category Winners
Advertising Photographer of the Year: Yuliy Vasilev - Foodtopia
Architecture Photographer of the Year: Mabel Cedrón
Book Photographer of the Year: Andrew Feiler - A Better Life for Their Children
Fine Art Photographer of the Year: Elisa Miller - The Other
Nature Photographer of the Year: Ryo Iwasaki - Snowy Landscape of Trees
Portraiture Photographer of the Year: Athanasios Maloukos - La Desolata
Press Photographer of the Year: Wei Chih Wang - Deep Soul
Special Photographer of the Year: António Coelho - Cities - one vision

Snowy Landscape of Trees © Ryo Iwasaki

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

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