Sony World Photography 2021 - Gli scatti vincitori
Redazione Art-Vibes | On 17, Apr 2021
Il fotografo Craig Easton con la serie “Bank Top” trionfa ai Sony Photography Awards.
di Redazione Art Vibes
Picture: © Craig Easton, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Series Name: Bank Top.
La World Photography Organisation ha annunciato i vincitori assoluti del prestigioso Sony World Photography Awards 2021. A trionfare su tutti è stato lo stimato documentarista Craig Easton, (Regno Unito) per la sua serie intitolata “Bank Top”.
Premiati anche dieci vincitori per categoria, oltre al 2° e 3° posto della competizione Professional, nonché i vincitori assoluti delle competizioni Open, Student e Youth.
Bank Top, una serie nata dalla collaborazione con lo scrittore e accademico Abdul Aziz Hafiz, un’indagine sulle comunità del nord dell’Inghilterra, con un focus specifico sul quartiere tightknit di Bank Top a Blackburn.
Bank Top è il risultato dell’iniziativa “Kick Down the Barriers” del Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, un progetto avviato in risposta al ritratto offerto da numerosi media della città di Blackburn, definita d molti come “la più segregata in Gran Bretagna”. Cercando di sfidare questa narrativa, il museo ha invitato artisti e scrittori a collaborare con i residenti di vari quartieri e creare una rappresentazione solida e autentica delle loro comunità.
Nel corso di un anno Easton e Hafiz hanno lavorato a stretto contatto con gli abitanti locali esplorando storie ed esperienze di vita attraverso una serie di ritratti in bianco e nero accompagnati da testi. Privazione sociale, alloggio, disoccupazione, immigrazione, rappresentanza, questi alcuni dei temi trattati , un lavoro che contrasta le generalizzazioni semplicistiche, per raccontare in chive autentica lo spirito che anima queste comunità di persone.
Commentando la sua vittoria Easton ha affermato: “Sono lieto che questo lavoro sia stato riconosciuto dai Sony World Photography Awards. Fotografo per imparare, cercare di capire, documentare e condividere storie. È un privilegio poterlo fare e sfidare percezioni e stereotipi. Vedere queste storie di comunità sottorappresentate o travisate nel nord dell’Inghilterra ( zona dove vivo), ora riconosciute e condivise in tutto il mondo è meraviglioso. Grazie.”

© Laura Pannack, United Kingdom, Winner, Professional, Portfolio, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Series Name: Portfolio Overview. Image Name: 2

© Luis Tato, Spain, Winner, Professional, Wildlife & Nature, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: 4. Series Name: Locust Invasion in East Africa

© Anas Alkharboutli, Syrian Arab Republic, Winner, Professional, Sport, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: Inclusive Karate School in Syria_2. Series Name: Syria: Sport and Fun Instead of War and Fear

© Pubarun Basu, India, Shortlist, Youth, Composition and Design, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: No Escape From Reality. Series Name: No Escape From Reality

© Majid Hojjati, Iran, Winner, Professional, Landscape, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: 004. Series Name: Silent Neighborhoods

© Vito Fusco, Italy, Winner, Professional, Documentary Projects, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: 3. Series Name: The Killing Daisy

© Mark Hamilton Gruchy, United Kingdom, Winner, Professional, Creative, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: 01. Series Name: The Moon Revisited

© Coenraad Heinz Torlage, South Africa, Student Photographer of the Year, Student Competition, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: HW and Olwethu after a long day herding cattle on horses. Series Name: Our Time.

© Tomas Vocelka, Czech Republic, Winner, Professional, Architecture & Design, 2021 Sony World Photography Awards. Image Name: Eternal Hunting Grounds_1. Series Name: Eternal Hunting Grounds (Pet Crematorium by architect Petr Hajek)

© Craig Easton, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional, Portraiture, Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Image Name: Mohammed Afzal, the Birdman of Bank Top, Blackburn, 2020. Series Name: Bank Top
– via: Art Vibes submission – photo courtesy of: Sony World Photography
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