Lo Zeiss Photography Award 2020 è un concorso lanciato dalla World Photography Organisation. Quest’anno ha seguito il tema Seeing Beyond – Discoveries, ovvero sulle scoperte che trasformano la nostra vita quotidiana. Da rivelazioni personali a scoperte o idee scientifiche e tecnologiche che hanno portato al cambiamento sociale.
Ecco i finalisti.
Luanchuan County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, China
Communities under the Qinling gold mine, Tongguan, Shaanxi, China
The second part shooting of the first in the history of Yakut fairy tale film based on the Yakut folk tale "The Old Beyberikeen With Five Cows." The film's director Konstantin Timofeev says: "I want to present this film to all Yakut children. Our generation grew up on Russian fairy tales. I hope this picture will become an impulse and motivation for local directors to start shooting tapes about our Yakut fairy tales!"
Twins Semyon and Stepan starred in the fairy tale "The Old Beyberikeen" in the roles of mythical creatures living in the swamps – dulgancha. It is the first experience of participation in cinema for them. They got to the cinema, thanks to the casting in Yakutsk, they specially came to it from their small village in Amginsky ulus a few hundred kilometers far away.
A photo that Julie Chen took of her parents. “Filial obedience is embedded in the Chinese culture. I wanted to be me, but I couldn’t be free.”
Alicia de Las Flores it's being fighting for the past 5 years. Most cholitas wrestlers are Aymara, an indigenous nation residing in the high plains of South America. The group has faced ethnic oppression and exploitation since the Spanish colonization of the region. Referred to pejoratively as “cholo” or “chola” at the time, they were forced to perform menial tasks for aristocrats; required to adopt European customs; refused entry to restaurants, public transportation, and certain wealthy neighborhoods; and denied the opportunity to vote, own land, and learn to read. March 29, 2019.
Elizabeth la Loba Corazones fight against Alicia de las flores at ring in the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia. In traditional Bolivian dress, the cholitas launch themselves at each other, executing perfect moves in a disheveled quest to win. March 30, 2019.
A view of the Champamarca neighborhood and El Tajo. In the twentieth century, intense mining began. The more the Tajo widened, the more the inhabited center followed, dismantled and the new enclosures rebuilt on the outskirts of the city itself. The inhabited center is thus transformed from a simple mining village to the capital of the province of Pasco. Today the distance between the cases and the extraction site is almost non-existent
An illegal “recilator” make her life by dividing the plastic from the rest of the rubbish. Meanwhile she takes the opportunity to feed her pigs that she will sell to the market in Lima. In Cerro de Pasco the urban waste system is managed by the mining company that deposit all on top of an old mining waste deposit that has been built on top of the spring of the Tingo river. Today the Tingo river surge beneath a mixed waste deposit and its polluted water is used by all the inhabitant of the valley to irrigate their crops.
Mr. Viefhaus in his backyard with his favorite plants. He cannot stop making new offsprings although he cannot care for them anymore. Dortmund,2019
Daughter, grandchild, and great-grandchildren helping with the right pose. Bremen, 2019
A local police man in Ughelli, Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Natural Gas Flaring Site in Ughelli, Niger Delta, Nigeria.
The path to Vecekrugas dune with a direction in the middle that from afar becomes a symbol of faith in this place.
Karolis. The young fisherman is the first of the new generation of fishermen as this region historically was famous for fishing but the old generation already died out.
"The thing I was definitely not ready for – was emergency C-section. Actually, subconsciously, I had been scared of something going wrong and C-section the whole time I was pregnant."
After a while I understand that our daughter will teach her parents a lot. I already feel the experience of motherhood in myself, but the full awareness that I’m already a mom has not yet come to me.
