• © Molly Roberts

    Judge: Molly Roberts

    Molly Roberts is an award-winning visual editor, independent curator, and documentarian, who has worked and collaborated with some of the most important names in contemporary photography over the course of her twenty-five-year-long career.

    She currently serves as Senior Photography Editor at National Geographic Magazine; was previously Chief Photography Editor at Smithsonian Magazine, and headed up the photography teams at The Washington Post Magazine and USA Weekend.  

    – Competition Judge:

    2022 Open Call Award

Tomáš Baršváry
© Tomáš Baršváry

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© Tomáš Baršváry
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