1st Prize: Rosa Mariniello

“Mercedes photographed by Rosa Mariniello is a beautiful image, wonderfully lit and composed and most of all it is an image about empowerment. The chromatic ensemble is joyful and powerful. In the upper side of the photograph the color of the head scarf gracefully matches the color of the walls framing the beautiful face which becomes the chromatic punctum of the image bringing out by contrast the other half of the photograph where the skin tones compose a wonderful drawing together with the blanket.

The subject is powerful and proud, her pose as well as the angle of the photograph is reminiscent of Tiziano and Velazquez’s Venus and Francisco Goya’s La Maja desnuda which gives an extra layer to the image.” – Alessia Glaviano
 

2nd Prize: Giulia Savorelli

“Giulia Savorelli’s “Terroni’s Before the Procession”, is a wonderful portrait, very well composed, beautifully lit, and with a strong narrative quality. We could come up with hundreds of different stories about the subject, the intensity of his gaze, his style, the details that peep out…a watch, the blue of the jacket’s lining and then there is the way he holds the cigarette which forms a line with the other cigarette in the image, a blurred one, and there goes another story…” – Alessia Glaviano
 

3rd Prize: Stuart Chape

“When it comes to documenting the impact of human life on our planet, photography is one of the most powerful and vivid instrument available to man. It is a tool that allows us to understand, discover and marvel at the beauty residing in our habitat. This magnificent aerial view point of the Cambodian floodplain not only presents the grandeur of our ecosystem, but also the beauty residing in the possible balance between man and his environment. With arrows shaped fishing net seemingly connecting the natural world and provide food to man’s floating village. A stunning reminder of interconnectedness” – The Independent Photographer Editors