Winners Gallery
Malta International Photo Award Autumn 2018
The First Edition of the Malta International Photo Awards received submissions from all over the world across the five categories of Abstract, Cities, Nature, People and Storytelling.
WINNER
Red Soul
HARDIJANTO BUDHIMAN
Inspired by dynamic movement of Flamenco dancing.
Red was chosen as the dominating colour to make the photo more attractive.
2ND PLACE
Revolution
VINKO SKALE
Social changes promise people a better life, democracy, human rights, end of poverty, and work for all. When the years pass and everything is over, only monuments will remain to remind us what we should not forget; both good and bad.
3RD PLACE
Limbo
MIKHAIL GUBIN
In the process of reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, the author was inspired to make a number of photo- illustrations for a book.
TOP FIFTEEN
Escape
BLASIO ART
This single exposure piece was only recoloured, and no other content was digitally added or displaced in the photo. ‘Escape’ is an example of light and paint coming together to leave a a smooth mixture on the chest.
TOP FIFTEEN
Crying Earth
ALEXA MOON
Humanity needs to wake up and realize what we are doing to our planet. We kill it, we use it, and abuse it. Instead of destroying our one and only home, we should love and appreciate it. Maybe only then our next generation will have a chance to survive.
TOP FIFTEEN
'The Rorschach Winter'
M.A. NALDA
The winter in Rorschach is silent white light and the sun does not set. It reminds the author of Carcosa’s summers and their elongated shadows.
TOP FIFTEEN
Fall Fantasy
SUZAN MANDLA
This abstract image of a shrub sporting the vivid colours of autumn was cre- ated using a combination of intentional camera movement (ICM) and various digital photo editing applications.
TOP FIFTEEN
Close Your Eyes and Let It Go
HARDIJANTO BUDHIMAN
‘Standing right here and chilling
Just close your eyes and feel it
Let the wind blow your tears away
Just let it go, let it go’.
TOP FIFTEEN
Goods 2.0
ALICIA MONEVA
A globalization photographic series that explores the transformation of the concept of the individual in Western society. This photo reflects on the purely mercantile value that individual currently has, a simple product that consumes and is consumable.
TOP FIFTEEN
Harbor's Secret
OLGA MERILL
“Harbor’s Secret” is one work from a series of painterly, mysterious, intriguing artworks that bring imagination.
TOP FIFTEEN
Solo for Electric Violin
FRANTISEK RERUCHA
The photo ‘Solo for Electric Violin’ is part of a wider series with the same theme. An electric violin is a wonderful instrument that inspired an abstract motif that would express its versatility and dynamism, and its lightness and rock hardness at the same time.
TOP FIFTEEN
The Man with Sandals
CARMINE CHIRACO'
Through photography the author communicates the emotions that he is feeling in that moment to the observer, allowing the viewer to see the world through the author’s eyes.
TOP FIFTEEN
Porcelain China VI
IRIS KIVISALU
‘Porcelain China’ presents a take on sensory systems and expressionistic photography what draws its core from classic film photography. It’s difficult to summarize the content without pointing to the thoughtful melancholic mood that emanates from the series.
TOP FIFTEEN
Surf's Up
JOSEF AWAD
An overhead shot of three surfers catching their last wave before sunset. The red light is a reflection of the sun’s final rays.
TOP FIFTEEN
Lost in Thoughts
BRUT CARNIOLLUS
Part of an ongoing series of urban portraits with a working title ‘Faces of the city’, which explores different aspects of urbanities reflected through intertwined images of humans and urban landscapes. Searching for the illusive identity of both humans and the metropolis.