AWARDS
Test the boundaries of your artistic expression and prove your photographic skills by sending black and white photos in any or all of the contest’s five categories.
Grand Award
Free accommodation for 7 nights, all-inclusive, for two people at one of Mitsis Hotels’ 19 Hotels & Resorts in Rhodes, Kos, Crete, Kamena Vourla or Athens to create your own story in Greece!
The prize can be redeemed between 15.09.23 to 31.10.2023. Various locations upon availability will be proposed by Mitsis Hotels for the winner to select. The prize is non-transferrable, and no cash alternative will be offered.
Categories Awards
250€ cash for the winner
of each category
A photographic book το first runner up of each category
MACADAM COLOR STREET PHOTO
Jean-Christophe Béchet, Publisher LOCO
192 pages, 100 Colour photos,
€45For Jean-Christophe Béchet "Street Photography, long associated with documentary, has become an autonomous genre specific to the photographic culture. The portrait, the landscape, the nude, still life... come from painting. The notion of documentary also exists in video, cinema or radio. While the exploration of the street, of its daily life, of its "extraordinary" banality only really exists in photography...
URSS, ÉTÉ 91
Jean-Christophe Béchet, Publisher LOCO
124 pages, 94 Colour and B&W photos,
€40The few weeks spent in 1991 in the disintegrating Soviet Union were a key moment in my life as a photographer. It was in Moscow that I understood that I was not a "press photographer " ... I then understood that photography was going to be for me a solitary exercise of reflection on the present time... JCB
GUNUNG
Jean-Christophe BéchetFormat 24×30 cm
48 pages, 22 panoramic B&W photos,
Publisher Trans Photographic PressNumbered 750 copies edition, 32 €
In Indonesia, in the heart of an excessive and exuberant nature, between hell and paradise, I chose b&w film and panoramic format to restore the density and severity of the land of Gunung...JCB
PETITS PAYSAGES AMERICAINS
Jean-Christophe Béchet
Format 24×30 cm, 48 pages, 35 B&W silver halide photos,
Publisher Trans Photographic Press
Numbered 600 copies edition,
€25In the United States, everything is bigger, stronger and more impressive, especially the landscapes! The legendary photographs of Ansel Adams have structured our visual memory and today in each tourist place, galleries offer large format images where the saturated colors play a noisy and kitsch symphony... JCB
AMERICAN ANIMALS
Jean-Christophe Béchet
Format 24×30 cm, 48 pages, 36 square format colour photos
Publisher Trans
Photographic Press
25€
During my various trips to the United States, many unexpected encounters and surprises with animals made me want to do a kind of "Street Animal Photography" in order to tell this direct connection between men and the animal world that punctuates American life...JCB
The 10 most voted photos by the committee in each category will receive honorable mention and will be uploaded to the virtual gallery.1
An art exhibition with the most voted photos will be held at a prominent Art Gallery in Athens. A selection of photos will be published in Photographos magazine and as an online portfolio in www.photo.gr and social media.
Local Awards
All local participants automatically enter a draw to win the following items, kindly donated by sponsoring Greek companies
