YOUTH INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY

COMPETITION JUDGED BY KAROLIN KLÜPPEL

Karolin Klüppel is an in-demand photographer and Women Photograph member whose sensitive and striking work regularly returns to themes of gender, family and motherhood.

She first rose to prominence in 2015 with the series and subsequent monograph Kingdom of Girls – a project that blended documentation and composition to explore the indigenous people of Meghalaya in India who live in a unique matriarchal structure. Since then she has turned her lens onto herself and fellow mothers, exploring the profound experience of motherhood in her series No Room of One’s Own.

She has held solo exhibitions in the US, Switzerland, France, Colombia and her home country of Germany, and has produced editorial works for esteemed publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Spiegel.

IMAGES © LENA GIOVANAZZI / KAROLIN KLÜPPEL

THE HUMAN BODY INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY

COMPETITION JUDGED BY SIAN DAVEY

Siân Davey is a celebrated British photographer who draws on her experiences as a psychotherapist and mother to investigate the psychological landscapes of both herself and those around her.

Much of her work centers on family, community, youth and love – topics she first combined in her intimate and personal project Looking for Alice, in which she documented the growing up of her daughter Alice who has Down’s Syndrome. The series and subsequent monograph won her numerous accolades, culminating in the Paris Photo-Aperture Best Book Award and a shortlisting for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award in 2016, and positioned her as a sought-after portrait photographer and storyteller. Her most recent work The Garden furthers these themes – using her family garden as a metaphorical device to explore the complexities of community.

Her work is held in collections at the Science Museum and V&A in London, The Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol and The French National Collection in Paris, and she has won prizes including the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize, the Prix Elysée, the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal Award, and the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.

IMAGES © SIAN DAVEY

PLANET EARTH INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY

COMPETITION JUDGED BY MELISSA FARLOW

Melissa Farlow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer who has worked extensively for National Geographic magazine in the American West telling stories of public lands, the environment and wild horses.

Having studied and later taught photojournalism, she is known for her personal approach when photographing people, with features in renowned publications such as Smithsonian, LIFE, Marie Claire, GEO, Sierra, and The Nature Conservancy. Her passion for animal advocacy and in-depth storytelling led to the acclaimed book Wild at Heart, in which she documents the plight of courageous young people working to protect wild mustangs in the Western United States.

Passionate about helping others develop their photographic voice, she has lead workshops in Italy, Switzerland, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, taught at Nat Geo Photo Camps, and served on the faculty of the renowned Missouri Photo Workshop.

IMAGES © MELISSA FARLOW