London – In a world dominated by war, environmental destruction and human suffering, a photography award created in Germany invites participants to paint scenes of beauty and hope.
Cewe 2023 was opened for registrations with the theme “Our World is Beautiful”. Participation is free. The author of the best photo will win a trip to his chosen location for up to 15,000 Euros (R$83.4k), in addition to his photographic equipment and a trip to Germany to claim the trophy.
In total, the competition will give out 250,000 Euros (R$1.3 million) to the best photos in 10 categories. Professionals and amateurs over the age of 18 can compete.
Photo award will help SOS Villages
The competition is organized by a German photo processing brand. In addition to the chance to win, participants will also help with a social project. For each submitted work, Cewe will donate 10 euro cents (R$) to the international NGO responsible for the Aldeias SOS programme.
In its last edition, in 2021, the competition had a record number of entries and resulted in a donation of 60,000 Euros (R$334,000) to the NGO applied to a social project in the Port serving more than 1,000 children. -au-Prince, Haiti.
In addition to the best photography prize, the competition will present €5,000 worth of photographic equipment and €2,500 worth of Cewe photographic products to the nine winners of the other categories.
The authors of the photos ranked 11th to 30th will win 2,500 euros worth of photographic equipment and 1,000 euros worth of Cewe photography products. Those classified between 31 and 1000 will be rewarded with a EUR 100 voucher for Cewe photographic products.
In addition, three winners will be selected each month, regardless of category or country. Each of the monthly winners will receive a voucher worth €100 for Cewe photographic products. The May photograph is a poetic portrait of a pregnant woman with her child against the sunset light.
Applications can be made on the photography award website. Each participant can submit a maximum of 100 works. Discover the categories and the best photos selected by the judges of the competition in the latest edition.
2021 Photography Award Winners and Finalists
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Frozen Lighthouse by Manfred Voss (landscape)
German Manfred Voss won first place overall in the Cewe photography competition in 2021 and also in the Landscape category.
For the jury, the photo shows that beauty emerges even when the world is in transition. He captured this scene early in the morning with the warm yellow light from the lighthouse contrasting with cool hues of icy blue.
CEWE Photo Award judge Ulla Lohmann summed up the magic of this photo: “It looks like it came straight out of a fairy tale.”
Cow or Glacier? by Stefan Schorno
In second place in the category is an unusual composition, where the glacier mixes with the stain on the back of the cow. Besides being beautiful, the image inspires a smile.
Sport
In the spirit of depicting the beauty of the world, the award-winning images in Sports show joy and simplicity, far removed from the typical scenes of competitive sports.
Street football, Andreas Bauer (category winner)
Shadow of an Athlete, Zdeněk Vošický
People
No to sadness. The best photos of people in the Cewe photo contest 2021 capture the happiness of children on a rainy day and the complicity of a couple united by music.
Rainy Season, Hartmut Schwarzbach (category winner)
Our music, Josef Hinterleitner
animals
The beauty of the animal kingdom was rewarded in the competition with two images of species of very different sizes, but both show the care of the elders with their offspring.
The Clan Embraces, Josef Schwarz (category winner)
Mother’s Love, Dikye Ariani
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Architecture and Technology
In the category of architecture and decoration, the competition awarded visuals that create graphics that resemble drawings or paintings.
Ice Train, Cor Boers (category winner)
Masada Sokak, Ladislav Dvořák
Nature
The same criteria were used by the judges to select the best photographs of nature. Instead of landscapes or animals, the colorful or black and white details of the dew or the sea remind one to take a closer look at the natural world.
Dandelion Umbrella by Petra Jung (category winner)
Contrast, Mareike Mosch
travel and culture
Travel scenes don’t have to be just landscapes or selfies. People watching nature and a lone rower in the yellow light of the sunset were chosen by the jury.
Turtle Look, Siegfried Claeys (category winner)
Rowing at Sunset by Lorenzo Perotti
food and cooking
Also in the category devoted to cooking, the competition chose fun or multi-colored images with an egg and a lemon as the main object.
Hey Phone, David Weimann (category winner)
Bitter Times by Werner Kaminsky
hobby and leisure
The color game of the woman, who is still looking at a closed painting, became the subject of the category-winning photo. The photographer created another image without showing the image. In second place, relaxing fishing was depicted in black and white.
Red photo, Hans Lahodny (category winner)
Flying Fish 2 by Sven Burkhard
aerial photographs
Drones allow you to look at the world from another perspective, as did the winner and runner-up in the Aerial Photography category.
Soy Sauce Production, Azim Khan Ronnie (category winner)
Morning on the Lake by Harald Unterbuchschachner
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