Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2021: announcing the nominees!
On 26 August 2021, the juries for the two categories of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2021, 'Best Work by an Emerging Photographer' and 'German Peace Prize for Photography', met. The meetings took place as online conferences. The juries nominated the five best works for each category. The winners of both categories will be announced during the official award ceremony on 2 October 2021 in Osnabrück, Germany.
The jury for the category 'Best Emerging Photographer' consisted of the internationally renowned portrait photographer Michael Dannenmann (jury chairman, DGPh), the photography expert and art advisor Simone Klein (DGPh board member), the gallery owner Clara Maria Sels and Nils-Arne Kässens, director of the Museumsquartier Osnabrück. For the German Peace Prize for Photography, the jury was supplemented by Osnabrück peace researcher Prof. Dr Ulrich Schneckener.
As in previous years, the jury members were once again enthusiastic about the high level of quality and the variety of topics of the submissions and the commitment of the photographers. They underlined the importance of the German Peace Prize for Photography and the need, which has become apparent due to current developments, to address the striving for peace through photographic means. The nominated works in both categories are now published on the Felix Schoeller Photo Award website (www.felix-schoeller-photoaward.com).
The nominees in the category 'Best Emerging Photographer' are
- Reyad Abedin - 'The name of my city is dust and smoke and life'
- Marcos Azulay - 'A-Dios
- Axel Javier Sulzbacher - 'Cheran', Village of resistance
- Arne Piepke - 'Anecdotes from an unfamiliar land'
- Shirin Abedi - 'May I have this dance?'
The following were nominated for the ‘German Peace Prize for Photography’
- Antonio Aragon Renuncio - 'I wanna be Messi’
- Reto Klar - 'Life between home and hell: Refugees in Camp Moria on Lesbos'
- Ako Salemi - 'Afghanistan: The Color Awakens’
- Emeke Obanor - 'Heroes’
- Hamed Sodachi - 'Sunrise’
The winners will be announced at a virtual awards ceremony on 2 October 2021. All nominees will attend the stream to this event, which will be broadcasted simultaneously in German and English. The recording will take place in the premises of the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, which is part of the Museumsquartier Osnabrück, MQ4.
On 03 October 2021, the exhibition “Winners & Nominees 2021” will be opened in the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück. The works of the winners and the nominees of both categories will be on display there until 06.03.2022.
Contanct:
Dr. Friederike Texter
ftexter@felix-schoeller.com
0171 / 7636369
kontakt@felix-schoeller-photoaward.com
