New website includes a film about the Felix Schoeller Photo Award
Osnabrück, 23. September 2014
The first Felix Schoeller Photo Award attracted 1,300 entries. A large number of these can now be seen in a film showcasing the impressive photos intercut with interviews with the five members of the jury and snippets from the jury sessions. The film about this international competition for professional and emerging photographers, launched by the Osnabrück-based Felix Schoeller Group, can be viewed at http://felix-schoeller-photoaward.com/en
What does the jury say about the competition? What surprised them the most in the five categories – portrait, landscape/nature, architecture/industry, photojournalism/editorial photography, free choice/conceptual photography? What impressed them the most? Internationally renowned portrait photographer and chair of the jury Michael Dannenmann, Ellen Dietrich, head of photography at the Hamburg-based Die Zeit weekly newspaper, Thomas Gerwers, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of ProfiFoto magazine, Werner Lippert, director of the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, and Jörg Winde, photography professor and vice-dean of the design faculty at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, talk on camera, giving interesting insights into the work of the jury.
The Felix Schoeller Photo Award is one of the richest photography competitions in the German-speaking world. It honours work that demonstrates a strong conceptual basis and the highest standards of image quality. As a manufacturer of specialty papers for high-quality photo reproductions, the company supports photographers who share our passion for uncompromisingly good photos. The prize was launched in 2013 and is awarded every two years. Professional photographers can submit work for the 2015 Felix Schoeller Photo Award from 1 January 2015.
Picture credits for files availble for download:
© Jeremy Underwood, Houston/USA, “Human Debris”, Nominee, “Best work by an Emerging Photographer”, 2013 Felix Schoeller Photo Award
© David Maurice Smith, Manly / Australia, “Living in the shadows”, 2013 Felix Schoeller Photo Award
© Nick Frank, Munich / Germany, “subways”
Michael Dannenmann, Portraitist, DGPh, BFF; Head of Jury, Felix Schoeller Photo Award
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