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Opening Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 Exhibition

Opening Viewbook PhotoStory Exhibition 2010 from Viewbook on Vimeo.

On December 9th we celebrated the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 winners and opened the exhibition in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. Luis Lazo from France and Russian Daria Tuminas were there to receive their prizes. It was great to meet and have a drink with them as well as many other contenders, Viewbook users and the people from GUP Magazine and Blurb. The photo’s are on Facebook and there’s a full screen album

Honorable Mentions 2010

The following photographers have received a Honorable Mention from the 2010 PhotoStory jury:

Documentary

Live with unexpected reality by K. M. Asad
Love and War by Guillaume Simoneau
Top of the World by Christian Kryl
Into Oblivion by Maja Daniels
Merry-Go-Round by Alexey Vanushkin
Losjes en Blosjes by Elke Lannoo
Small Concrete Boxes: Inside China’s Zoos by M. Scott Brauer
Shanghai: Lost Identity by Víctor Garrido
The Great Mother by Giulio Di Sturco
A certain percentage of water by Ruben Snitslaar
Apuane by Joakim Kocjancic
Borderline by Jean-Christophe Guillaume
Russian Alternative by Pavel Prokopchik
Tibet Today by Marieke ten Wolde

Conceptual
Tribes by Lucia Herrero
Over Floral Bedspreads by Kelly Puleio
Plateaus of the Mind by Kylie Woon
Kasi by Joel Suganth J
Somebody or Nobody? by Jesper Petersson
De slapende arm by Marlous van der Sloot
The Swimmers by Carla Liesching
The Lurkers by Stacy Kranitz
Return by Sylvia de Swaan

Opening Winners Exhibition, Dec 9th in Amsterdam

We welcome you to the opening of the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 exhibition, to celebrate the winning photographic narratives of this year’s event! You are invited to enjoy the remarkable photo stories of Daria Tuminas and Luis Lazo with drinks on the house. Feel free to take a friend. The opening is Thursday December 9th 18:00 - 22:00 at the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. We hope to see you then!

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The Facebook event page

Kahmann Gallery
Lindengracht 35
1015 KB Amsterdam
www.kahmanngallery.com

Announcing Jury Prize Winners

We are honored to announce the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 winners! The second annual Viewbook PhotoStory contest has been won by Daria Tuminas and Luis Lazo with remarkably strong photographic narratives. Naturally the jury had a very difficult task selecting the best works out of the 500 already pre-selected photo stories.

Russian photographer Daria Tuminas has won the documentary category with an intimate story titled ‘Ivan and the Moon’ about two brothers who live in a remote village in the North of Russia. They differ from city teenagers a lot - have completely other moral values and live in a fairy tale like world: go hunting and fishing, know joiner’s chisel and play with ghosts at abandoned places. In this ongoing project Daria wants to show the mysteriousness of these brothers world.

Luis Lazo from France has won first prize in the conceptual category with a very subtle and poetic story titled ‘All That You Leave’. Jury member Ernesto Bazan says; “The images in this story are soulful, placid moments where the words of the late great Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa come to mind:” “Poetry is everywhere, in the earth and in the sea, in the lakes and in the rivers. . . . There is poetry in this table, in this paper, in this inkpot.”

Both artists won an exhibition in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam, a lifelong subscription to a Viewbook Pro website account, GUP magazine subscription, a custom designed book published by Blurb and various other publications.

The winning series can be viewed on www.viewbookphotostory.com.

Other prizes
The following artists have also been commended in the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 contest:

Jury Prizes
2nd Prize-documentary: EXODUS by Vincent Elkaim
3rd Prize-documentary: IN RAMALLAH I CAN BREATHE by Guy Martin
2nd Prize-conceptual: A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA LEFT BEHIND by Brandon Schulman
3rd Prize-conceptual: FATALISTIC TENDENCY Tushikur Rahman

Public voting prizes
1st Prize-documentary: THE FLIGHT by Imran Ahmed
2nd Prize-documentary: LET THE WORLD KNOW THAT WE STILL DO IT WITH OUR HANDS by Thanasis Lomef Zacharopoulos
3rd Prize-documentary: THE EMPTY HOUSE by Gianluca Cecere

1st Prize-conceptual: WU XING by Laura Petreike
2nd Prize-conceptual: DROWNING BRIDE by Dwi Anoraganingrm
3rd Prize-conceptual: RESET by Julia Katharina Ziegler

Book publications
All jury prize winners will be published in the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 yearbook. December 2010 The books will be available for sale at www.viewbookphotostory.com and the Blurb online bookstore.

Exhibition
From 9 - 19 December the winning works IVAN AND THE MOON by Daria Tuminas and ALL THAT YOU LEAVE by Luis Lazo will be exhibited in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. The opening takes place on Thursday December 9th, with words and drinks on the house. More information will be available soon on www.viewbookphotostory.com

The public voting closed at 12AM Amsterdam time.

The public voting closed today at 12AM Amsterdam time. The public prize winners are:

Documentary

1st Imran Ahmed (1419 votes)
2nd Thanasis Lomef Zacharopoulos (1418 votes)
3rd Gianluca Cecere (1411 votes)

Conceptual

1st Laura Petreike (1150 votes)
2nd Dwi Anoraganingrm (866 votes)
3rd Julia Katharina Ziegler (482 votes)

Congratulations! We will contact you soon.

The Jury prize winners will be announced later today.

3 days left to vote

There are three days left to vote for your favorite photo story. November 5th at 12AM Amsterdam time the public voting will close. Parallel to the public voting the jury reviewed all series for the more weighty part of the competition. The jury prize winners will be announced on November 5th.

Pre-screening 2010 submissions

We are in the process of pre-screening last month’s 751 submissions for the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 contest. It’s very different viewing and screening stories build up of series of images, as opposed to single images. The extra dimension that series of images have, results in an exponentially growing diversity of idea’s, angles and concepts, which are more often discovered between the images than in the images itself. It requires deep concentration and an unprejudiced mind to perceive. Sometimes it’s difficult to empathize with truths of other cultures, where religion, humor and value’s are so very different to our Western culture.

Looking at each submission we ask ourselves; is this a story, a coherent narrative? Is there enough consistency in photographic quality throughout the series? The ones that meet these requirements are published on the website and run in the contest. All together the level of entries this year is remarkably high and to make a rough estimate, about 60 percent seems to pass the pre-screening.

All pre-screened stories have just been published on the website. The long lists will be sent to the judges tomorrow and the public voting started today. We also started the preparations for the books and exhibition. November 5th the winners will be announced.

Public voting open October 6th

Because of the enormous amount of submissions the pre-screening and publishing takes another day. The public voting will open on Wednesday October 6th.
An e-mailing will be send out to all participants as soon as the public voting opens.

Submissions for 2010 are closed.

The submissions for the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 contest closed at October 1st 12PM. The incredible amount of submissions that have been submitted the last days will be pre-screened and published the coming week. On October 5th the public voting will start and the Jury will start the judging process.

Submissions for 2010 are open now!

We are very excited to announce the opening of the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 competition. Today the submissions opened and we welcome all serious photographers around the world to submit their most compelling narratives. To unleash true narrative strength in a series of photographic works. Every photographer may submit one photo story per category. The jury prize winners will be exhibited in Amsterdam, published in GUP Magazine and win a lifetime Viewbook Pro account as well as many other prizes. In addition to the competition we introduce the Watchers Network, a network of photography enthusiasts who follow the Viewbook PhotoStory competition closely and may offer critiques and insight on competition entries. The submissions deadline is October 1st.

Enjoy this years contest and be sure to connect with us and each other on our Twitter and Facebook pages.

Honorable Mentions 2009

The following photographers have received a Honorable Mention from the 2009 PhotoStory jury:

Conceptual

INNER SPACES
By Dirk Hanus

ANNONYMOUS-NESS
By Andy Reynolds

EXPOSURE ACTS
By Anna Bodnar

CHILDREN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
By Saverio Truglia

THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANS
By Kirsten Wilmink

VISITOR 2009
By Ozzy Yorulmaz

NOW
By Paul de Ridder

MODEL TREES IN A MODEL LANDSCAPE
By Jean-Luc Brouard

MY WHITE NIGHT
By S.H. Graafland

MATHEMATICS
By Adria Garriga Far

ASPER
By Karianne Bueno

THE DARK ROOM, A MENTAL SPACE
By Frederic Fontenoy

REVEALED
By Scott Indermaur

TALES FROM THE ISLAND
Jiri Makovec

FILM NOIR SERIES
Dana Simmons

Documentary

INTENSIVE CARE
By Andrea Stultiens

T’GA ZA JUG
By Marcin Sojka

NACHKLANG
By Uwe Schober

CALIFORNIA LOST
By Keith Skelton

WENZHOU
By Xiao Xiao Xu

NAVAL BOLIVIANA
By Andrea Stultiens

LIVING ON WHEELS
By Gordon Welters

DE PROEFTUIN
By Inge Stolwijk

AFTERMATH
By Kerry Mansfield

THE ONLY WAY OUT
By Sergi Camara

GO HOME
By Mu Ge

FORD DUNTON
By Nick Ballon

LEARNING TO FLY
By Rafael Arocha

PIR-SHALIAR
By Maciej Moskwa

OE MENIA - WITH ME
By Bieke Depoorter

View all 2009 Honorable Mentions here.

Photo’s and video exhibition!

Last Thursday we opened the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Exhibition and celebrated the winning photographic narratives of Francesco Giusty and David Favrod in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. It was a great evening where the digital event turned very physical. It was great to shake hands and speak to so many people face to face. Check out the short video below!

Opening Viewbook PhotoStory Exhibition from Viewbook on Vimeo.

Check a slideshow of the evening right here

Winners 2009 announced!

We are honored to announce the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 winners. The first annual Viewbook PhotoStory contest has been won by Francesco Giusti and David Favrod with remarkably strong contemporary documentary and conceptual photographic narratives. Naturally the jury had a very difficult task selecting the best works out of the 500 already pre-selected photo stories. The level of submissions were absolutely hight.

Italian photographer Francesco Giusti won the documentary category with an inspiring portrait story of the members of the SAPE, a group of remarkably elegant gentleman from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, Africa. The story reflects the wish of young people in particular not to be left apart by society.

Swiss - Japanese David Favrod has won first prize in the conceptual category with a very personal story GAIJIN. ‘Gaijin’ is a Japanese word meaning ‘foreigner’. David; “It is from the feeling of rejection and also from a desire to prove that I am as Japanese as I am Swiss that this work was created. Gaijin is a fictional recital, a tool for my quest for identity, where auto-portraits imply an intimate and solitary relationship that I have with myself. The mirror image is frozen in a figurative alter ego that serves as an anchor point.”

Both artists won prizes with a value exceeding $12.000 including lifelong subscriptions to Viewbook PRO online services and GUP magazine, book publications and an exhibition in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Other prizes

The following artists have also been commended in the Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 Awards:

Jury Prizes
2nd Prize-documentary: Khaled Hasan for ‘Living Stone: A community losing its Life’
3rd Prize-documentary: Matteo Armellini for ‘In the Middle of Nowhere’

2nd Prize-conceptual: Ilse Leenders for ‘Tokyo Monogatari’
3rd Prize-conceptual: Thorsten Kirchhoff for ‘Alibi’

Public vote prizes
1st Prize-documentary: Khaled Hasan for ‘Living Stone: A community losing its Life’
2nd Prize-documentary: Galanakis & Galanou for ‘Gavdos’
3rd Prize-documentary: Jonathan P levy for ‘In Svalbard’

1st Prize-conceptual: Can Eren for ‘Inside of Out’
2nd Prize-conceptual: Maria Rudnaya for ‘Insensible addiction’
3rd Prize-conceptual: David Favrod for ‘Gaijin’

Book publications

All winning photo stories will be published in single books with Blurb, as well as a complete Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 yearbook which covers all winning 2009 stories. The books will be available for sale on 1 November 2009 at www.viewbookphotostory.com

Exhibition

From 19 - 29 November the winning works SAPE by Francesco Giusti and Gaijin by David Favrod will be exhibited in the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. The opening takes place on Friday 19 November, with words and drinks on the house. More information will be available soon on www.viewbookphotostory.com

Remarkably successful first year

The first edition of the Viewbook PhotoStory contest received close to 1000 entries from all over the world in just three months time. After a critical pre-selection more then 500 photographic narratives got published on the contest website and 100-thousands of people viewed, voted and commented. An internationally renowned jury selected the three best narratives per category. Viewbook PhotoStory functions as a premium platform for emerging talents to face the establishment. The annual online competition aims to discover inspiring, high-quality photo stories within the photography community and bring them to a broad audience. Submissions for the next years event open March 2010.

Submissions 2009 closed

Viewbook PhotoStory call for entries

Today Viewbook PhotoStory 2009, a new global photography contest opened its submissions. All documentary and conceptual photographers around the world are encouranged to submit photographic narratives in the form of self created online galleries, that are judged by the public and an international panel of industry professionals.

The competition is all about the art of shooting a strong series, making a critical selection, determining the right order, writing captions and an appealing title. And it’s about the impact that a photo story has on the audience. 

Viewbook PhotoStory is open for pros and emerging talents alike at no cost. All participants can easily create and submit their online gallery by signing up for a free, no-obligation, 60 day Viewbook Pro account.

Submissions open at 20 June 2009. All photographers can upload, edit and submit their works until the closing date of 1 October 2009. We encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible to get the most out of the public voting and get your photo story seen by as many people as possible.