IPS September 2019 – EIC Winners
Dear all,
On September 18, we opened our IPS – Season 2019/2020 with the EIC competition featuring the Theme “People”. Joe Newman was the featured presenter and judge.
Joe is the founder of Focus on the Story, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that supports and encourages photographers of diverse backgrounds to explore visual storytelling’s critical role in documenting the world around us and its ability to spur social change. During the past three years, he has led five photography workshops in Cuba, published three collaborative photo books financed through Kickstarter campaigns, taken on photography assignments for various NGO clients, and founded the Focus on the Story International Photo Festival. His photography has been exhibited at the Leica Gallery DC, and the annual FotoWeek DC and Exposed DC shows. Prior to launching Focus on the Story, Joe worked as communications director at the Project On Government Oversight and, before that, spent 17 years as an award-winning journalist at various newspapers.
Before Joe’s presentation; Akshat Chaturvedi gave a FlashTalk session on his “The Immerse In Kachchh” project; an attempt to connect with the 2001 Earthquake survivors individuals and the landscape. The data and information available of this internationally funded disaster recovery project becomes the foundation to identify themes under which the individual stories and images of environmental and social impacts of the development interventions will be collected. I believe this will work because this project aims to tease out the human and environmental side of stories of the developmental interventions which usually remains recorded in the heavy jargoned and mostly academic reports and documents. This entire exercise will be done by a group of photographers and writers who will travel to India and spend 7 days in Kachchh district interacting with households and historical sites. Take a look of this sample output photobook that my wife and I have recently published after conducting a dry run of the above mentioned expedition.
Congratulations to the winners, especially to those who won for the first time and/or who won multiple awards!
The winning images are available at the IPS Flickr page.
Group A:
| Pos | Name | Title |
| 1st | Xiaoxiao Peng | I am grumpy |
| 2nd | Jean Boyd | Mending Nets |
| 3rd | Barbara Mierau-klein | Shy Girl |
| HC | Bermet Sydygalieva | Tourism vs Immigration |
| HC | Bermet Sydygalieva | Soccer Grandma |
| HC | Chirag Sanghani | Art of Expressions |
| HC | Dorte Verner | Wodaabe Gerewol |
| HC | Fred Cochard | Doll House Knock Knock |
| HC | Fred Cochard | Morning Reverie |
| HC | Jose Deduque | 100 Anos |
| HC | Manorama Rani | Posing |
| HC | Manuel Morquecho | The Text |
| HC | Mary Ongwen | Long road |
| HC | Prashant Tanavade | Catch of the Day |
Group B:
| Pos | Name | Title |
| 1st | Mai Tong | Victory Child in Kathmandu, Nepal |
| 2nd | Akshatvishal Chaturvedi | Shavasana plural |
| 3rd | Daniel De La Morena | Enjoying the ride |
| HC | Alasdair Miller | Yekebiti gebeya |
| HC | Georges Zahar | Untitled2 |
| HC | Georges Zahar | Untitled3 |
| HC | Mai Tong | Daily Toiling to the Market in Kathmandu |
| HC | Mourad Shalaby | NepalGaze of a Veteran (Cairo, Egypt) |
| HC | Natalie Weigum | Family |
| HC | Van Pulley | In Pain and Ink |
| HC | Van Pulley | Solace |
| HC | Van Pulley | The Game |
Marisa Loddo / IPS President
- September 30, 2019