Photography

Despite masterfully capturing a decisive emotional moment after a boxing bout, Vladimir Tadic doesn’t even consider himself to be a sports photographer – landscapes are his specialty. But genre-swapping didn’t stop him topping the Sports category in the fourteenth season of HIPA (the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Awards), which was themed…

South African photographer and conservationist, Chris Fallows, is so dedicated to his craft that his return on spending 100 days on location could be just a couple of pictures. But as he puts it, “either I’m a terribly bad photographer or I have set the bar very high to try to create something truly exceptional.” And the judges of the fourteenth season of HIPA, themed ‘Power’, clearly…

As a journalist writing photography news for over a decade it takes something rather special to make a new camera feature stand out. I must admit, I can’t but involuntarily roll my eyes when another new camera model surpasses the old one with little more than a few more megapixels to sing and shout about – it’s not quite the photographic revolution I’m hoping for when I see the press…

Wrapped in dense morning fog and charged with stillness, Maidan by Italian photographer Andrea Bettancini has won First Place in AAP Magazine #53: Travels. Captured in Kolkata, India, the image depicts a mounted Indian Army soldier sitting on a horse in front of a bare tree, surrounded by an arid landscape: a winning combination of emotional restraint, cinematic atmosphere, and silence. This…