ZEISS Photography Award Winner Announced

© Kevin Faingnaert, Belgium, Winner, 2017 ZEISS Photography Award

The World Photography Organisation and ZEISS today announce Belgian photographer Kevin Faingnaert as the winner of the 2017 ZEISS Photography Award "Seeing Beyond".  Faingnaert is recognised for "Føroyar", a photography series about life in remote and sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands.
 
Now in its second year, the theme of ZEISS Photography Award was "Meaningful Places" which challenged professional photographers to look past the ordinary and every day and submit a body of work that captured extraordinary aspects of the world we live in.  The award is a collaboration between the World Photography Organisation and ZEISS and is designed push the creative talents of photographers worldwide.

© Kevin Faingnaert, Belgium, Winner, 2017 ZEISS Photography Award

The winning work was selected from more than 31,000 images, submitted by 4,677 photographers from 132 countries.  

As the 2017 ZEISS Photography Award winner, Kevin Faingnaert receives €12,000 worth of ZEISS lenses and €3,000 in travel expenses to complete a photography project. 

The judges also recognised the work of nine further photographers:

• Anna Filipova, Bulgaria/ UK
• Mario Adario, Italy
• Christopher Roche, UK
• Sonja Hamad, Germany
• Ben Bond Obiri Asamoah, Ghana
• Frederik Buyckx, Belgium
• Nicholas White, UK
• Fabian Muir, Australia
• Nicky Newman, South Africa

The work of both the winning and shortlisted photographers will be shown in London as part of the Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr – 2017 Exhibition at Somerset House from April 20 - May 7.