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Current winners 2008 - New winners |
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Lorena Ros, February
Ian Martin, February
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Past winners 2007 |
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Jonathan Lowenstein, September
Leo Maguire, September
Jonathan Torgovnik, September
Ziyah Gafic, February
Christopher Anderson, February
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Past winners 2006 |
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Sarah Caron, September
Rena Effendi, September
Simon Roberts, September
Kristen Ashburn, February
Andrew Testa, February
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Past winners 2005 |
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Balazs Gardi, September
Scott Lewis, September
Kai Wiedenhöefer, September
David S. Holloway, February
Dario Mitidieri, February
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Portfolio imagery courtesy of Rena Effendi |
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Winning Project:
Lives Along The Pipeline
Rena Effendi’s “Lives Along The Pipeline” will document lives along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, a multi-billion dollar project that is talked about as part of The New Great Game. Effendi will focus on the struggle between geo-political interests and the people trapped in between.
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Biography
Rena Effendi (born 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan) has been active as a photographer since 2001 and from the outset, her interest has been social documentary photography. Her work focuses on themes of urbanization, post-conflict societies, corruption, and the oil industry's effects on people's lives.
Effendi has exhibited in Azerbaijan, Germany, Greece, France, Holland and lectured at the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism (USA). In 2004, she was a regional winner of the "Fifty Crows" International Fund for Documentary Photography competition and was awarded Azerbaijan's Photographic Artist of the Year. In 2005, she was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and received honorable mention in National Geographic's "All Roads" photography competition.
Effendi's work was selected for personal exhibitions at the 2006 "Visa Pour l'Image" Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France and at the "Les Imagiques" Festival of Photography in Bordeaux, France.
Her work has been published in Le Monde, Newsweek, Ogoniok, EurasiaNet, Photo District News, Expert, Photo & Video, and International Investor Magazine.
Effendi is a member of a Moscow-based Agency.Photographer.RU.
See more photography by Rena Effendi. |
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