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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 Ziyah Gafic |
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Winning Project:
Troubled Islam – Short Stories from Troubled Societies
Ziyah Gafic is completing a series of photo essays that focus on the aftermath of recent war and violence in Muslim communities in Europe, Africa and Asia. His goal is to capture the quiet loneliness and determination of people carrying on with their lives when the very fabric of their community, rituals and social life has been torn apart.
While completing his documentation of post-war Bosnia, Gafic realized that other countries were in a similar struggle, that of ethnic violence fueled by ancient disputes. As a result, he compares the circumstances that can lead to a country’s disintegration, and records the consequences with the empathy of someone who has gone through a related ordeal. The Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography enables Gafic to complete his ninth and final photo essay on Lebanon, where both Muslims and non-Muslims still coexist despite damaged relations and continuous foreign interference. |
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Biography
Born in 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Gafic began his professional photography career in 2001 after gaining a degree in world literature from Sarajevo University. He focuses on societies in conflict and transition, and the aftermath of war. Since 1999, he has completed projects in his native Bosnia as well as Palestine, Israel, Kurdistan, Iraq, Ossetia, Rwanda, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Gafic’s work has appeared in Liberation, Le Monde 2, La Reppublica, Photo, Telegraph Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, L’Espresso and Newsweek. His photo essay on the aftermath of the Bosnian war was published in Tales from a Globalizing World by Thames & Hudson. His photographs are also included in The Photograph as Contemporary Art, both published by Thames & Hudson.
Gafic won the Ian Parry Scholarship in 2001 and attended World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass. In 2002, he won Kodak’s Award for Young Reporters and several World Press Photo honors, exhibited at Visa Pour l’Image Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France. Photo District News named Gafic an Emerging Artist in 2003. That same year he won Grand Prix Discovery of the Year at Rencontres du Photographie Arles. In 2005, Gafic’s work in Chechnya received the Giacomelli Memorial Fund award and, the following year, he was nominated for UNICEF’s Photographer of the Year.
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