Event History
Bird in Flight Prize was launched in 2018. Last year's winner was Valentine Bo with “Your next step would be to do the Transmission” project. Projects of the photographers from the Netherlands, Armenia, Poland, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, and the USA were on the shortlist hat was determined among 375 applications from 49 countries.
The concept of the Bird in Flight Prize is to support photographers who think outside the box of traditional artistic standards.
Photographers from all over the world are welcome to participate.
Prizes:
- The main prize is 2000 euros.
- Ten best projects will be published by Bird in Flight and displayed at the exhibition at the Set art space in Kyiv in October.
- In the special nomination of the Panasonic Readers’ Choice Award the editors of Bird in Flight will define the shortlist of 30 photo series. The author of the best project will be chosen by open voting through the website of the competition. The prize is a Panasonic Lumix GX9 camera.
- Portfolio review: fifteen participants will receive a rare opportunity to get in-depth reviews of their work by the jury board members.
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Our contest is not about photoprojects that cater to the existing general demand. It’s about discovering new ways to tell a story using the means and tools of photography. We encourage artistic freedom and diversity therefore we don’t impose time constraints upon our participants. We do not limit them in their choices of subjects and creativity methods.
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This year, member of Magnum Photos Antoine d'Agata (Paris), YET Magazine editor-in-chief Salvatore Vitale (Zurich), member of the Unseen advisory committee Emilia van Lynden (Amsterdam), artist Ola Lanko (Amsterdam), photographers Dmitry Kostyukov (Paris) and Vlad Sokhin (Chiang Mai) are on the panel of judges.
