Photography students are tomorrow’s professionals.
Alongside the Amateur and Professional competitions, the Sony World Photography Awards launched an international student program and competition, incorporating universities from around the world.
This global initiative which combines competitions, lectures, master classes and prizes awarded to the best photography students and universities, is one of the fundamental principals of the World Photography Awards organization.
The 2008 University program, welcomed students from ten universities across Europe - Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and UK - who all competed in Cannes for the grand prize of over 45,000 Euros worth of state of the art photography equipment for their university, courtesy of headline sponsor Sony. After a diverse schedule of activities from photography assignments to master classes, Oriol Llados and Salvi Danés from Institut D’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya have won the coveted prize.
Along with the winner a few talented students received special commendations from the judges and also from the city of Cannes.
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IEFC Institut D’estudis Fotografics de Catalunya
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The two winning students are – Salvi Danes & Oriol Liados
“It was an experience for me to participate in an initiative like this. It is a good launching pad for young photographers like me. I am proud to have formed part in the first edition of these awards I have won so far in a final where they appreciated our ability in so little time and space. I hope this is just the beginning...” Salvi Danes www.salvidanes.com
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The judging panel for the student competition included Tom Ang, Leading Digital Photography Specialist and Academy Member; Tom Stoddart, Photojournalist & Honorary Board Member; Hugh Pinney, Director of Photography; EMEA - Managing Editor, News (Getty Images); and Yann SALMON-LEGAGNEUR Digital Imaging Europe (DIME) and Product Channel Manager (Sony).
Each set of images received was truly unique and images were of a very high standard. The judges felt there were some images that could not go without a mention and therefore decided to pick 4 commended images that stood out above the rest. Very big congratulations to Carly Steibrunn & Christophe Mattern from France; Salvi Danes & Oriol Liados from Spain; Lucy Dawkins & Magnus Arrevad from the UK and Tiago Costa & Paulo Andrade from Portugal.
The Cannes tourism board kindly agreed to buy images that the City of Cannes will use in future marketing campaigns to promote the the City of Cannes using images taken in the competition. Judged by Hamed OUALDI Développeur MULTIMEDIA Palais des Festivals et des Congrès and presented by Jean-Jacques LOTTERMOSER Marketing & sales Director Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The photographers were given 100 Euros vouchers for their images. Congratulations to Tiago Costa & Paulo Andrade from Portugal, Wojciech Kukuczka & Dariusz Zaras from Poland and Salvi Danes & Oriol Liados from Spain.
This global initiative which combines competitions, lectures, master classes and prizes awarded to the best photography students and universities, is one of the fundamental principals of the World Photography Awards organization.
The 2008 University program, welcomed students from ten universities across Europe - Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and UK - who all competed in Cannes for the grand prize of over 45,000 Euros worth of state of the art photography equipment for their university, courtesy of headline sponsor Sony. After a diverse schedule of activities from photography assignments to master classes, Oriol Llados and Salvi Danés from Institut D’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya have won the coveted prize.
Along with the winner a few talented students received special commendations from the judges and also from the city of Cannes.
Winning University
IEFC Institut D’estudis Fotografics de Catalunya
www.iefc.cat
The two winning students are – Salvi Danes & Oriol Liados
“It was an experience for me to participate in an initiative like this. It is a good launching pad for young photographers like me. I am proud to have formed part in the first edition of these awards I have won so far in a final where they appreciated our ability in so little time and space. I hope this is just the beginning...” Salvi Danes www.salvidanes.com
Download press release here
Commended images
Each set of images received was truly unique and images were of a very high standard. The judges felt there were some images that could not go without a mention and therefore decided to pick 4 commended images that stood out above the rest. Very big congratulations to Carly Steibrunn & Christophe Mattern from France; Salvi Danes & Oriol Liados from Spain; Lucy Dawkins & Magnus Arrevad from the UK and Tiago Costa & Paulo Andrade from Portugal.
