With great enthusiasm we announce the 36 finalists who have brilliantly passed the first phase of the selection for the Open Call “Project selection by Harry Gruyaert”. The Magnum photographer has identified these extraordinary projects among 400 submissions, and will now analyze them carefully in the coming days.
The final choice promises to be anything but simple: the shortlisted projects fascinated Gruyaert for their ability to stand out, for their originality and variety of photographic styles and genres. The absence of a specific theme for this year’s edition has given rise to an extraordinary wealth of different portfolios and projects, demonstrating the infinite creativity and imagination that lies behind a photographer’s lens.
Here is a preview of the results, with the list of candidates in alphabetical order:
Selected authors:
ALENA GROM – Stolen Spring
Andrei Furnea – On my way to somewhere else
Andrew Feiler – A Better Life for Their Children
Andy Hall – Tales of The City
Brandon Byeongbeom Kim – 4 years
Dmitry Stepanenko – A Day Trip to the Seaside
Elisa Molteni – Fragments of connection
Farhad Babayev – Urban Code: Traces of a Silent Language
Ferhat Ayne – un(der)cover
Francesco Aglieri Rinella – Galaxies Beneath A Dying Sky
Fuad Shafiyev – Day For Night
Gerald Assouline – ESPERAR from port to port
Giannis Angelakis – Two people at summer
Jamie Johnson – Growing Up Travelling
Josefine Rauch – Temple Road
Justin Maxon – Decolonizing Care
Krzysztof Bednarski – La Vida Lenta
Kyokin Nakamura – Touch
Lorenzo Di Candia – DESOLATA
Lucas Leo Catalano – Agama Tirta Kontemporer
Ludovic Vauthier – Bâtisseurs
Marco Gehlhar – The Great Filter by Marco Gehlhar
Mariagrazia Beruffi – VOLA COLOMBA
Marie Capesius – HELIOPOLIS
Marina Dego – The Horizon is Always Ahead
Mark Zhu – Chinatowns
Nicola Fioravanti – Yellow Light Blue Shadow
Nicolas Brunetti – Inshallah
Olivia Rotondo – Whales fly merrily.
Peter Pflügler – Now is not the right time
Shunta Kimura – The Chronicle of Us
Simone Filpa – Journey Through The Greek Islands
Stefan Bladh – Hidden Kingdom
Tarek Zaigouche – Cabo Verde
Tiziana Amico – Nunca Fui Adolescente
Ton Toemen – Blue Lines
The appointment is at the Trieste Photo Days festival: Sunday 27 October 2024 at 5.15 pm in the Sala Xenia (Riva Tre Novembre / Corner Via Mazzini – Trieste). Harry Gruyaert will proclaim and comment live on the winning project. For those who cannot attend the festival, the results will be published on our social channels!
Awards for Best Project
- Personal exhibition at Trieste Photo Days 2025
- Two-night stay for 2 people to attend your own live exhibition
- Live talk with the author
- Publication of an extract of the project in the Festival Catalogue
Martin Miklas, winner of the Project Selection curated by Jerome Sessini for TPD 2024, will present his project “A Journey of the Fish” (see event) on Sunday 27 October in Sala Xenia at 3.15pm. His photography exhibition will be open from 25 to 27 October and on 25 October Miklas himself will give a guided tour of his exhibition at 3pm.
Portfolio gallery in alphabetical order
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