The Minimalist Photography Awards has announced the winners of the sixth edition of their competition. As stated on the organizers' website: “With more than 3,400 submissions from talented photographers worldwide, this year’s awards have showcased an extraordinary level of creativity and skill in minimalist photography.”
The jury selected the best images of 2024 across 12 categories: Abstract, Landscape, Portrait, Street, Open Theme, Photomanipulation, Conceptual, Night, Aerial, Fine Art, Architecture, and Long Exposure. Eva Chupikova has been named Minimalist Photographer of the Year for her photo series titled “Anna.”
Scroll down to see the best pictures from this year’s Minimalist Photography Awards by both amateur and professional photographers from around the world.
More info: Instagram | minimalistphotographyawards.com
#21 Street, Honorable Mention: The Escape By Marco Wilm
This photo was taken in Berlin, May 2024. It shows a boy running and jumping from white circle to white circle.
14points
#22 Night, 2nd Place Winner: Heavenly By Cliff Spooner
A local yet remote church at night beneath a starry sky with distant light pollution, partially lit by a full moon from behind my position.
14points
#23 Fine-Art, Honorable Mention: Parking Spot By Rob Chambliss
Danville, California
13points
#24 Photo Manipulation, 3rd Place Winner: The Tunnel By Selina Bressan
I transformed the main entrance of a building into a tunnel leading to a new world. This picture is part of a series called “The suns”.
13points
#25 Architecture Photographer Of The Year: Another Brick In The Wall By Les Forrester
It’s not often today you see a modern building constructed with bricks, so it’s a welcome change from the steel, glass and concrete we normally see.
12points
#26 Landscape, 3rd Place Winner: Transcendence – Sand Dunes Of Morocco By Rosa Frei
I have photographed the sand dunes of Morocco for 17 years. But only since I discovered the ICM technique (Intentional Camera Movement) do I feel like I capture the spirit of the dunes and the essence of time.
12points
#27 Photo Manipulation Photographer Of The Year: Innervisions By George Byrne
For the Innervisions series, I wanted to explore ideas around the subconscious mind by tapping into dreams and symbols. This process led me to further embrace the less literal aspects of my photographic practice.
The resulting images, while rooted in the urban environments of LA and Miami, are largely dreamscapes. I also tried approaching certain images like abstract paintings, these are impressions, heavily edited and assembled in ways as to promote the composition, rather than the context.
The term Innervisions was inspired by Stevie Wonder’s 1973 masterpiece of the same name – a record about the sensory joys/struggles of the inner self.
12points
#28 Architecture, 3rd Place Winner: Guggenheim Ceiling By Margaret Renaud
11points
#29 Long Exposure, 3rd Place Winner: Time Less By Martin Annand
A collection of images from around the UK’s coastline.
11points
#30 Portrait, Honorable Mention: Phenomenon By Ypatia Kornarou
The Photographic Project “Phenomenon” is inspired by the symbolic operation of the “Doomsday Clock”. The “Apocalypse Phenomenon” is decoded through a non-“real time” countdown of the clock hands concerning the extinction of humanity.
Time shortens as the clock hands approach midnight, the end of the world. Nuclear weapons, wars, climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence and the evolution of technology in general are essentially the factors that have influenced in recent years the uncontrollable march of the 90 seconds left in 2024 on the “Doomsday Clock “.
8points
