The 2020 All About Photo Awards

1-Monica-Denevan — Across the River, Burma From the series “Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma.” © **Monica Denevan,** United States, 1st place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Photographer of the Year: Monica Denevan

Today we share the winners of the prestigious photo competition, All About Photo Awards 2020, The Mind’s Eye, organized by All About Photo.

A panel of 7 expert jurors including Elizabeth Avedon (Photography book and exhibition designer, independent curator and writer), Laurent Baheux (Photographer, UN Ambassador for the environment and active protector of wildlife), Alex Cammarano (Founder and CEO of Daylighted), Julia Dean (Photographer, Educator, Writer, and Executive Director/ Founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography – LACP), Sandrine Hermand-Grisel (Photographer, Founder & Editor of All About Photo), Ann Jastrab (Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA), and Juli Lowe (Director, Catherine Edelman Gallery) selected the 40 winning photographs.

The winner and Photographer of the Year 2020 is Monica Denevan (USA) with her image “Across the River, Burma” from the series “Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma.”
The second-place winner is Gabriele Galimberti (Italy), the third-place winner is Rebecca Moseman (USA), the fourth-place winner Nadia De Lange (Switzerland) and the fifth-place winner is Nicole Cambre (Belgium).

Merit Awards go to: Beverly Conley (USA), Anne Berry (USA), Lori Hawkins (USA), Deb Young (USA), Lynzy Billing (Philippines), Margaret McCarthy (USA), Jo Ann Chaus (USA), Brooke Shaden (USA), Jennifer Garza-Cuen (USA), Hardijanto Budiman (Indonesia) and Elena Paraskeva (Cyprus) are also amongst the winners.Marcel van Balken (Netherlands), Alain Schroeder (Belgium), Rory Doyle (USA), Azim Khan Ronnie (Bangladesh), Tomas Neuwirth (Czech Republic), Trung Pham Huy (Vietnam), Tony Law (Australia), Matthew Portch (Australia), Amos Chapple (New Zealand), Mustafa AbdulHadi (Bahrain), Francisco Diaz (USA), Kosuke Kitajima (Japan), Xiangli Zhang (China), Chin Leong Teo (Japan), Donell Gumiran (United Arab Emirates), Andre Fonseca (USA), Francesco Pace Rizzi (Italy), Peyman Naderi (Iran), Yoni Blau (Israel), Zay Yar Lin (Myanmar), Anuar Patjane (Mexico), Svetlin Yosifov (Bulgaria), Dotan Saguy (USA), Kohei Ueno (Japan) and Go Nakamura (USA).

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Editor, All About Photo states:

First of all, I would like to express my deepest thanks to our amazing jurors. It was a privilege to be able to work alongside Elizabeth Avedon,Laurent Baheux, Alex Cammarano, Julia Dean, Ann Jastrab and Juli Lowe as co-jurors for this 2020 edition of the All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye. Knowing how important it is to have one’s work acknowledged by our peers, it was a humbling experience to benefit from their experience and sharp eye. All About Photo couldn’t thrive without the kindness and support of our amazing jurors. Thanks to their dedication, we can stay true to our goal of discovering existing and new talents and to help them gain the recognition and exposure they deserve.

The All About Photo Awards is an event that I look forward to each year. Thousands of images I have never seen before scroll on my computer screen to my delight. Occasionally there are images that have captivated me before and I thrill to see them anew. It is a fascinating experience and yet a difficult one at the same time. Being a photographer myself, I find it sometimes hard to judge the work of others when I know how challenging it can be to express a vision, to capture an instant, to stand out from the crowd.

When you have to review thousands of images, in the end each juror’s choice is subjective and echoes their sensibilities. Our favorite images might not have always been the same, but after all the judging, we found out that whatever our preferences, some images stood out because of their compelling subjects or their undeniable quality. This is how we came up with the 40 winning images. There were many more that would have been showcased in the winner’s gallery if we could have featured more selections. That is the reason why, not only did I want to feature the winning images in this special edition of AAP Magazine, but also some of the others that were just a step from the podium. It will give you an idea of the amazing work that was submitted this year.

Whether your work is featured in this edition of AAP Magazine or not, I am grateful to all the photographers for submitting their work to the All About Photo Awards. Thank you for allowing us to discover so many incredible images, for enabling us to travel, laugh, hold our breath, wonder, think about the world we live in and the endless possibilities of the art of photography. It was a long, but fascinating journey. I hope we will be able to discover more of your incredible projects in the near future. All About Photo wouldn’t exist without you.