Sony World Photography Awards released the short lists of the photographers nominated for the 2017 edition finals, with six Romanian photographers among them.
Adi Bulboacă and Ioana Moldovan have been nominated on the professional competition, after the jury had reviewed from 5 to 10 photos made by them.
Alex Andriesi, Radu Dumitrescu-Elian and Sorin Rechițan were nominated within the open competition, while Rares Taciu is on the short list for the youth contest with one photo.
Adi Bulboacă was nominated on the Architecture category for the series of the photos of Silver Beach Hotel in Hungary.
“I had the chance to spend 4 days in the Silver Beach Hotel in November 2016, off the shore of Lake Balaton in Hungary. It’s very much a summer resort, so I found myself out of season while working as a set photographer for a film. Built between 1978 and 1983, the hotel was designed by the brutalist architect Tillai ErnÅ‘. All the rooms were obviously vacant, so I was able to snoop around and explore the entire resort to my heart’s content. The place has a retro feel to it, and a soothing patina that I hope I was able to capture. I was fascinated by how stark yet visually inviting this <anachronistic> hotel could be,” the photographer confessed. See his photo gallery here.
Ioana Moldovan, an independent photojournalist and writer from Bucharest, was nominated on Daily Life category for some photos featuring the life of a 61yo country female doctor who is providing medical services for the community in Gânagioava village, SW Romania. The photos are capturing the doctor seeing the patients in their houses or praying in her practice.
“Doctor Floarea Ciupitu has been a family doctor serving Gangiova, a village in south-west Romania for the past three decades. Ciupitu oversees roughly 1,700 registered patients. On week days she sleeps above her practice in a tiny room, on an old hospital bed. At night, a tiny flashlight guides her way one store up to her modest accommodation, no electricity on the staircase. Ciupitu is living proof that, despite all the difficulties and the problems in a flawed system, there still are doctors who commit to their patients. She stands to help remember that being a doctor is a calling,” reads the caption on the www.worldphoto.org. See her photos here.
Photos and articles by Ioana Moldovan were published in the New YorkTimes, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, LensCulture, Radio France Internationale or Vice.
With his photo “Far away from gravitation“, Romanian-born Alex Andriesi, relocated to France since childhood, was shortlisted on the Enhanced category of the the open competition. Taken in Grenoble, France, the photo is capturing “the child’s innocence, fragility and sweetness”.
Radu Dumitrescu-Elian is also on the short list of the open competition on Culture category with the “Prayer“, a photo taken in Bukovina, featuring a 76-year old woman living in a house with no electricity, who reads her prayers at candlelight.
“Altai traveller” has placed Sorin Rechitan at the Nature category in the open contest. His black&white photo is capturing an alpinist on Belukha Mountain, in Altai Republic, Russia.
For the Youth Competition, photographers aged from 12 to 19 were asked to send only one image expressing the word ‘beauty’. Rares Taciu and his “Remember“ photo is a portrait of one of his friends, Mara, captured at daylight.