DPG and Wetpixel are excited to announce the judges for the DPG/Wetpixel Masters Underwater Imaging Competition 2021: Imran Ahmad, Mike Bartick, Florian Fischer, Stephen Frink and Jennifer Hayes. Discover out extra about this yr’s illustrious panel beneath.
Our judges might be poring over your entries about 4 weeks from now and selecting the most effective photos within the contest’s six classes—Vast Angle Conventional and Macro Conventional, Vast Angle Unrestricted and Macro Unrestricted, Black & White, and Video—and, after all, crowning the general winner.
Go to the competitors web page on UnderwaterCompetition.com at present and submit your entries. The deadline is Sunday, October thirty first at 11:59PM PST.
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer is a German director who based Behind the Masks in 2014 to deliver inventive individuals from everywhere in the world collectively to supply tales about ocean tradition. Behind the Masks took the diving business by storm and is now a group of like-minded ocean fanatics.
Florian’s imaginative and prescient and distinctive strategy to underwater movies have earned Behind the Masks over 100 worldwide movie awards, together with three-time winner of the New York Metropolis Drone Movie Competition and winner of the World Shootout, and he was chosen as “Individual of the 12 months” by Tauchen, Europe’s largest diving journal, in 2017. A number of collaborations with main personalities within the image-making group have resulted in his involvement as a speaker and host for numerous occasions, together with the world’s largest water sports activities reveals.
Imran Ahmad
Imran Ahmad is one in all Asia’s most celebrated and internationally revealed underwater photographers. He has been capturing the magnificence of life each beneath and above the water’s floor for over 22 years, and is understood for his experimental images with gentle and movement.
Imran graduated from Middlesex College, UK with a Bachelor of Arts in Filmmaking. He’s an envoy for Seacam, Blancpain, Mares, Nikon, DAN, and RGBlue Lights, and is a member of the Ocean Artists Society. He spends a lot of his time as a college lecturer {and professional} photographer, giving shows and selling images in all of its facets. He additionally serves as a choose for a number of influential picture competitions all over the world. Imran at the moment runs workshops on conservation, underwater, journey, and industrial images, in addition to operating picture dive journeys all over the world.
Jennifer Hayes
Jennifer Hayes is an aquatic biologist and photojournalist specializing in pure historical past and ocean environments from the tropics to the polar areas. She is a contributing photographer, creator and speaker for Nationwide Geographic Companions.
Jennifer’s ardour for the examine and conservation of sharks and sturgeons led to graduate levels in zoology and marine biology. She is an award-winning essayist, photographer, and creator of quite a few publications and books on marine environments. Her work has been featured on CNN, ABC Good Morning America, Nationwide Geographic TV, Wild and Disney Channel. Jennifer’s present Nationwide Geographic tasks embody a multiple-year documentation of sturgeons and a long-term collaboration to doc harp seals within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as a face of local weather change. Jennifer helps ocean options by means of #Collaboration and #NextGeneration.
Mike Bartick
Mike Bartick is a working underwater photographer residing in Anilao, Philippines, and a photograph professional at Crystal Blue Resort. Initially from Southern California, he has an insatiable love for locating distinctive marine life and telling their story by means of pictures and video. Mike is a extensively revealed, award-winning photographer, author and worldwide public speaker with work showing month-to-month in numerous publications, aquariums and museums.
Mike hosts picture clinics, workshops and seminars at Crystal Blue Resort, concentrating on the completely different facets of underwater images and the pure historical past of Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Mike can be a world ambassador for Sea&Sea underwater imaging, Kraken Sports activities and Ultralight Management Techniques, and works with numerous corporations to deliver high quality merchandise to market.
Stephen Frink
Stephen Frink is among the many world’s most continuously revealed underwater photographers, with a profession spanning 4 many years. He arrived in Key Largo, Florida in 1978 to open a small studio devoted to underwater picture companies, however he quickly started to obtain assignments to {photograph} and write articles for the buyer dive publications of the day. He labored as a photojournalist for Pores and skin Diver journal for 17 years, after which because the Director of Pictures for Scuba Diving journal.
For the previous 10 years, Stephen has been the writer of Alert Diver journal, a coffee-table collectible journal for the members of the Divers Alert Community. Stephen teaches Masters stage programs at Stephen Frink Faculty of Underwater Digital Imaging every summer time in his house waters off Key Largo and gives dive excursions emphasizing underwater images by means of his journey firm, WaterHouse Excursions.
