The winners of the Nikon Photo Contest 2020–2021 have been introduced. Winners of the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Particular Encouragement Awards had been chosen from greater than 65,000 entries by shooters throughout 150 nations and areas around the globe. Moreover, two works had been recipients of Nikon’s Choice Award, chosen by Nikon staff.
Maybe unsurprisingly, given the instances, the winners of the 2 high prizes associated to the coronavirus pandemic. The recipient of the Grand Prize for the photograph competitors is a chunk titled “Radiance” by Amin Nazari from Iran; the picture exhibits an aged girl in Razi Hospital in Ahvaz, Iran, receiving remedy for the virus. The Grand Prize for the quick movie competitors is Escaping from Karma by Rei Kuroda from Japan. The movie explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has modified our lives and the way we will “break away from the varied constrictions of society.”
Nonetheless, it’s the winner of Nikon’s Choice Award within the quick movie class—The Ocean Voice by Rodrigo Thomé—that can curiosity underwater videographers. Thomé, an underwater photographer and filmmaker primarily based in Rio de Janeiro, has been concerned in quite a few Brazilian TV exhibits on topics equivalent to night time diving within the Galápagos, Brazil’s flooded caves, and the subaquatic lifetime of Alaska. In The Ocean Voice, Rodrigo explores our connection to the ocean and the way we’re threatening its habitats and inhabitants—with the ocean addressing the viewer because the story’s narrator. It’s a robust work that brings collectively some mesmerizing clips, each underwater and aerial.
The profitable works shall be showcased in a avenue exhibition happening in Tokyo, New York and London from October fifth to November 14th. Try all the winning entries and Rodrigo Thomé’s awarded movie beneath.
