The Federation of European Professional Photographers (FEP) has announced the category winners of its 2011 competition. The “Golden Camera” winners include René de Brunn (Commercial), Oriol Jolonch (Illustrative), Ondrej Prosicky (Landscape), Igor Sakharov (Portrait), Antonio Gibotta (Reportage) and Javier Avis Barrado (Wedding). The FEP International Photographers’ Golden Camera 2011 award goes to Soh Chee Loon Jericho from Singapore, while the winner of the FEP European Students and Young Photographers’ Golden Camera 2011 award is Luca Leon Fasching from Austria. The overall winner of the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2011 award will be unveiled at a ceremony held on November 26th in the prestigious gallery of the Silken Hotel, Brussels.

FEP Press Release

FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2011

Supported by Epson

We are proud to inform you that the winners of probably one of the world’s most important professional photography competitions have now been declared.

“The Golden Camera winners represent the best of the best. The judges have worked very hard in selecting the winners from this fine assortment of high quality images”, says Chairman of the Jury, Master QEP, Jørgen Brandt, adding, “The images from the competition illustrates that exceptionally high quality photographic excellence comes in many forms, from different cultural regions - and that we can all find inspiration in this diversity.”

Herewith the list of the Golden, Silver and Bronze Cameras 2011:

COMMERCIAL
René de Brunn                 Germany:  FEP European Commercial Golden Camera 2011
Xanti Rodriguez               Spain:      FEP European Commercial Silver Camera 2011
Jose Luis Guardia Vazquez Spain:      FEP European Commercial Bronze Camera 2011

ILLUSTRATIVE
Oriol Jolonch                   Spain:      FEP European Illustrative Golden Camera 2011
Jose Diogo Freitas           Portugal:    FEP European Illustrative Silver Camera 2011
Germàn Arce                   Spain:      FEP European Illustrative Bronze Camera 2011

LANDSCAPE
Ondrej Prosicky               Czech Rep.:  FEP European Landscape Golden Camera 2011
Filip Kulisev                   Slovakia:    FEP European Landscape Silver Camera 2011
Jiri Stransky                   Czech Rep.:  FEP European Landscape Bronze Camera 2011

PORTRAIT
Igor Sakharov                 Russia:        HAHNEMÜHLE FEP European Portrait Golden Camera 2011
Ingrid van Heteren             Netherlands:  HAHNEMÜHLE FEP European Portrait Silver Camera 2011
Carl Tighe                     Ireland:        HAHNEMÜHLE FEP European Portrait Bronze Camera 2011

REPORTAGE
Antonio Gibotta               Italy:        FEP European Reportage Golden Camera 2011
Paolo Barbuio                 Italy:        FEP European Reportage Silver Camera 2011
Philippe Le Jeune             France:    FEP European Reportage Bronze Camera 2011

WEDDING
Javier Avis Barrado           Spain:      FEP European Wedding Golden Camera 2011
Xanti Rodriguez               Spain:      FEP European Wedding Silver Camera 2011
Jose Luis Guardia Peinado Spain:      FEP European Wedding Bronze Camera 2011

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
Soh Chee Loon Jericho     Singapore: FEP International Photographers’ Golden Camera 2011
Lucas Ting                     Malaysia:  FEP International Photographers’ Silver Camera 2011
Tami Reynolds               Canada:    FEP International Photographers’ Bronze Camera 2011

STUDENTS/YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS
Luca Leon Fasching         Austria:    FEP European Students and Young Photographers’  Golden Camera 2011              
Dawid Krysiak               Poland:    FEP European Students and Young Photographers’ Silver Camera 2011
Marjan Kegels               Belgium:  FEP European Students and Young Photographers’ Bronze Camera 2011

The winners of the 6 categories and the 2 special sections will be presented with their FEP European Golden Cameras at an unforgettable ceremony on November 26th in the prestigious gallery of the Silken Hotel, Brussels.

From amongst the 6 winners of the 6 categories, we will present the overall winner as our FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2011.
The competition is again proudly supported, for the 4th consecutive year, by EPSON, who will print the exhibition of all the winning images.

The winner of the Portrait category will receive the HAHNEMUHLE FEP Portrait Golden Camera.

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Photo: Ondrej Prosicky

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