The winners of the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2010 competition have been announced. The overall winner is André Boto from Portugal, who also finished first in the Commercial and Illustrative categories. Other category winners include Ji?í Stránský (Landscape), Padraic Deasy (Portraits), Carl Lapeirre (Reportage), Clemente Jiménez Santander (Weddings) and Jen Hillenga (International).

FEP Press Release

André Boto is Photographer of the Year

FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2010
Supported by Epson

The over all winner of one of the world’s most important professional photographers competitions is now official .

André Boto won with his wonderful images.

“Winning gives me the motivation needed to continue the creativity and do something “outside the box” that really makes the difference. The point it’s not only to be different. We should be different but at the same time be different with something that makes sense. This work and my style reflects a little of my artistic background. I have some arts connection since childhood and I grew up with it. The Surrealism is an inspiration of my actual autorship work. I like the challenge of creating “something” that we maybe could see in the real life, representing dreams and make people thinking and dreaming.”, says André Boto with a smile.

The winners was presented at Epson Stand at Photokina 2010

EPSON representitive, Claes Jeppsen, who presented the price said “EPSON is proud to be able to support a competition like this, where talent is shown so clearly. EPSON and the photographers needs each other to make and present images at a high level”

To this FEP President Neil Warner thanked EPSON for the support and remarked that it was a joy to experiense images like this

Almost 700 photographers from 25 countries participated in this event: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

The Golden Camera Award winners are:

COMMERCIAL
1 André Boto, Portugal – Winner of the FEP European Commercial Golden Camera Award:

ILLUSTRATIVE

1 André Boto, Portugal – Winner of the FEP European Illustrative Golden Camera Award

LANDSCAPE

1 Ji?í Stránský, Czech Republic – Winner of the FEP European Landscape Golden Camera Award

PORTRAITS

1 Padraic Deasy, Ireland – Winner of the FEP European Portrait Golden Camera Award

REPORTAGE

1 Carl Lapeirre, Belgium – Winner of the FEP European Reportage Golden Camera Award

WEDDINGS

1 Clemente Jiménez Santander, Spain – Winner of the FEP European Wedding Golden Camera Award

INTERNATIONAL SECTION

1 Jen Hillenga, USA – Winner of the FEP International Photographer Golden Camera Award

Photo (c) André Boto

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