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VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2024
AKSHAY MAHAJAN (INDIA)

PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA


Siamo felici di annunciare che il vincitore dei Verzasca Foto Festival Awards di quest'anno è Akshay Mahajan con il progetto People of Clay.
Congratulazioni al vincitore, ai finalisti e grazie alla Giuria e a tutti i partecipanti!

🥇Akshay Mahajan @lecercle
🥈Austin Bryant @ausbry
🥉Cédrine Scheidig @cscheidig

Finalisti
Antone Dolezal @antonedolezal
Balázs Turós @balazs_turos
Heather Evans Smith @heatherevanssmith
Hyunmin Ryu @hyunminr
Peter Pflügler @peter.pflugler
Sarah Pabst @_sarahpabst_
Valentin Joseph Valette @valentin.valette

Akshay Mahajan - People of Clay

 

PREMI

1. posto
2’000 Franchi Svizzeri
+ esposizione individuale al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante l’apertura del festival (30.8.2024)

Tutti i finalisti (dal 2. al 10. posto)
Proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante l’apertura del festival (30.8.2024)

GIURIA 2024

 

Urs Stahel
Writer, curator, lecturer and consultant

Urs Stahel is a freelance writer, curator, lecturer and consultant. Curator of MAST – Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia – in Bologna, consultant of the MAST collection of industrial photography, Advisor to Foto Colectania, Barcelona, and to the Collection of Art Vontobel, Zürich.
He is the co-founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur and was its director and curator from 1993 to 2013. He lives and works in Zurich.
He is curator of many exhibitions and author/editor of numerous books, for example by Paul Graham, Rineke Dijkstra, Joachim Brohm, Luigi Ghirri, Zoe Leonard, Roni Horn, Anders Petersen, Shirana Shahbazi, Astrid Klein, Ai Weiwei, Stefan Burger, Amar Kanwar, David Goldblatt, Hans Danuser, Claudio Moser, Boris Mikhailov, Sharon Ya'ari, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Ruff, Dayanita Singh, Jitka Hanzlova, Valérie Jouve, E.O. Hoppé, W. Eugene Smith, Thomas Struth, Richard Mosse or on topics such as "Hybrid", "Uncanny" "Trade", Im Rausch der Dinge", "Darkside I + II", "7P - 7 Places, 7 Precarious Fields", "The Power of Images", "Pendulum - Moving Things, Moving People", "Face Control" and "Uniform", about the role of working clothes in industry and society.

Katerina Radchenko
Director of Odesa Photo Days , curator, artist, photography researcher


Since 2015 – founder and director of the international festival Odesa Photo Days.
2023 – World Press Photo Contest jury member (Chair of Europe region)
Curated exhibitions in Ukraine, South Korea, Sweden, Georgia, France, Canada, Latvia, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and UK. As an author, she has published articles in several international magazines and online platforms, such as Fotograf, Magenta, EIKON, British Journal of Photography, FOAM Magazines, Over. In collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Photography wrote the book Images Tells Stories. In 2022 together with Christopher Nunn and Donald Weber published two volumes of The Information Front.
She has participated as a Portfolio Reviewer in many different photo festivals such as: Riga Photo Month, Lodz Photo Festival, Suwon Photo Festival, Photo Wien, Landskrona Photo Festival, Kranj Photo Festival.

Ben Harman (UK)
Curator and Director of Stills, Edinburgh

Ben Harman is the Director of Stills, a centre for photography in Edinburgh, Scotland that presents exhibitions and provides education programmes and photography production facilities. Ben's curated exhibitions for Stills have included a variety of solo and group presentations of new photography from Scotland and work from archives and collections as well as showcases by international artists and photographers such as: Lewis Baltz, Markéta Luskačová, Ishiuchi Miyako, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence. Since 2020, Ben has hosted the Stills podcast, 'Photography Down The Line'. From 2003-13, Ben was Curator of Contemporary Art for Glasgow Museums where he curated numerous exhibitions and collection displays for the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) and was Lead Curator on Glasgow’s Art Fund International collecting project.

Giuseppe Oliverio
Founder and Director PHmuseum + Lab + Days

Giuseppe Oliverio (Bologna, 1985) is the Founder and Artistic Director of PhMuseum and PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival. Since 2012, he has led the organization to develop their renewed Grants and Education Programs. He has further conducted workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, and in the Middle East. He has been a juror of awards such as Lucie Photo Book Prize, Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward, Blow Up Press Book Award, LensCulture Critics' Choice, United Photo Industry The Fence, and Cortona Happiness OnTheMove. He has worked as a portfolio reviewer for Futures Photography, Unseen, Photo Vogue Festival, Fotografia Europea, and Visa Pour L'Image. He has written for TIME magazine and L'Uomo Vogue.

Julie Bonzon
Art Historian, Photography Curator and Writer
Founder of The Photographic Collective

Born in Switzerland, Julie Bonzon, Ph.D. is an art historian, photography curator, and writer. Following a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2015), she completed an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in the History of Art at University College London (2020), specialising in South African photography. A book based on her research, titled The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation: Remaking Histories was published by Routledge Photography in 2023. Bonzon has led curatorial and education projects at Magnum Photos, The Photographer’s Gallery, The Ian Parry Scholarship, The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, and The Sharjah Architecture Triennial.
She worked at the London gallery Messums as Director of Photography, setting up a new photography department representing international artists, and has since 2019 collaborated with private collectors alongside her curatorial activities.
In 2020, she founded The Photographic Collective, an online platform featuring lens-based artists living and working in Africa.

Alfio Tommasini
Photographer, Curator and Art director of Verzasca Foto Festival

Alfio Tommasini is a photographer, curator and the art director of Verzasca Foto Festival which he co-founded in 2013.

He has collaborated with different cultural realities primarily from Latin America and is currently guest curator of RAK Arts festival (UAE).
The relationship we weave with the territory in which we live is the focus of his photographic projects.
He has exhibited and published his personal work internationally. His latest book is Via Lactea published by Edition Patrick Frey.

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VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2023
KHASHAYAR JAVANMARDI (IRAN)
PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA


Siamo felici di annunciare che il vincitore dei Verzasca Foto Festival Awards di quest'anno è Khashayar Javanmardi con il progetto See the Caspian.
Congratulazioni al vincitore, ai finalisti e grazie alla Giuria e a tutti i partecipanti!

Medaglia Oro: Khashayar Javanmardi (Iran), See the Caspian
Medaglia Argento: Siqi Li (Cina), Empty Nest
Medaglia Bronzo: Cansu Yıldıran (Turchia), Dispossessed


Finalisti:

Ismail Ferdous (Bangladesh), Sea Beach
Robin Hinsch (Germania), Kowitsch
Margaret Shannon (USA), Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy
Katerina Tsakiri (Grecia), The Smiley Cut
Natalie Keyssar (USA), Ukrainian Love Letter
Constanze Han (USA), The Betel Nut Beauties
Ville Kansanen (Finlandia), Numen

Premi:
1. posto
2’000 Franchi Svizzeri
+ esposizione individuale al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival (30.8-3.9.2023)

Tutti i finalisti (dal 2. al 10. posto)
Proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival (30.8-3.9.2023)


Khashayar Javanmardi (Iran), See the Caspian

GIURIA 2023

 

James Wellford è Senior Visuals Editor “Global Issues” del National Geographic. Tra le storie a cui ha lavorato per NatGeo figurano: l'Afghanistan, la scienza del sonno, l'economia circolare, il restauro della cattedrale di Notre Dame, le storie di Covid in tutto il mondo, El Salvador, i falchi, il litio, la crisi in Niger/Mali, i veterani della Seconda guerra mondiale, le popolazioni in Amazzonia, l'ebola nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo, l'Eritrea, il Sudan, l'Uganda, il Ghana, il Kashmir, l'Indonesia e le questioni relative alle migrazioni/rifugiati in tutto il mondo. Prima di lavorare per NatGeo, è stato per 12 anni International Photography Editor presso la rivista Newsweek. Ha lavorato anche come visual editor per Foreign Policy, CNN e Smithsonian. La sua carriera si estende per decenni, durante i quali è stato direttore editoriale di Visura, ha fondato ScreenProjects.org, ha curato la collezione d'archivio del New York Daily News, ha curato numerose mostre di fotografia e ha fatto parte di numerose giurie di fotografia in tutto il mondo. Dedito all'educazione visiva, James ha insegnato all'International Center of Photography e alla New School di New York.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Nadine Wietlisbach progetta insieme a un team interdisciplinare mostre, pubblicazioni e altri formati discorsivi nel campo della fotografia e dell'arte contemporanea. Dal 2018 è direttrice del Fotomuseum Winterthur. Dal 2015 al 2017 Nadine Wietlisbach è stata direttrice del Photoforum Pasquart di Biel/Bienne, dopo aver lavorato come curatrice presso il Nidwaldner Museum di Stans, dove dal 2012 al 2015 è stata responsabile di tutte le mostre e le pubblicazioni di arte contemporanea, nonché delle presentazioni della collezione del museo. Nel 2009-2010 ha lavorato per Pro Helvetia, la Fondazione svizzera per la cultura, a Zurigo e in Sudafrica. Tra il 2013-2016 è stata docente regolare presso la Berner Hochschule der Künste di Berna. Ha fondato lo spazio artistico indipendente sic! Raum für Kunst a Lucerna nel 2007, tuttora in funzione e gestito dalla terza generazione di curatrici*. Nel 2015 ha ricevuto lo Swiss Art Award per la sua attività curatoriale ed editoriale.

www.fotomuseum.ch

Ludovica Introini è una storica dell’arte. Responsabile della gestione dei progetti espositivi presso il MASI (Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana) di Lugano, negli ultimi anni ha seguito diversi progetti di fotografia, tra cui “Shunk-Kender Art Through the Eye of the Camera (1957-1983)”, “Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900-1940 The Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art”, “James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective” e “Werner Bischof, Unseen Colour”.

www.masilugano.ch

Lars Willumeit è un curatore, scrittore e docente con sede a Zurigo e Montreux. Dal 2018 è curatore e responsabile dei progetti espositivi presso il Photo Elysée di Losanna. Laureato in antropologia sociale (London School of Economics and Political Science) e in studi curatoriali (Zurich University of the Arts), in precedenza ha lavorato come direttore fotografico per DU - Die Zeitschrift für Kultur a Zurigo e come photo editor per GEO ad Amburgo e New York. Come curatore ed editore indipendente che lavora in Svizzera e a livello internazionale, dal 2014 ha realizzato numerosi progetti di libri e mostre.

www.larswillumeit.com
www.elysee.com

Carol Körting nata a Bogotà, in Colombia, ha lavorato come fotografa freelance prima di studiare editing fotografico alla Ostkreuz Schule für Fotografie di Berlino, in Germania. Ha lavorato come photo editor per la rinomata rivista Leica Fotografie International Magazine (LFI) e la sua piattaforma online per oltre un decennio, durante il quale ha prodotto e curato innumerevoli progetti fotografici. Come valutatrice di portfolio professionale, Körting ha fatto parte di un team di giurati in numerosi concorsi fotografici. Inoltre, tiene conferenze, workshop e presentazioni sull'editing fotografico.

www.lfi-online.de
www.lfi-online.de

 
 
 

VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2022
TOMASZ KAWECKI, A LAIR

PREMIO "NERA DI VERZASCA"

Siamo felici di annunciare che il vincitore dei Verzasca Foto Festival Awards di quest'anno è Tomasz Kawecki con il progetto A Lair.
Congratulazioni al vincitore, ai finalisti e grazie alla Giuria e a tutti i partecipanti!

Premio Nera di Verzasca /Serie:

Medaglia Oro: Tomasz Kawecki (Polonia), A Lair
Medaglia Argento: Diego Saldiva (Svizzera), Everyone Has A Plan Until
Medaglia Bronzo: Blom Marjolein (Paesi Bassi), Failing Forward

Finalisti:
Francesco Rucci e Francesco Marinelli (Italia), Future Food
Carlo Lombardi (Italia), La carne dell'orso
Rosa Rodriguez (Spagna), The White Line
Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez (Colombia), Chilluns' Croon
Tim Smith (Canada), In The World But Not Of It
Tracy L Chandler (USA), A Poor Sort of Memory
Filippo Barbero (Italia), Nullus enim locus sine Genio



Tomasz Kawecki (Polonia), A Lair

PREMI
1. posto
2’000 Franchi Svizzeri
+ esposizione individuale al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival (31.8-4.9.2022)

Tutti i finalisti (dal 2. al 10. posto)
Proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival
+ vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival (31.8-4.9.2022)

GIURIA 2022

https://www.edhea.ch/

Art historian and curator, Jean-Paul Felley has been the director of EDHEA - The Valais School of Art - since 2018, one of the five schools of the HES-SO Valais-Wallis (University of Applied Sciences and Arts).

Since 1989, he has organized exhibitions of contemporary art, architecture and design, and is the author of various publications in the artistic fields. In 1994, he founded with Olivier Kaeser the Geneva-based association attitudes, which has organized contemporary art exhibitions in Switzerland, Europe, Latin America and Lebanon. From 2008 to 2018, he co-directed, also with Olivier Kaeser, the Centre culturel suisse de Paris, the French branch of the Pro Helvetia Foundation. In 2021, he founded the association Biennale Son, which will oversee the organization of the 1st Biennale of Sound Art in 2023.

Francesca Todde is a photographer, designer and publisher, based in Milano (Italy).
Her research focuses on the invisible elements of relationships, sometimes crossing stories of sharing with animals. Her practice is not limited to photography but includes in the creative process the editorial aspect and the diffusion in printed form. Her work is represented by Contrasto. She co-founded with the artist Luca Reffo the publishing house Départ Pour l’Image.
Selected publications include: British Journal of Photography, 6Mois, Le Monde, M le Magazine du Monde, DLui di Repubblica, Fisheye, Vogue, Zadig, Yet magazine.
Among her exhibitions: Cortona on the Move (IT), Circulation(s) (FR), Les Boutographies (FR), PVF Festival of Political Photography Helsinki (FI), 10x10 Photofestival (IT), SiFest (IT), Officine Fotografiche (IT), Foto-Forum Bozen (IT), BYOPaper! Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie (FR), Looking On MAR di Ravenna (IT), Reflexions, CAMERA, Torino (IT), In_Cadaques Festival (ES); Les Nuits de Pierrevert Festival (FR).

https://nicolasjanowski.com/

(photo Eugenio Mazzinghi)

Lens Based Artist, anthropologist and curator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1980. Janowski's work can’t be decontextualized from research processes. His projects explore the link within the Latin American territory deconstructing the concept of identity and the sense of belonging from an explicit subjectivity. 
The idea of historical context is central in his narratives, approached from a multimedia perspective. Janowski's late projects are characterized by using different mediums to support, complement, narrate and articulate stories: Offscreen sound, narrative sound, text, cartography and archival images are some  key elements often used in Janowski’s work to recreate the idea of territory and habitat. 
His most recent projects, both while teaching and in his own artistic practice, are based on collaborative and experimental premises..

https://plateforme10.ch
https://prixelysee.ch/en/

(photo Matthieu Gafsou)

Lydia Dorner is Prix Elysée Manager at Photo Elysée in Lausanne. Having graduated with degrees in Art History and French Literature, she worked in the Exhibition Department between 2012 and 2021, mainly on projects dedicated to contemporary photography. Her fields of research include the relationship between text and image, family photography and the re-appropriation of art historical icons.

www.espacejb.com

Jörg Brockmann holds a BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been working asa freelance photographer.

He is the director of the gallery Espace Jörg Brockmann since 2010 where he showcases swiss and international photographers who are mostly working in the field of documentary photography (www.espacejb.com).

He co-curated Arcoop Wall Project a photography festival in Geneva in 2019 and 2021.

 

VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2021
NICOLA BERTASI, PANDEMIC POSTCARDS
PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA

Premio Nera di Verzasca /Serie:
Medaglia d'oro: Nicola Bertasi (Italia) /Pandemic Postcards
Medaglia d'argento: Roger Grasas (Spagna) /Ha Aretz
Medaglia di bronzo: Raul Aragon (Brasile) /Post Modern Slavery

Finalisti:
Fernando Montiel Klint (Messico) /Distopia
Kostas Maros (Svizzera) /cicatrice
Younes Mohammad (Iraq) /Open wounds
Alexandra Riba (Grecia) /If this is the end of the world..
Stefano Marzoli (Italia) /Oblivio
Zinn Doro (Germania) /Future Kids
Rosa Lacavalla (Italia) /Sana Sana

PREMI
1. posto
2’000 Franchi Svizzeri + esposizione individuale al Verzasca Foto Festival + proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival + vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival
(possibilità alloggio a dipendenza della situazione sanitaria)

Tutti i finalisti (dal 2. al 10. posto)
Proiezione del progetto al Verzasca Foto Festival + vitto e alloggio durante i 4 giorni di festival
(possibilità alloggio a dipendenza della situazione sanitaria)

> Regolamento del concorso (download pdf, italiano)

GIURIA

 

www.natashachristia.com
Portrait: © David Urbano

NATASHA CHRISTIA is an unaffiliated curator, writer and educator based in Barcelona. She holds a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MA in Modern Art and Film from the University of Essex, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing from the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the exploration and reinvention of dominant narratives through a novel reading of archival collections, the intersection of photography, film and the photobook, and the dialogue between 20th century avant-garde photography and contemporary forms of expression often labelled as post-photography. Christia was the artistic director of the fourth edition of DocField Documentary Photography Festival 2016.

www.melodygygax.com
Portrait: ©Lucas Ziegler

MELODY GYGAX is the Swiss agent of MAGNUM PHOTOS.
Photography has been at the centre of her life for over twenty years, first as a picture editor for various media for many years and most recently as head of photography at the Basler Zeitung.
As a photo editor/curator she now works with brands, advertising agencies, corporate publishers, photo galleries, cultural institutions and photographers, showing them how to take their visual storytelling to the next level.
Melody is a regular jury member for photography competitions, is active as a qualified juror, teaches photography in the areas of conception, editing & storytelling, photo editing and is a long-standing expert on various portfolio reviews and holds seminars at the most important photography festivals in Switzerland.

www.federicoestol.com

FEDERICO ESTOL, Uruguayan photographer, graduated from the Image and Multimedia Technology Center of Politechnic University of Cataluña - BarcelonaTech. He is currently working as artistic director of SAN JOSÉ FOTO festival, promoting the Photobook Club Montevideo and as editor of El Ministerio Ediciones publishing house. He has been selected in numerous international festivals. He has been included in exhibitions at Aperture Foundation (New York), Fundación Atchugarry (Punta del Este), FOLA (Buenos Aires), Contemporary Art Space (Montevideo), MACRO Museum (Rome) and GNration (Braga). His works and publications are in various private and public collections such as the FOLA Latin American Photo Library in Buenos Aires, Tate Modern in London, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museu da Fotografia in Fortaleza and the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum.

www.anngriffin.ch
www.near.li

ANN GRIFFIN works as a graphic designer specialised in editorial design. Based in Zürich, she collaborates with publishers, photographers and artists on different projects. Her main focus is book design with a particular interest in photography books. She has also led numerous workshops in different art schools, and teaches at eikon, Fribourg. Since 2017 she is a committee member of near. (Swiss association for contemporary photography).

ALESSIA LOCATELLI (Italy) is the artistic director of the Enrico Cattaneo’s
archive and of Women Photography Biennial in Mantua (Italy). She managed some of the past editions of the SiFest (Savignano) and the Canon Award, specializing in photography and becoming Independent Curator in the organization of exhibitions with both public and private entities, in Italy and abroad; while in parallel the activity of curating and consulting continues for artists and photographers.
She’s the signature of some art & photo magazines and critic of the Photography Dossier within the “CAM, catalog of modern art”; (ex-Bolaffi) published by the Editorial Giorgio Mondadori - Cairo Group.
She organizes and teaches in professional courses to become Photo-curator in photography schools and independent realities throughout Italy. She’s in the organizational teamof Photolux Festival in Lucca, 2019 edition. She’s in charge of helping and assisting authors in the selection of Fine Art papers and for materials useful for conservation and sale to collectors.


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2020
UYGAR ONDER SIMSEK, Patterns of Destruction

PRIMO PREMIO "NERA DI VERZASCA"

Vincitori
1. posto: Uygar Onder Simsek
2. posto: Michele Sibiloni (Italy)
3. posto ex aequo: Alex Kemman (The Netherlands) and Cansu Yıldıran (Turkey)

Finalisti
Scarlett Coten (Francia)
Mariya Kozhanova (Germania)
Harsha Vadlamani (India)
Pascual Martinez + Vincent Saez (Spagna)
Tim Franco (Francia/Polonia)
Natalie Keyssar (USA)
Ute Behrend (Germania)

Giuria 2020
Michael Hiltbrunner, Curator, Lecturer, Researcher
Evelien Kunst, Freelance professional photography and media consultant
Nuno Ricou Salgado, Parallel Artistic Director
Alessia Locatelli, Indipendent curator and art director
Rocco Venezia, Photographer and curator PHmuseum


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2019
ANA ZIBELNIK (SLOVENIA), We are the ones turning
PRIMO PREMIO "NERA DI VERZASCA"

Vincitori
1° posto: Ana Zibelnik (Slovenia)
2° posto: Thomas Brasey (Svizzera)
3° posto: Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki  (Grecia)

Finalisti
Filippo Venturi (Italia)
Tomoya Imamura (Germania)
Iacopo Pasqui (Italia)
Ksenia Kuleshova (Russia)
Silvia Bigi (Italia)
Alvaro Gomez Pidal (Spagna)

Credit: Ana Zibelnik, vincitrice Nera 2019

GIURIA 2019
Alfredo De Stefano,
Chief Executive Luz del Norte Fotografía, A.C. and Visual Artist, Monterrey, Messico
Federica Chiocchetti & Sara Cuono, The Photocaptionist, Londra, Gran Bretagna
Samuel Wolf, Graphic Designer and Art Director @ Wolf Studio, Zurigo, Svizzera
Patricia Karallis, Founding Editor in Chief, Paper Journal, Melbourne, Australia
Verónica Fieiras, Founder and Editor of Chaco, Buenos Aires, Argentina


PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant 2019
AYLINE OLUKMAN (FRANCIA), PSYCHE

Verzasca Foto Festival in collaborazione con PhMuseum.

Congratulazioni a Ayline Olukman 
che con il suo progetto "Psyche" vince una mostra personale a Verzasca Foto 2019.

Queste le nostre motivazioni:
"Attraverso una visione personale e sensibile dell'universo femminile, Psyche ci trasporta in un universo onirico, raccontandoci la caducità della vita umana e della sua relazione con ciò che la circonda: nella somiglianza e nella diversità. La narrazione è costruita con delicatezza incisiva e con il lirismo dei colori tenui (che cristallizza in atmosfera quasi di fiaba), alternando scene che si ispirano ai grandi maestri della pittura, senza però perdere di freschezza, riuscendo a sorprenderci tramite paesaggi surreali e ritratti dalle prospettive non canoniche. 
Il festival Verzasca Foto trovandosi in una piccola valle di montagna attorniata da pietre e folti boschi si è sempre interessato a progetti dove spicca l'interazione tra uomo e natura. 
L'intenzione dell'artista di cercare negli elementi naturali stati d'animo e sensazioni umane, 
attraverso la fusione con il paesaggio ci ha quindi convinti a scegliere questo progetto.
La scelta finale del progetto vincitore è stata fatta dalle ragazze del team di Verzasca Foto.

https://phmuseum.com/grant
http://cargocollective.com/aylineolukman


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS
ILANA BAR (BRASILE) TRANSPARENCIES OF HOME
PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA 2018

1° posto: Ilana Bar (Brasile)
2° posto: Lebohang Kgany (Sudafrica)
3° posto: Alexey Shlyk (Belgio) 

Finalisti:
Cesar Dezfuli (Spagna)
David Avazzadeh (Austria)
Gabriel Carpes (Brasile)
Marcelo Costa (Brasile)
Rafael Roncato (Brasile)
Elaine Pessoa (Brasile)
Shahab Naseri (Iran)

Giuria
Eefje Ludwig Consulente e curatrice fotografica (NL)
Christophe Guye Galleria Christophe Guye, Zurigo (CH)
Simon Tanner Fotografo e presidente VFG (CH)
Chiara Fanetti Giornalista radiofonica RSI (CH)
Thyago Nogueira Curatore e Elisa von Randow, Art Director ZUM Magazine, São Paulo (BR)
Alfio Tommasini Direttore artistico Verzasca FOTO Festival
Eder Chiodetto Photo editor Fotô Editorial / curatore MAM São Paulo


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2017
ESTRELLA HERRERA (ARGENTINA), CAMPO MAGNETICO
PRIMO PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA

Finalisti
Snezhana von Buedingen (Germania), Pierce Thom (Sud Africa), Arcenillas Javier (Spagna)
Werner Christian (Germania), Maslov Sasha (USA), Laubscher Yann (Svizzera)
Clarke Giles Clarke (USA), Singh Sandra (Germania), Bufano Fernandez Marco (Argentina)

GIURIA
Myles Little
Photo Editor del TIME Magazine e curatore (USA)
Silvia Mangialardi
Direttrice artistica Encuentros Abiertos - Festival de la Luz (Argentina)
Marie DuPasquier
Curatrice e fondatrice DISPLAY Berlin / museologa, (Svizzera)
Vivienne Gamble
Curatrice e fondatrice Seen Fifteen Gallery, Londra (GB)
Alfio Tommasini
Direttore artistico Verzasca FOTO Festival (Svizzera)


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2016
MELANIE ECLARE (UK), AFTER THE FIRE
PRIMO PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA

Finalisti: Matt Hamon, Julien Chatelin, Delphine Schacher, Paul Thulin, Diego Saldiva, Raffaele Petralla, Marta Zgierska, Johanna Maria Fritz

GIURIA 2016
Brigitte Meyer, Photo Director, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
Damien Poulain, Oodee London, England
Alfio Tommasini, Art Director Verzasca FOTO, Switzerland
Fabio Carnaghi, MARS - Milan Artist Run Space, Italy
Luc Debraine, L'Hebdo, Switzerland


VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2015
Mateusz Sarello (Polonia), Swell
PREMIO NERA DI VERZASCA

Finalisti (in ordine alfabetico): Javier Arcenillas, Pablo Ernesto Piovano
Massimiliano Pugliese, Thomas Friedrich Schaefe

GIURIA 2015
Ute Noll
Photo Director, Du Magazine, Svizzera
Hannamari Shakya
Editor in Chief, Raw View Magazine, Finnlandia
Frank Orthbandt
Photo Editor, London Independent Photography, Gran Bretagna
Noémie Richard
NEAR, Svizzera
Esther Woerdehoff
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Paris, Francia