ND Awards Photo Contest 2020 | Architecture

The results of ND Awards Photo Contest 2020 were announced on November 22 and Archisearch.gr in collaboration with photographer Pygmalion Karatzas  present a selection of images from the winners and honorable mentions awarded mainly from Architecture Category which focuses around the built environment.

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Unconventional approach and strong vision of development direction in photography are the reasons why ND AWARDS gained popularity. Our jury is a group of highly respected industry professionals, including gallery owners, publishers, editors and acclaimed photographers. Together with the founding of ND MAGAZINE in 2008, creativity, learning and sharing knowledge on photography were also spawned with passion. It is on the very pages of this historic publication that portfolios of photographers were presented with much gusto, interviews were conducted, articles published, and workshop, techniques and styles in photography were exhaustively discussed.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of the community gathered around ND MAGAZINE and the desire for further development, by 2014, the first edition of ND AWARDS was conceptualized to fruition. Along with the next editions, the competition has established and consolidated its position. Currently, ambitious and talented people from every continent submit their work to our competition, all with the singular purpose—to set new trends in the world of photography.

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The 2020 results were announced on November 22. Full list of results can be viewed here!

In its seventh year, this international competition offers distinctions to both professional and non-professional photographers, in six main categories: architecture, editorial, fine art, nature, people, and special, with a number of sub-categories in each. The architecture category includes: bridges, buildings, cityscapes, interior, industrial, and other. Participants can choose between single-image entries for stand-alone works and series of five images that best capture larger photographic projects.

In this presentation the selected images from the winners and honorable mentions focus around the built environment, showcasing an exuberant diversity of authors’ perspectives on the subject matter as well as encompassing the typological spectrum of architectural photography from topographic/documentary to editorial to expressive/artistic, as analysed in the paper “The Integral Lens” co-authored by professor of architecture Mark DeKay and photographer Pygmalion Karatzas.