Images from left: © Andy Anderson, Rodrigo Palma, John Blais and Scott Markewitz
Congratulations to these 8 AtEdge photographers for receiving Honorable Mentions in the IPA 2021! Patrick Molnar, Andy Anderson, Lindsay Siu, Rodrigo Palma, John Blais, Beth Galton, Scott Markewitz and Mark Mawson all received IPA Honorable Mentions across their respective categories.
About the competition: The 19th Annual International Photography Awards recently announced the category winners and finalists in
it’s 2021 Photography Competition. Judged by international jury of renowned photography experts, this year’s IPA had 13,000 entries
from 120 countries around the world.
Images: © Patrick Molnar
Honorable Mention
Professional Category: Advertising: Other
Title: “USMC 2021 #3” and “USMC 2021 #2”
About: Recruiting campaign for the United States Marine Corps.
Image: © Patrick Molnar
Honorable Mention
Professional Category: Advertising: Other
Title: “New Day #1”
About: Ad campaign for New Day USA.
Images: © Patrick Molnar
Honorable Mention
Professional Category: Advertising: Other
Title: “USAA K9 #1″ and “USAA K9 #2”
About: Ad campaign for USAA
Images: © Patrick Molnar
Honorable Mention
Professional Category: Sports: Extreme Sports
Title: “Skate BMX #2“
About: Personal project with ATL skaters and BMXers.
Images: © Patrick Molnar
Honorable Mention
Professional Category: Portrait: People
Title: “Portrait 2021 #1“
About: Personal portrait project.
Images: © Andy Anderson
Honorable Mention
Category: Event: Social Causes
Title: “Ben Ferencz”
About: Images of Ben Ferencz, the US prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trails, shot for the Lonka Project commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberations of the Nazi death camps.
Image: © Andy Anderson
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Landscape
Title: “Owyhee Canyon Lands“
About: Photograph of the Owyhee Canyon wilderness in the Great Basin of Southern Idaho
Images: © Andy Anderson
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Portrait
Title: “South Side“
About: Series capturing the life of South Side of Chicago gang members.
Images: © Andy Anderson
Honorable Mention
Category: People: Tradition/Cultures
Title: “Spanish Ranch“
About: Annual month long buckaroo camp for the traditional branding round up of cattle on the Spanish Ranch in Nevada.
Images: © Lindsay Siu
Honorable Mention
Category: Advertising, Conceptual
Title: “No Bad Questions”
Tech: Contax 645/ Phase One P45+ / Profoto
About: Used motor oil is a low-interest category. But when people do take an interest, they usually have lots of questions. To get the conversation started, the BC Used Oil Management Association shared some of the quirkier questions they’ve been asked over the years. Questions like “Why can’t I just burn my used motor oil?”, “Can used motor oil be used as an essential oil?” or, “Is used motor oil good on leather?” These questions were posed by an equally quirky cast of characters to catch the attention of BC Used Oil’s audience and let them know there’s more to learn.
Images: © Lindsay Siu
Honorable Mention
Category: Portrait: People
Title: “James Gunn”
Tech: Canon Mark IV / Profoto
About: Portraits of director James Gunn, for Warner Bros.
Image: © Lindsay Siu
Honorable Mention
Category: Advertising: Beauty
Title: “Bella Roces EP“
Tech: Contax 645/ Phase One P45+ / Profoto
About: Portrait of Bella, for her self-titled debut album, Bella Roces, released July 2021.
Images: © Rodrigo Palma
Honorable Mention
Category: Advertising: Fashion
Title: “Patricia“
About: Editorial shot in Mexico City of model Patricia Van Der Vielt for Harper’s Bazaar
Images: © Rodrigo Palma
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Nudes
Title: “Neiza 1“
About: Portrait of model Neiza
Image: © John Blais
Honorable Mention
Category: People: Street Photography
Title: “Not So Good Life”
About: Working on a book about Cuba.
Images: © John Blais
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Portrait
Title: “Esmeralda”
About: Havana
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Portrait
Title: “Security – Head in the Clouds”
About: High Security
Image: © John Blais
Honorable Mention
Category: People: Street Photography
Title: “Scooters Asbury Park, after the Storm”
Tech: Sony a7r3 24mm
About: Getting Wet
Images: © Beth Galton
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Still Life
Title: “Memory of Absence”
About: So much of who we are is passed from generation to generation—our genes, our behaviors—molded by our family. In 2017, my mother and father—who had not lived together for 50 years—died within three days of each other. I discovered many artifacts from my life of which I had no memory of. In this series, I combined botanicals with objects and photographs that I found, in order to convey a sense of memory and loss. The organic and volatile botanicals serve as a reminder of the ever-changing nature of memory and emotions—an unstable and profoundly unreliable process.
Images: © Beth Galton
Honorable Mention
Category: Fine Art: Still Life
Title: “Covid Diaries”
About: I have struggled to process the sheer magnitude of the Coronavirus. In the beginning of the pandemic, I spent every day on the NY Times website, obsessively tracking Covid’s spread. However, I grew concerned that the headlines, charts and graphs used to convey the scale of the virus were unequipped to convey the emotional toll that the virus took. I began to collect and photograph these fragments of the news, hoping to imbue these numerical figures with the humanity they sought to represent. These photos are a visual diary-of covid, the politics of the time and the way they affect our lives.
Honorable Mention
Category: Sports: Extreme Sports
Title: “Upside Down”
Tech: 1/2000, f 4.5, iso 400, 70mm lens
About: Kyle Strait bailing off his bike in the middle of a back flip during the 2019 Red Bull Rampage mountain bike competition in Virgin, UT
Honorable Mention
Category: Sports: Extreme Sports
Title: “Peruvian Singletrack”
Tech: 1/1000, f 4.5, iso 400, 70mm lens
About: Matt Hunter mountain biking on a dusty singletrack trail in the hills above Lima, Peru
© Mark Mawson
Honorable Mention
Category: Still in Motion/Video: Other
Title: “Breaking the Ice“
About: A 30 second slow motion film with a mixologist
