AtEdge Congratulates the 2021 IPA Award Winners

The International Photography Awards recently announced the category winners and finalists in
its 2021 Photography Competition. Judged by an international jury of renowned photography experts,
this year’s IPA had 13,000 entries from 120 countries around the world.

AtEdge photographers continue to get recognized by the industry and bring home the Gold, Silver & Bronze!

Howard Schatz

Special Photographer Of the Year
1st Place / Professional Special / Other

Jury Top 5 Selection

What a tremendous body (literally) of work. Just a fabulous long-term project. : Ken Geiger

Company/Studio: Schatz/Ornstein Studio

Date of Photograph: A 30-year study to 2021

I have studied over 200 children from childhood into their 20’s. I began some when they were newborns; I started photographing others about the time they could read and write. For all of them, I made annual studio portraits and asked them to write answers to a series of questions, a kind of diary about their lives, their feelings, their hopes, their regrets. I am interested in everything about human development, fascinated by maturation, growth, emotional, educational, and physical development. This exploration has been a major 30 year odyssey that has yielded riches beyond my initial imagining.

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Andrei Duman

Awards:
1st place for Professional Advertising, Product (iWatch Series 6)
2nd place for Professional Advertising, Automotive (McLaren P1 GTR)
2nd Place for Professional Nature, Macro (ExoSkeleton)

The ExoSkeleton project has taken me over a year and 10 months to complete. 1 of 3 prototype equipment from ALPA was used on some of the most pristine specimens from the private collection of the Natural History Museum of San Diego. Over an hour of specimen cleaning and lighting set up, 7 hours of continuous shooting, over 14 hours of converting the IIQ Phase One files to TIFF, over 10 hours to flatten the TIFF files and the most time spent on post production of 86 hours (average was 54 hours per specimen). This was the first time that insects were shot in such detail and on a medium format camera.

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Adrian Mueller

Awards:
1st place for Professional Book, Other (Plant Lab)
2nd place for Professional Advertising, Product (Adidas x Parley for the Ocean)
3rd place for Professional Advertising, Product (Prada Resort 2020)

In PLANTLAB, world-renowned vegan chef Matthew Kenney serves up a truly unique and visually stunning cookbook emphasizing the art of plant-based cuisine. From Matthew Kenney, long considered a pioneer in raw and vegan cuisine, comes the first definitive vegan cookbook for serious foodies and chefs. Kenney’s life work has been his commitment to plant-based innovation as well as culinary nutrition, and in PLANTLAB he employs inventive techniques and creative thinking in dishes that are visual masterpieces as well as delectable meals.