PX3 State of the World Winners

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) photo competition has now announced the winners of the 2022 edition. Brilliant photographers from around the globe, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next “PX3 Photographer of the Year”, cash prizes, publication in the PX3 Annual Book, and inclusion in an exhibition to be shown in Paris as well as in galleries around the world.

The PX3 jury, made up of international photography luminaries, editors, curators, evaluated thousands of entries from all over the world. Photographers have submitted their outstanding works in the following categories: Advertising, Architecture, Book, Fine Art, Nature, Portraiture, Press and Special, all of them a testament to the immense talent they possess.

The State of the World special curated selection that reflects unadulterated images documenting events and highlighting current issues from every corner of the globe, will be announced next week.

PX3 Photographer of the Year 2022: Ron Haviv/VII

PX3 Photographer of the Year 2022 is Ron Haviv, bringing the viewers a heartbreaking eyewitness account on the first three months of the war on Ukraine. The images show us the destruction and unimaginable human suffering that the Ukrainians have to live through.

Ukraine - The Beginning...
A look at the first three months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians surprised the world with their ability to defend the capital and surrounding areas from the Russian offensive. Yet ethnic cleansing, as well as large displacement of Ukrainians, took place. As the Russians withdrew, the world discovered a litany of war crimes against the civilian population.

Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War.

A co-founder of the photo agency VII, his work is published by magazines worldwide. Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the Louvre, United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He has published critically acclaimed collections of his photograph with the books, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul, Haiti: January 2010 and The Lost Rolls.

PX3 Best New Talent 2022: Athanasios Maloukos

PX3 Best New Talent 2022 is Athanasios Maloukos, a powerful Portraiture photograph depicting an important commemoration, in the Christian world during Holy Week, in the village of Canosa di Puglia, Italy.

La Desolata
La Desolata, is of the most poignant processions in the Christian world during Holy Week, in the village of Canosa di Puglia, Italy.

The women of Sorrow cover their heads and hide their faces under a large black veil. Completely dressed in total black, they intone the “Stabat Mater”, a 13th century, highly suggestive hymn, honoring the pain of Desolate Mary for the loss of Her Child, the ultimate suffering of any mother:
“…Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep…”

Professional Category Winners
Advertising Photographer of the Year: Frauke Fischer - All Beauty
Architecture Photographer of the Year: Fabiano Parisi - Empire of Light
Book Photographer of the Year: Adam Rountree - Fighting For Soul
Fine Art Photographer of the Year: Joseph Ford - Invisible Jumpers
Nature Photographer of the Year: Maartje Roos - CULTURAL LIVING HERITAGE ‘the last of their kind’
Portraiture Photographer of the Year: Alena Grom - Between borders
Press Photographer of the Year: Ron Haviv - Ukraine The Beginning...
Special Photographer of the Year: Branden May - You're Late

All Beauty © Frauke Fischer

Non-Professional/Student Category Winners
Advertising Photographer of the Year: Yuliy Vasilev - Foodtopia
Architecture Photographer of the Year: Mabel Cedrón
Book Photographer of the Year: Andrew Feiler - A Better Life for Their Children
Fine Art Photographer of the Year: Elisa Miller - The Other
Nature Photographer of the Year: Ryo Iwasaki - Snowy Landscape of Trees
Portraiture Photographer of the Year: Athanasios Maloukos - La Desolata
Press Photographer of the Year: Wei Chih Wang - Deep Soul
Special Photographer of the Year: António Coelho - Cities - one vision

Snowy Landscape of Trees © Ryo Iwasaki

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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