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    Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival invited artists, working with the medium of photography and other visual forms (video, installation, etc.), to submit their work under the theme “Genesis” for the Discovery Awards 2020. Taking into account the success of the previous editions, the festival organized once more this open call for the Discovery Awards 2020, thus reiterating the wish to showcase new emerging talents, promoting this way new emerging artists chosen based on the high quality of their projects.

    This year we received 259 applications from 37 different countries.

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the names of the winner and finalists for the Discovery Awards 2020. The finalist will exhibit their work at Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival from the 11th of September to the 31st of October 2020 in Braga, Portugal.

    DISCOVERY AWARDS 2020

    WINNER
    Touko Hujanen

    FINALISTS
    Annamaria Belloni
    Elsa Leydier
    Florence Cuschieri
    James Reeder
    Julia Mejnertsen
    Kata Geibl
    Marianne & Katarzyna Wasowska
    Marjolein Blom
    Mattia Micheli & Nicolò Panzeri
    Robin Hinsch
    Rosa Rodriguez
    Sandrine Elberg
    Trent Davis Bailey  

    Juri

    • Alexa Becker

      alexa.becker@kehrerverlag.com

      Alexa Becker is the Acquisitions Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag. Having obtained her Master's in Art History from the University of Heidelberg, she started her career at Kehrer in 2003, where she is responsible for selecting and acquiring new photography-related projects. Mrs. Becker provides artistic and marketing advice for photographers concerning the content and style of their work. Mrs. Becker serves at several international portfolio reviews as a reviewer and sits on a number of online juries.

    • Carlos Fontes

      Director


      Carlos Fontes is one of the co-founders of Encontros da Imagem thirty years ago and since 2017 he as become the Director of the festival. He has been a reviewer at numerous national and international photography festivals. During fourteen years he worked for the cultural department in the Municipality of Braga.

    • Carlos Lobo

      carlosafonsolobo@gmail.com

      Carlos Lobo is a photographer, musician, investigator and programmer in photography. Carlos has a doctorate degree in Photography from the Catholic University of Portugal. He is head of the Master Degree in Photography at the Catholic University of Portugal - School of Arts, he is also an investigator at CITAR - Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes. He is an independent programmer of CAAA (Centro Assuntos Arte e Arquitectura) and editor of LEBOP, a publisher specialised in photography books. Carlos has numerous monographs published, and his work is part of various prestigious photography collection.

    • Kate Edwards

      kate.edwards@theguardian.com

      Kate Edwards has been photo editor of the Guardian Weekend magazine for over 15 years. She has been a judge on a variety of photography awards, including World Press Photo, and been a reviewer at national and international photography festivals.

    • Pedro Leão Neto


      Pedro Leão Neto is the coordinator of the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in FAUP´s R&D centre and the founder and coordinator of scopio Editions and its open platform scopionetwork. He is the main responsible for the cycle of international conferences On the Surface: Photography on Architecture, which last edition was held at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon and the author / editor of more than 30 books focused on Contemporary Photography on Architecture, being also responsible for the coordination of Sophia peer review Journal, scopio Magazine and scopionewspaper journal. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the public funded FCT research project “Visual Spaces of Change”.

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