WATER CONNECTS – photo and video contest results

Ten submissions from each category are selected by the jury tp be exhibited in a group exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó House. 

Photo Category
1st Place
Richárd Tóth Tamás
Flood series

AWARD: Leica D-Lux camera + 50,000 HUF voucher (for scanning, printing, or enlargements)

2nd Place
Ora Hasenfratz
Turks & Caicos series

AWARD: 50,000 HUF voucher + 25,000 HUF book voucher

3rd Place
Silvio Severino
Siófok, Lake Balaton series

AWARD: 50,000 HUF voucher + 25,000 HUF book voucher

The collection of winning images is available at our galery.

Felice Simon
See/Through series

Kristóf Hölvényi
Water in Our Daily Lives series

László Juhász
Summer at Lake Balaton series

János Kummer
njuːˈzilənd series

Gergely Máté Oláh
Gellért Spa, Budapest series

Dániel Podányi
Swimmers of Eger, Hungary series

Partha Pratim Saha
Traditional fishing of ‘Gongoni’ series

Video Category
1st Place
Valentin Voronov-Gvozdinsky
80%
youtube
Life consists of water. It is with us at all moments. If it is not with us, then 80% of us, of our selves is missing.
Valentin Voronov-Gvozdinsky  80% Created in collaboration with Rita Dyachkova.

“It happened during a philosphy lesson. Rita was there, around her a lot of people; they were talking all the time and it was wery loud, but she wanted silence and suddenly she created silence into the water. She understood that there was no such philosphy that could tell you more than a drop of water.”

AWARD: Leica D-Lux camera + 50,000 HUF voucher (for scanning, printing, or enlargements)

2nd Place
Viktória Berki – Emese Kerek
One Drop

AWARD: 50,000 HUF voucher + 25,000 HUF book voucher

3rd Place
Máté Filep
No Worries…
Water is a vital part of life on Earth. We hardly comprehend what a huge role it plays in our lives. But what would we do if we were left without water?

AWARD: 50,000 HUF voucher + 25,000 HUF book voucher

Gabriella Berecz
One Warm Day
Everyone finds it important for different reasons and uses it for different purposes.

Ágoston Fehér
Hidden Paths

Igor Gladkov
Treasure
The man with the money runs along the coast. He stops to catch his breath and his hands eagerly rake through the banknotes. He notices nothing except the money. And when he pulls the box, he does not look at it. Fear drives on…

László 2 Hegedűs
PH2OEZIS
Poetry about water.

Richárd Kassai
Feel The Flow
An experimental short film with its visual world and rhythm inspired by the movement, current, and pulse of water.

Márk Martinkó
Ritual No. 5
Ritual No.5 is a result of an experiment, in which the human affected nature is being captured digitally with intentional errors. The video was recorded by a circuit-bended camera. The abstraction that can be seen in the footage was made on location during the recording by dividing and distorting the pixels of the original view.

Barbara Nagy
In Existence I
A little boy in a swim cap and goggles, as such in complete anonymity, makes swimming movements in an unidentifiable, foggy, gray space. He is floating in the void. While standing. We only see his movements in slow motion. Our existence is like this. We swim, float, water is a part of our lives, our existence. We try. We “float in the void,” continuously repeating the movements. This is how we exist.