The exhibition with the winning works of the “Estação Imagem Coimbra Award” 2021 will be on display at the Convento Espírito Santo Art Gallery, in Loulé, and can be visited from this Friday, July 30th, until September 4th.
This is the main international photojournalism award that has been disputed annually in Portugal since 2010, and which also includes nominations from photojournalists from Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) and from Galicia, as well as from Portuguese photojournalists residing there.
The exhibition will open this Friday, July 30th, at 18:00.
With free entry, it can be visited from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:00 am to 16:30 pm, with visitors having the duty to comply with the Health Directorate's safety standards, namely the mandatory use of a mask.
As for the works on display, there will be photojournalist Gonçalo Delgado, big winner of this 12th edition, with “a report that confronts life and the specter of death, birth and agony, represented by the obstetrics and intensive care units Covid- 19, separated by only one floor in the same hospital unit», says a note sent to the newsrooms by the Loulé municipality.
For Photo of the Year, the judges' choice was for a photo by Galician photojournalist Brais Lorenzo Couto, taken during the celebration of the 98th birthday of a user in a nursing home heavily affected by the coronavirus.
In this same category, the jury decided to give an honorable mention to the photograph of Nuno André Ferreira, which shows a child in a forest fire scenario.
In the remaining categories, the international jury awarded photojournalists João Porfírio, Ana Brígida, Tiago Fonseca and Leonel de Castro.
Honorable mentions were also given to José Fernandes, Francisco Romão Pereira, Pedro Gomes Almeida and Paulo Nunes do Santos.
In a year marked by pandemic, confinement and restrictions on all activities, the jury decided not to award any prizes in the Art and Shows, Environment and Sports categories.
The Estação Imagem 2021 Coimbra Scholarship was awarded to photojournalist Nuno André Ferreira, who intends to develop a work on the experience, tradition and historical importance of the student republics, which are heritage of the city and university of Coimbra.
Despite the confinement context that lasted for most of the year, more than 300 works were submitted to competition.
The jury for this 12th edition of the “Estação Imagem Award” was chaired by Thomas Borberg, editor-in-chief of photography at the Danish newspaper Politiken, and also a judge of the W.
The contest also counted, as judges, with Jodi Bieber, winner of several international awards, including the World Press Photo Premier Award in 2010, Fabio Bucciarelli, photographer, journalist and writer whose works have been recognized with awards such as Photographer of the Year 2019, Gold Medal Robert Capa, W ou Best of Photojournalism, or Aïda Muleneh, founder and director of Addis Photo Fest who started his career in The Washington Post and has a summary of his work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA);
Also Muhammed Muheisen, photographer at National Geographic and double winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Pierre Fernandez, Operational Manager for the Promotion of Multimedia Content at Agence France-Presse (AFP), were part of the panel of judges for the competition.
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