Photo Competition: 'My World: Visions of 21st Century Feminism'

In the framework of its 20^th anniversary celebrations, the European Women’s Lobby launched on 8 March 2010 a photo competition looking to expose the visions of young women of the world they live in. Entries to the photo competition closed on 30 June 2010. Announcement of the winning 20 entries and their exhibition will take place on 15 October in Brussels.

 

Download the poster announcing the competition in English or French.

 

The criteria and rules of entry are currently available in Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.

 

THE FINAL WINNERS OF THE EWL PHOTO COMPETITION 2010 ARE:

 

	Title	Photographer	Country of Residence
First Prize	In Chambers	by Charlotte Draycott	UK
Second Prize	Working Girls	by Aurore Martignoni	IT
Third Prize	The Birth of my Daughter	by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde	ES
	Break	by Lisa Castagner	UK
	Cure	by Lisa Castagner	UK
	Trapped	by Erika Szoztak	UK
	G20 Protestor	by Louise Whittle	UK
	The Substitute	by Dawn Woolley	UK
	Fairytales	by Jill O'Meara	IE
	The Islamic Centre	by Allessandra Quadri	IT
	Alquimia	by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde	ES
	Double	by Ana Baidan	RO
	Europe	by Peggy Thiele	DE
	Silence Nevermore	by Stella Pellegrini	IT
	Corpse Variation	by Lisa Castagner	UK
	Identities	by Rikka Kakelaa-Rantalainen	FI
	Portrait	by Marina Paulenka	CR
	Picking Flowers	by Aletheia Casey	IT
	Comfort of Movement	by Zsofia Pilhal	HU
	The Princess Who Gave Birth to a Dog	by Darina Hlinkova	CZ

 

 An overview of the winning entries is available here.

 

 THE SHORTLISTED ENTRANTS TO THE EWL PHOTO COMPETITION 2010 ARE:

 

Alvarez-Errecalde, Ana	ES
Baker, Sophie	UK
Baudan, Ana	RO
Blonska, Hanna	PL
Brown, Rachel Louise	UK
Buczkowska, Ola	PL
Casey, Aletheia	IT
Castagner, Lisa	UK
Catovic, Almira	SI
Cotae, Catrinel	RO
Dankova, Mirella M	BG
Daoust, Natalie	DE
Draycott, Charlotte	UK
Eperjesy, Agnes	UK
Hlinkova, Darina	CZ
Jurisic, Dragana	CR+IE
Kahil, Rasha	UK
Kakelaa-Rantalainen, Riikka	FI
Krautgartner, Susi	AT
Kursite, Elina	LV
Logonder, Miriam	HU
Madra, Joanna	PL
Martignoni, Aurore	IT
Mead, Phoebe	UK
Moraio, Claudia	PT
O'Meara, Jill	IE
Pellegrini, Stella	IT
Pilhal, Zsofia	HU
Quadri, Alessandra	IT
Szostak, Erika	UK
Schneider, Kristina	DE
Theile, Peggy	DE
Verdon-Roe, Giulietta	UK
Whittle, Louise	UK
Woolley, Dawn	UK

 

 

THE JURY MEMBERS FOR THE EWL PHOTO COMPETITION 2010 ARE:

 

• Rada BORIC, EWL Executive member
• Katy DEEPWELL, Art Critic and Editor of n.paradoxa
• Pierre-Yves GINET, Photojournalist
• Julie GREGOIRE, Photographer
• Virvinija LANGBAKK, Director of European Institute for Gender Equality
• Melanie MANCHOT, Artist
• Alison MARCHANT, Artist Photographer
• Michel PASTEEL, Director of Belgian Institute for Equality of Women and Men
• Eva-Britt SVENSSON, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee
• Gabriele TRAPANI, Visual Communications Coordinator, European Youth Forum
• Janice TURNER, Journalist
• Gisela WEIMANN, Artist

 

 

 

 

This Photo Competition benefits from the support of:

• The Belgian Institute for Equality of Women and Men
• www.impresor-pawels.eu
• www.acaza.be
• Cafebabel.com
• PhotographyCompetitions.net
• Photocompetitions.com
• Photocompete.com
• Proofpositive.com
• Photolinks.com