Monday, March 14th,  21 FEP member associations gathered in Santa Maria da Feria, Portugal to celebrate the FEP General Assembly 2016. 

 

The meeting has been held inside the very well attended “Expofoto”, organized by the APPImagem. 

 

A Board of Directors for the next term of 2 years has been elected. It will be comprised – beyond , ex officio, the FEP President  - of the following members: Jean Felix Bernetel, Fernando Barrio, Rui Teixeira, Willem van der Vlies, Johan Browers, Tiina Haring, Adriano Scognamillo, Neil Warner, Bern Gassner, Patrizia Burra, Milos Fic and Bent Nygaard. 

 

 

The FEP annual programme will include, among others, two photographic qualifications sessions to be held in Poland (Torun,11-13 June) and in The Netherlands (Amsterdam, 19-21 November) and a video qualification session (QEV) scheduled in Spain also in early November next.   

 

The attending delegates initiated the procedures towards a new regularisation of the FEP in the institutional form of a not for profit  association based on Belgium. As a result,  the Board member Willem van der Vlies had the mandate to address the Belgian registry and proceed to the subsequent course of actions.   

 

The results of the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2016 – competition were revealed on Sunday evening, March, 13th, during the Expofoto event in Santa Maria de Feira, Portugal. The awards were presented by the FEP Event Manager Anna Kaleva-Tsagklas and the chairman of the competition Jørgen Brandt.

Thousands of images from several hundred photographers from across Europe entered the competition. According to the chairman, “The competition is a huge inspiration to all of us in the European photographic community”.

Antonio Barrella got his QEP in 2014, his Master QEP in 2015, and for this competition he won the FEP European Commercial Golden Camera 2016 and the FEP European Fashion Golden Camera 2016. With this last set of pictures submitted for the category “fashion”, he obtained the overall winner’s title.

Congratulations to all the other Golden, Silver and Bronze Cameras winners, coming from all over Europe:

COMMERCIAL

ANTONIO BARRELLA, Italy, FEP European Commercial GOLDEN CAMERA, 2 Merit Awards, 1 Excellence Award 

ONNI WILJAMI KINNUNEN, Finland, FEP European Commercial  SILVER CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

MATHIAS KNIEPEISS, Austria, FEP European Commercial BRONZE CAMERA, 2 Merit Awards, 1 Distinction Award 

FASHION

ANTONIO BARRELLA, Italy, FEP European Fashion GOLDEN CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

LLUIS OLIVER, Spain, FEP European Fashion SILVER CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

CORMAC BYRNE, Ireland, FEP European Fashion BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Merit Award

ILLUSTRATION

ANTTI KARPPINEN, Finland, FEP European Illustration GOLDEN CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, Distinction Award

ALVARO RUIZ, Spain, FEP European Illustration SILVER CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 1 Excellence Award

ONNI WILJAMI KINNUNEN, Finalnd, FEP European Illustration BRONZE CAMERA, 2 Merit Awards

LANDSCAPE

STEFAN BRENNER, Austria, FEP European Landscape GOLDEN CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 1 Excellence Award

TOM D. JONES, Belgium, FEP European Landscape SILVER CAMERA, 3 Merit Awards 

MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN, Ireland, FEP European Landscape BRONZE CAMERA, 2 Merit Awards 

PORTRAIT

ONNI WILJAMI KINNUNEN, Finland, FEP European Portrait GOLDEN CAMERA, 3 Excellence Awards

VICENTE ESTEBAN, Spain, FEP European Portrait SILVER CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award 

VESA TYNI, Finland, FEP European Portrait BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

REPORTAGE/PHOTOJOURNALISM

JOS VERHOOGEN, Belgium, FEP European  Reportage GOLDEN CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 2 Excellence Awards

RUI CARIA, Portugal, FEP European  Reportage SILVER CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 2 Excellence Awards

JORGE BACELAR, Portugal, FEP European  Reportage BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

SPORTS

SIMON HAUSBERGER, Austria, FEP European Sports GOLDEN CAMERA, 2 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence

PIERRE DELAUNAY, France, FEP European Sports SILVER CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 2 Distinction Awards

MATHIAS KNIEPEISS, Austria, FEP European Sports BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Distinction Award, 1 Excellence Award

WEDDING

CARLOS FELIPE ORTIZ, Spain, FEP European Wedding GOLDEN CAMERA, 2 Excellence Awards

NEVZAT BASARAN, Denmark, FEP European Wedding SILVER CAMERA, 2 Distinction Awards, 1 Excellence Award  

JUAN CARLOS GUARDIA VAZQUEZ, Spain, FEP European Wedding BRONZE CAMERA , 1 Merit Award, 1 Distinction Award

WILDLIFE

TOM D. JONES, Belgium, FEP European Wildlife GOLDEN CAMERA , 3 Excellence Awards

DMITRY ARKHIPOV, Russia, FEP European Wildlife SILVER CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 2 Distinction Awards  

JÜRGEN DE WITTE, Belgium, FEP European Wildlife BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Merit Award, 1 Excellence Award 

STUDENTS AND YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS

FRIDA BRINGSLIMARK, Norway, FEP European Students and Young Photographers GOLDEN CAMERA , 1 Merit Award, 2 Distinction Awards

LUIS RÜSING, Germany, FEP European Students and Young Photographers SILVER CAMERA, 3 Merit Awards 

SALVA RUIZ, Spain, FEP European Students and Young Photographers BRONZE CAMERA, 1 Merit Award  

FINALISTS

COMMERCIAL

Stephan Huger, Austria,  Finalist with 1 Merit Award and 1 Excellence Award

Xanti Rodriguez, Spain Finalist with 2 Merit Awards

Antti Karppinen, Finland Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Gerry O'Leary, Ireland , Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Thomas Schauer, Austria, Finalist  

Odd Furenes, Norway, Finalist with 1 Merit Award 

Gareth Byrne, Ireland , Finalist with 1 Merit Award

FASHION 

Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Finalist  

Edgar Raphael, Portugal, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Michael Schnabl, Austria, Finalist 

Riccardo Urnato, Italy, Finalist 

Michael Hayes, Ireland, Finalist  

Natalia Pipkina, Norway, Finalist  

Patrizia Burra, Italy, Finalist 

ILLUSTRATION

Xanti Rodriguez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Jon Klasbu, Norway, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Krister Löfroth, Finland, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Katya Rashkevich, Russia, Finalist  

Patrizia Burra, Italy, Finalist  

Michael Schnabl, Austria, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award  

André Boto, Portugal, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Siri Sødahl, Norway, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

LANDSCAPE

Peter Gordon, Ireland, Finalist with 2 Merit Awards

Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award 

Franz G. Messenbäck, Austria, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Daragh Muldowney, Ireland, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, Belgium, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Simon Hausberger, Austria, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Bram Declercq, Belgium, Finalist with 1 Merit Award 

PORTRAIT

Igor Sakharov, Russia, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award and 1 Distinction Award

Richard K. Johansen, Norway, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Garfield Trummer, Austria, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Patrizia Burra, Italy, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Yves-Michel Barclay, France, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Yeray Menéndez, Spain, Finalist with 2 Distinction Awards

Guido Pelgrim, The Netherlands, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

REPORTAGE

Vincenzo Tessarin, Italy, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award and 1 Merit Award

Vanessa Forget, France, Finalist with 2 Distinction Awards

Svetlana Petrova, Russia, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Ulrich Schulte, Sweden, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award and 1 Merit Award

Jesus Jimenez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award and 1 Merit Award

Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Roberto Colacioppo Italy, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

SPORTS

Herbert Kratky, Austria, Finalist with 1 Distinction and 2 Merit Awards

Jose Luis Mendez Fernandez, Spain, Finalist with 2 Merit Awards

Miloŝ Fic, Czech Republic, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Marek Musil, Czech Republic, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Harald Voglhuber, Austria, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Yeray Menendez, Spain, Finalist 

Nicola Ughi, Italy, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

WEDDING

Jose Luis Guardia Vazquez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Igor Link, Germany, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Clemente Jimenez, Spain, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Manuel González, Spain, Finalist with 1 Excellence Award

Philippe Swiggers, Belgium, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Manola van Leeuwe, The Netherlands, Finalist 

Nuno Teixeira, Portugal, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

WILDLIFE

Seppo Rintala, Finland, Finalist with 2 Distinction Awards

Lluisa Viladoms Bargallo, Spain, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Thomas De Sterck, Belgium, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Martin Morel, France, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Jos Verhoogen, Belgium, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Simon Hausberger, Austria, Finalist 

Tim Hunt, United Kingdom, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

STUDENTS AND YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS

Terese Samuelsen, Norway, Finalist with 1 Merit Award

Henning Frode Dispen, Norway, Finalist with 1 Distinction Award

Linda Leitner, Austria, Finalist 

Silvano Pedrett, Switzerland, Finalist

Markus Aspegren, Finland, Finalist 

Aina Rosland Ruud, Norway, Finalist 

Dawid Galinski, Poland, Finalist 

All the winning images can be seen in the competition gallery on FEP website, where you will be able to see which pictures got the single awards. Click here to go there.

Once again, FEP would like to express their happiness to all the entrants of the annual competition, hoping to see them again in the future.

 

FEP COVER PICTURE OF MARCH 2016!

Congratulations to Martin Ktystynek, QEP from Slovakia, winner FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A ROW of the FEP COVER PICTURE OF THE MONTH contest.
Discover all the images submitted! And all the FEP Covers, follow us on facebook!

In addition to the names of the finalists (top 10 photographers per category), published last week, we are now happy to announce the single awards obtained for single pictures by those photographers who are not in the top 10 list per category. 

Congratulations to:

We will be happy to award all of them with their Excellence, Distinction and Merit awards during the FEP Awards Ceremony (March 13, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal), if attending the event.

  

During the ceremony, we will reveal also the single Excellence, Distinction and Merit awards obtained by the photographers who are in the top 10 list, so to discover the winners! 

After the ceremony in Portugal, aside the Golden, Silver and Bronze Cameras, we will publish the gallery of the single awarded pictures so the photographers will discover which pictures got the awards. 

Here again, the FINALISTS, in each category, in alphabetic order. Amongst them, there are the Bronze, Silver and Golden Cameras and the FEP Photographer of the Year 2016! 

 

 

FASHION: Antonio Barrella, Italy, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Cormac Byrne, Ireland, Michael Hayes, Ireland, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Lluis Oliver, Spain, Natalia Pipkina, Norway, Edgar Raphael, Portugal, Michael Schnabl, Austria, Riccardo Urnato, Italy

 

ILLUSTRATION: Andre Boto, Portugal, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Antti Karppinen, Finland, Jon Klasbu, Norway, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Krister Löfroth, Finland, Katya Rashkevich, Russia, Xanti Rodriguez, Spain,  Alvaro Ruiz, Spain, Michael Schnabl, Austria, Siri Sødahl, Norway

 

LANDSCAPE: Stefan Brenner, Austria, Bram Declercq, Belgium, Peter Gordon, Ireland, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Tom D. Jones, Belgium, Franz G. Messenbäck, Austria, Michael McLaughlin, Ireland, Daragh Muldowney, Ireland, Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, Belgium

 

PORTRAIT: Yves-Michel Barclay, France, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Vicente Esteban, Spain, Richard K. Johansen, Norway, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Yeray Menéndez, Spain, Guido Pelgrim, Netherlands, Igor Sakharov, Latvia, Garfield Trummer, Austria, Vesa Tyni, Finland

 

REPORTAGE: Jorge Bacelar, Portugal, Rui Caria, Portugal, Roberto Colacioppo, Italy, Vanessa Forget, France, Jesus Jimenez, Spain, Svetlana Petrova, Russia, Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Ulrich Schulte, Sweden, Vincenzo Tessarin, Italy, Jos Verhoogen, Belgium

 

SPORTS: Pierre Delaunay, France, Milos Fic, Czech Republic, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Mathias Kniepeiss, Austria, Herbert Kratky, Austria, Jose Luis Mendez Fernandez, Spain, Yeray Menendez, Spain, Marek Musil, Czech Republic, Nicola Ughi, Italy, Harald Voglhuber, Austria

 

WEDDING: Nevzat Basaran, Denmark, Manuel González, Spain, Jose Luis Guardia Vazquez, Spain, Juan Carlos Guardia Vazquez, Spain, Clemente Jimenez, Spain, Igor Link, Germany, Carlos Felipe Ortiz, Spain, Philippe Swiggers, Belgium, Nuno Teixeira, Portugal, Manola van Leeuwe, Netherlands

 

WILDLIFE: Dmitry Arkhipov, Russia, Thomas De Sterck, Belgium, Jürgen de Witte, Belgium, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Tim Hunt, UK, Tom D. Jones, Belgium, Martin Morel, France, Seppo Rintala, Finland, Jos Verhoogen, Belgium, Lluisa Viladoms Bargallo, Spain

 

STUDENTS AND YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS: Markus Aspegren, Finland, Frida Bringslimark, Norway, Henning Frode Dispen, Norway, Dawid Galinski, Poland, Linda Leitner, Austria, Silvano Pedrett, Switzerland, Aina Rosland Ruud, Norway, Salva Ruiz, Spain, Luis Rüsing, Germany, Terese Samuelsen, Norway

 

 

In a few weeks, at the FEP Awards Ceremony, the FEP will celebrate the winners of the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2016, the annual FEP competition which has been entered from 25 different European countries. Thousands of pictures submitted. Discover them here!

 

A special thanks, for their great work, goes to the international judging panel, composed by:

Johan Brouwers, Belgium

Jeronimo Heitor Coelho, Portugal

Tom Doherty, Ireland

Günther Egger, Austria

Bryn Griffiths, Uk

Tiina Haring, Finland

Attila Korbely, Hungary

Franck Lecrenay, France

Jan Pohribný, Czech Republic

Hans Starosta, Germany

and to Jørgen Brandt, the Chairman of the competition.

  

The names of the winners will be announced on March 13th, 2016 at the FEP Awards Ceremony in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, aside the congress EXPOFOTO 2016.
Now, we are now happy to announce the names of the TOP 10 photographers, the so called FINALISTS, in each category, in alphabetic order. Amongst them, there are the Bronze, Silver and Golden Cameras and the FEP Photographer of the Year 2016! 

 

Congratulations to:

 

COMMERCIAL: Antonio Barrella, Italy, Gareth Byrne, Ireland, Odd Furenes, Norway, Stephan Huger, Austria, Antti Karppinen, Finland, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Mathias Kniepeiss, Austria, Gerry O'Leary, Ireland, Xanti Rodriguez, Spain, Thomas Schauer, Austria

 

FASHION: Antonio Barrella, Italy, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Cormac Byrne, Ireland, Michael Hayes, Ireland, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Lluis Oliver, Spain, Natalia Pipkina, Norway, Edgar Raphael, Portugal, Michael Schnabl, Austria, Riccardo Urnato, Italy

 

ILLUSTRATION: Andre Boto, Portugal, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Antti Karppinen, Finland, Jon Klasbu, Norway, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Krister Löfroth, Finland, Katya Rashkevich, Russia, Xanti Rodriguez, Spain,  Alvaro Ruiz, Spain, Michael Schnabl, Austria, Siri Sødahl, Norway

 

LANDSCAPE: Stefan Brenner, Austria, Bram Declercq, Belgium, Peter Gordon, Ireland, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Tom D. Jones, Belgium, Franz G. Messenbäck, Austria, Michael McLaughlin, Ireland, Daragh Muldowney, Ireland, Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, Belgium

 

PORTRAIT: Yves-Michel Barclay, France, Patrizia Burra, Italy, Vicente Esteban, Spain, Richard K. Johansen, Norway, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Yeray Menéndez, Spain, Guido Pelgrim, Netherlands, Igor Sakharov, Latvia, Garfield Trummer, Austria, Vesa Tyni, Finland

 

REPORTAGE: Jorge Bacelar, Portugal, Rui Caria, Portugal, Roberto Colacioppo, Italy, Vanessa Forget, France, Jesus Jimenez, Spain, Svetlana Petrova, Russia, Marcos Rodríguez, Spain, Ulrich Schulte, Sweden, Vincenzo Tessarin, Italy, Jos Verhoogen, Belgium

 

SPORTS: Pierre Delaunay, France, Milos Fic, Czech Republic, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Mathias Kniepeiss, Austria, Herbert Kratky, Austria, Jose Luis Mendez Fernandez, Spain, Yeray Menendez, Spain, Marek Musil, Czech Republic, Nicola Ughi, Italy, Harald Voglhuber, Austria

 

WEDDING: Nevzat Basaran, Denmark, Manuel González, Spain, Jose Luis Guardia Vazquez, Spain, Juan Carlos Guardia Vazquez, Spain, Clemente Jimenez, Spain, Igor Link, Germany, Carlos Felipe Ortiz, Spain, Philippe Swiggers, Belgium, Nuno Teixeira, Portugal, Manola van Leeuwe, Netherlands

 

WILDLIFE: Dmitry Arkhipov, Russia, Thomas De Sterck, Belgium, Jürgen de Witte, Belgium, Simon Hausberger, Austria, Tim Hunt, UK, Tom D. Jones, Belgium, Martin Morel, France, Seppo Rintala, Finland, Jos Verhoogen, Belgium, Lluisa Viladoms Bargallo, Spain

 

STUDENTS AND YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS: Markus Aspegren, Finland, Frida Bringslimark, Norway, Henning Frode Dispen, Norway, Dawid Galinski, Poland, Linda Leitner, Austria, Silvano Pedrett, Switzerland, Aina Rosland Ruud, Norway, Salva Ruiz, Spain, Luis Rüsing, Germany, Terese Samuelsen, Norway

 

Next week, we will announce the awards for single pictures, continue to follow us!