The winners of the 35th Annual Hungarian Press Photo Awards were announced in Budapest on Monday, Hungarian wire service MTI reports.
The international jury of the prestigious competition said it evaluate 6259 pictures from 234 photographers before naming the Grand Prize winners as well as the best three photos in each category.
Starting on March 17th, there will be an open exhibition of the winning photos at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center.
You can view some of the winners below:
Attila Balázs’ photo series, “the Down syndrome school’s welcoming classroom ( A maguk közé Down-szindrómás iskolásokat befogadó osztályközösség),” which won this year’s grand prize. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Balázs Attila
Máte Szekeres’ series “the Kidney Patient (a Vesebeteg),” which won the André Kertész Grand Prize. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Szekeres Máté
Szergejt Markoszov’s photo, “No more Népszabadság-No more Peoples’ Freedom’ (Nincs többé Népszabadság),” which won the Károly Escher Award. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Markoszov Szergej
One of Dénes Mártonfai photographs from his “Countryside footbal (Vidéki foci)” series, which won first place in the sports category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Mártonfai Dénes
Ákos Stiller photo “Leona,”which won first place in the individual portrait category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Stiller Ákos
Márton Kállai’s photo “Elephant bath (Elefántfürdõ),” which won first prize in the individual art photo category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Kállai Márton
An image from Tamás Kaszás’ “Elvis of Miskolc (Miskolci Elvis)” series, which won first prize in the art series category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Kaszás Tamás
Simon Móricz-Sabján’s photo, “Lunch (Ebéd),” which won first prize in the individual documentary photo category.
MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Móricz-sabján Simon
An image from Csaba Tökölyi’s series “Waiting (Várakozás),” which won first prize in the nature series category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Tökölyi Csaba
Photographs from Zsófia Sivák’s series “Joe’s place (Józsiék),” which won first prize in the documentary photography category. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Sivák Zsófia
Images from Zoltán Balogh’s series “Idomeni, the Last Days of the Balkan road (Idomeni, a Balkán út utolsó napjai),” which won first prize in the photo report (series) category. The series was photographed in the Greek village of Idomeni in March of 2016. MTI Fotó: Sajtófotó Pályázat / Balogh Zoltán
You can view last year’s award-winning press photos here.
Via MTI
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