The Siena International Photo Awards released their roster of winners for their 2022 competition, dazzling us with stunning images that topped tens of thousands of entries sent by photographers from 140 countries. A jury selected the winning photographs for the competition’s 12 categories, including architecture, underwater, street photography, documentary, sports, journey, and more.
Out of all the entries, Greek photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis dominated the photo awards with a powerful portrait of an 81-year-old woman standing against a backdrop of the serious forest fires that damaged Evia, Greece’s second largest island, in the summer of 2021.
Other categories include Documentary and Photojournalism, Sports in Action, Journey and Adventure, Beauty of Nature, Animals in their Environment, Underwater Life, Street Photography, Architecture & Urban Spaces, Fascinating Faces and Characters, and Under 20.
As always, the other entries are worth looking through, which you can do at Siena Awards’ official winners gallery.
The Siena Awards Festival takes place in Siena from October 1st to November 20th this year, featuring eight photographic exhibitions – four of them dedicated to photographers Danish Siddiqui, Ami Vitale, Dan Winters, and Peter Mather. Don’t miss it if you’re in the area! Visit Siena Awards on Instagram.
Kritsiopi Panayiota, 81-years-old, reacts as a wildfire approaches her house. Amid the hottest and most long-lasting heatwave in the last 30 years, with temperatures reaching 47°C, hundreds of forest fires broke out across the country, severely hitting Greece’s second largest island. Thousands of residents and tourists were evacuated by boat. The fire, which raged uncontrollably for a week in the tinder-dry pine forests, destroyed more than 50,000 hectares of forest area and agricultural land, burned dozens of houses, and killed many animals.
Even in 2020, while we were all struggling with COVID, the world did not stop: people continued to flee from wars and poverty, looking for a better future and putting their lives at risk. In the Mediterranean Sea, even the rescuers, led by hope, have not stopped.
Nagarbari Ghat is one of the busiest river ports in the country. Importers of fertilizers, food grains, coal, and cement use this route for easy transportation. Usually, laborers work here all day long to unload the products from the ships. They carry the bags and get paid per bag at the end of the day.
Dressed like a detective from past times, a gentleman is passing through a cloud of underground steam rising from beneath East 37th Street. In the background, skyscrapers and ancient buildings complete the picture.
Mother bears, in particular, are very caring of the young ones. Today, due to climate change, bears have to travel greater distances to forage for food and survive. Sometimes the mother must hold her young one by her side while searching for the next hunting area.
In this phase of their life the juvenile seahorses usually move holding on to any floating object with their tails. Sometimes they grab and swim on a piece of seagrass, seaweed, or on a piece of plastic. This time, the young seahorse moves using the feather of a seagull.
A line of small erupting craters in the West of the Land of Ice and Fire. A river of lava guides the viewer’s eye, while thick smoke rises high into the sky. Seeing a volcanic eruption, hearing and smelling it, and feeling the unbelievable heat on your skin is a unique experience.
It is said that buildings are lifeless subjects. However, as an architectural photographer, the author thinks it is exactly the opposite. The title of this image tells a different story: the one of a polka-dot building with a smiling roof. The moon completes the face of this brick Joker.
Brazilian Olympic gold medalist swimmer Ana Marcela Cunha competes in the Women’s 10km Marathon Swimming Final event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Odaiba Marine Park. A small fish splashes out of the water, going backwards from the athlete’s stroke.
A girl, with a sad expression and lips painted with lipstick, is the model for a photo shoot. The photo concept is revolutionized by the arrival of a curious little bird. Her colored lips attract a spider hunter, immortalized in flight.
This portrait was shot for Natgeo to promote Angelina’s Women for Bees initiative on World Bee Day. Everyone on set had to wear a full bee suit. The actual queen bee pheromone was applied on Angelina to make the bees congregate there. Angelina stood perfectly still for 18 minutes without a sting.
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