The Federation of European Professional Photographers’ Board and General Assembly were finally able to gather in person during the last weekend in November in Tampere, Finland. In addition to the meetings, also the 41st judging session took place. As a result, 27 new QEP titles and 4 MQEP titles were awarded to photographers around Europe. Once again, congratulations to all the newly qualified photographers!
General Assembly
The General Assembly approved the budget for 2022 and also approved a new country, Iceland, to the FEP family. Welcome the Icelandic Professional Photographers Association!
Event calendar
The Board confirmed future events, The FEP Awards and next General Assembly will take place in Rome, Italy on March 27, 2022 and the next QEP/MQEP judging session will take place in Poprad, Slovakia on June 17-20, 2022. The second judging session of 2022 is possible taking place in Naples, but that is yet to be confirmed.
The Federation of European Professional Photographers gathered in Tampere, Finland, on November 27-29 for its 41st qualification judging session, after a 2 years stop because of COVID-19 situation
This time, a record number of almost 20 Master QEP and almost 60 QEP panels have been received and judged and 27 QEP – Qualified European Photographers and 4 Master QEP have been awarded.
Now also the Photo Book competition is open for entries. This will be the 6th edition of this competition, winners will be awarded at the FEP Awards ceremony in Rome on March 27, 2022. Books can be entered into the competition by either the author or the publisher.
Last to sign up for the next QEP/MQEP judging is November 7
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The next QEP/MQEP judging session – and the first in years – will take place in Tampere, Finland during the last weekend of November 2021. If you wish to submit a QEP or MQEP application for this session but have not done so yet, please note that the last day to sign up for it is November 7, 2021.
Both of the annual competitions, the FEP Awards and the Young Photographer Award, are now open for entries. Last day to submit your entries is January 17, 2022 and more information is available on the relevant pages on our website.
Awards ceremony will take place on March 27, 2022 in Rome, Italy.
The final episode of our online series “An Evening With” will air on Monday, August 16 at the usual time of 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The final episode will be a special feature of the 2 winners of 2021, the European Professional Photographer of the Year Antti Karppinen and the FEP Young Photographer Award winner Raïs de Weirdt. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos.
Please join us once more on the FEP Facebook-site!
The 11th episode of our online series “An evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, August 2 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The eleventh episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Wildlife category, Tracey Lund, Risto Raunio and Soren Sviland. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The 10th episode of our online series “An evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, July 26 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The tenth episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Wedding category, Sanjay Jogia, Miguel Ponte and Ivan Schirmenti. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
Due to unforeseen complications we will not be able to host the eposide with Sports Camera winners. We will return back to the schedule on July 26 with the An Evening With the Wedding Cameras.
We apologise for the inconvenience and invite you to come back for more interviews on July 26.
July 26, Wedding Cameras
August 2, Wildlife Cameras
August 9, Reportage Cameras
August 16, Winners’ Special
See you again on July 26!
The ninth episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, July 12 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The ninth episode will feature the three camera winners of the Reportage category: Alfonso Novo, Luis Godinho and Manuel Iglesias. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The eighth episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, July 5 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The eighth episode will feature 3 lovely ladies, the camera winners of the People and Portrait category: Pia Maria Rautio, Therese Asplund and Suvi Roiko. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The seventh episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, June 28 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The seventh episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Nature category: Irina Petrova, Peter Svoboda and Jan Smid. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
As the pandemic looks like it should be under control in Europe in the coming months (fingers crossed) , we’re very pleased to announce that we’re opening up submissions for the Winter 2021 QEP and MQEP sessions on November 27-28 in Tampere, Finland.
Don’t forget that if you’re on time you can avail of our early bird specials! Early bird application fees are available until September 30, 2021
The sixth episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, June 21 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The sixth episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Landscape art category: Peter Svoboda, Karel Mus and Rene Algesheimer. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The fifth episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, June 14 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The fifth episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Illustrative & Fine art category: Antti Karppinen, Pia Maria Rautio and Andreas Varro. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The fourth episode of our online series “An Evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, June 7 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The fourth episode will feature the 4 camera winners of the Fashion & Beauty category, Therese Asplund, Giorgia Corniola and the 2 bronze camera winner Michael Schnabl and Martina Wärenfeldt. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The third episode of our online series “An evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, May 31 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The third episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Domesticated Animals category, Kristi Vilmunen, Alison Becu and Heidi Järvi. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
The second episode of our new online series “An evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards, will air on Monday, May 24 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/FederationOfEuropeanPhotographers.
The seocnd episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Digitally Created Images category, Patrizia Burra, Andy J.J. Hens and Annamari Kemppainen. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
We are happy to present a new online series “An evening with” introducing our Camera winners from the 2021 FEP Awards. First episode will air on Monday, May 17 at 19.30 CET, live on our Facebook site. The first episode will feature the 3 camera winners of the Advertising & Commercial category, Mathias Kniepeiss, Onni Wiljami Kinnunen and Carlo Marchi. They will be interviewed by FEP Board member Joao Carlos, who will also host the whole series. A new episode will air every Monday through the summer and each week different category’s winners will be featured (categories will be introduced alphabetically).
Please join us for the series on the FEP Facebook-site!
FEP Professional Photographer of the Year 2021 is Antti Karppinen!
The FEP Awards 2021 have been our biggest competition yet, both in term of participants and images sent to the competition; we received more than 2600 images from over 300 photographers in 25 different countries! That is simply amazing and once more we wish to thank all photographers who took part in our competition.
For the second year running, the results of the competition were announced in an online ceremony on Sunday, April 11. If you want to revisit the ceremony, the recording is available on our Facebook page
A team of 29 international judges (see more about them here) together with our competition Chairman Johan Brouwers had to work hard to go through all of these images and select the best of the best of them. Brouwers says: ”A new name, new categories, clear and adapted regulations, an extensive team of dedicated jury members, a hell of a job for the chairman and the FEP Awards team, but the brilliant results that confirm the high standard of European photography made every minute spent on it worthwhile thanks to all of you.”
This year, the most shining star of the high standard is our new reigning champion and FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2021 is Antti Karppinen from Finland! The Chairman commented: “Last year, Antti Karppinen was already a multiple camera winner. The competition for the ultimate trophy with other golden camera winners was fierce this year. But with these deeply thought-out images telling us a strong story full of symbolism, we have a worthy winner.”
You can see a gallery of the all 12 golden camera winners and well as other winners and awarded images HERE
During the FEP Awards online ceremony, also the winners of the FEP Young Photographer Award and FEP Photo Book Prize were announced.
The winner of the Young Photographer Award is Raïs de Weirdt from Belgium, you can see her portfolio as well as the 2 merit winners’ portfolios here.
The winners of the fifth edition of FEP Photo Book Prize are introduced here.
The European Videographer (EV) qualification is an entry level qualification that aims to recognise competence and a professional standard for those who earn their lives as Professional videographers.
FEP Awards broadcast on Facebook this coming Sunday
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Exciting times ahead, the competition results will be revealed soon! The awards broadcast will premiere on our official Facebook profile, on Sunday April 11 at 7pm CET.
Tune in to see who will win prizes and ultimately become the European Professional Photographer of the Year!
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the FEP Awards and the FEP Young Photographer Award 2021. The names will be listed per category and in alphabetical order. The final results will be announced in an online Awards ceremony on Sunday, April 11 at 7.00 pm CET. The online ceremony will premiere on Facebook that evening, we will communicate further details on that closer to the event.
Congratulations to all the finalists, you have done a superb work, and good luck to everybody. In addition we want to thank our competition Chairmen Johan Brouwers and Jim Lowe and their team of over 30 international judges for the hard work they have done.
FEP AWARDS 2021
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Günther Egger, Austria
Alex Jeffries, UK
Sanjay Jogia, UK
Antti Karppinen, Finland
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland
Mathias Kniepeiss, Austria
Carlo Marchi, Italy
Marc Sabat, Finland
Igor Sakharov, Russia
Michael Schnabl, Austria
DIGITALLY CREATED
Patrizia Burra, Italy
Andy J.J. Hens, Germany
Annamati Kemppainen, Finland
Vladimir Schukin, Russia
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS
Alison Becu, Belgium
Ann Coppens, Belgium
Kat De Laet, Belgium
Heidi Järvi, Finland
Franz G Messenbäck, Austria
Katty Plevoets, Belgium
Igor Sakharov, Russia
Johanna Sjövall, Finland
Johanna Vaurio, Finland
Kristi Vilmunen, Finland
FASHION & BEAUTY
Therese Asplund, Sweden
Edita Bizova, Czech Republic
Cormac Byrne, Ireland
Joao Carlos, Portugal
Giorgia Corniola, Italy
Lianne Dekker, the Netherlands
Günther Egger, Austria
Michael Schnabl, Austria
Max Solve, Russia
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
ILLUSTRATION & FINE ART
Therese Asplund, Sweden
Giorgia Corniola, Italy,
Antti Karppinen, Finland
Tomas Paule, Slovakia
Pia Maria Rautio, Finland
Peter Rooney, UK
Marc Sabat, Finland
Andreas Varro, Sweden
Mathieu Paul Gabriel Vasse, France
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
LANDSCAPE
Rene Algesheimer, Switzerland
Peter Gordon, Ireland
Thorarinn Jonsson, Iceland
Daragh Muldowney, Ireland
Karel Mus, Belgium
Marcos Ribeiro, Portugal
Jan Smid, Czech Republic
Peter Svoboda, Slovakia
Miroslava Truskova, Czech Republic
Markus van Hauten, Germany
NATURE
Katti Borré, Belgium
Ann Coppens, Belgium
Tanya Crosbie, Ireland
Antti Hallakorpi, Finland
Sonja Jordan, Austria
Irina Petrova, Russia
Jan Smid, Czech Republic
Peter Svoboda, Slovakia
Markus van Hauten, Germany
Dan Verbruggen, Belgium
PEOPLE & PORTRAIT
Therese Asplund, Sweden
Cormac Byrne, Ireland
Jesús Castillo, Spain
Dawid Galinski, Poland
Claudiu Guraliuc, Romania
Svetlana Melik-Nubarova, Kazakstan
Natalia Pipkina, Norway
Pia Maria Rautio, Finland
Suvi Roiko, Finland
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
REPORTAGE & PHOTOJOURNALISM
Jesús Blasco de Avellaneda, Spain
Rui Caria, Portugal
Roberto Colacioppo, Italy
Francesco Congedo, Italy
Luis Godinho, Portugal
Francois Gueneau, France
Manuel Iglesias, Spain
Victor Martinez Campos, Spain
Alfonso Novo, Spain
Evi Polak, Belgium
Risto Raunio, Finland
Lea Torrieri, France
SPORTS
Pedro Luis Ajurianguerra Saiz, Spain
Sergey Areshev, Russia
Colin Brister, Ireland
Lianne Dekker, the Netherlands
David Farrell, Ireland
Matthias Fritzenwallner, Austria
Fargana Gasimli, Azerbaijan
Victor Martinez Campos, Spain
Hannu Rainamo, Finland
Peter Svoboda, Slovakia
WEDDING
Valter Antunes, Portugal
Andrey Balabasov, Germany
Jesús Castillo, Spain
Thibault Chappe, France
Sanjay Jogia, UK
Patrick Lombaert, France
Faustino Maldonado Roman, Spain
Carlos Felipe Ortiz, Spain
Miguel Ponte, Portugal
Ivan Schirmenti, Italy
Manola van Leeuwe, the Netherlands
WILDLIFE
Colin Brister, Ireland
Ann Coppens, Belgium
Michal Dobes, Czech Republic
Massimo Giorgetta, Italy
Hannelore Kirchner, Austria
Tracey Lund, UK
Risto Raunio, Finland
Martin Steenhaut, Belgium
Soren Sviland, Norway
Cecile Terrasse, France
FEP YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD
Raïs de Weirdt, Belgium
Lene Fossdal, Norway
Jan Rabara, Slovakia
In each category of the main competition, the TOP 3 photographers will be awarded with Bronze, Silver and Golden Cameras. The winners of the Golden Cameras will also compete for the competition’s overall winner’s title, the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2021. In the Young Photographers’ competition we will award one winner and 2 merit award winners.
The trophies of all Camera winners and the Young Photographer Award winner will be sent to them by post or courier after the results have been published. All certificates for medalists and finalists (from 4th place to 10th place or merit winners of the Young Photographer competition) will be available for download on our website after the results have been published.
During the same ceremony, FEP European Photo Book Prize winners will be announced and awarded. Also these awards and certificates will be sent / available for download.
All the other photographers getting single awards for their images, but who are not within the TOP 10, will receive notification of their certificates by email after the event and their awarded images will be published online.
Finally, congratulations to all of the finalists on your excellent achievements! We hope you will all be watching the awards ceremony on April 11!
Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation we are still unable to organise a QEP-MQEP judging event in June 2021, but we hope that we can finally resume the judging sessions in November 2021.
We invite all interested photographers to submit their applications for that session, the online application system is open.
If you have already submitted an application for an earlier -since cancelled- session, it will be automatically transferred to the next available session.
The address for panels and completed forms will be communicated later.
When FEP Awards 2021 opened for entries, we asked you to help us to make this the biggest Awards yet. And you indeed delivered; we broke all records with the entries! Thank you!
Now that the images are in, everyobody is of course interested to know what happens next. First all entries will go through a validation process and then the judging will commence. The first results, i.e. finalists, will be announced on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021.
We had hoped to be able to announce the winners in person in Rome, but the current COVID-situation does not allow that. Therefore Awards will be announced and celebrated in an online ceremony on Sunday, April 11th, 2021. Please join us then! Details of the ceremony will be published later.
World Photographic Cup finalists have been announced
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The World Photographic Cup finalists and winners of the Best of Nation awards have been announced in connection of the Imaging USA event. Among the 60 finalists were 26 European photographers from 12 different countries including Austria, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and United Kingdom.
Originally the winners were supposed to be revealed on April 19 in Rome, Italy. Due to the pandemic, this plan needs to be revisited and the new time and location will be communicated once decided.
For a full list of finalists, click here and to see the annoucement video, click here
An extraordinary General Assembly was held online, on November 16, 2020. During this meeting, the budget for 2021 was approved. The FEP wants to support its member associations during these difficult times and the membership fees will be temporarily reduced by 25% for 2021.
Otherwise we are prepared to have a “business as usual” year, conditions allowing there will be 2 qualificafion judging sessions in 2021 (June and November-December) as well as the annual Awards gala. Some of our qualifications take place online, and these remained unaffected even in 2020 and will continue normally in 2021.
Should the COVID-19 pandemic still represent restrictions for our activities in 2021, we will then react accordingly.
During the GA, a new venture for copyright initiatives was set up, we will inform more about this once the project moves forward.
FEP's competition winners introduced in the Belgian Shoot -magazine
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The article was largely concentrated on the Belgiand award winners of the competition, which is completely understandable. But in addition to the introducing the Belgians, the article also featured our overall winner, European Professional Photographer of the Year, Darya Matrosova or Dasha Art as she calls herself professionally. Review of her images is written by Vincent O’Byrne, an Irish MQEP Photographer
The panel is extremely well considered and yet it is quite simple in its concept. It adheres to all the criteria of excellence in that it has IMPACT, COMPOSITION, LIGHTING and WORKMANSHIP.
All of these crucial elements are handled extremely well. It is avant-garde and classical at the same time
It is delightful to see that the model, in all three images remained black and white so there is no distraction away from them.
The hint of yellow as an earring is acceptable and not distracting. The touches of colour on the table bring a sense of surrealism to the whole concept.
On the yellow table the figure is involved with triangles, from the design of the iron to the models hat and shoulder pads. The eyebrows and eye shadow follow the same triangular idea.
In the image with the egg, ovoids and circles are conveyed in the same way and in the red leafed book, the idea of rectangles is pretty evident to see.
All in all, a wonderful idea that is carried out to perfection and a worthy WINNER.
Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation we have had to make the difficult decision of cancelling also the planned November QEP/MQEP judging session. Travel restrictions in Europe change nearly daily, so under these circumstances it was impossible to commit to having the judging session in November.
So the next available QEP/MQEP will be in Slovakia, in June 2021. We invite all interested photographers to submit their applications for that session. If you have already submitted an application for the November 2020 session, it will be automatically transferred to the next available session.
The whole year of 2020 is not lost though, during the rest of the year we will be able to run the online based qualifications (EP, EV and QEV) normally. So if you are interested in achieving one of these qualifications, please refer to our website for further information on applications.
The FEP General Assembly 2020 was held online on June 8, 2020. As a sign of solidarity to the member associations during COVID-19 times, the GA decided to keep the membership fees for the associations at 2019 levels.
During the meeting, a new board was elected for the FEP. The new Board consists of the following people: Jean-Felix Bernetel, Joao Carlos, Marie de Verdier Persson, Bernd Gassner, Tiina Haring, Friedrich Jansenberger, Martin Krystynek, Jeanette Larsen, Eugenio LiVolsi, Karen Massey and Jan Pohribny. Truls Lotvedt will continue as the President.
The external auditors for 2020 will be Bent Nygaard Larsen and Willem van der Vlies.
We wish to express our gratitude for the members of the previous Board for their work over the past year and welcome the new Board for 2020-2022!
The FEP wishes to express its gratitude to all of the judges of the FEP Professional Photographer of the Year 2020-competition.
Your work is a precious resource for us and a high quality contribution to the world of professional photography!
This year again, with more than 2200 pictures received in the competition, your job was harder than ever! Going through categories with hundreds of pictures is a very demanding task. Thank you for your commitment, without you all this would not be possible. Your cooperation is very much appreciated!
Thanks to:
Ian Cartwright, United Kingdom
Pierre Delaunay, France
Jens Eldøy, Norway
Miloš Fic, Czech Republic
Bernd Gassner, Germany
Tiina Haring, Finland
Cecilie Hatløy, Norway
Friedrich Jansenberger, Austria
Peder Klingwall, Norway
Martin Krystýnek, Slovakia
Carl Lapeirre, Belgium
Franck Lecrenay, France
Eugenio Li Volsi, Italy
Vincent O’ Byrne, Ireland
Jan Pohribný, Czech Republic
Philippe Uglietta, Spain
Eva Helene Storm Hanssen, Norway
Peter Svoboda, Slovakia
Jos Verhoogen, Belgium
Mirco Villa, Italy
Neil Warner, Ireland
The FEP officially wants to send a warm thanks also to Johan Brouwers, from Belgium, the Chairman of this competition for his passion and his commitment that he demonstrated from the beginning of this task!
Due to the extraordinary circumstances in 2020, we will only organise one judging session this year. This will take place in Antwerp, Belgium on November 14-15, 2020. We will give more information about the venue later on.
The results of the annual competition were revealed on Saturday evening, April 4th, in a special video broadcast. We now a have a new winner, the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2020 is Darya Matrosova from Belarus! It’s a year of girl power, since the winner of the new FEP Young Photographer Award is Laura-Madeleine Engler from Germany! Congratulations to all of the awarded photographers. You see their amazing works from this gallery. Also the single image awards gallery is available on that page.
The annual FEP Awards wll be revealed in a special video broadcast that premieres on Saturday, April 4th at 8 pm CET. During the broadcast, the winners of both the FEP European Photographer of the Year 2020 and the FEP Young Photographer Award will be revealed. The winners of the FEP Photo Book Prize will be announced in Rome in September in connection with the postponed World Photographic Cup Awards. https://www.facebook.com/FEP-Federation-of-European-Professional-Photographers-196609550358729/
Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that circumstances surrounding the continued spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and most recently the decree issued by the Italian Department of Civil Protection suspending demonstrations and events of any kind that would cause attendees to be closer than one meter of others in attendance, we must cancel the event in Rome and make other arrangements.
Before releasing this statement, we worked hard yesterday to find other alternatives for our General Assembly and annual Awards ceremony and we are pleased to inform you that solutions have been found!
The General Assembly will be held in connection with the next QEP/MQEP judging session in Poprad, Slovakia, in June. We currently anticipate the meeting to take place on Monday morning, June 8th.
Because we know all finalists are keen on finding out their positions in the competition, we felt that we could not keep you in suspense until June. Therefore, we will arrange an online award ceremony with a dedicated premier time where all winners will be revealed. We are currently working on the details of this broadcast and are dedicated to releasing it as soon as possible. Further details will be communicated once we have confirmed them. We understand it is not the same as having a ‘real’ ceremony, but we hope it will nevertheless help you to celebrate your fine achievements in the competition.
Those of you who are also finalists in the WPC will soon receive more information about the new arrangements of that ceremony. Also, if you had signed up for activities in Rome that required payments (such and dinners or workshops), you will be contacted by the organizing committee to arrange for refunds.
We are deeply saddened about this and recognize that the situation has created difficulties for all involved. Travel plans will have to be cancelled and new ones created. We will make available the official statement from the Italian government, which will hopefully help you with claims with your insurance companies or airlines. We trust you understand that in this difficult situation this was the only decision we could make. We look forward to meeting you other events in the future!
FEP is organising the event in Rome together with the World Photographic Cup. After a meeting on Monday evening (Feb 24) both organisations are committed to providing a safe environment for their awards celebrations. We are closely monitoring the recent developments in northern Italy, and have already met to map out a possible strategy should the situation there worsen significantly. The organizers will always consider the side of caution. If there is the slightest concern for the safety of attendees, the event will be either relocated or postponed. Rome is not affected by the outbreak at this time, and there is no indication that it will be. While we are monitoring the situation extremely closely, an objective and rational assessment does not warrant a change at this time. As always, we urge attendees to make decisions that are best for them, and look forward to exciting awards ceremony on March 22nd and 23rd.
We will also update this information as necessary.
We are pleased to announce the finalist of each category in the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2020 -competition as well as the finalists of the FEP Young Photographer Award. All finalists are listed on alphabetical order.
We would also like to express our thanks to the chairmen of these competitions, Johan Brouwers and Jim Lowe and their teams of over 20 international judges for completing this huge task!
FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2020 Top 10 in each category
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Antonio Barrella, Italy
Dušan Holovej, Slovakia
Antti Karppinen, Finland
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland
Mayda Mason, Italy
Mika Levälampi, Finland
Igor Sakharov, Russia
Ray Troll, UK
Juhamatti Vahdersalo, Finland
Manola van Leeuwe, the Netherlands
DRONE
Yuri Afanasiev, Russia
Christophe Cresens, Belgium
Marek Czarnecki, Poland
Petr Jan Juračka, Czech Republic
Pygmalion Karatzas, Greece
Filip Kulisev, Slovakia
Tatiana Shkondina, Russia
Markus van Hauten, Germany
Luc Vervliet, Belgium
Raf Willems, Belgium
FASHION
Antonio Barrella, Italy
Arne Beck, Norway
Patrizia Burra, Italy
Giorgia Corniola, Italy
Lianne Dekker, the Netherlands
Raïs De Weirdt, Belgium
Michael Hayes, Ireland
Laura Sheridan, Belgium
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
Vadim Yatsun, Ukraine
ILLUSTRATION/DIGITAL ART
Antonio Barrella, Italy
Cosimo Barletta, Italy
Patrizia Burra, Italy
Mikaela Holmberg, Finland
Antti Karppinen, Finland
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland
Darya Matrosova, Belarus
Suvi Sievilä, Finland
Juhamatti Vahdersalo, Finland
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
LANDSCAPE
Ann Coppens, Belgium
Peter Gordon, Ireland
Thorarinn Jonsson, Iceland
Peter Lik, UK
Franz G. Messenbäck, Austria
Daragh Muldowney, Ireland
Karel Mus, Belgium
Martin Rak, Czech Republic
Jan Šmíd, Czech Republic
Markus van Hauten, Germany
PORTRAIT
Therese Asplund, Sweden
Hanna Derecka, Poland
Mikaela Holmberg, Finland
Isabelle Jaravel-Tayar, France
Antti Karppinen, Finland
Natalia Pipkina, Norway
Igor Sakharov, Russia
Laila Villebeck, Sweden
Martina Wärenfeldt, Sweden
Vadim Yatsun, Ukraine
REPORTAGE/PHOTOJOURNALISM
Roberto Colacioppo, Italy
Luís Godinho, Portugal
Jesús Jiménez, Spain
Gry K. Lilleng, Norway
Alfonso Novo, Spain
Tiina Puputti, Finland
Marcos Rodríguez, Spain
Filip Santens, Belgium
Ulrich Schulte, Sweden
Marie Pascale Vandewalle, Belgium
SPORT
Assem Alsabban, Czech Republic
Sergey Areshev, Russia
Colin Brister, UK
David Farrell, Ireland
Matthias Fritzenwallner, Austria
Mathias Kniepeiss, Austria
Hannu Rainamo, Finland
Michael Schnabl, Austria
Andre Schönherr, Austria
Nurlan Tahirli, Azerbaijan
WEDDING
Iuri Akopov, Georgia
Valter Antunes, Portugal
Andrey Balabasov, Germany
Raïs De Weirdt, Belgium
Yann Faucher, France
William Lambelet, France
Ricardo Meira, Portugal
Raffaele Di Matteo, Italy
Faustino Maldonado Román, Spain
Carlos Santana, Spain
Lea Torrieri, France
WILDLIFE
Colin Brister, UK
Ann Coppens, Belgium
Michal Dobes, Czech Republic
Kirill Dorofeev, Russia
José Fragozo, Portugal
Massimo Giorgetta, Italy
Martin Steenhaut, Belgium
Søren Sviland, Norway
Cécile Terrasse, France
Ingrid Vekemans, Belgium
FEP Young Photographer Award
Laura-Madeleine Engler, Germany
Lene Fossdal, Norway
Dawid Galiński, Poland
Will Miller, UK
In each category of the main competition, the TOP 3 photographers will be awarded with Bronze, Silver and Golden Cameras. The winners of the Golden Cameras will also compete for the competition’s overall winner’s title, the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2020. In the Young Photographers competition we will award one winner and 3 merit award winners.
The FEP Awards ceremony where the finalists (from 4th place to 10th place or merit winners of the Young Photographer competition) will receive their certificates and the TOP 3 winners will receive their trophies, will take place Sunday, March 22, at the Salone Margherita Theater, Rome at 8 pm.
All finalists will soon receive a specific invitation by email to the Awards Ceremony.
During the same ceremony, FEP European Photo Book Prize winners will be announced and awarded.
All the other photographers getting single awards for their images, but who are not within the TOP 10, will receive their certificates by email after the event and their awarded images will be published online.
Finally, congratulations to all of the finalists on your excellent achievements! We hope to see many of you in Rome! For more information about the event in Rome, please visit https://www.wpcroma2020.com
The Federation of European Professional Photographers’ board convened under its President, Truls Løtvedt, on November 18, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. During the weekend before the Board meeting, the FEP celebrated its 40th judging event. The judging went through overall 32 QEP and 19 MQEP applications, which resulted in 18 new QEP and 7 new MQEP photographers. Once again, congratulations to all the newly qualified photographers!
CEO meeting
On Friday, preciding the judging, several CEOs of the FEP member associations got together in a meeting. The CEO form a formally unutilized skillset for the FEP, which will now be put into good use. The CEOs agreed to form 3 difference task forces, FEP Brand, FEP Marketing and Copyright. These task forces will work on their dedicated issues and report to the Board in its following meetings.
Event calendar 2020
The dates of 2020 events were confirmed, they are March 22 for the General Assembly and Annual Award ceremony in Rome, Italy, June 6-8 the next judging session and Board meeting in Poprad, Slovakia and finally November 14-16 for the second judging and Board meeting in Antwerp, Belgium. the next CEO meeting will also be held in Antwerp in connection of the judging weekend, but the exact weekend is yet to be established.
Budget 2020
The Board approved a preliminary budget for 2020 to be presented at the General Assembly in Rome. A new way of calculating membership fees will be presented at the GA.
