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FEP’s competition winners introduced in the Belgian Shoot -magazine

Saturday, October 3rd, 2020

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 […]

QEP/MQEP judging sessions will resume in 2021

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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, […]

EP Session 35 Official Results

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers got the EP – European Photographer, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Alexander Mihaylov, EP, Bulgaria Mika Nuorva, EP, Finland Tanja Soininen, EP, Finland Hanna Tarkiainen, EP, Finland Pierre-Yves Blasco, EP, France L’Individu (Bekir Eliacik), EP, France Orlando […]

FEP General Assembly 2020

Monday, June 8th, 2020

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 […]

EP session 34 – Official results

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers got the EP – European Photographer, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Sam Boddin, EP, Belgium Kaat Bonte, EP, Belgium Caroline Dupont, EP, Belgium Kurt Pas, EP, Belgium Kurt Vaes, EP, Belgium Dan Verbruggen, EP, Belgium Saku Tiainen, […]

Thank you to our competition judges

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

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 […]

QEP & MQEP judging sessions in 2020

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

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.

And we have a new winner…..

Sunday, April 5th, 2020

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 […]

FEP Awards Special Videobroadcast

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

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 […]

EP Session nr.33 – Official Results

Monday, March 16th, 2020

Good news for 13 photographers from across Europe: they got the EP – European Photographer, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Evgenia Muzheva, EP, Belarus Urmas Roos, EP, Estonia Marc Sabat, EP, Finland Sami Voutilainen, EP, Finland Xavier Montel, EP, France Cécile Terrasse, EP, France Charlotte Poncin, EP, […]

Important information about Rome

Friday, March 6th, 2020

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 […]

Salone Margherita, Rome © Daniele Grasso

Statement on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Tuesday, February 25th, 2020

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 […]

FEP Competitions 2020, finalist announcement

Friday, February 14th, 2020

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 […]

EP session #32 Official Results

Friday, December 13th, 2019

Congratulations to our new EP Photographers, they got the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Ekaterina Sidonskaya, EP, Austria Lukáš Kopecký, EP, Czech Republic Elisa Karhula, EP, Finland Xavier Ferrandez, EP, France Audrey Langelotti, EP, France Garance Legrand, EP, France Joris Souris, EP, France Gerrit Cramer, EP, Germany Maxim Zubaniuc, EP, Moldova […]

FEP Board Meeting in Prague, November2019, report

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

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 Judging session, November 2019, Official Results

Sunday, November 17th, 2019

Prague, Czech Republic, 17 November 2019 The FEPs 40th judging event has been now concluded and we have 7 new MQEP photographers. Click here for the results gallery They are, in alphabetic order: Assem Alsabban, Czech Republic, MQEP Marian Benes, Czech Republic, MQEP Thibault Chappe, France, MQEP Milos Fic, Czech Republic, MQEP Alain Martineau, France, […]

QEP Judging session November 2019 – Official Results

Saturday, November 16th, 2019

Prague, Czech Republic, 16 November 2019 Congratulations to our new QEP Photographers! Click here for the results gallery The 40th judging event resulted in the 18 new QEP photographers, they are in alphabetical order: Sergey Afanasiev, Austria, QEP Fine Art Nude Valter Antunes, Portugal, QEP Wedding Markus Aspegren, Finland, QEP Conceptual Portrait Claudia Baldus, Italy, […]

EP qualification, session 31, official results

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Svetlana Reicher, EP, Austria Raïs De Weirdt, EP, Belgium Sergey Denisenko, EP, Russia Alette van der Heijden, EP, The Netherlands Apply online now for EP session #32! […]

FEP Young Photographer Award is now open

Friday, October 4th, 2019

We have introduced some changes to our competitions aimed for young photographers; previous we had the FEP Emerging Talent Award for photography students as well as a special category in the our main annual competition for students and young photographers under 30 yrs of age. From now on, both of these competitions have been combined […]

Mentoring program

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

We are now offering mentoring help for aspiring qualification candidates. Our successful MQEP photographers of various areas of expertise and language backgrounds can give you advice on putting together you panel for a QEP/MQEP application. If you want to seek mentoring, please get in touch with out qualifications Chairman Jim Lowe ( qepchairman(at)europeanphotographers.eu ) and […]

EP Session 30 – Official results

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Willem Defijn, EP, Belgium Laura Huttunen, EP, Finland Ambre Peyrotty, EP, France Manuel Delgado, EP, Germany Alexander Varvarin, EP, Russia Michaela Eliáš, EP, Slovakia Tomas Paule, EP, […]

FEP Board Meeting in Bergen, June 2019, report

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

The Federation of European Professional Photographers’ board convened under its President, Truls Løtvedt, on June 10, 2019 on the President’s home turf in Bergen, Norway. This meeting was precided by the final GA of the FEP ivzw. From April 1, 2019 onwards the FEP works as the FEP vzw (changes were promted by changes in […]

MQEP judging session summer 2019 – Official Results

Sunday, June 9th, 2019

After the second judging day, we now also have 3 new Masters: Martin Krystynek, Slovakia, MQEP Frank Pittoors, Belgium, MQEP Jan Pohribný, Czech Republic, MQEP Congratulations to all of our QEP and MQEP photographers! This concludes our judging session in Bergen, Norway. We hope to see again many good panels at our next judging session […]

QEP judging session summer 2019 – Official Results

Saturday, June 8th, 2019

After the first day of judging we have 17 new QEP Photographers. They are: Assem Alsabban, Czech Republic, QEP Portrait Stéphane Audran, France, QEP Portrait Therese Borgioli, France, QEP Portrait Anna Brandsdal, Norway, QEP Portrait Hanna Derecka, Poland, QEP Portrait Erlend B Enger, Norway, QEP Nude Lene Fossdal, Norway, QEP Portrait Nina Kiseleva, Russia, QEP […]

EP session n.29 – Official Results

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Sonja Jordan, Austria Darya Matrosova, Belarus Pol Van Kerschaver, Belgium Evgeniy Zheleznov, Bulgaria Antti Kallio, Finland Timo Mäkipää, Finland Alex Galli, Italy Ricardo Coimbra, Portugal Stanislav Beloglazov, […]

World Photographic Cup 2019: winners announced

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

After a second place last year in the home edition, in 2019 Team Australia wins its first WPC! Second place trophy went to USA, defending champion, with Mexico in the third place. On April 8th, at the end of the celebration for the 125 anniversary from the foundation of the Norges Fotografforbund, the World Photographic […]

Thank you to our competition judges

Friday, March 29th, 2019

The FEP wishes to express its gratitude to all of the judges of the FEP Professional Photographer of the Year 2019 -competition. Your work is a precious resource for us and a high quality contribution to the world of professional photography! This year in particular, with a record number of more than 2400 pictures received […]

FEP welcomes Gloryfy as a new partner

Thursday, March 28th, 2019

FEP proudly presents its new partner Gloryfy. Gloryfy is an Austrian company, an innovative manufacturer of unbreakable eyewear that is perfect for the demands of the professional photographer, offering neutral colour rendering and high contrast in a lightweight package. Welcome to the FEP family! Read more about Gloryfy’s special members-only offer from the Partner- section […]

EP session 28, official results

Monday, March 25th, 2019

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Mariana Perrone Pan, EP, Austria Jan Van Gelder, EP, Belgium Stephane Laville, EP, France Daniela Meier, EP, France Nurlan Tahirli, EP, Georgia Veronika Stuksrud, EP, Norway Jeanette […]

FEP General Assembly meeting 2019 report

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

On Sunday, March 17th, the FEP held its annual General Assembly in Innsbruck, Austria. In a way it was a historical meeting, the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one; due to changes in Belgian legislation, FEP in registered in Belgium, the FEP needed to be changed from FEP ivzw […]

FETA Award 2019 Official Results

Sunday, March 17th, 2019

The Federation of European Professional Photographers is proud to announce that, Tim Hoffesommer, a student at the Handwerkskammer University of Dortmund in Germany, is the 2019 & last ever winner of our FETA Award, with a stunning entry of 9 coffee related images. With merits awarded to Auriane Argaud, a student from IRFMA 30 in […]

Announcing Juhamatti Vahdersalo as the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year 2019!

Sunday, March 17th, 2019

On Saturday, March 16th, the FEP revealed the results of its annual competition in Innsbruck, Austria. The coveted title of Professional Photographer of the Year 2019 went to a Finnish photographer, Juhamatti Vahdersalo, winner of the Golden Camera in the Illustrative / Digital category of the competition and a strong competitor in a number of […]

Awards Ceremony on Saturday is being streamed live

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

If you cannot be with us on Saturday in Innsbruck, not to worry: you can follow the Awards Ceremony on livestream! We will kick off at 7.15pm CET. https://livestream.com/sportevents/events/8599291

FEP Emerging Talent Award 2019 , finalists announcement

Monday, February 25th, 2019

We are happy to announce, in alphabetic order, the finalists of the FEP Emerging Talent Award 2019: Auriane Argaud, student at IRFMA30, Nimes, France Tim Hoffesommer, student at the Handwerkskammer Dortmund University, Germany Agnieszka Iwanska, apprentice at the Fotograf Løtvedt studio, Bergen, Norway. The winner will be announced at the FEP Award ceremony in Innsbruck, […]

FEP Photographer of the Year Awards – Finalist announcement

Friday, February 15th, 2019

FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2019, finalists announcement The International Jury, composed by 20 international judges and chaired by Johan Brouwers, worked hard during last month and now we have the first results! Ladies and gentlemen, we are happy to announce, in alphabetic order, the finalists of the FEP European Professional Photographer […]

Servus – FEP goes Austria!

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

We are happy to announce that the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year competition’s awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria. The location will be the Haus der Musik (House of Music), located in the centre of Innsbruck. The General Assembly will follow in the next day, March […]

EP session 27, Official Results

Monday, December 24th, 2018

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Christoph Cejka, EP, Austria Reinhard Loher, EP, Austria Fargana Gasimli, EP, Azerbaijan Susanna Mikander, EP, Finland Torstein Gamst, EP, Norway Agnieszka Iwanska, EP, Norway Hanna Derecka, EP, […]

FEP Board Meeting in Tbilisi, November 2018, report

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Important message : The date and the venue of the next General Assembly will be changed, and the annual competition award ceremony will be communicated soon. The Federation of European Professional Photographers’ board convened under its President, Truls Løtvedt, on November 19, 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia. This is a summary of the decisions made. Event […]

Congratulations to our new MQEPs!

Sunday, November 18th, 2018

The judging is now complete and we have 5 new MQEPs. They are: Fernando Cerrone, Master QEP, Italy Etienne Clotis, Master QEP, France Ann Coppens, Master QEP, Belgium Peter Lik, Master QEP, UK Rastislav Marguš, Master QEP, Czech Republic FEP congratulates all of its new qualification holders, well done everybody! The next QEP/MQEP judging session […]

Congratulations to our new QEPs

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

QEP judging is done for the day, congratulations to our new QEPs! Paul Gheyle, Belgium, QEP Portrait John Hellström, Sweden, QEP Wedding Mikaela Holmberg, Finland, QEP Portrait Dušan Holovej, Slovakia, QEP Commercial Nina Pauloff, Finland, QEP Fine art Frank Pittoors, Belgium, QEP Illustrative Kakha Pkhakadze, Georgia, QEP Reportage Jenny Puronne, Sweden, QEP Portrait Fred van […]

Judging session in Tbilisi, Georgia

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

The QEP / MQEP qualification session number 38 takes place 17-18 November in Tbilisi, Georgia. On Saturday we are judging the QEP panels and on Sunday the MQEP panels. Results will be published at the end of each judging day. Gentlemen in the image above are the FEP Qualification Chairman Jim Lowe (on the left) […]

FEP welcomes a new partner

Monday, November 5th, 2018

FEP proudly presents its new partner UPGRD Photo. The product of UPGRD Photo is a design software for mass photography, such as schools, sports clubs or nurseries. The software helps photographers in the mass photography market to create more customized products for their customers with a highly automated design process. UPGRD Photos is originally a […]

EP session #26 , official results

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

We are happy to announce that the following 12 professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP online judging session! Our congratulations go to: Sébastien Ouvrard, EP, Austria Yuri Iluhin, EP, Belarus Delphine Meersschaert, EP, Belgium Jo Pauwels, EP, Belgium Robert Smits, EP, Belgium Jukka Pakkanen, EP, Finland Gabriel Sarabando, EP, […]

FEP at Photokina 2018 in Cologne

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

FEP will be showcasing in Photokina, you can find us together with our German member association CV in Hall 2.1, stand A006. Come and visit us and see some of our awards winning images!

EP Judging Session #25 Results

Friday, September 14th, 2018

We are happy to announce that 19 professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP judging session! Congratulations to: Harald Göbl, EP, Austria Rodion Kovenkin, EP, Belarus Jeroen De Bosscher, EP, Belgium Igor van de Poel, EP, Belgium Sammy Dierickx, EP, Belgium Stijn Maris, EP, Belgium Bart Meeus, EP, Belgium Frank […]

FEP Board Meeting, Tampere, June 2018, report

Friday, June 29th, 2018

The Federation of European Professional Photographers’ board convened for the first time under its new President, Truls Løtvedt, on June 11, 2018 in Tampere, Finland. This meeting was then followed up by an online meeting a couple weeks afterwards. New website During these two meetings, the board decided to completely update the FEP website. The […]

QEP/MQEP session in Tampere, Finland, June 2018 – Official results

Saturday, June 9th, 2018

Picture by Tiina Puputti, Finland QEP and MQEP judging session, June 2018, Official ResultsWe are happy to announce that at the 37th session of the FEP European Qualifications held in Tampere, Finland, on June 09, 2018, new 3 Master QEP and 11 QEP (Qualified European Photographers) have been awarded. Congratulations to: Master QEPs Andrea Ciapetti, Italy […]

EP online session n.24, official results

Friday, May 25th, 2018

We are happy to announce that 9 professional photographers have been awarded with the EP title at the last EP judging session! Our congratulations go to: Michael Kainz, EP, Austria Luc de Cock, EP, Belgium Gino Defauw, EP, Belgium Marleen Verbruggen, EP, Belgium Tsvetan Tomchev, EP, BulgariaAndreas Brandt, EP, GermanyErnesto Medeiros, EP, Portugal Martin Pitonak, EP, […]

World Photographic Cup 2019 in Drammen, Norway

Monday, May 7th, 2018

The city of Drammen, in Norway, will be the place for hosting the WPC FINALS 2019! The dates for the event is April 8th and the venue is planned to be at the Drammen Theater. Following the decision of the WPC Governing Committee, the news of Norway being the chosen arena for the 2019 WPC […]

World Photographic Cup 2018 Results announced. Team USA strikes again!

Sunday, May 6th, 2018

The World Photographic Cup 2018 winners announced. Team USA strikes again! After winning the cup at home in 2014, and again in France on 2015, the winner of the 2018 World Photographic Cup is… Team USA again! The second place goes to Australia, with Mexico in the third place. Individual gold medals go […]