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FEP Awards 2021 Results

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

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 […]

Introducing our FEP Awards judges

Friday, April 9th, 2021

Our annual competition’s 2021 edition judges have been introduced https://www.europeanphotographers.eu/competition/fep-awards-2021-introducing-our-judges/ We want to express our deepest gratitude to them for the all the hard work they’ve done for the competition.

EV – Videographer online session winter 2021, Official Results

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

We are happy to inform you that the following videographers received the EV title at the last EV online session. Kévin Payet, EV, France Charlotte Poncin, EV, France Stefan Tschumi, EV, Switzerland Congratulations! The European Videographer (EV) qualification is an entry level qualification that aims to recognise competence and a professional standard for those who […]

FEP Awards broadcast on Facebook this coming Sunday

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

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!

EP – European Photographer, qualification session n.38: Official Results

Friday, March 19th, 2021

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers got the EP – European Photographer title, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Markus Nitsche, EP, Austria Kenny Ros, EP, Belgium Clio Bogaerts, EP, Belgium Marijn De Keyzer, EP, Belgium Kat De Laet, EP, Belgium Pieter Gregoire, EP, […]

FEP Awards 2021, finalist announcement

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

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 […]

QEP-MQEP postponed to November 2021

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

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 […]

Thank you!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

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 […]

World Photographic Cup finalists have been announced

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

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 […]

EP online session 37 Official Results

Monday, December 14th, 2020

We are happy to announce that the following professional photographers got the EP – European Photographer title, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Stefaan Achtergael, EP, Belgium Nathalie Engels, EP, Belgium William Linthout, EP, Belgium Bieke Noels, EP, Belgium Iris Pierloot, EP, Belgium Riikka Kinnunen, EP, Finland Tapio […]

FEP extraordinary General Assembly, November 16

Monday, November 16th, 2020

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, […]

EP session n.36 Official Results

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

Great news for 15 photographers from across Europe: they got the EP – European Photographer, at the last EP online session. They are in alphabetic order per country: Ihar Tkachenka, EP, Belarus Tim Briers, EP, Belgium Katia De Wasch, EP, Belgium Thalia Janssen, EP, Belgium Griet Lievens, EP, Belgium Evelien Sniekers, EP, Belgium Jenni Kosonen, […]

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 […]