Избор на победител

Паневропейско жури, съставено от фотографи, млади дизайнери и известни експерти в областта на графичния дизайн и визуалните комуникации избра 35-те най-добри участници. Журито се събра през август 2007 г., за да излъчи победителя сред 35-те най-добри фотографии.

Критерии за оценка

Подадените материали бяха оценявани по следните критерии:

• Избор на мотив: визуализация на темата „различие”
• Разбиране на контекста на антидискриминационната кампания 
• Креативност и оригиналност на изразяването
• Фото композиция: яснота на представянето
• Универсален апел на визуалния дизайн 
• Способност за привличане интереса на зрителя 
• Способност за представяне на различията пред млада аудитория
• Паневропейски апел

Jury members

G�rard Klijn

Florencio Chicote

Arja Hyyti�inen

Jakub Sliwa

Sabine Schr�nder

Csaba Vigh

Klaus Paul

G�rard Klijn is a designer and a freelance photo journalist who was born in the Netherlands in 1949. He finished his studies in Visual Communication and Photography at the University of Essen, focussing on the Third World in his final thesis. Since 1967 he has worked as a freelance photo journalist, his work often picturing his many journeys throughout Africa, Asia and Latin-America.  Over the years G�rard Klijn has held several exhibitions in Europe as well as in the US. His works have been published in many of the world�s leading magazines and newspapers such as Life Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Stern, Geo and Die Zeit. In 1968, 1969 and 1975 he won the highly respected World Press Photo Award.

Florencio Chicote was born in the Southern part of Germany in 1973. Since 2003 he has been the project manager of the Antidiscrimination Network in Berlin of the T�rkischer Bund (ADNB of the TBB). Activities of the ADNB of TBB include the consultation and support of migrants and people of colour, who have been discriminated based on their ascribed ethnic origin, their skin colour, language, sexual identity, religious belief, sex or disability. Additionally the ADNB of TBB organises a variety of events such as �Queer Berlin� (2004) and �Sinti and Roma in Germany and Berlin� (2007). Florencio Chicote is also a speaker on the Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (the German constitutional non-discrimination law) as well as a diversity trainer and advisor.

Arja Hyyti�inen is a freelance photographer born in Turku, Finland in 1974. She studied photography at the Hola Folk high school in Sweden and at the BA Academy of Fine Arts in Photography and Cinema in the Czech Republic. Since 2000 she has held several solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions all over Europe and in China.     

Arja tries to convey a feeling of a journey or a constant change in her black and white photographs while simultaneously questioning norms and normality. Her photography subjects have included, amongst others, people with mental illnesses. Arja Hyyti�inen lives and works in Paris and in Berlin.

Jakub Sliwa is a freelance photographer born in Krakow, Poland in 1970. He graduated in Oriental Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the National Film School in Lodz. He is mostly interested in documentary photography focused on human conditions in a contemporary world. His photographs have been published in numerous national and international magazines and books. In 2006, he won the Second Prize in the BZ WBK Press Photo Contest. His work is exhibited worldwide.

Sabine Schr�nder is a German photographer born in Telgte, Germany in 1973. She studied photography at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the School of Art and Design in Berlin.  Since 2006 she is a photography instructor at the Lette Foundation in Berlin. Sabine is interested in various social themes and was nominated in 2006 for the K�ber-Foto-Award 2007. She works and lives in Berlin.

Csaba Vigh is a photographer and a graphic designer based in Budapest. He was born in 1977 in St. Petersburg and moved to Hungary at the age of four. After finishing school, he moved to Miami and assisted professional photographers in order to learn the tricks of the business first-hand. He spent the next seven years in Buenos Aires and moved back to Hungary when the country joined the European Union. Csaba Vigh now runs his own photography studio, CHABAPHOTO, in Budapest which he opened during his high school years. He regularly shoots and designs catalogs, CDs, illustration books, advertisements and fashion works for his numerous national and international clients.

The professor for Graphic and Communication Design Klaus Paul was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1953. He graduated as a graphic designer (state diploma) from the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart in 1981. Since 2005 he has been working as the head of the design department (communication design & industrial design) at the Braunschweig University of Art. Professor Klaus Paul has also worked for several years as an independent graphic designer, as an art director and an artistic advisor in free and applied work areas of communication design. In the past years, his teaching activities have included lecturing at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart as well as at the University of Arts Berlin.