RESULTS OF THE 14th POLLUX AWARDS

Click in the respective category groups to see all images awarded in each category:

PROFESSIONAL SECTION:

Abstract through Architecture
Black & White through Culture & Daily Life
Digital Manipulation through Nature
Nude & Figure through Portrait
Self Portrait through Wild Life

NON PROFESSIONAL SECTION:

Abstract through Black & White
Cell Phone through Culture & Daily Life
Digital Manipulation through Landscape
Nature through People
Portrait through Wild Life

This 14th edition of the Pollux Awards has been pre-screened by the curators of the Worldwide Photography Gala Award and juried by Ken Light, Professor of Photojournalism and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. A total of 487 photographers from 38 countries have submitted 3,358 photographs for consideration of the pre-selection team of the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, and the final selection of the juror. In this occasion, the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards has waived or discounted entry fees of around 32% of the total amount of submitters.

Madelaine Morlet (madelainemorlet.com), British and is now based in Rockport, Maine, USA is the recipient of the Pollux Awards in the Professional Section, and Michal Greenboim (michalgreenboim.com) born and raised in Israel and now living and working in La Jolla, California, USAis the recipient of the Pollux Awards in the Non-Professional Section.

According to the rules of this edition of the Award, both awardees will have a solo exhibition in Barcelona at the FotoNostrum Gallery next March 2020 and will receive $1,500 each for lodging and travel expenses.

MADELEINE MORLET. Recipient of the 14th Pollux Awards in the Professional Section for her Series ‘I Promise I’ll Never Forget’’, a narrative journey thought adolescence and time, through histories and memory and the the bliss of youth.

MICHAL GREENBOIM. Recipient of the 14th Pollux Awards in the non-Professional Section for her Series ‘Keeping The Flame’, a pictorial essay about the Jewish community in Cuba.