IPG: Talent of the Year 2020 Winners Announced

2 November 2020

International Photography Grant announced the GP Winner and Finalists of its 2020 Talent of the Year photo contest.

South African visual artist Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990) has been announced as the Grand Prize Winner of the Talent of the Year 2020 Photography Grant!

Tell Tale project is inspired by Athol Fugard’s play Road to Mecca, Lauren Beukes’ novel Maverick and interviews with Nieu Bethesda village residents. Through the construction of miniature theatre sets with silhouette cut-outs of the characters in the diorama Lebohang Kganye recalls the history of the South African artist, Helen Martins and, at the same time, investigates connection between truth and fantasy in oral histories.

Tell Tale © Lebohang Kganye – Talent of the Year 2020 – Grand Prize

The 2020 IPG: Talent of the Year received 3879 project submissions – 50 of them were featured as Top 50 Finalists and another 107 projects received a Nominee distinction.

International Photography Grant awards $1000 annually to the applicant with the most inspirational photographic idea to support visual project of the artist. International Photography Grant is a platform that allows you to gain experience and enter the world of professional photography. Artists have the opportunity to push their careers forward and be recognized by art galleries, curators, media, and cultural institutions from all over the world. Our idea is to evoke artistic activities. Together, we create space to take creative initiatives and promote new trends in photography. We believe that each participant has potential and talent waiting to be discovered.

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On this side of the river © Giuseppe Altero – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Somewhere Else Than Here © Sumi Anjuman – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Ruins © Petr Antonov – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Paradise © Farnaz Damnabi – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Untitled Project from Chernobyl © Maxim Dondyuk – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Paradise Lost © Melanie Hübner – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Wet Grass Dry Shade © Brendon Kahn – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Left to my own devices © Michael Koch – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Vitiligo © Rosa Mariniello – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

L’ altro Deserto Rosso © Alessio Pellicoro – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

We need a face [?] © Cristina Rizzi Guelfi – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

The victims of our wealth – Life in Sodom and Gomorrah © Stefano Stranges – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Korean Dream © Filippo Venturi – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist

Noastalgia © Alice Christine Walker – Talent of the Year 2020 – Top 50 Finalist