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Jury 2023

Juan Cañete

Juan Cañete

Juan Cañete is a Fine Art photographer born in Buenos Aires.  Among his awards and nominations are those obtained at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Award ™ New York. He worked as a teacher at Foto Club Buenos Aires, one of the most important photographic institutions in Latin America. Today he teaches Workshops and Master Classes in photography in South America and Europe while continuing to develop his personal and commercial photographic projects. As a visual storyteller, he seeks to visualize the beauty that lies beyond the visible.
Mehdi Bolourian

Mehdi Bolourian 

Professional photographer Mehdi Bolourian holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication. He has won several national awards and received commendations including for UNICEF Photo Contest on Children, Hopes and Dreams (2020), the Annual Iranian Press Photography Awards – Sports (2019), and 2nd Documentary Photo Festival (2018). As a high-ranking photographer of the Iranian Official News Agency (IRNA), he has also photographed international sports events such as the FIFA World Cup in Qatar (2022), the Asian Para Games in Jakarta (2019), the AFC Asian Cup in UAE (2019) and the Summer Olympics in Rio (2016).
Lan Hongguang

Lan Hongguang

Lan Hongguang is a senior reporter and vice director of the Photo News Department at Xinhua News Agency. He also serves as vice president of the Chinese Society of News Photography. Lan has worked as a photojournalist at Xinhua for almost 40 years and is a three-time winner of the China News Awards. Currently, he is in charge of the Photo News Department's sports news and new media reports.
Pavel Volkov

Pavel Volkov

Award-winning photographer from Russia (stanbul Photo Awards, The Prix de la Photographie Paris, NPPA – Best of Photojournalism etc). Stuff photographer of the Izvestia newspaper. Teaches photojournalism at the Moscow State University.
Sefa Karacan

Sefa Karacan    

Sefa Karacan is the senior photo journalist of Anadolu Agency’s Visual News Department. Karacan started to work as a journalist in 2001, in Türkiye. He has been working at Anadolu Agency since 2010 and he was the photo journalist from 2013 to 2023 in Moscow, Russia. Karacan’s work is regularly published in newspapers, magazines and online around the world. Publications include the include the The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Huffington Post.