The new Travel Photographer of the Year 2021 contest has just announced the results, including two Vietnamese winners, Tran Viet Van and Nguyen Tan Tuan.
The Travel Photographer of the Year 2021 contest (Tourist Photographer of the Year – TPOTY) has just announced the results in early February. From 20,000 entries submitted by authors in 151 countries and territories, the jury found award winners in each category. The works are displayed online on the website and exhibited at Granary Square, near King’s Cross and St Pancras stations (London, UK) in April-May this year.
The overall winner of TPOTY 2021 is photographer Fortunato Gatto (Italy) with a series of amazing nature photos he took in Scotland.
Author Tran Viet Van, working at Lao Dong newspaper, Vietnam, won the second prize in the category of People and Stories, and the first prize for Smartshot iTravelled. He competed with a series of photos about a 90-year-old handmade leather shoe maker in Ho Chi Minh City. His name is Trinh Ngoc, he studied in Paris, France, and for many years made shoes for the Cambodian royal family as well as famous Vietnamese singers.
Photographer Nguyen Tan Tuan currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City. The photo above shows water buffaloes moving in herds to find new sources of grass on Dau Tieng Lake (Tay Ninh) in the dry season. The work is ranked at the top of the consolation prize photos in the Single photo section of the Portfolio.
Landscape at Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park, Alaska, the USA through the lens of photographer Fortunato Gallo. “I took the photo just before a bear appeared. Fresh snow covered the mountains in the distance creating the perfect setting for the special transition between autumn and winter,” Fortunato said.
The work is one of the winning photos in the Best 8 category of the TPOTY 2021 contest, taken by photographer Alessandro Bergamini (Italy). He started shooting with his father’s old reflex camera. When traveling to remote parts of the world, Alessandro is always looking for moments that combine time, space, and unfamiliar cultural dimensions to create an image bridge.
Jie Fischer (USA) is the female author who won first prize in the Landscape and Adventure category. She is not a professional photographer but is very passionate about this subject. As a child, she worked with her father in a darkroom in China. At the age of 10, she began to learn and work as an assistant to professional photographers. Jie used to live and work on 3 different continents, now she lives in New York, USA.
Jie’s award-winning photo series captures flocks of flamingos flying back over Lake Magadi, Kenya. In the dry season, the lake is covered with sodium carbonate and attracts many migratory birds such as flamingos. It is the salty salt deposited in the lake that creates strange, winding shapes along the lakeside when viewed from above.
A herd of tigers sleeping peacefully on the grass is the work of Jose Fragozo (Portugal’s) Jose Fragozo (Portugal’s) Jose Fragozo (Portugal) won the Consolation Prize for Consolation Prize in the Living World category.
Pally Learmond (UK) won the first prize for Landscape and Adventure single photo with a shot of an extreme skier on the cliffs of Kaines, Alaska, USA. The judges commented, “The photo has both a wonderfully beautiful natural setting and an eye-catching crazy adventurer.”
The work won the consolation prize in the Best 8 category of TPOTY 2021. The photo was taken by Vladimir Karamazov (Russia) of a small village in a snow canyon glowing in the sun.
Jai Shet, 18 years old and Tevin Kim, 16 years old are two young authors who won the first prize of TPOTY 2021 in the young photographer category. The photo above captures a dreamy forest in Magnolia Ridge Park, Texas, the USA in the photo contest of Jai Shet. The 18-year-old photographer presented the contest with a series of photos of forests of different colors such as fall reds in Texas, warm yellows in Wyoming summers, bright greens in the spring of California and cool blues of the sky. of Colorado winter.
(According to TPOTY )