The Minimalist Photography Awards has announced the winners of the sixth edition of their competition. As stated on the organizers’website: “With more than 3,400 submissions from talented photographers worldwide, this year’s awards have showcased an extraordinary level of creativity and skill in minimalist photography.”
The jury selected the best images of 2024 across 12 categories: Abstract, Landscape, Portrait, Street, Open Theme, Photomanipulation, Conceptual, Night, Aerial, Fine Art, Architecture, and Long Exposure. Eva Chupikova has been named Minimalist Photographer of the Year for her photo series titled “Anna.”
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Every spring, I become excited as the great egrets begin their breeding season in Florida, marking the start of my spring photography season. The joy captured in my images reflects my enthusiasm.
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A lone musher with his dogs drives through the vast expanses of Spitsbergen.
The dancing mangrove trees on the Sumba island in Indonesia.
We were curious about Kateryna’s approach to minimalism in photography, and she explained: “It has been my experience that the typical urban environment offers rather limited opportunities for minimalistic aerial photography. But outdoor sports facilities and basketball courts in particular always make for interesting photo spots. They have certain conciseness and also dynamics, of course. I consider it best to visit them not in the golden hour but during the sunny day when the shadows can be used as additional elements of composition or optimally positioned like the shadow of this oak tree in the middle.
While constructing basketball grounds in an urban park in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the designer team made this creative decision to show their respect for nature and save this big tree from being removed.
Greater flamingos are taking off from a wild lagoon of St. Martin island, based in Southern France. Being normally a migratory bird, it happens that a certain population of greater flamingos decides to stay, as it has been the case for those living in Camargue, one of Europe’s largest wetlands, hosting a vegetation variety, but also a natural wildlife paradise, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.They have been breeding there naturally for centuries (back to the Roman times) and according to experts, the greater flamingos might be one of the few survivors that will continue to live or to come to this natural reserve, despite the heavy erosion and rising sea levels, due to climate change.The color of the greater flamingos varies according to seasons. Almost white in summer, their plumage becomes flamboyant, with a very pink color, during winter time. This is indeed during this season that they engage in courtship displays to attract their future partner.Their bright pink color comes from beta-carotene, a red-orange pigment that’s found in high amounts within the algae, brine fly larvae, and brine shrimp that they eat in this wetland environment. As this diet is nearly exclusively carotenoid, the birds have no problem coloring themselves.This pink color of the water is due to dunaliella salina, an algae rich in beta-carotene which takes all its intensity from above, especially during the summer time.Thanks to the natural beauty of this French colorful area, which never ceases to amaze my pupils, and together with my aerial shot, I like creating a confusion between reality and illusion, photography and painting, based on Rothko’s principles: insisting on the primacy of raw emotion, to push the boundaries of form and color, to make photos appear as “painting-like” as possible.
The famous lonely tree at sunrise in Valensole, Provence.
Lastly, the photographer explained how this award-winning image fits into the broader context of her work: “Before aerial photography I specialized in landscapes, both urban and natural, while nature has always inspired me most. Until now, nature has been present in most of my works, one way or the other. I cannot say I purposefully explore the themes of nature coexisting with man-made environments but this sure interests me a lot and I would be happy to do it more often in the future, I have new ideas.”
On the way home from the day’s work. The time everyone wants.
A series of geometric images that explore the interplay of color, form, and material, capturing an essence reminiscent of architectural elements. Each piece is centered on abstract forms within the built environment, presenting a visual journey that challenges perceptions and creates a color dialog that invites viewers to consider how colors interact and influence one another within a structured composition.
I wanted to create a special couple photo showing their love with the geometric shape of a heart.
I took these pictures in Switzerland, the Canary Islands, Austria and Spain. My goal as a photo artist is to find angles that reveal unexpected beauty in the mix of geometrical shapes and colors. The simplicity invites you to eventually almost forget that you are looking at actual buildings. This is when the magic happens and you sink into the picture and forget about everything around.
I drove past this house the day after a Canadian winter snowstorm. The virgin snow in front of the house and on the roof made a perfect minimal shot. The uniqueness of this architecture is the missing steps and balcony at of the two doors!
This photograph shows a pair of grey reef sharks chasing after their prey, a fusilier fish, during a night hunt. The photograph was shot in South Fakarava, French Polynesia, a very remote location where sharks are abundant. Sharks are aggressive when they are hunting at night and Fakarava is one of the rare locations where night diving is not banned due to the risks involved. However, it was a challenge just putting a crew together that would enter the water for this photoshoot.To hide from the sharks, prey hid amongst the cracks and crevasses in the corals. In this photo, a fusilier was detected, which attracted a shiver of sharks to break through the corals to flush the fusilier out. What followed was a high speed chase in the pitch darkness of the night. I kicked my fins as hard as I could and followed the chase with my camera furiously firing and was fortunate enough to capture this image.
It is a picture from Rodos. With long exposure, I wanted to underline the very long time that he was thinking about jumping.
Part of the search for balance and harmony with elements purported not to mix. Created using in-camera double exposure.
Delicate, graceful, elegant, tender, fine, vulnerable.
Austria / Vienna / Inner courtyard
Local sun lovers bring their brightest towels, swimsuits and umbrellas to the shores of Cascais, Portugal, creating a wonderful vibrant wallpaper, sprawling with life, when viewed from above. Life is better at the beach!
This photo was taken in Berlin, May 2024. It shows a boy running and jumping from white circle to white circle.
Danville, California
I transformed the main entrance of a building into a tunnel leading to a new world. This picture is part of a series called “The suns”.
It’s not often today you see a modern building constructed with bricks, so it’s a welcome change from the steel, glass and concrete we normally see.
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Between being busy with life in general and an unreliable car, my photo road trips have been limited. But over the last year, I’ve been going on walks through wooded trails and along a river that’s in my neighborhood. At first I was passively looking at the shapes of all the rocks in and near the river. Also at the time, I was looking at a lot of abstract and minimalistic paintings, so during one of my evening walks along the river, I had this idea to photograph the shapes of all these rocks I’ve been looking at over the weeks. I then started picking up anything with an interesting shape or markings. This led into looking for shapes that complemented each other. It was a relaxing project to work on and I continue to work on.
Taken from my balcony Dubai Marina.The camera is always on hand.Just in case.
The night dissolves to leave space and time for the new day. Everything happens calmly. The lights meet, mix, greet each other and dissolve. A situation that has been going on for millennia.
Dramatic forms suspended in peaceful stillness. Full of emotion yet strangely quiet. Chaotic, but somehow making sense. Boring or hypnotic?Using salvaged off cuts from the paper background used in the studio I explore the complex beauty hidden in the overlooked. What was once deemed as trash now takes centre stage.The title “Gomigami” is a playful twist on the traditional Japanese art of origami, where “gomi” meaning “trash” or “waste” replaces “ori” (folding) and “gami” meaning “paper”.
Melancholy hovers over this series.The people remain unrecognisable and are therefore replaceable.Perhaps their mood is completely different in real life, but in the photos something melancholy emanates from them, small symbols such as a lowered head or loneliness.For me, the focus of this series was to tear the situation and individual images completely out of their context and to give the viewer something thoughtful to take away with them.
This photo was taken in Berlin, January 2024. It shows a man and a woman seemingly crossing paths without knowing, as they are on different levels. I wanted to create a very symmetrical shot and also a shot with deeper meaning to it. In the world we often feel separated from another, yet from a different viewing angle we can see the connection.
A surreal way of understanding the Christian confession.
Torii gates in Japan are elements in the landscape that symbolize the essence of Japanese culture and spirituality. In the Shinto spiritual tradition, Japanese torii gates are a symbol of the transition from the secular world to a sacred space. Honouring the natural realm, the simplicity and shape of a torii in the landscape draws the senses and spirit to embrace nature’s power and beauty. A minimalist approach draws the viewer into peaceful meditation.
A viceversa portrait.
The photo “Street Entanglement” presents an impressive fusion of lines and geometric shapes with the urban population. The image captures the harmony that arises when people and architecture merge together. The lines and structures in the image direct the viewer’s gaze to the subtle connection between people and the city, blurring the boundaries between them. “Street Entanglement” invites the viewer to explore the poetry of urban life and discover the beauty in the everyday cityscape. The photographic technique emphasizes the magic that arises when the city’s lines accompany the stories and movements of the people
Self portrait taken during a rainy day.
These photographs are from an upcoming series of mine called ‘Spectrum’. For this series I tried to leverage colour relationships to evoke specific moods, highlight subjects and create a harmonious or dynamic composition intertwined with the natural world…transforming the ordinary into a kaleidoscopic feast for the eyes.
Sections of torn and peeling billboard posters are not an uncommon sight in everyday life. Under the layers of paper bizarre fragments of faces are often revealed. Some become visible on the surface, others remain hidden underneath. These motifs fascinated me in their imperfection and so I have captured many of them over the years, as they offered the opportunity for me to create my own works of art out of them.
Image of the sun over 4-5 hours.Captured with a medium format film camera, film hand developed.
‘The Unseen Poem’ is a set of photographs taken over a period of 18 months. The last 2 years have been hard both personally and professionally and these images represent a freedom and a release from these confines. These photographs are meant to be seen as the unseen poem might be read during an English literature test… the reader must interpret the images and explain the meaning to themselves and back to me, for I do not always know what they mean as I am creating them, even if they do talk to me.
These images represent my sense of the state of the world today with wars, climate change and the divisive nature of people around the world. It seems like a dark time for humanity on so many levels.
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