Artists
Chirag Jindal
Gloria Oyarzabe
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Sarah Choo Jing

BBA Photography Prize has been warmly invited to Berlin Photo Week this year to exhibit a selection of the most exciting and surprising photographers from our on-going international open call for BBA Photography Prize 2021. Berlin Photo Week unites some of the biggest globally-recognised industry professionals and heavyweights as well as passionate enthusiasts in an inventive new format at the RAW Area, Berlin. Partners and sponsors of the event include Leica, Sony, WhiteWall, Eyeem, Panasonic, Nikon and Calumet, to name a few.

It goes without saying that we are absolutely head over heels to showcase our photographers and their extraordinary work from this year's on-going submissions. Together with previous years winners and shortlists. Their photographs will be displayed both digitally as well as physically in a specially dedicated prominent space on the festival grounds.

Our thirst for a wide variety of subjects is reflected in our selection of previous winners:

Chirag Jindal (New Zealand, Winner of BBA Photography Prize 2019) creates otherworldly-looking images through the use of photographic documentation. His photography is concerned with environments which are experiencing rapid marginalisation, desecration and destruction due to urbanisation

Gloria Oyarzabel (Spain, Winner of BBA Photography Prize 2020) is interested in the discourse around (de)colonisation. Her photography explores the intersectional effect of imperialism on African Feminisms

Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart (Canada, Shortlist BBA Photography Prize 2019) is a self-taught photographer who examines the effects of transforming the ordinary into the absurd while simultaneously making reference to editorial photography

Julia Fullerton-Batten (United Kingdom, People Choice Award Winner 2020) indulges her work in the dramatic and the surreal. A skilled storyteller, her photography produces a hyper-real, cinematic effect which always leaves the spectator wanting to know more

Sarah Choo Jing (Singapore, Shortlist BBA Artist Prize 2021) is an interdisciplinary artist whose series Accelerated Intimacy plays with the tension between privacy and the inherently voyeuristic nature of photography

We are pleased to offer our early deadline applicants from our on-going open call an entry into this much-coveted world by exhibiting their work at one of the most highly awaited photographic events of the year. As the BBA Photography Prize continues to grow, we are excited to announce that we will be joined at Berlin Photo Week by more than sixty photographers whose works will be exhibited digitally at the centre of the festival area. The participants, selected on the grounds of visual excellence, storytelling, conceptual thinking, technical craftsmanship and creativity — all the while subverting categories and genres on their way — all embody qualities that we highly value. With a diverse range of works, everyone’s sure to find their favourite.