2023-08-14 22:03:00
If last year it was Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Pellerin who won the EISA Maestro Photography Awards, the first prize is awarded this year to Swedish photographer Magnus Berggren. We invite you to discover his photographs and the various winners of this edition.
EISA MASTER 2023 – Le royaume animal
Magnus Berggren
Magnus Berggren
1st prize: Magnus Berggren (Sweden)
Magnus Berggren started photographing in 2007, but it wasn’t until 2018 that he decided to focus on wildlife photography. “I started photographing small birds and I got hooked”he explains. “But I also like photographing other animals, of course”.
His image style is distinctive and dramatic. “I try to plan the look of the background while trying to separate the animal from the background. I want to try to show the beauty of the animal by editing the photos in a bit of a dramatic way and bringing out their soul in the photos”he explains. “I’ve been developing my style for a few years and it continues to evolve”.
Magnus uses a Sony Alpha A7 IV with a Sony 400mm F2.8 lens, but hopes to upgrade to a Sony 600mm F4 soon. “It would be better suited to smaller birds”, he said. He edits his photos on a PC with Lightroom Classic and Topaz Sharpen.
1st prize Maestro awards 2023: Magnus Berggren
Angi Wallace
Angi Wallace
2nd prize: Angi Wallace (United Kingdom)
“I’m a former nurse turned award-winning photographer with a passion for close-ups and macro, nature, still life, creative portraits, landscapes and concert photography”, explains Angi Wallace. In 18 years of practicing photography, she learned to master different genres, initially focusing on capturing images of amphibians and reptiles (another of her hobbies). More recently, she has focused on flowers, mushrooms and other close-up nature images, while honing her skills in still life, macro photography with focus and food photography. “I take a lot of my photos at home, using a mini studio set up in our dining room, simply because my health does not allow me to do activities that require a lot of energy”she explains.
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Angi Wallace 2e prix EISA Maestro Awards
Pål Hermansen
Pål Hermansen
3rd prize : Pål Hermansen (Norway)
Pål Hermansen works as a nature and art photographer. He graduated from the Robert Meyer School of Art in Oslo, as well as dental school and homeopathy school. In his work, he mainly focuses on the interaction between man and nature, existential landscapes and creative wildlife photography.
Pål has written and/or illustrated 40 books and is represented in the 2013 international portfolio Masters of Nature Photography (BBC/Natural History Museum, London 2013). His images have been published in journals such as National Geographic Magazine, Orion, Geo et BBC Wildlife Magazine. He is a member of FFF, the Norwegian Association of Fine Art Photographers, and is represented in the group 100 Norwegian Photographers (100norwegianphotographers.no). He is also a member of the art collective HAM with Mats Andersson and Erik Malm and is an honorary member and board member of NN, the Association of Norwegian Nature Photographers.
EISA Maestro Awards 2023 3rd prize: Pål Hermansen
Mirjam Radke
Mirjam Radke
EISA Master Public’s Choice Award: Mirjam Radke (Germany)
When Mirjam Radke, a German blogger, chooses a new destination for an upcoming trip, it is always the local fauna of a country that is decisive in her decision-making. The 38-year-old amateur photographer from Munich has captured exceptional images of orangutans in Sumatra, lions in Tanzania and hippos in Uganda. Patience is one of the essential qualities for a wildlife photographer. Mirjam Radke knows that it takes time to adapt to a place, get to know the animals that live there, their habitat and their behavior, and find the perfect situation to take exceptional photos.
When she is not traveling to a distant country, she always has the mountainous region of the Alps, near her hometown, where she climbs in altitude to take portraits of marmots or deer in the early hours of the day.
“Animals are definitely at the top of my list of favorite subjects to photograph”declares this self-taught photographer who naturally submitted her photographs to this year’s Maestro competition.
When asked what her dream destination is, Mirjam Radke does not hesitate: Antarctica, where she would like to photograph seals and penguins.
EISA Master Awards Public Prize 2023 : Mirjam Radke
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