JUDGES

Judges for the 2024 competition will be announced in July 2024. The following esteemed photographers comprised the 2023 panel.

 

Howard Schatz

The fine art photography of Howard Schatz has been published in 23 monographs, the most recent, PAIRS, published September 2023. His photographs are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in innumerable private collections. He has received international acclaim for his work and has won virtually every award in his field including numerous “Photographer of the Year” awards and Gold Medals in the most prestigious competitions. 

Susan Stripling

Susan has been shooting for over 20 years and her work has been published in Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Modern Bride, Town and Country Weddings, the New York Times, New York Post, Rangerfinder, PDN, and in ads and advertorials for Nikon USA, Epson and Canon USA.
Susan has been named an Explorer of Light by Canon USA, an educator for Photo Plus, WPPI, PPA, Mystic Seminars, Portrait Masters, and Creative Live. She has been named one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world by American Photo Magazine.
Susan also the founder of The Wedding School, which strives to bring real, honest education to wedding photographers worldwide. 

 

Scott Johnson

Scott is an internationally recognised, multi-award-winning photographer based in Essex U.K who shoots weddings and documentary stories around the world. He holds a two Fellowships with the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP) in Wedding and Documentary Photography and is a global ambassador for Fundy Software, as well as Studio Ninja and Graphistudio.

 

Cinzia Bruschini

Cinzia is a destination wedding and lifestyle photographer based in Italy. She was raised in a quiet Italian countryside, nurturing a love for family, food and the feeling togetherness. Over the past decade, Cinzia has been shooting weddings professionally around the globe; from the enchanting Greek islands to the rolling hills of the British countryside and many places in between.
Cinzia has been recognized as a Top Wedding Photographer in the World by Harper’s Bazaar, BRIDES Magazine and Over The Moon and her work has appeared in Vogue, Vogue Latin America, Vogue Italia, Vogue Australia, Harper’s BAZAAR , Harper’s BAZAAR Arabia, Town and Country USA, Brides Magazine USA, Tatler Magazine and many more.

 

The Kitcheners

Dylan and Joanna Kitchener are based in Edinburgh and have been documenting elopements and weddings in Scotland and abroad since 2012.
For many years they were both searching for that way to express themselves creatively and they discovered that documenting humans and their connection was what made their hearts race. “It’s all about the raw emotion, the honest moments and capturing how it all really felt. For us that’s where it’s at!”

 

Ron Haviv

Ron is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, award-winning photojournalist, and co-founder of the photo agency VII, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit VII Foundation, which concentrates on documentary projects and provides free visual journalism education.
His first photography book, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year” by The Los Angeles Times. His other monographs are Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul, Haiti: 12 January 2010, The Lost Rolls, and Shadow of Memory.
Other work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries, including the Louvre, United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations, Fotografiska, and the International Center of Photography.

  

 

Christina House

Christina is a staff photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times. She officially joined the visual journalism team in 2017 after 10 years as a freelance photographer. 

House won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography and the 2021 Cliff Edom New America Award. 
She was honoured in the portrait series category for her work on “Game Changers: A Celebration of Women in Sports” from the 2021 National Press Photographers Assn.’s Best of Photojournalism awards.

 

Matthew Joseph

Matthew Joseph is a London based, award-winning people-focussed advertising photographer & director.
He’s a visual storyteller who is drawn to human emotion and the human condition. His travels, personal and commercial work is centred around people and life - inspired by that raw energy of a caught moment. He strives to keep his imagery honest and relatable, all delivered with a touch of cinematic gloss.