The Exposure One Awards have announced the winners of the 2024 One Shot Photo Contest, and they are an incredible showcase of the emotional power of black and white photography.
“The images that rose to the top enrich our experience of the world by helping us see through others’ eyes or by sharing something new and unexpected,” explains Exposure One. “From the front lines of war to images stretching the boundary of what a photograph can be, these images inspire, delight, and dare.”
This year’s winning photographers, split into professional and non-professional categories, hail from over 50 countries.
Overall Winners
“In the heart of the cockpit, two majestic roosters soar through the air,” explains photographer Paul Lukin. “Their feathers ruffle in the intensity of the moment. Surrounding them, a captivated crowd holds their breath, their eyes fixed on the airborne spectacle unfolding before them.”
This image shows that flamingos are still beautiful birds even when their iconic pink colors are absent. A flock of wading birds is seen here flying over the marbled waters of Lake Magadi in Kenya.
“I had just arrived in the village of Terny, newly conquered by the Ukrainian army. The Russians were only a short distance away, and they were not yet willing to give up this territory. We were still under artillery fire. There were still many dead bodies of Russians lying in the village, the Ukrainian dead bodies had already been removed. It looked like the Second World War,” explains photographer Lenka Klicperová in an interview.
“Being on the front lines in Ukraine is extremely dangerous. I have worked in many conflicts before – from Africa to Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq, and Syria, but nowhere was it as dangerous as here,” she continues.
“Two brothers are so different, but sometimes they are as one. They quarrel, but cannot live long without each other. After all, neither of them two recall a time before he had a brother,” says Steinepreis.
“Every day in the Tatvan district of Bitlis, hundreds of sheep make a dusty journey to reach the pasture. Joining the dusty journey and photographing them was an indescribable feeling,” explains photographer Serkan Dogus of his winning image.
In their native Italian, photographer Loredana Sansavini says this image “evokes birth” and symbolizes the “perpetual cycle of life.”
Selected Gold Award Winners
In addition to the top three overall winners in each group, there are also “Gold Winners” across various categories, including portrait, wildlife, street, travel, photojournalism, landscape, conceptual, abstract and minimalism, and more. There can be more than one gold award per category, so many beautiful images exist.
Professional
Non-Professional
Given the sheer volume of winning photos, PetaPixel has picked 20 to feature above, but the rest can be viewed on the One Shot Photo Contest website.
Image credits: Exposure One Awards. The individual photographers are credited in the image captions.
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