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Nat Geo’s Images Of Asia Competition Name 2022 Winners

Yoshi Shimizu NatGeo IOA landscape winner. Music Press Asia

[Landscape Winner: Photograph by Yoshi Shimizu]

If anyone of us could describe how 2022 has been challenging but immensely rewarding, it has to be the winners at Nat Geo’s most recent photography challenge.

The Images of Asia (IOA) Competition celebrates two decades of bringing joy to its readers through amazing photography from Asia. Sharing the vitality and diversity of Asia through photography.

Exclusively for the 2022 edition, Asian Geographic collaborated with the Department of Tourism of the Philippines and the Tourism Promotion Board Philippines as the Official Adventure Destination Partner. The winners have been invited and hosted to “wake up” and experience the Philippines – as they say, “It’s More Fun in the Philippines”!

The photographs entered were remarkable visual expressions, illustrating the best of Asia, in categories: black and white, food, mobile, street and people, landscape, and nature.

“The winners of Images of Asia have a varied and compelling task of choosing pictures that truly represent Asia. And they have definitely succeeded. These captivating and eventful images represent beauty in words that can hardly be expressed,” said Monica Tong, editor-in-chief of Music Press Asia.

Listed below are the names of the winner for each category:
BLACK AND WHITE CATEGORY
Entitled ‘The Innocent Face’

Nat Geo IOA BW 600winner ChanEeLin 2022. Music Press Asia

LANDSCAPE CATEGORY
Entitled ‘Landscape Meditation’
Yoshi Shimizu: “When I was coming down to the Dramitse monastery from a long hike in Bhutan, I saw this beautiful sunset. Submitting yourself to such beautiful natural phenomenon enables you to reach an instant meditative state.

Nat Geo IOA Landscape600 Yoshi Shimizu winner 2022. Music Press Asia

STREET AND PEOPLE CATEGORY
Entitled ‘Looking Out the Emergency Window’

NatGeo IOA Street People 600winner ChanEeLin 2022. Music Press Asia

MOBILE CATEGORY
Entitled ‘Wooden Goggles’

NatGeo IOA Mobile winner 600Mohd Samsi Sumairi 2022. Music Press Asia

FOOD CATEGORY
Entitled ‘My Store’

NatGeo IOA Food 600winner LimSweeHoe 2022. Music Press Asia

WILDLIFE CATEGORY
An adult Chestnut-naped forktail giving a cricket to its juvenile’

NatGeo IOA Wildlife winner 600Mohd Safuan Salahudin 2022. Music Press Asia

The panel of judges at the Images of Asia (IOA) competition 2022

José Jeuland was our first judge, who started his photography journey in documentary photography. His work has been featured in international publications, and his project “Haenyo”, on the women divers of Jeju Island, was showcased in rock band U2’s 2019 concert in Seoul. He is also the founder of his own photography and videography studio, COCO Creative Studio, where, alongside his team, he tackles a variety of commercial projects for clients in multiple industries.

Eric Goh is a specialist in underwater photography with his career having begun two decades ago. His underwater photographs have since graced international magazines and newspapers. His work has been commissioned by major tourism campaigns and has been featured prominently on city walkways and national billboards. He also frequently judges in international photography competitions.

Scott Tuason’s passion for photography has brought him on amazing journeys, from throwing himself into a feeding frenzy to dangling off a line in open water at night. The book Anilao, which he co-authored, won the Palme d’Or at Antibes in 2000, and his latest book, Blackwater and Open Blue, picked up Book of the Year at the 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition.

Yorko Summer is a well-known underwater photographer, travel journalist, photography lecturer, and photo competition judge at international shows. Dr. Klaus Stiefield is also an underwater photographer and videographer, with much knowledge in the field.

John Thet enjoys judging IOA as, here, he is able to share his own voice and advocate for the power of art forms such as photography and videography in sharing the underwater realm with the world above the surface. John is the founder of Underwater360, Historical Diving Society Asia, Ocean Citizen, and Asian Geographic Society. Now, as publisher and editorial director of Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd, the magazine and affiliated media streams, including ADEX itself and events within it, have collectively won nearly 80 international awards in the publishing and exhibition scene.

Source: Asian Geographic

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