Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 02:02 pm
Gabriel Jimoh has emerged winner of the 2022 Canon Photography Competition in the economic category ‘Moments that develop us’.
Held in collaboration with the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), the competition was launched with an intent to drive meaningful change and sustainable action through the power of visual storytelling at Expo 2020 Dubai last year.
Saudi Arabia bagged the first prize award with Abbas Alkhamis being declared as the grand winner via a unanimous decision of the judging panel.
The grand winner along with winners from each category were selected unanimously by the esteemed panel of judges, however the ‘People’s Choice Winner’ was open for public to cast their votes in order to determine the best participating photographer. As per popular opinion of the public, the ‘People’s Choice Winner’ award goes to Mohamed Nageeb Nasr, who is originally from Egypt but now resides in Qatar. The other winners selected specifically for each category are as follows:
i. Gabriel Jimoh from Nigeria is the official winner for the economic category ‘Moments that develop us’
ii. Saif Khlaifat from Jordan is the official winner for the humanitarian category ‘Moments that heal us’
iii. Anne-Marie Vermaat from Netherlands is the official winner for social category ‘Moments that save us’
iv. Olga Timokhina from Spain as the official winner for the environmental category ‘Moments that make us’
The ‘People’s Choice Award’ winner will take home Canon’s remarkable R5 camera along with the lens whereas winners from each category will be awarded a gold coin.
In alignment with the Expo 2020 theme, Canon invited photography enthusiasts to participate in ‘Moments that Matter’ competition by capturing moments that define humanity’s relationship with the planet and highlight sustainable development issues.
Participants in the EMEA region were encouraged to submit five images across any of four categories critical to global sustainability issues: Economic, Human, Environmental and Social. The entry categories were sub-divided into ‘Moments that make us’ (Environment), ‘Moments that heal us’ (Human), ‘Moments that save us’ (Social) and ‘Moments that develop us’ (Economic).
The overall competition entries have been judged by an esteemed international panel of experts, including Fiona Shields, head of photography at Guardian News and Media Group; Kathy Moran, the deputy director of photography for National Geographic magazine; Aïda Muluneh, Canon ambassador and founder and director of Addis Foto Fest; Brent Stirton, Canon ambassador and senior photographer at Getty Images, and Muhammed Muheisen, Canon ambassador, National Geographic photographer, Pulitzer prize winner and founder of Everyday Refugees.
