Alliance Francaise Award Photo Competition Prizes

Ryan Jansssens' black and white photographs emerged the winners of the competition. The two photographs commanded attention with their beautiful composition that was easy on the eye and released the soul of images more than the colour photographs.  Unfortunately, Janssens was not present at the ceremony to receive his prize because he was traveling out of Botswana.

Speaking at the prize giving ceremony, the competition's coordinator Ulf Nermark explained the judging procedure leading up to the selection of the winner. He said Janssens' first photo of a fisherman dragging two fish defied the normal rules of photography commanding one to look at a picture starting from left to the right. Nermark explained how the photo instead had its concentration point beginning at the bottom right of the photo and went across to the left. In the second photograph, Janssens was commended on his use of light in the photo of a man working on a surfing board.