MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention 2021 / Editorial / Environmental Naked Extinction Rebellion Women Climate Protesters Company Jeff Gilbert Photographer Jeff Gilbert / United Kingdom Naked Extinction Rebellion Women Climate Protesters hold hands as the weather turns to rain during a cold day whilst blocking the road on Waterloo Bridge to protest on International Women’s Day, central London, England, UK PHOTO:JEFF GILBERT. 8th March 2020. Waterloo Bridge, London, England, United Kingdom
MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention 2021 / Architecture / Buildings (Non-Pro) Royal National Theatre Closure Photographer Tom Knowles / United Kingdom This gallery aims to document the temporary closure of the Royal National Theatre on London's Southbank due to the Corona Virus. These photos show subtle hints of contrasting desertion from plastic tape, and metal barriers to untended plants.
MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention / 2021 / Fine Art / Portrait Hold Me 'Till I Go Photographer Angelika Kollin / USA This portrait of 75 year old Katinka Hall was taken in early 2020 between her chemotherapy treatments. It was time of great challenges, and mostly discovery of new strength and faith, underneath daily despair and desire to live, in accepting the most predictable outcome. In February 2021 Katinka passed away. Angelika Kollin is a 44 year old Estonian photographer currently based in Tampa, Florida. She is self-taught and engages with her passion for photography and art as a tool of exploration of interhuman connections, intimacy, and/or the absence of such. Angelika has spent the last 8 years living in African countries (Ghana, Namibia, South Africa), where she explored the same topic in a variety of different cultures and economic conditions. More and more it strengthens her belief that despite many circumstances in life, the one thing that shapes us the most is our relationship with our parents.
MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention / 2021 / Editorial / Photo Essay Covid-19. Nursing Home Life Goes Far Beyond The Pandemic Photographer Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro / Kuwait They are one of the groups most vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic that is plaguing the world. In Macau, the nurse home of Santa Casa da Misericórdia opened doors to me, where I witnessed that caregivers are, more than ever, steadfast in supporting the elderly, many of them with various disabilities.
MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention / 2021 / Fine Art / Other (Non-Pro) Lost Society Photographer Mieke Douglas / United Kingdom Peering into dark, empty spaces. Camera pressed up to smeared, steamy glass. Glimpses of shiny Christmas decorations; cleaning products and hand sanitisers; abandoned drinks and occasional humour. The allure of our past life is becoming irresistible. Visceral pleasures tempt me, but are still dangerous. Out of reach. Our lives from before, becoming ever more distant. Evocative. Unimaginable. Fading. I am grasping at fragments. Photographing to try to remember. Imagining the fun and life and noise. Empty spaces, still beautiful but becoming fantastical. Otherworldly Mieke is a Dutch and Canadian Fine Art Photographer, living in London. Her practice challenges our ambivalence to the world around us using perspective, distance and scale. Mieke’s work moves between fact and fiction and challenges the boundaries of photography and art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She has recently had her first Solo Show, ‘STILL”, in London.
MIFA 2021 Honorable Mention / 2021 / People / Life Style (Non-Pro) The Hakkanese Kitchen Photographer Mei-Chen Chang / Taiwan Hakkanese are part of Taiwanese, who have settled in Taiwan since hundreds of years ago. Most of them live in farming community. They are famous for their diligent and thrifty in managing a household. Also , Hakkanese food is popular in Taiwan. On special days, they make red Turtle-shaped rice cake, Tangyuan (various flavors inside the small balls) and rice dumplings . Red stands for luck in our society and round things mean reunion.
