Winners & Finalists | Open Call Competition - Photography Magazine

Winners & Finalists | Open Call Competition

We are glad to announce finalists and winners of the International Open Call Competition. A collaboration of Florence Biennale, Art Market Magazine, and Lens Magazine.

Artists and photographers participating in the competition were invited to interpret the theme of the XIII Florence Biennale, which will be held from 23 to 31 October 2021 at Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy, under the high patronage of the European Parliament:

ETERNAL FEMININE | ETERNAL CHANGE

Concepts of Femininity in Contemporary Art and Design

We have received a large number of high-quality applications, and many of them have been assessed at a comparable level. Therefore, the jury of the competition wanted to make the most of the works that have distinguished themselves particularly and have stood out in the interpretation of the theme of this XIII edition of the Florence Biennale.

For these reasons, it was decided to indicate only fifteen (15) finalists for each category in competition (art and photography) to give greater prominence to the selected works. For the same reason, it was decided to choose two winners.

We thank all those who participated.

WINNER | ART
JIM TSINGANOS

Jim Tsinganos is a multi-award-winning Sydney-based illustrator and art practitioner with over 25 years of experience. His illustrations have been featured in many international illustration awards publications. He has been exhibited in countless exhibitions and art fairs, both locally and internationally, as a solo exhibitor and as part of group shows.
He has been commissioned by a varied selection of clients throughout his career. He has seen his work used as postage stamps for Australia Post, airline posters for Qantas, and a limited edition commemorative coin for the Australian Mint. More recently, he was part of an international jury judging a children’s book illustration exhibition at the Sharjah International Children’s Book Fair in the UAE.

WINNER | FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
FLORA BORSI

Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions, and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss. Flora at once captures the complex strength and fragility of the human psyche. She expertly visualizes dark fantasies and atmospheric dreams, utilizing the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the urban world.
Her work often features the female body, and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self.

Flora has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA and has most notably taken part in the “Continental Shift” group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. She has also exhibited at the Louvre, France. Her artwork was the face of Adobe Photoshop in 2014, and she has made the corporate identity for Adobe’s Creative Cloud in 2019. Her ethereal aesthetic has won multiple art prizes and garnered critical acclaim from the press, including The Guardian’s Observer and BBC Culture. She got into US Forbes 30 under 30 list, and in 2021, Hasselblad chose her as the first Hasselblad Heroine of the year.