Fighting stallions and volcanic mountains among finalists of The Moscow International Foto Awards 2020

INCREDIBLE images have impressed the judges of the 2020 Moscow International Foto Awards. Stunning scenes were submitted from all over the globe by this year’s worthy winners – which included Brit photographer, Christine Eastwood. The contest, now in its seventh year, was flooded with entries from photographers in 104 countries. The competition aims to recognise […]

INCREDIBLE images have impressed the judges of the 2020 Moscow International Foto Awards.

Stunning scenes were submitted from all over the globe by this year’s worthy winners – which included Brit photographer, Christine Eastwood.

Mediadrumimages / Camille Briottet

French photographer Camille Briottet captured two stallions in battle[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Roksolyana Hilevych

Italian photographer Roksolyana Hilevych snapped this award winning image near the island of Gimsøya in Norway’s Lofoten Islands[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Greg Lecoeur

French photographer Greg Lecoeur captured crab eater seals swimming around an iceberg in the Antarctic peninsula[/caption]

The contest, now in its seventh year, was flooded with entries from photographers in 104 countries.

The competition aims to recognise and support emerging talent – welcoming them into the Russian creative community.

Among the jaw-dropping photos was a picture submitted was a striking image of the Northern Lights over the Lofoten Islands in Norway.

Mediadrumimages / Tomas Neuwirth

Tomas Neuwirth created this image from the merging of drone photos taken over the same spot during different weather conditions in the Jesiniky Mountains, Czech Republic[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Nick Psomiadis

Australian Nick Psomiadis captured this stunning scened from Antelope Canyon, Arizona[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Reiko Takahashi

Japanese photographer Reiko Takahashi won a silver prize for this incredible image of a whale shark at Richery Rock in Thailand[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Stanley Aryanto

Australian Stanley Aryanto photographed Sunwapta Falls in Alberta, Canada[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Marcio Esteves Cabral

Marcio Esteves Cabral photographed a field of paepalanthus wildflowers in Brazil[/caption]

Another showed an aerial shot the changing seasons in the Czech of Republic.

Also submitted was a serene snap of a field of paepalanthus wildflowers in Brazil, and the once bustling Edwardian Moseley Road baths now empty of all activity.

The Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) announced the winners of their 2020 photography competition, with the founder saying now more than ever, “photography has a crucial role to play in telling the uncensored truth about what is happening on our planet whilst transposing us away into a world of possibility and imagination.”

Mediadrumimages / Kirill Simakov

Russian photographer Kirill Simakov submitted this image of Manhattan Bridge in New York[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Li,po-Yi

Li Po-Yi from Taiwan snapped a colourful building on Jingwei Avenue in the Jiulongpo District of Chongqing City in China [/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Robin Young

Australian photographer Robin Yong that earned a gold prize in the nature/pets category with this image titled ‘The Blue Viper Strikes Again’[/caption]

Hossein Farmani added: “This year’s winners offer us a fantastic glimpse into the stories that are important to them, showing us the world in all its shades and forms, reflecting both the pain and the beauty that they see.”

“I am very pleased and proud of this year’s selection of visionary artists.”

Isabella Tabacchi from Bologna, Italy, was crowned the 2020 ‘Photographer of the Year’ for her stunning landscape work, ‘Kamchatka: to The Abyss of The Earth.’ 

The award-winning picture captured the ever-changing landscape of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

Mediadrumimages / Isabella Tabacchi

Italian photographer Isabella Tabacchi won the competition with a series of images showing Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Christine Eastwood

British photographer Christine Eastwood snapped the interior of the Moseley Road Baths – an Edwardian swimming pool in Birmingham[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Martin Krystenek

Martin Krystynek captured a BMX biker at the summit of Lomnicky Stit, one of the highest peaks in the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia[/caption]

Mediadrumimages / Louis-Philippe Provost

Canadian photographer Louis-Philippe Provost snapped the facade of the Via 57 West building in New York[/caption]

It shows white-capped mountains appearing to hover in the sky above a foreboding volcanic foreground.

Isabella said her purpose was to “discover a natural scene that – except for some small towns and the city Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij – is made up of untouched forests and huge volcanoes.”

“The thing that impressed me the most is the contrast between the colours of life, and the shades of death on the volcanoes.”

British photographer Christine Eastwood was awarded a bronze prize in the architecture/interiors category for her image called ‘Brummy Baths’.

Christine captured the Moseley Road Baths – an Edwardian swimming pool based in Birmingham, UK.

Tomas Neuwirth, from Czech Republic, was given a gold prize for his standout work, ‘Road Between Seasons.’ 

The striking photograph captures a road that runs through the Jesiniky Mountains, Czech Republic. 

On one side of the road, the forest is lush and green whilst on the other, it is more akin to a winter wonderland.

Ekaterina Busygina, from the Russian Federation, was named ‘Architecture Photographer of the Year’ and given a gold prize for her work, ‘Look Up, Galaxy Soho.’ 

Ekaterina captured the unique Galaxy Soho Building in Beijing, China.

Mediadrumimages / Patrick Hertzog

French photographer Patrick Hertzog captured the ice caves under the Vatnajokull glacier on the south coast in Iceland[/caption]