Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015 Exhibition

On Friday the 26th November I was on an excursion with my photography course in this exhibition in the Felix-Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany were the winners and nominees of Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015 were presented and it was awesome!
The winning works are exhibited in a large-format and one category winner has a whole wall to themself.
The Award is divided in 5 categories:

• Portrait
• Landscape/Nature
• Architecture/Industry
• Photojournalism/Editorial Photography
• Free Choice/Conceptual Photography

There was also an extra category for the best work by an emerging photographer.
So there is this huge range of different types of photography.
The Free Choice/Conceptual Winner kind of reminded me of Gregory Crewdson and I thought the work »Children of the dead river« of Mohammad Fahim Ahamed Riyad was kind of surreal and shocking. You know on one hand there were these happy children playing and on the other hand all the misery and poverty.

Pity I couldn't take any photos with the lack of a photo-license.
For everyone who is interested in photography and has the chance to visit Osnabrück I think it's absolutly worth the visit.
The exhbition still runs 'til the 17.01.2016.

But here is a link to the website of the photo award with all the awarded and nominated works. So if you like you can look at the photos here