WINNERS OF 2025
Jazz World Photo 2025
Hervé Escario / FR
Having discovered Archie Shepp, Josef Koudelka, Coltrane and Roy Decarava as a teenager, Hervé Escario has been continually nourished by jazz and black and white photography. A self-taught photographer, he regularly works with jazz musicians, circus artists and dancers to illustrate their internal websites, record sleeves and press photos. Winner of the Jazz World Photo in 2023, Hervé Escario is one of the official photographers for the Tourcoing Jazz Festival, the Jazz en Nord Festival and the Dunkerque Jazz Club. He regularly works with the Flagey (Brussels), the Lille Opera and the Aéronef (Lille).
Ljupcho Hristoski / MK
At first it was music, Jazz a little later, and three album covers. Tom Waits, Dinosaur Jr’ and Miles Davis. One is a completely unusual photo by Anders Petersen, The second is a provocative one by Joseph Szabo and the third is Irvin Penn and Miles Davis with a black background wrapped around the face. These are the three directions that often occur to me when I take a photo, no escape. Street photo, Jazz concert, dance and performance, and all this because of one thing, improvisation and unpredictability of the moment, without pathetic moments. I was born in Prilep, Macedonia, I live in Vienna and New York and every day I use the gifts that these cities give unreservedly, jazz and street photography in New York and a wide range of cultural activities in Vienna mixed with what we bring from the place where we were born, and they are not the only ones. I have been working in media for a long time, Radio, TV, Press, Web portals. The beginning is in CPRTV Prilep, then in national A1 TV, Channel 5 and some others, Along the way there was a rewords and prize, Cover for Books, Photos for magazines, social media, concert events… At this moment only freelancer, Photography and Video. As Saul Leiter says, “I have no Philosophy but I have a camera” and Waiting for the next good second of improvisation, on the street or on the stage and… Click…..
Antonio Torres Olivera / ES
Born in Seville in 1953, he is a Doctor of Medicine and an active cultural promoter. During his medical studies, he co-founded the Faculty of Medicine Cineclub and later the Coordinadora de Cineclubs. In the late 1970s, he worked as a film advisor and organized directing courses. A jazz enthusiast, he co-founded the Jazz Freeway Cultural Diffusion Collective and helped organize the first five editions of the Seville International Jazz Festival (1980–1984). In 2010, he published Jazz in Seville 1970–1995: Reveries of a Time, and contributed to several other publications on jazz and cultural history in Seville. Since 2013, he’s been active in ASSEJAZZ (vice president since 2016), photographing and producing videos of jazz events. His work appears in international and national outlets like “Jazz Photographers,” “Woman Jazz,” and “Tomajazz.” He was a finalist in Jazz World Photo 2021 and 2023, and curated the 2022 exhibition Jazz and Modernity celebrating 40 years of the Seville International Jazz Festival.
About US
Jazz World Photo Competition
The world competition for jazz photographers JAZZ WORLD PHOTO had its beginnings in 2013, being organized by photographer Patrick Marek and his friends – promoter Tomáš Katschner and photographer Ivan Prokop. In its first year, the competition was attended by many photographers from all over the world – 134 participants from 29 countries. International jury picked 3 winners, who accepted their prizes in person – 1st prize was awarded to Didier Jallais (France), 2nd prize to Rainer Rygalyk (Austria) and 3rd prize went to Miroslav Novotný (Czech Republic). Thirty selected photographs became the body of well received traveling exhibition. During the following year, this exhibition was shown to great applause at many festivals and in art galleries throughout Czech Republic, Slovakia and Belgium. In the second year, JAZZ WORLD PHOTO participation increased by 40% – to 187 photographers from 27 countries. The increase was unexpected – in the second year, the rules had changed, and the photographers were allowed to send in only pictures taken in that year. And the final result was surprising even for the independent Jury that evaluated the photographs anonymously. All three principal prizes went to authors from one country – Italy. The Jury awarded the 1st place to Andrea Rotili, 2nd place to Andrea Palmucci, and 3rd place to Fabio Orlando. The collection of 30 best photographs again forms traveling exhibition that is in high demand. Every year, the exhibition is accompanied by full printed catalogue. Jazz World Photo is a not-for-profit project aiming to promote jazz and jazz photography in the context of related genres like blues, funk, world music etc. Every year, the winners and jurors meet during the main concert at the international festival Jazzinec in Trutnov, Czech Republic. Both years of the competition were included in the events of the International Jazz Day sponsored by UNESCO. Last year’s prizes were created by well known Czech art designer Jan Činčera, who is already working on the prizes for the next year.
THE JURY
Interantional Jury of The World Jazz Photo 2024
DAN BÁRTA
ANTONIO PORCAR CANO
Tomáš Katschner
Jiří Kučera
LUCIANO ROSSETTI
Patrick Marek
Ivan Prokop
Jiří Turek
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