Winners Announced for the 33rd State Photography Competition

The results of the 33rd State Photography Competition, organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth, and Environment, have been announced.

The award ceremony and the official opening of the exhibition will take place on August 19 — World Photography Day — at the Atatürk Cultural Center.

From a total of 1,014 entries submitted by 47 participants, the selection committee chose 107 photographs by 26 photographers to be displayed in the exhibition.

The winners of this year’s competition are Besime Tanul, Elif Atamaz, Hiba Mokalled Topçuoğlu, Mehmet Gökyiğit, Ulaş Sönmez, and Umut Yolsal.

For the first time in the competition’s history, the event featured seven categories. The selected works are as follows:

• Free Photography (Black & White): 20 photographs by 14 photographers

• Free Photography (Color): 19 photographs by 14 photographers

• Nature (Color & Black & White): 16 photographs by 9 photographers

• My City: Famagusta (Color & Black & White): 18 photographs by 13 photographers

• Conceptual Photography (Open Theme): 10 photographs by 7 photographers

• Architecture (Black & White) – Focus on the Works of Hakkı Atun and Burhan Atun: 16 photographs by 10 photographers

• Underwater Photography – The Seas of Northern Cyprus (Color): 8 photographs by 6 photographers
  (This is a newly introduced category for this year’s competition.)

The full list of selected works has been published on the official website of the Department of Culture: kulturdairesi.gov.ct.tr, under the section titled “33rd State Photography Competition.”