{"id":2019,"date":"2026-06-09T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:33:07","slug":"photoartdoc-2026-winners-open-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/photoartdoc-2026-winners-open-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoArtDoc 2026 Announces the Winners of the Open Category \"Transformation \/ State of Transition\""},"content":{"rendered":"

PhotoArtDoc Festival announces results of the 2026 open nomination<\/a>, dedicated to the topic \u201cTransformation \/ Transition as a state (State of Transition)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, authors from 30 countries participated in the open nomination. The jury selected three winning projects, each offering a different approach to understanding transformation \u2014 through personal experience, questions of identity, and the search for new forms of visual language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best projects in the open nomination<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Palina Turko (Belarus) \u25cf CACNER \/<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Evgeniy Garkusha (Ukraine \/ Spain) - <\/strong>\"Sorry, something went wrong\" \/ went wrong\u00bb<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Bart Urbanski (Poland\/Scotland) - project \u00abSun Recorded Phone Calls with Family, Friends, and Scammers\u00bb<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Watch projects >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable mention from the jury<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Maria-Denise Dessimoz (Greece \/ Switzerland) - project <\/strong>\u00abThe Inevitable Anguish of Desire\u00bb (18+)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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PhotoArtDoc 2026 Jury<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The winners of the open nomination were determined by the international jury:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatsiana Chypsanava (New Zealand)<\/strong> \u2014 documentary photographer, winner of the 2025 World Press Photo Award, winner of PhotoArtDoc 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Grieve (Germany \/ Greece)<\/strong> \u2014 photographer, writer, teacher, publisher, founder and director of Werkstatt and ArtFotoMode<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tadas Kazakevicius (Lithuania)<\/strong> \u2014 documentary and editorial photographer, winner of the World Press Photo, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, ZEISS and LensCulture, founder of the Vilnius House of Photography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Mazur (Poland)<\/strong> \u2014 art critic, art historian, American studies scholar, and curator of numerous group and solo exhibitions of Polish and international artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kateryna Radchenko (Ukraine)<\/strong> \u2014 founder of Odessa Photo Days, curator, artist, photography researcher. Magnum Foundation Fellow (2025), World Press Photo jury member (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all authors who participated in the PhotoArtDoc 2026 open nomination!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PhotoArtDoc Festival announces the results of the 2026 open category dedicated to the theme \u00abState of Transition.\u00bb This year, authors from 30 countries participated in the open category. Following the jury's work, three projects were selected as winners, offering different approaches to understanding transformation\u2014through personal experience, issues of identity, and the search for new forms of visual... Read More \"PhotoArtDoc 2026 Announces the Winners of the Open Category \"Transformation \/ State of Transition\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoartdoc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}