2023 Shortlist

The juries of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award have put these works on the shortlist. The nominees were selected from them at the final jury meetings on 03/17/2023.

Portrait


Farzana Akhtar

Dhaka / BD

A Litany for Survival

Dominik Asbach

Duisburg / DE

Glanz, Gesocks & Gloria

Florian Bachmeier

Schliersee / DE

Between the impacts

Nico Baumgarten

Berlin / DE

Hinter den Platten liegt der Strand

Hardijanto Budiman

Tangerang / ID

Memoirs Of Isolation

Sabine Bungert & Stefan Dolfen

Essen / DE

Black Cowboys

Rui Caria

Praia da Vitória Açores / PT

raW

Carloman Macidiano Céspedes Riojas

Buenos Aires / AR

Airs of freedom

Lieven Engelen

Noordwijk / NL

Cursed

Christoph Gerhartz

Binningen / DE

Somewhere eight pm

Anita Gratzer

Linz / AT

Eidolon

Robin Hinsch

Berlin / DE

Victims of Football

Lucia Jost

Berlin / DE

Töchter der Hauptstadt (Capital Daughters)

Máté Ladjánszki

Veresegyhaz / HU

Temporary shelter

Damian Lemański

Warsaw / PL

Kids of Lunik IX

Alisa Martynova

Livorno / IT

Nowhere Near

Simon Murphy

Glasgow / GB

Govanhill

Ebrahim Noroozi

Tehran / IR

Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats

Emeke Obanor

effurun / NG

DARK MEMORIES

Caimi Piccinni

Rome / IT

No Woman No Cry

Sergey Ponomarev

Berlin / DE

Relocated

Gabriel Santana

Carapicuíba / BR

Bonds of Love

Frank Schinski

Hannover / DE

The right attitude

Chloe Sharrock

Paris / FR

Faces of war

Mitar Simikic

Ugljevik / BA

Mila

Sergei Stroitelev

Aarhus / DK

The Strongest Bond

Federico Tisa

Turin / IT

Mr. Incredible, how I won this war

Pavel Volkov

Moscow / RU

Color of cold

Clara Watt

Prevessin / FR

The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values: A Protest

Rie Yamada

Berlin / DE

Familie suchen

Photojournalism / Editorial Photography


Raphael Alves

Manaus / BR

Insulae

Javier Arcenillas

Alcobendas Madrid / ES

Homeless

Supratim Bhattacharjee

Kolkata / IN

Deadly Fossil Fuel

Muntaka Chasant

Accra / GH

Agbogbloshie Demolition

Dmitry Chasovitin

Verkhnyaya Pyshma / RU

Eclipse

DOCKS Collective

Leipzig / DE

The Flood in Western Germany

Lando Hass

Frankfurt am Main / DE

Zoonosen

Ron Haviv

NEW YORK / US

Ukraine-Just the Beginning...

Reto Klar

Berlin / DE

Images of the war in Ukraine

Eduardo Leal

Porto / PT

The Outcasts

Bartosz Ludwinski

Hamburg / DE

YA OKAY

Sandro Maddalena

meta / IT

The Second Army

Paolo Manzo

Volla (NA) / IT

Vita di M

Caspar Martig

Bern / CH

Fuck the cancer

Alejandro Martinez Velez

Rivas Vaciamadrid - Madrid / ES

Desolation

Alex McBride

Matching Tye / GB

Land Without Evil

Pierpaolo Mittica

spilimbergo / IT

And then the winter came

Paulo Nunes dos Santos

Dublin / IE

The Russians are coming

Adra Pallón

Lugo / ES

Demothanasia

Mustafa Bilge Satkın

ARNAVUTKÖY / TR

Drowned History

Alain Schroeder

Brussels / BE

Muay Thai Kids

Chloe Sharrock

Paris / FR

The road of death

Michal Siarek

Gamvik / NO

Peak of eternal light

Aytaç Ünal

Ankara / TR

Babies are born in shelters

F. Dilek Uyar

Ankara / TR

At the Epicenter of Covid -19

Mehrdad Vahed Yousefabad

Tabriz / IR

Hope in the rain!

Alice van Kempen

Rockanje / NL

Still Life

Alexey Vasilyev

Yakutsk / RU

Tompo

Sustainability


Javier Arcenillas

Alcobendas Madrid / ES

Jordan Drought

Muntaka Chasant

Accra / GH

The Environmental Cost of Fast Fashion

Giovanni Cocco

Rome / IT

Salt Land

Giacomo d'Orlando

Verona / IT

Nemo's Garden

William Daniels

Paris / FR

FRANCE'S HOTTEST YEAR EVER

César Dezfuli

Madrid / ES

Gone with the lava

Maurizio Di Pietro

Latina / IT

The Insect Industry

Filippo Ferraro

Trieste / IT

Lost Roots

Sebastian Gil Miranda

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires / AR

Lithium Land, Dry Land

Matthias Jung

Erftstadt / DE

Friedmunts Tal

Aleš Jungmann

Liberec / CZ

(sustainable) Landscape

Matjaz Krivic

Ljubljana / SI

Guilty as Charged

Christian Lünig

Ascheberg / DE

Fusion

Kostas Maros

basel / CH

Cicatrice

Derrick Milimo

Nairobi / KE

Preparing the next generation of climate warriors

Musuk Nolte

lima / PE

A black stain devours a country

Carola Plöchinger

Berlin / DE

The Nature Of Plastics

Yuri Pritisk

Novocheboksarsk / RU

(NOT)permafrost

Markel Redondo

leioa / ES

Sand Castles

Gregor Sailer

Vomp / AT

The Polar Silk Road

Rubén Salgado Escudero

Mexico City / MX

Solar Portraits

Frank Schultze

Dortmund / DE

Flood postcards

Marvin Systermans

Berlin / DE

State of the Region

Armand Tamboly

Berlin / DE

Endzeit

Simone Tramonte

ROMA / IT

New ways to the future

Mehrdad Vahed Yousefabad

Tabriz / IR

Landscapes undergoing change!

Albrecht Voß

Leipzig / DE

sustainable alternative living

Gesche Wuerfel

New York, NY / US

Forests in the Anthropocene

Christoph Zierhut

Köln / DE

Rope networks

Best Work by an Emerging Photographer


Eyad Abou Kasem

Hannover / DE

BECAUSE WE HAVE TIME NOW

Lisa Marie Asubonteng

Berlin / DE

The Holy Women

Zeliha Cambaz

Köln / DE

Amour

Minh Connors

Columbia / US

Sarah at the Center

Katja Feldmeier

Berlin / DE

Beyond the Binary

Mikael Grunwaldt

Hamburg / DE

the hungry river - erosion. fragility. identity.

Nazanin Hafez

Saarbrücken / DE

Leila

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

Dhaka / BD

The Blue Fig

Curtis Hughes

Berlin / DE

Modern Love

Sasha Ivanov

Almaty / KZ

Lidochka

Md. Zobayer Hossain Joati

Dhaka / BD

We Live to Fight

Simen Lambrecht

Berlin / DE

Generatie 0

Angelo Leonardo

Taranto / IT

Le Monde Ou Rien

Hanyi Liu

London / GB

The Family Photos

Nicolas Reinhart

Halle (Saale) / DE

Failed Film

Aristidis Schnelzer

Hannover / DE

Medicine+

Nora Schwarz

Hannover / DE

Rosengård

Axel Javier Sulzbacher

Hannover / DE

with tusks and claws

Magnus Terhorst

Dortmund / DE

Definition von Glück

Anya Tsaruk

Berlin / DE

Mother Land

Chiara Wettmann

Berlin / DE

Stateless - Statelessness in Lebanon

Yiming Zhu

London / GB

80 DAYS

German Peace Prize for Photography


Aljoscha

Düsseldorf / DE

Project Hope

Hadas Itzkovitch & Anya van Lit

Amsterdam / NL

LOVE ZONE

Wolfgang Bellwinkel

berlin / DE

Interventions

Seth Berry

San Pedro Sula / HN

Honduran Exodus: A Search for Peace

Supratim Bhattacharjee

Kolkata / IN

Heroes Of Sundarbans

César Dezfuli

Madrid / ES

Passengers

Dagmara Dygas

Rudna / PL

Standing

Sajjad Ebrahimi

Tabriz / IR

Being a woman in Iran

Yagazie Emezi

Lagos / NG

Another Tale By Moonlight

Maryam Firuzi

Tehran / IR

The Scatterd Memories of a Distorted Future

Arez Ghaderi

Hannover / DE

Hello Italy

Reto Klar

Berlin / DE

Killed in Putin's War / The Faces of the Dead

Helena Manhartsberger & Laila Sieber

Wien / AT

Where you can hear the Silence

Arseniy Neskhodimov

moscow / RU

Where are we going?

Musuk Nolte

lima / PE

he language of bones

Jana Rajcova

Bratislava / SK

Exodus.Report

Sandra Ratkovic

Berlin / DE

Was bleibt uns übrig?

Mateusz Sarello

Jadwisin / PL

Women and War

Helena Schätzle

Witzenhausen / DE

Memories of the present

Jan Anthony Schneidereit

Hamburg / DE

For the Next Forty Years

Michal Siarek

Gamvik / NO

Saving exotic animals from Ukraine

Kai Stefes

Grevenbroich / DE

Lebensbilder, 13 lebenswerte Leben

Htoo Tay Zar

Chiang Mai / TH

Revolution in Myanmar

Simone Tramonte

Rome / IT

Iran Coming Soon

Mattia Velati

Milano / IT

Yemen: beauty on the edge of war.

Pavel Volkov

Moscow / RU

Ann

Maria Volkova

Kiev / UA

Metaphor of war

Sebastian Wells & Vsevolod Kazarin

Berlin / DE

Young People Photographed in Kyiv, April and May 2022

Przemek Zajfert

Sindelfingen / DE

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