New East photographers flourish at the iPhone Photography Awards

A post shared by Sergey Pesterev (@sergpesterev) on Sep 12, 2016 at 12:19pm PDT

Photographers from Russia and eastern Europe have featured heavily in this year’s iPhone Photography Awards. The winners for the 10th annual awards were announced on 26 June in New York.

Entries are open worldwide to photographers using an iPhone or an iPad, whose photos cannot be altered using any desktop processing program. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes are awarded to photographers in over 20 different categories including Landscape, Floral, Portrait, Abstract, Panorama and People.

Notable winners from Russia and eastern Europe were:

Patrick Kuleta (Poland) - 2nd place - Architecture

Szymon Felkel (Poland) - 1st place - Children

Varvara Vislenko (Russia) - 2nd place - Children

Smetanina Julia (Russia) - 2nd place - Floral

Sergey Pesterev (Russia) - 2nd place - Landscape

Thea Mihu (Romania) - 2nd place - News/Events

Vlad Vasylkevych (Ukraine) - 3rd place - Portrait

Waldemar Nowak (Poland) - 3rd place - Still Life