KUALA LUMPUR: Vivo officially wrapped up VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards 2021, a smartphone photography contest in partnership with National Geographic.
Since June, the PhotoAwards have received a total of 384,878 entries from over 10,000 contestants from more than 40 countries, 185 per cent more than last session.
Following strict appraisal by juries, 30 creations, including collections of photographs and single photos, stood out. Contestants Wang Xu, Lin Mindong and Li Ganyi were awarded the "Photographer of the Year" title in the Professional Group, Open Group and Youth Group respectively with their photos "Free Clinic on the Plateau", "Beachcomber" and "Geometry Around You".
"The competition has enabled us to see every daily fragments and important historical moments captured by the passionate photographers from all over the world. These photos depict the 'Joy of Humanity' in their eyes, fully demonstrate the charm of photography to more ordinary people and encourage more people to start their own life recording journey.
"Vivo will continue to improve its capability of human-centric professional photography while further deepening the partnership with Zeiss, our global imaging strategic partner, to empower the era of 'everyone is a creator' enabled by technology," said Vivo's senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Spark Ni in a statement which listed all the winners.
In order to hold a more professional, authoritative mobile photography competition, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards invited six internationally-acclaimed photography experts and academics from diverse disciplines and they are documentary photographers--Martin Parr and Jonas Bendiksen; portrait photographer, Xiao Quan; photography curator at Les Rencontres d'Arles, Laura Serani; Zeiss' expert for photography, Bertram Hoenlinger; and National Geographic's photo consultant, Michael George.
MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE
From grand narratives to the everyday life of ordinary people, photos are a global communication language that has a unique power to preserve the fleeting scenes as the most crucial evidence to our memory and Vivo is committed to encourage more people to engage in this dialogue.
Vivo recently launched the X70 series of professional photography flagship smartphones with its global imaging partner, Zeiss, marking the next chapter in their joint pursuit of creating the ultimate mobile photography experience.
Priced from RM2,499, the vivo X70 series packed with lenses that are certified compliant with the Zeiss T*coating, enables users to capture or record remarkably natural-looking photographs or videos.
Moving forward, vivo will continue to be committed in driving innovation and R&D of human-centric professional photography. Complemented by vivo Zeiss co-engineered imaging system and self-designed imaging chip, vivo will deliver photographing experience to create the humanistic imaging view of the current moments.
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