3rd edition MARE Competition 2022
We present the winning images of the third edition of MARE competition. Between 15 May and 15 September 2022, digital photographs related to the Balearic Sea were submitted in four participant profiles: Expert Adults, Amateur Adults, Young Adults and Children.
Conviure (Simbiosi)
Margot Bosch Altimiras
First prize · MARE Animalia
El rostre de l'evolució
Marc Vidal Matas
Second prize · MARE Animalia
Rey de las rocas
Antoni Calderon
Third prize · Honourable Mention: Empathy
Silenciòs ball
Fernando Estarellas Calderon
First prize · MARE Botanica
Acetábulos de vida
Yaiza Santana Bernaldo de Quirós
Second prize · MARE Botanica
La rara flor de la posidonia
Cristina Amanda Tur Bernat
Third prize · MARE Botanica
Notre mére
Miquel Angel Pascual
First prize · MARE Sapiens
Pescador de Pops
Rafel Balaguer Prunés
Second prize · MARE Sapiens
Mar de dones o dones de mar
Cristina Campano Martín
Third prize · MARE Sapiens
Agonía silenciosa
Nicolau Pere Cerdà Pons
First prize · MARE Denuntiare
Cadáver en la costa
Barbara Linares Ribas
Second prize · MARE Denuntiare
Masificación
Cristina Amanda Tur Bernat
Third prize · MARE Denuntiare
Su último canto
Héctor Gago Bellido
First prize · MARE Nostrum
Coexistencia sin razón
Julio Martínez
Second prize · MARE Nostrum
Pez guitarra
Mario A. García Fontalba
Third prize · MARE Nostrum
Cratena peregrina
Alex Morell
First prize · Mención de Honor Áreas Marinas Protegidas
Camuflaje imperfecto
Cristina Amanda Tur Bernat
Second prize · Mención de Honor Áreas Marinas Protegidas
Grouper's behaviour
Nara Martins Ishikawa
Third prize · Mención de Honor Áreas Marinas Protegidas
El meu amic el pop de Sa Mesquida
Cristina Campano Martín
First prize · Honourable Mention: Empathy
Buen viaje
Cristina Amanda Tur Bernat
Second prize · Honourable Mention: Empathy
Ombres
Rafel Balaguer Prunés
Third prize · Honourable Mention: Empathy
Guardería de Corales
Julio Martínez
First prize · Honourable Mention: Conservation Message
Jardín de Gorgonias
Julio Martínez
Second prize · Honourable Mention: Conservation Message
Cara a cara
Marc Vidal Matas
Third prize · Honourable Mention: Conservation Message
Summary
In the third edition of the MARE competition, 1,500 digital photographs were submitted, taken in the last ten years in the Balearic and Mediterranean Sea. The jury selected 22 winning photographs according to criteria of photographic quality, originality, faithful representation of reality and the ability to connect with the general public.
· Four participant profiles: for the Adult participants (> 18 years old) AMATEUR and EXPERT levels and for the Young participants, CHILDREN (< 14 years) and YOUNG ADULT (14-17 years).
· Five categories: 1. MARE Animalia; 2. MARE Plantae; 3. MARE Sapiens; 4. MARE Denounces; 5. MARE Nostrum (new Mediterranean category).
· Three Honourable Mentions: 1. Honourable Mention: Marine Protected Areas; 2. Honourable Mention: Empathy; 3. Honourable Mention: Conservation Message.
22 prizes distributed for a total of €10,000 - cash prizes for Adult participants and underwater equipment for Young participants
AWARD CEREMONY
Raquel Agüeros presented the 22 awards of the 3rd edition of MARE. The ceremony was broadcast in December 2022 from Col·legi Oficial d’Arquitectes de les Illes Balears (Palma).
There were more than 1,500 entries among 120 participants (106 Adults and 14 Young people).
Jury
Jordi Chias
Born in Barcelona, Jordi’s greatest passion is the sea. Since 1998, he has worked as a freelance photographer specialising in underwater subjects, capturing both wildlife and human activity. For the last four years, he has been part of the film crew for Laurent Ballesta's Gombessa Expeditions. Jordi’s work has been published in many different media (books, magazines, websites, etc.) and some of his pictures have received special commendations in various competitions, among them the 10 times BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year award winner.
Fiona Tomas
Fiona is a researcher at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), where she investigates the processes and mechanisms that regulate the structure and functioning of coastal benthic systems, with special emphasis on human impacts, conservation, and restoration. She has worked extensively in the Mediterranean and maintains an extensive collaborative network with researchers around the world (through her research in Australia, Mexico, and the USA). They jointly address big questions about how biodiversity, climate change, and natural variability influence the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems globally.
Francis de Andrés
Francis is a self-taught photographer who, after 30 years in the financial world, decided to turn his life around to focus on his family and nature photography. He is a founding member of IRCC Photo and collaborates with various organisations dedicated to nature conservation, as well as with different national and international media. He is a professional juror in photography contests and winner of multiple international nature photography awards such as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, GDT, Glanzlichter, and Montphoto.
Ai Futaki
Marine photographer, freediver, and sea ambassador of the Ministry of Environment in Japan, Ai highlights the meaning and expression of the human-water connection. Her stories, films, and images appear in television programmes, commercials, and exhibitions around the world. She has spoken at TEDxTokyo, appeared on TV programmes for the NHK series Precious Blue, and collaborated with photographers and designers such as Issey Miyake and Isabel Muñoz. As a photographer, Ai has had two solo exhibitions in Madrid and Tokyo: Naka-Ima (Here and Now) and Coexistence.
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