AWARDS
With your selected photos for the exhibition you compete for these awards
Amateur Photographers Category:
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Honorable mention
Professional Photographers Category:
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Honorable mention
Other awards:
- Award for the most promising young photographer under 30 years of age (born 1990 or after)
- Award for the best ‘Corona Photo’, the photo that most strikingly depicts the influence of the Corona pandemic on people
- Prize of the public: Visitors to the exhibition are given the opportunity to vote for their favorite photo. The public winner will be announced during the closing event.
THE JURY
Jury chairman 2021
Johan Brouwers
Was also jury chairman of the 2017 and 2019 edition. QEP – Qualified European Photographer. Board member of the National Association of Professional Photographers (NVB). Chairman of the EP jury (European Photographer), a basic qualification for photographers, awarded by the FEP – Federation of European Professional Photographers. Chairman of the FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards Competition from the 2019 edition.
Below we present you the jury members of the 2021 edition.
Jury members 2021
Caroline Alida
Caroline Alida was one of the guest photographers of Lens op de Mens 2019. Her work was on display at the Maria Hospital.
Carol Olerud
Carol Olerud is the Joint Organizer for the Netherlands of the Benelux Chapter of the RPS – The Royal Photographic Society.
Zjuul Devens
Visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, graduated in Visual Arts and Photography.
As a professional photographer, he was a devil-doing-all. Passionate macro photographer. Now he is mainly concerned with the theme of transience. He likes to give dead half-decayed insects a “new life”.
For him, photography and art are a part of his life.
Andy Hens
MQEP – Master Qualified European Photographer. Belgian photographer who lives and works in Germany. Experienced jury member for the QEP and Master QEP qualifications of the Federation of European Professional Photographers. Photography teacher at the Handwerkskammer in Dortmund. Experienced cgi artist (cumputer-generated imagery).
Jim Lowe
QEP – Qualified European Photographer. Was a Marine & Natural History Photography teacher at the highly regarded Falmouth University in the United Kingdom. Jury chair of the QEP and MQEP qualifications of the FEP – Federation of European Professional Photographers.
Jos Verhoogen
MQEP – Master Qualified European Photographer. 40 years of experience as a professional photographer, lecturer in reportage photography and several times as a jury member for the FEP and other international photo competitions. His photos won numerous national and international awards.
www.verhoogen.be
A big thank you to our jury members for their enormous effort to view and judge so many photos.
Thanks to them we can uphold the artistic quality of our festival.



