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2024 Booooooom Photo Awards Winners – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
With great excitement, we present the winners of the 2024 Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format! This year our open call for submissions drew an extraordinary response, making the selection process extremely challenging but also immensely satisfying. Thank you to every single person who submitted work—your talent and creativity continue to delight and inspire us every year. It is our honour to announce the five winners, each representing a distinct category: PORTRAIT, NATURE, COLOUR, STREET, FASHION. Each winner is awarded a $1,000 USD cash prize, editorial and social coverage, as well as a feature interview in our print publication, a $500 KEH giftcard, and their choice of WANDRD product. In addition to the five winners, we've included 20 shortlisted photographers (four from each category) whose work will be showcased in the publication as well. We're also sharing the names of an additional 150 photographers who were on our longlist. Ultimately the winners, shortlist, and longlist represent an extremely small portion of the work we received this year. If you want to be the first to know about our next photo awards, you can pre-register below: Pre-Register for 2025 Photo Awards A massive thank you to Format who have helped us make another year of these awards possible. Format is an online portfolio builder specializing in the needs of photographers, artists, and designers. Unlike other web builders, Format’s portfolio and studio management tools are specifically designed to meet the needs of creative professionals. With nearly 100 professionally designed website templates and thousands of design variables, you can showcase your work your way, with no coding required. The Workflow studio management tools allow you to create branded client proofing galleries, transfer files and more. You can also sell your work commission free through the Format store feature. If you want to learn more about Format, check out their website here or start a 14-day free trial. Stay tuned for interviews with each of the winners, where they'll share the stories behind their winning images. Here are the distinguished winners and exceptionally talented runners-up of the 2024 Booooooom Photo Awards.
Artist Spotlight: Emma Beatrez – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A selection of paintings by Minneapolis-based artist Emma Beatrez, the most intriguing of which examine prototypical cheerleaders and the spectacle of small town pep-rally bonfires. The dark energy present in the work is perfectly summed up in this statement from Polyester, their recent exhibition at Hair + Nails: Clad in polyester vestments, extremely flammable, Beatrez’s priestesses speed through their sportive katas in ecstatic trance, a choreography of escalating risk, summoning danger, the adrenaline surging, melding individuals into group, their eyes glinting in the camera flash or the fire, and a fairly ordinary secular tradition transmogrifies into an otherworldly ritual emblematic of America’s conflicted priorities. Beatrez is a graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the co-founder and curator of Night Club gallery in St. Paul, alongside artist Lee Noble.
2024 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award Winners
In partnership with our friends at Bookmobile, we helped six artists and photographers create their own books for FREE (five of which are now complete). We’re so proud to share these fantastic finished projects! This time around the winners were: Manda Quevedo, Adri Tan, Cleo Peng, Kevin Hopkins, Taylor Naoko & CJ Tuff, Marco Gehlha. Some of them opted to upgrade and enhance certain aspects of their books, and our fav thing is seeing the different directions each person goes. Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982, then started offering print services in 1996, and distribution services in 2004. When your books come to Bookmobile, they get the benefit of forty-one years of know-how. If you want to learn more about Bookmobile, you can check out their website here, or email them directly here. We know it’s a dream for many of you to publish a book of your own work, so we’re thrilled to announce that we are continuing this partnership again this year! Have a look at five of the completed book projects and pre-register for our 2025 Art & Photo Book Award below:
We want to hear from you! – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
It's been a few years since we did something like this. We’re curious about who you are, what you love about Booooooom, and what you don't. Our goal is for you to be genuinely excited about being here and we want this community to be something you love not just something you like. So we gotta know what you care most about so we can focus on those things and ditch everything else. If you’ve got opinions, wild ideas or specific suggestions, we would love to get some feedback.
Illustrator Spotlight: David Aguado – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A selection of beautiful images created by illustrator David Aguado for various Porter Robinson projects. Based in Valencia, Spain, Aguado's work spans from comics to video games. He says, I consider myself an emotional orphan and try to make sense of my life experiences by creating stuff that I relate to in hopes of inspiring someone or making them feel connected to what I make. I love mystery. I try to create images that keep you from scrolling down to the next thing so you can stop and take the details in and explore. Artwork with more than one reading.
Recommended Viewings: "The Girl with the Needle" by Magnus von Horn
Written and directed by Swedish-Polish director and screenwriter Magnus von Horn (The Here After, Sweat), The Girl with the Needle is a period horror-drama that plays out like a dark fairy tale, with elements that feel simultaneously familiar and modern, eerie and exquisite. This is due in no small part to its haunting score by Frederikke Hoffmeier a.k.a. Puce Mary and gorgeous cinematography by Michał Dymek. In fact, the film took home the Camerimage Film Festival’s Golden Frog in Toruń, Poland last year, beating out Lol Crawley’s work on the artistic epic (and Oscar Best Picture frontrunner) The Brutalist.