The Silvana S. Foundation Commission Award is a brand-new commission award that aims to empower photographers based in the Asia Pacific focusing on environmental, wildlife preservation, and humanitarian concerns.

The theme for the inaugural edition is Rediscovering Lost Connections. Despite our modern world becoming more interconnected than ever before, many have lost touch with the environment. The theme encompasses the need for us to reconnect to our immediate surroundings — to the environment, people and all living creatures that co-exist on earth. The commission award hopes to bring about an awareness of the issues that affect us and our future generations.

The winner for this edition will be announced in September. 

Finalists

Chow and Lin, Equivalence

Kathy Anne Lim, White Noise

Yukiko Sugiyama, CRASH

Zana Briski, NOCTURNAL

Matjaz Tancic, From Mars to Earth

Ko Myo, Myanmar’s Elephants Under Threat

Robert Zhao Renhui, The Lines We Draw

Seunggu Kim, Better Days

PHOTOGRAPHERHAL, Flesh Love All