The seventh edition of the Camera Jagellonica competition is now behind us - on 22 November this year, we met at the opening and official announcement of the results to honour this year's winners.

The competition jury composed of: Anna Wojnar (photojournalist at Jagiellonian University and the ‘Alma Mater’ monthly magazine), Professor Małgorzata Radkiewicz (film scholar, works at Jagiellonian University Institute of Audiovisual Arts, board member of the Museum of Photography in Krakow), Wojciech Matusik (photographer and photo editor of ‘Dziennik Polski’ and ‘Gazeta Krakowska’ newspapers), Tomasz Markowski (sports photography specialist, for years associated with the daily newspaper ‘Przegląd Sportowy’ ) awarded the authors of works in four categories. In addition to the ‘Architecture’, ‘Student Life’ and ‘Impressions’ categories, which are well known to participants of our competition, this year all participants had also the opportunity to submit works in the ‘Year of Wisława Szymborska’ category, which was intended to encourage an attempt at interpreting the poems of the celebrated poet and to look at her legacy from the photographic perspective.

Below we present this year's laureates and award-winning photographs.

Category ‘Architecture’

Main award: Natalia Hanusek for her work ‘Prostokąt’;
Distinction: Paweł Dudzik for his photograph ‘Zakątki Kampusu UJ’;

Category ‘Impressios’

Main award: Daria Orel for her work ‘Popatrz w Siebie’;
Distinction: Maja Piotrowska for her photograph ‘Poznanie’;

Category ‘Student life’

Main award: Natalia Hanusek for her work ‘Stopnie’;
Distinction: Karolina Fok-Jamróz for her photograph ‘W laboratorium’;

Category ‘Year of Wisława Szymborska’

Main award: Wojciech Grzybczak for his work ‘Chwila’;
Distinction: Angelika Mus-Nowak for her photograph ‘Jak dwie krople czystej wody’.

The special award of Jagiellonian University Rector, Professor Jacek Popiel, was awarded to Julia Cichawa for the photograph ‘Choć różnimy się od siebie jak dwie krople czystej wody ‘ and Angelika Mus-Nowak for her work ‘Biblioteka Jagiellońska z Collegium Paderevianum’. Each of the laureates received PLN 2 500.

The award of the popular science website ‘Cafe Nauka’ went to Marta Zając, author of the photograph ‘Decydujący moment’.

Distinctions awarded by the editors of 'Alma Mater' magazine went to Marta Zając for her photograph ‘Jesienne odbicie’ and Uladzislau Skarakhod for his work ‘Book of Paderevianum’: their works will appear on the fourth page of the cover of the monthly magazine. The Editor's main award went to Gabriela Bolkun, whose photograph ‘Olszewski przed egzaminem’ will appear on the front cover of the magazine next year.

Link to the full report (in Polish)