Picture Perfect

I chose to focus on the Magazine photographer of the year, Tamas Dezso.
I found his “Romania – On Europe’s Eastern Edge” absolutely stunning. I thought the contrasting colours and the tone in these pictures was really effective and a lot of the pictures actually looked drawn or painted.

The couple standing in front of their home in Nanov village was my favourite of the lot. It gives you mixed emotions, obviously their house is destroyed, which is very sad, but the shape of the house (looks almost like a face) and the use of colour (blues, reds and greens) give it a hint of humour.

The other photograph that struck me was the 10th picture within that same series on Romania of they boy on his motorbike. The composition of this shot is very nice, it has layers and depth and lines traveling everywhere. The line of the horizon, crosses over the vertical lines on the road, at the same time you have fences and trees and mountains and it is extremely effectual.

These are just two photos in Dezso’s series, all of which say something different about the people and places that he captures. I think that they are definitely worthy of this award.