Honorable Mention / 2023 / Nature / Domestic Animals

• Photographer
  Adrian Schaub, Switzerland
• Website
  https://adrianschaub.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/adischaub/

One Sunday morning I spotted under a tree in our garden and placed one of our garden gnomes decoratively in the morning light. Despite several pictures in different positions, however, I was not really convinced by the result: technically neatly executed, but irrelevant. The certain something was missing. At that moment, the young neighbour’s cat “Idefix” came by and posed next to the garden gnome. What I like most about the picture is the eye alignment of the two protagonists. They look like robbers hiding behind the bushes at the side of the road, looking for their next victim.

I aim to evoke emotions through my photography. My core topic is "solitude", which explores the two facets of being alone: self-chosen independence on the one hand or the feeling of unwanted loneliness on the other. In my pictures it is often in the eye of the beholder whether a photo is perceived as an expression of independence or loneliness.
My pictures share the authentic pursue for simplicity with the Swiss style in graphic design. They combine the calm of geometry with the dynamic of asymmetry. The focus on the essential is supported by the use of White Space and bold contrasts.

Awards 2024: six "Silver Winners" New York Photography Awards, "Best Photography" Award Gallery NAT London ("Loneliness and Poetics" exhibition), "Award of Excellence" Trevisan International Art ("Little Treasures" exhibition), "Silver Winner" Prix de la Photographie de Paris, two "Gold Winners" London Photography Awards, nine "Silver Winners" Muse Photography Awards

2023: “Gold Winner” Tokyo Foto Awards, six “Silver Winners” New York Photography Awards, 2nd place overall in Books and “Gold Winner” Budapest International Foto Awards, Bronze medal EFFVAS (Switzerland), one “Platinum Winner” and one “Gold Winner” European Photography Awards, seven "Gold Winners" London Photography Awards

2022: two "Gold Winners" European Photography Awards 2022, one "Gold Winner" Budapest International Foto Awards 2022, two "Silver Winners" New York Photography Awards 2022, one Silver Medal Moscow International Foto Awards 2022 and one "Bronze Award" Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2022.

Exhibtions in Switzerland (Basel, Zürich), France (Paris, Arles), Italy (Bologna) and Hungary (Budapest).