/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Anirudh Koppula, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  05/09/2024
• Instagram
  @stoicalli

Staring into the reflections

I photograph because I believe beauty lives in moments — in truth, joy, fragility, strength, sorrow, light, and silence. My work is rooted in the conviction that life is a mosaic and refuses to fit into neat categories, so I do not confine myself to a single style, medium, or genre. Photography, for me, is an act of vision and empathy, a way of responding to the immediacy of experience.
I document fragments of the world: quiet streets at dawn, the interplay of light and shadow, candid scenes of human connection, stark black and white moods, and vivid colour stories.

Awards Titles
• HON.CPE — Campina Photographic Exhibitions Society (Honorary)

Selected International Awards
• Black & White Spider Awards — Merit of Excellence (Top 2)
• TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) — Silver; Top 5 Jury Selection
• BIFA (Budapest International Foto Awards) — Bronze
• Muse Photography Awards — 2× Silver
• New York Photography Awards — 2× Silver

Mobile Photography Awards
• Mobile Photography Awards (MPA) — Winner + 8 Honorable Mentions
• MIRA Mobile Awards — 5 Selections & Exhibitions
• One Eyeland — 2× Bronze
• Px3 Paris — Bronze

Exhibitions (International)
• Blank Wall Gallery, Greece
• Chania Photography Festival, Greece
• Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland
• MIRA, Portugal
• Smartfoto Fest, Ireland
• PH Museum, Bologna, Italy
• Australian Photography Awards, Melbourne

Selected Honors (Curated)
• Mono Awards / POTY — Top 12 People; Top 100 People; Highly Commended; Commended
• IPA — Official Selections + Honorable Mentions
• Chromatic Awards — Honorable Mentions
• Monochrome Awards — Honourable Mention
• ND Awards — Honorable Mentions
• Annual Photography Awards — Honorable Mentions
• International Color Awards — Honourable Mentions + Nominations