/ 2013 / Portraiture / Personality

Thinker

  • Prize
    Bronze in Portraiture/Personality
  • Photographer
    Matjaz Tancic, Slovenia

A portrait of renown Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei in his Beijing Fake studio.

Matjaž Tančič (1982) is a Slovenian photographer of the younger generation, who lives and creates between Beijing and Ljubljana. He began his path as a photojournalist for Mladina magazine, but quickly made his way abroad – Matjaž is a graduate of the London College of Fashion.
His photojournalistic roots can be sensed in his fashion work as well – the endless pursuit of fresh locations and that moment of spontaneity that is the trademark of journalistic photography.
Matjaž has 50 group and 22 solo exhibitions behind him, with his work being featured in magazines such as Vogue, L Officiel, Playboy, Mercedes Benz Magazine, Modna, Inspire and Look de Book.
He won a Sony World Photography Organisation 2013 contest in 3D category.
He won a Slovenia Press Photo award 2012 in Nature chategory.
He was among the 6 finalists in the 2009 "Google Photography Prize" contest.

Awards Sony World Photography Award - 1st place - best 3D photo