The Tokyo International Foto Awards has announced its 2020 contest winners and finalists. The contest honors both professional and non-professional photographers, but they all equally contributed to the wonderful selection of images. They reflect the world around us from all of its angles: from nature’s divine beauty to its terrifying disasters. And since the photos were taken over 2020, there’s an extra bit of madness to it all.
The 2020 contest received entries from more than 100 countries around the world. Sebastian Copeland was chosen Photographer of the Year for his photography book Antarctica – The Waking Giant. It’s a photographic journey through the least explored continent, showing the danger it faces due to climate change. The book was made under a collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio to spread awareness of the crisis of global warming.

© Sebastian Copeland/TIFA 2020
The Discovery of the Year award was given to Diana Cheren Nygren for her work When The Trees Are Gone. Her work explores the concept of city folk searching for a moment of peace in the urban jungle, where nature has been taken over by human-made buildings.

© Diana Cheren Nygren/TIFA 2020
Both Professional and Student/Non-Professional contest recognizes winners in the following categories:
- Advertising
- Architecture
- Book
- Editorial
- Events
- Fine Art
- Nature
- People
- Portfolio
- Science
Since the photos were taken during the COVID-19 crisis, International Photo Awards makes the awards a little different this year. It will match the cash prizes that are awarded to the Category Winners with an equal cash donation to the charity of the winning photographer’s choice in their community.
Take a look at the winning photos from all categories below, and we’ll also include some shortlists from the Nature category. There are plenty more shortlists from all categories on TIFA’s website, so make sure to check those out too.
Professional

© Sh Sadler/TIFA 2020; Advertising category winner

© Romain Thiery/TIFA 2020; Architecture category winner

© Sebastian Copeland/TIPA 2020; Book category winner, the overall winner

© Bartosz Mateńko/TIPA 2020; Editorial category winner

© Kohei Ueno/TIPA 2020; Events category winner

© Les Sharp/TIPA 2020; Fine Art category winner

© Claudia Guido/TIPA 2020; Nature category winner

© Gabriele Micalizzi/TIPA 2020; People category winner

© Carlos Gamez De Francisco/TIPA 2020; Porfolio category winner

© Ela Kurowska/TIPA 2020; Science category winner
Student/Non-Professional

© Marcin Majkowski/TIFA 2020; Advertising category winner

© Roberto Corinaldesi/TIFA 2020; Architecture category winner

© Joel Pulliam/TIFA 2020; Book category winner

© Wei Fu/TIFA 2020; Editorial category winner

© Sergio Ferreira Ruiz/TIFA 2020; Events category winner

© Mariyan Atanasov/TIFA 2020; Fine Art category winner

© Richard Li/TIFA 2020; Nature category winner

© Michal Konrad/TIFA 2020; People category winner

© Diana Cheren Nygren/TIPA 2020; Portfolio category winner

© Oltea Sampetrean/TIFA 2020; Science category winner
Nature

© Craig Bill/TIFA 2020

© Budi Gunawan/TIFA 2020

© Thomas Vijayan/TIFA 2020

© Davide Giannetti/TIFA 2020

© Brice Weaver/TIFA 2020

© Purdy Lo/TIFA 2020

© Bence Mate/TIFA 2020

© Tracey Lund/TIFA 2020

© obin Yong/TIFA 2020
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