
B&W Macadam Awards 2025
Winners of our first edition



Honorable mentions
Prizes
1st prize
RCE Paris
Fujifilm XT4
Fujinon XF35mm F/2
(Value: €1 600,00)
1st prize
Wandrd
Black PRVKE
Backpack 31L
(Value: €239,00)

2nd prize
Wandrd
Black PRVKE
Backpack 21L
(Value: €219,00)

3rd prize
Wandrd
Black Sling 6L
(Value: €139,00)

The 3 winners will be exhibited at the " TREVISO PHOTOGRAPHIC FESTIVAL
From 04 to 25 September 2025 "
The 3 winners & 20 « honorables mentions » will see their photo published in a « special edition » magazine with our partner « DOCU MAGAZINE ».
Jury of honor
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Keigo Nakamura
Is born in Tokyo and worked at a securities company that trades securities.
In December 2014, his father passed away from liver cancer, and he started Instagram to change his mood after the loss.
It was around 2015 that he started to enjoy photography a little, and he picked up an Olympus OM10, a film camera that his father had used, and started taking black and white photography.
He started the Fog series in the latter half of 2017, but was not satisfied with the results.
In the middle of 2019, he met a gentleman on the street. The gentleman's atmosphere was so attractive that he completed the fog series.
His photographs, which are half documentary and half conceptual mix, have become his signature work.
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Nina Papiorek
Her visual language is characterized by a distinctive aesthetic.
In her black and white compositions she prefers to capture the interplay between lines, architectural forms and the presence of people.
Her photographs combine elements of street photography, urban landscape and fine art photography.Underlined by her distinctive minimalist approach, which runs like a common thread through all her work, the connection between people and their urban surroundings becomes the focus of her photographic narratives.
Nina is a multiple internationally award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in a large number of exhibitions and publications worldwide.
She is a winner of the international photo awards (IPA), Monovision Awards, Fine Art Photography Awards or the « Prix de la Photographie Paris », among others.
She is also a multiple Hasselblad Masters finalist.
Nina has contributed to several book projects and she’s the author of online photography courses.
She is also the co-founder of the Düsseldorf street collective “dorfcollective”.
Nina is based in Germany, following her passion for more than 20 years.
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F.Dilek Yurdakul
was graduated from GU, Faculty of Law, she started her master's degree in Labor and Social Security Law. She is still a lawyer and also lecture photography at universities.
She focus on travel, street and documentary photography. She is trying to make the unseen visible, the voiceless heard and to turn attention to socially important issues like Covid19, Cancer, Worker health and occupational safety, child workers problem, education of girls, climate change through her photography. Masterful use of light is her signature.
As a photographer, she made many speeches at Universities, Photograph Associations and TEDx.
Her goal is to increase social awareness and recognition with her stories and to inspire young women in her country and all over the world.
She joined many international exhibitions and won over 200 awards.
She take part as a judge in International Photo Contests all around the world.
She is still a Photographer for National Geographic YS and National Geographic Turkey. araît ici
Jury
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Vita Flumen
Sandra Hernández (Vita Flumen) is a photographer and a Fujifilm ambassador based in Mexico.
Her photography focuses on urban life, such as human’s relationship to the environment and the narratives that arise between them. Sandra’s work, both photographs and text, has been published and featured locally and internationally in outlets such as L’Oeil de la Photographie, Forbes, La Vanguardia, EyeShot and Revue Épic. She’s also participated in more than 50 solo and group exhibitions on four continents and has received awards and honorable mentions in global photography competitions. She’s the founder of Observadores Urbanos, a platform whose mission is to promote and spread Latin American street photography. Last year she was selected for the class of 2023 of The Eddie Adams Workshop. -
Stéphane Kyndt
Stéphane Kyndt, known as Sté Kyndt, is a professional photographer since 1997.
He started with the Sygma agency, and has since collaborated with several renowned international agencies. He is a documentary photographer and a street photographer. His photographic work has been exhibited several times in Paris. Is the founder of Street Macadam & Street me up.
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Agnes Burger
Agnes Burger is a German/Polish street photographer.
With a cinematic background working in the movie industry. Focused on documentary photography and street storytelling she was exhibited in the Leica Store in Munich, in exhibitions in Dublin, Venice and New York. She is doing the English lives on Street Macadam introducing other street photographers and was invited to do interviews on festivals with the Jill Freedman Foundation and with Martin Parr. Also curator of Street Macadam & Street me up.
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Ivan Herrera
Bogotá, Colombia, 1977.
He studied photography and biology in Bogotá, where he works as a photographer and audiovisual producer. He has participated in numerous collective and individual photography exhibitions, and has received several awards for his work, including the Santa Fé Gallery Exhibition Grant (Bogotá 2013), the City of Bogotá Photography Award (2018) and the National Photography Award (Ministry of Culture of Colombia 2021). As a director of photography, he participated in the fiction feature films “La defensa del dragón” (premiered in Cannes, 2017) and “Malta” (2024). -
Kai Hsiao
He has been fascinated by photography since his teenage year and played with his father’s old Yashica camera and developed and printed his own photos.
His passion for photography has never diminished, even during his busiest career days.
10 years ago I wrote a photography textbook about composition, then started my workshop to teach after the book was published. Eventually, I found that street photography is the one I can demonstrate my composition rules. I then bring the ideas into teaching materials and have been teaching street photography for several years.
Street Photography is now not only my hobby, but also my life. I live and breathe with it.
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Jason Florio
Is an award-winning photojournalist, filmmaker and educator, originally from London.
He based in NYC for 18 years before relocating to The Gambia, West Africa, in 2013. He has produced images and documentaries for clients including The New York Times, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, National Geographic and Amnesty International. His work has been recognized with a number of awards, including The Magnum Photography Award for his work on migration. His work is held in public and private collections and has been presented in solo exhibitions in the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society for his photograph focused expeditions. -
Ana Cichowicz
Ana Cichowicz is a Brazilian artist and anthropologist currently based in Berlin.
Her Ph.D. research focused on cinema, particularly the politics and poetics of Tony Gatlif's films. In recent years, Ana has dedicated herself to integrating her anthropological and philosophical knowledge into her artistic and curatorial work. Her artistic research interests center on three primary areas: environmental practices, foreignness and immigration, and the poetics of everyday (street) life. Ana's photographs and art videos have been exhibited in galleries, festivals, and biennials. -
Mary Crnkovic Pilas
is a street and documentary photographer who was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and moved to Zagreb, Croatia in 1992 after completing her B.A. majoring in Music and French.
She is most interested in black and white street and documentary photography and likes to document ordinary everyday people and scenes. Many people ask her about the meaning behind “The Marvels of Daily Life”, the name of her website and Instagram page. It is based on a quote by one of her favourite photographers, Robert Doisneau, which perfectly sums up her philosophy on street photography – “The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” -
Misha Maslennikov
Misha Maslennikov was born in 1964 in Dobroe settlement close to Moscow, USSR.
Since 2013 constantly lives in the city of Odessa, Ukraine.
During the 80’s, he studied at Art School #75, got the qualification of architectural designer-constructor.
Misha studied at theological department of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University between 2002 to 2005.
For 7 years, he worked in reproduction center of the State Publishing House the Press (previous name Pravda) as a retoucher and an operator of electronic color splitting and color correcting machine.
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Fabio Cavessago
From Veneto Italia, where he was born, to the world that he is always trying to discover by moving with his camera.
With this spirit Fabio Cavessago, some time ago ran away from the bank where he worked to devote himself full time to his passion, photography, his true form of expression.A journey around the world between shots stolen in the streets, or in remote areas of the planet, a love, that for travel, also narrated in his book (Un viaggio nell’onda, published in 2016).
For Fabio, as stated in the back cover, “Every place becomes a moment of growth, because knowing how to see is to internalize the experience, is to look and then feel more in focus, is to change here, today, now, together with those around us.