In April 2020, we launched a photo competition on the subject of "at home". We received almost 200 entries. Thank you very much for your great photos and apologize that it took us a few days to select them! We had to close our shop and were allowed to open it again a week ago. We have been busy with our website, made applications and educated 4 children, if you can call it that. In between we had a good time. We were out in the fresh air a lot, planted, observed animals and plants to bring positive things into our lives.
The positive, the closeness to nature, creativity, deceleration were the topics many of you brought up. But also isolation and sadness. This time it was especially difficult for us to make a choice. Here are the prices:
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Julia Sandner - 1. Price
(100 € - Voucher) A place without people, a goal without a footballer, a swing without a child - photographed in black and white. Absolute dreariness, a ghost town. In the background a residential building. In such a place, weaker members of our society could experience domestic violence at the moment. People's movements have been reduced to a minimum, life is freezing, boredom does not always generate creativity. This leaves impressive room for interpretation in this photo.
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 | Mikhail Kapychka - 2. Price
(75 € - Voucher) Curfew, schools and daycare centres are closed. Children must stay at home. They can move less, they breathe less air, and most of them can no longer pursue their hobbies. They have to study at home alone for school or with stressed parents. Children. are our protégés, they are bursting with energy and the urge to move, and they are great victims of the crisis. The photo shows two children in the house. Maybe they have even met secretly, maybe they are up to something. This rogue in the neck despite the lock has moved us. |
 | Joseph Lefeuvre - 3. Price
(50 € - Voucher) Boredom is the breeding ground for creativity. You can think up crazy things there - like here long hair artfully draped around daisies. Art and joie de vivre, despite the circumstances, speak from the photographs of Joseph Lefeuvre. We don't let ourselves be beaten. |
 | Andrea Heming -
Recognition Award
(15 € - Voucher)
Many of you have taken the time to observe our fascinating nature more closely and have captured its beauty. Andrea Heming has succeeded in doing this particularly well. The beautiful leaf in rich green is adorned with water pearls - both of which are an essential part of our lives. The snail is symbolic of the curfew period. Many of us can now afford a snail's pace now and then, can do things for which they otherwise had no time. In Berlin this was clearly noticeable. |
 | Paola Spagnolatti -
Recognition Award
(15 € - Voucher) We have never experienced anything like it in our lives. The world has changed. Life is different. Are we changing our perspective as well? Do we perceive things differently? Looking through a glass ball deforms familiar things, turns the world upside down. We think this is a fitting symbol for the state that many of us are currently experiencing. |
 | Hiroya Mano - Recognition Award
(15 € - Voucher) A plastic dog has climbed onto a roof of Tokyo and is watching the sunset. I wonder what he's thinking about. About the restrictions in Japan, which are not quite as severe as those in most European countries? Is he thinking about humanity as an unreasonable species? Or is he simply enjoying the special atmosphere in the setting sun? We do not know. |
 | Corina Widmann - Audience Award
Corina Widmann has received the most likes on Facebook and Instagram. We also think this design is great. A collage representing a sun or a flower, the rays of which are tagged with keywords, matching the theme. Creativity and positive thinking let the design come across with an enormous lightness and joy. This is good for the soul and keeps you healthy in a difficult time. Thanks and congratulations from the exchange team! |
