Always take the weather with you. Freediver drifting with an umbrella in an underwater cave in the Kingdom of Tonga. © Erez Beatus. (Australia, Shortlist)
Light and shadow: In the women’s carriage, time seems to stand still as the world flies by outside. Nowhere in the world do you find as many travelers making train journeys as in India. Every day, more than 20,000,000 people make a journey with this most vital method of transport. India has the largest rail network in the world, with connections to every far-flung corner of this vast country.It is possible for everyone in India to reach everywhere and anywhere. © Tamina-Florentine Zuch. (Germany, Winner)
Hustle and bustle at Mumbai station. © Tamina-Florentine Zuch. (Germany, Winner)
El Clot building is an apartment block that for the last 15 years has been under threat by a City Hall plan that forecasts the demolition of 1,651 homes in El Cabanyal - Valencia's historic fisherman's neighbourhood. For years, tens of homeless Gypsy families have occupied and restored some of these empty apartments in El Clot. © Jorge Lopez Munoz. (Spain, Shortlist)
The Strongest Man in the World. After his performance as The Strongest Man in the World, Vitor Manduca sits outside his caravan. © Francisco Salgueiro. (Portugal, Shortlist)
Temelin, Czech Republic, from the series, The Most Beautiful Nuclear Power Plants in Europe - a photographic series that examines power stations in landscape from an aesthetic point of view. © Lasse Lecklin. (Finland, Shortlist)
Reflection. A swimming pool in a Pediatric Pathology hospital. The series tells the story of a once beautiful town, Pripyat, that was founded in 1970 as the ninth nuclear city of the Soviet Union, and had to evacuate its 50,000 inhabitants in within 36 hours after the accident at Chernobyl. © Helen Mountaniol. (Ukraine, Shortlist)

Australian photographer shortlisted for inaugural Zeiss Photography Award

11 April 2016

A photographer from Germany, Tamina-Florentine Zuch has won the inaugural Zeiss Photography Award with her photo series documenting a train journey through India. The 25-year-old student of photojournalism and documentary photography spent six weeks travelling through India by train, documenting the experience in 2015. Her pictures show children sleeping in hammocks in stuffy train carriages, men risking their lives as they ‘surf’ railway cars, and exotic landscapes as they pass by.

Light and shadow: In the women’s carriage, time seems to stand still as the world flies by outside. Nowhere in the world do you find as many travelers making train journeys as in India. Every day, more than 20,000,000 people make a journey with this most vital method of transport. India has the largest rail network in the world, with connections to every far-flung corner of this vast country.It is possible for everyone in India to reach everywhere and anywhere.
© Tamina-Florentine Zuch. (Germany, Winner) — Light and shadow: In the women’s carriage, time seems to stand still as the world flies by outside. Nowhere in the world do you find as many travelers making train journeys as in India. Every day, more than 20,000,000 people make a journey with this most vital method of transport. India has the largest rail network in the world, with connections to every far-flung corner of this vast country.It is possible for everyone in India to reach everywhere and anywhere. © Tamina-Florentine Zuch. (Germany, Winner)

As the overall winner, Zuch will receive Zeiss lenses of her choice for a total value of EUR 15,000, as well as an offer to cooperate further with Zeiss. An Australian photographer, Erez Beatus, was one of seven other photographers shortlisted. A total of 22,000 images were submitted by 3,139 photographers from 166 countries.