MENSA WORLD PHOTO CUP - CONVERGENCE / GALLERY - 2005

Philip Bateman, SAR - LIFE -
Winner of Mensa World Photo Cup 2005


Marko Djokovic, Serbia - JAILKEEPERS - Second place of MWPC 2005


Dubravka Lazic Ziramov, Serbia - ZLATIBOR - Third place of MWPC 2005


Tomas Kubes, Czech Republic - SPEED - Fourth place of MWPC 2005


Emanuela Verdone, Italia - VIA LATTEA - Sixth place of MWPC 2005


Gasper Derzanic, Slovenia - NET - Third place of MWPC 2005

TRIUMPH OF LIFE

(Text: Uros Petrovic)

Now we know. We are all able to connect by - beauty. In the end, it seems that life has won. More precisely, a wonderful photograph called "Life" by Philip Bateman from South Africa. It is without a doubt a masterpiece. I congratulate Mr. Bateman and South African Mensa for well-deserved winning considering the competition was indeed very hard.

The first Mensa PHOTO CKUP has just ended.

Participating Mensa organizations: AUSTRALIA, BULGARIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, CROATIA, FRANCE, ITALIA, MALESIA, NEW ZEALAND, SERBIA & MONTENEGRO, SINGAPOORE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOUTH AFRICA and UNITED KINGDOM.

Photographs were coming from all over. It is an extremely nice feeling to receive in a single day envelopes from Italy, New Zealand and Malaysia, for instance - each of them containing actual masterpieces - a detail from a motley New Zealand celebration, photographs with emphasized Italian esthetic sense and beautiful scenes recorded in the streets of Malaysia. I was placing them close to each other, enjoying them, thinking about our differences appearing better than ever when joined in a single accord. In the end those photographs still had to compete, however that was not a problem for me to take care of, but the problem for the international jury of the Mensa World Photo Cup.

The jurors:

A foremost international competition required a foremost international jury. The president of the jury of Mensa World Photo Cup was Mr. Emir Kusturica, the famous film director. Although I am of the opinion that he should not be particularly introduced, I cannot resist mentioning - this year he was also the president of the jury at Canes Film Festival, the global film gathering of highest esteem.

Much to our satisfaction, we also had as a member of our jury Prof. Manfred Zimmermannn, chairman of the Professional Photographs of Europe (PPofE), who is a lecturer at IVAS Academy and the founder of Zimmermann Photocenter in Germany.

The third member of the jury was a top American professional photographer, Teylor Lockwood, who had as many as several hundreds exhibitions. Whoever wishes to find out the kind of photographs that Mr. Lockwood is famous for should visit www.teylorlockwood.com

Final order of the Mensa World Photo Cup 2005:

1) Philip Bateman, South Africa - LIFE (25)
2) Dubravka Lazic Ziramov, Serbia and Montenegro - ZLATIBOR (19)
3) Marko Djokovic, Serbia and Montenegro - JAILKEEPERS (19)
4) Tomas Kubes, Czech Republic - SPEED (16)
5) Laura Bolfa Jamsek, Slovenia - LjUBLjANA (15)
6) Emanuela Verdone, Italia - VIA LATTEA (9)
7) Mirek Jindrisek, Czech Republic - MAGIC CIRCLE (9)
8) Gasper Derzanic, Slovenia - NET (9)
9) Lenka Privarova, Czech Republic - PRAHA (8)
10) Ben Bickerton, UK - INDUSTRIAL FIREWORKS (6)

Of course, knowing neither the names of the authors nor the country of origin each member of the jury at first chose ten best works, assigning afterwards between 1 and 10 points to them. The points were subsequently added.

We also thank once more to this year's jury of Mensa Photo Cup of Serbia and Montenegro, which was very successful in their job - of the three photographs from the local competition, two are among the three top ranked in the World Cup. Therefore, Messrs. Peternek, Bo`ovi} and uri}, I congratulate and thank you!

I hope that the second Mensa World Photo Cup next year will be participated by... at least everybody.

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