GFX Challenge Grant Program 2022 -Make Your Next Great Image-

Family Stuff is a documentary project, in which Qingjun takes a family portrait with their belongings together in front of their house. It is not just about the capturing the scene. He creates a vision with his interpretation and records the family/person, the culture, the characteristics, the memories, the changing of society, the environment, and the era.

The project focuses on the observation of natural science that can indicate weather forecasts in the Andes. This is based on scientific research and resources of knowledge.

The project explores the theme of urban sustainability and urban psychology through photography and video. Data will also be collected through an EEG device that monitors brain waves and emotions.

The project is a human documentary that focuses on the memories of people who have been discriminated against and related to infectious diseases. It traces the memories of people who have experienced infectious diseases in Japan from the first half of the 20th century by using photographs/videos and audios.

“American Seams” explores identity among rural women in the American West. This and other salient themes are probed through a series of intimate but witty conversations and portraiture with 3-4 quilters in a short documentary film.

“Umbra” is a photographic series about inhabitants of rural areas in the Baja California Peninsula (México), who suffer from preventable vision impairments that lead to partial or total blindness.

Through this project, world's archaeological artifacts will be photographed. A total of 200 artifacts from four different sites from period 400-800AD will placed next to each other presented as a whole. The images will also be exhibited at the world's largest archaeology conference in Belfast.

The project is an intimate portrait of the female connection to the sea. Following pioneering female ocean guardians from local and indigenous communities across the Indo-Pacific, Ocean Wxman will tell the stories of the women shaping the protection of marine ecosystems within their communities.

People believe what they see. However, our eyes can only perceive a narrow range of light. In the realm of eternal darkness, deep in the earth, the only source of light is our lamps. The minerals on the walls glow like millions of stars or glowing embers in the light of the UV lamp, as if they were conjuring up the world of Pandora or the stars of the Universe around us.

Pepo Kali means strong wind in Swahili and is inspired by women biker club that exists in Nairobi. It is a short fiction film exploring the theme “Grief”, which Lydia started to explore during the pandemic when people dealt greatly with fear and grief of losing the loved one.

The project is a photography series of endemic plants in the Philippines that is presented as a beauty editorial. Each endemic species is presented as a diptych, a story told in two parts: first, a beauty portrait wherein the flora is creatively put on a human face and the second photo, a still life.

“Ebb and Flow” is an aerial image project captured from helicopters flying over some of Australia's most remote coastline and desert regions, describes and documents the relationship of water with the landscape and life.

The history of Sanxingdui is a history book cast in bronze. In this project the photographer has been focusing on the key cultural relics of Sanxingdui and the cultural stories behind it.

The project is a second season of the documentary "Underwater China", and focuses on the survival of endangered aquatic lives in China, which live in China's Bohai Sea, Yangtze River, South China Sea, Qinghai Lake, karst cave stream and Beibu Bay.