5th place in Getting Ready

Umbria wedding photographer captured this silhouette photo of a bride standing in front of a bright window in a dark room

Wedding photographer Massimiliano Esposito, was awarded 5th place for photo 1991146 in the Getting Ready category for the WPJA's 2017 Tri1 Photography Competition.

The WPJA contest judges presented Massimiliano Esposito, a Italy wedding photographer, with this Master Piece Award as recognition for top wedding photojournalism in the industry.

The leading documentary wedding photographers in the world enter their best photos to the Wedding Photojournalist Association's photography competitions. They want their wedding reportage photographs to be evaluated and selected by some of the most notable and respected working picture editors and photojournalists in the news industry (these are not wedding photographers or other WPJA members judging their work). Winning these competitions is a true accomplishment for a wedding photographer.

2017 Tri1 Photography Competition Judges

Judges

  • This is an opulent moment of light and shadow. The center-framing of the bride, with the light streaming as into a tunnel of darkness, is almost angelic. It is really a stunning photograph simply because of the use of space around the focal point. If not for that space around this bride in that little shaft of light, it wouldn't be near the glorious photograph that we see before us now. So the use of negative space can play a major role to help isolate and frame a singular moment.

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