Nikolai Linares, currently working on his final BA project, is nominated for the Student Focus competition launched by the World Photography Organisation.
Each year the World Photography Organisation invites hundreds of universities and schools of photography around the world to participate in the Student Focus competition. Each institution selects one student to enter the first round of the competition. Then the World Photography Organisation selects ten students for the second round – the Student Focus competition. Nikolai Linares was selected based on his picture Escaping the heat.
Escaping the Heat by Nikolai Linares.
Nikolai wins a Sony camera, a trip to London and then he’s allowed to enter the Student Focus competition.
Now Nikolai is going to make a series of pictures with the title Your World in Colour and this series will compete with stories made by students from Russia, Spaibn, New Zealand, USA, Argentina, China and South Africa.
The winner will be announced at the Sony World Photography Awards days in London the 26th of April. The prize is Sony equipment of a value of 45.000 EUR for the home institution.