It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head
– Henri Cartier-Bresson –
Born and lives in Vienna/Austria. Artist, curator, founder and director of the AnzenbergerAgency, Gallery and Bookshop. She has been director of the ViennaPhotoBookFestival (2013-2017). Her own artistic work includes publications like ‘Roots & Bonds’ (AnzenbergerEdition, 2015), ‘Imperfections’ (Artist Book, 2016), ‘Goosewalk’ (AnzenbergerEdition, 2019) and ‘Shifting Roots’ (AnzenbergerEdition, 2020)
Anna Lena Mehr is Contest Director at the Dutch World Press Photo Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing their annual photo contest that recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. As part of the new regional strategy that the organization launched last year, Anna Lena implemented a new contest model.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.
– Robert Doisneau –
All participants to Monochromatic 2025, by virtue of their presentation, believing the images and projects presented are their own work and there has been no infringement of copyright. Dodho is not responsible for any infringement of rights may arise during the selection process and subsequent display of any image. The entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the photograph, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the exhibition and use of the photograph. The projects will be judged by a professional and relevant jury in the photography field, with no flare and none of the author data. The jury’s decision will not be appealable and will be definitive.
The images copyright will be exclusively and at all times of the photographer and author of the image. The images will use strictly in relation to the Dodho prizes and will not be used for other purposes than the direct promotion of their authors. The images may not be used in any case by any third party without the express consent of the author and by written request, which will be sent to the author by email. Dodho is granted the right to publish the best works received in its online version and subsequent promotion in its social networks, always safeguarding authorship and copyright.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.
– William Klein –