Following a lengthy initial judging process, the shortlist for Meet California has been announced. The commission will see four photographers fly to California and road trip across the Golden State on a 10-day British Journal of Photography commission, in partnership with Visit California.
The four competition winners will each produce a photo series that responds to their experience traversing California. Steering clear of generic picture-perfect travel photography, each body of work will delve beneath the surface of California and reveal the daily occurrences and unexpected nuances, as well as the people and places, that give America’s Golden State its distinctive character.
A prestigious panel of industry experts is currently judging the competition with the winners due to be announced in mid-August. The panel comprises four judges: Simon Bainbridge, editorial director of British Journal of Photography; Zelda Cheatle, an independent curator and photography consultant; Max Whittaker, a California-based photojournalist and Visit California’s official photographer; and Charlie Pinder, international photography manager at Red Bull Media House.
Below, we present the final shortlist, from which four winners will be selected.
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Ricardo Nagaoka
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Peyton Fulford
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Cian Oba-Smith
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Clement Chapillon
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Sara Szymańska
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Antoine Bruy
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Filippo Venturi
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Jeff Hahn
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Johan Hallberg Campbell
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Kate Peters
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Eva Roefs
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Francesca Allen
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Marco Arguello
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Anya Broido
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Nicholas White
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Dorothée Nowak
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Kalpesh Lathigra
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Kenny Hurtado
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Arthur Crestani
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Brant Slomovic
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Kristen Dobbin
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Meet California is a British Journal of Photography commission made in partnership with Visit California. Please click here for more information on sponsored content funding at British Journal of Photography.