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Travel Photographer of the Year 2018

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Travel Photographer of the Year 2018
Vincitore assoluto del Contest internazionale Travel Photographer 2018
Il fotografo italiano Stefano Pensotti (dalla prima edizione del 2003 è il primo italiano ad essere nominato fotografo dell'anno) è stato dichiarato il vincitore assoluto per la sua straordinaria serie di immagini provenienti da otto diversi paesi, tra cui Etiopia, Georgia e Myanmar. Il suo portfolio mostra immagini di momenti intimi della vita quotidiana di semplici persone, da un uomo che fa un sonnellino in India a una scena di devozione religiosa in Senegal.

Stefano Pensotti (Italy), Travel Photographer of the Year: Overall Winner
Captured across three continents, professional Italian photographer Stefano Pensotti took home the TPOTY 2018 top prize with a selection of eight photographs that showcased the lives of ordinary people and their immediate surroundings. Demonstrating an impressive and mature scope, Pensotti’s photographs feature the dreadlocked and vibrantly adorned Senegalese Muslim sect known as Baye Fall; farmers from the lush meadows of the Ushguli, a picturesque hillside community in Georgia; the sun-drenched people of Timbuktu overlooking the ports of Kabara; and the frequent visitors to Budapest’s iconic Széchenyi Baths. Insightful and engaging, the TPOTY’s judging panel considered Pensotti’s work to provide a keenly genuine observational look into the many divergent communities around the world, while also reflecting the potential of contemporary travel photography.

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Overall winner of Travel Photographer of the Year 2018
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In the last light of day the inhabitants of Timbuctu wash their clothes and take a shower in the port of Kabara. Timbuktu is located on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert 15 km north of the River Niger. The town is surrounded by sand dunes and the streets are covered in sand. The port of Kabara is connected to Niger by artificial canal. The canal had become silted but in 2007 it was dredged from Libyans. Between 2006 and 2007 Gheddafi build his "Qaddafi’s Palace" secluded amid a sea of sand dunes at the edge of Timbuktu The port and Kabara channel allowed a Gaddafi to get to Timbuktu by sailing the River Niger. Timbuctu, Mali
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Hay cutting in the meadows above the tower houses of Murkmeli, one of the 4 fractions of Ushguli, the highest continuously inhabited settlements in Europe, located at an altitude of 2100 m and near the foot of Shkhara 5265 m, one of the highest summits of the Greater Caucasus mountains. About 70 families (about 200 people) live in the area, enough to support a small school. The area is snow-covered for 6 months of the year, in this mounths Ushguli is isolated and can only be reached on skis. The typical Svaneti defensive tower houses, 12th century, are found throughout the village. Ushguli, Svanezia
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The salt caravans walking on Danakil Plain. They have loaded the salt from the Dankalia open-air salt mines at - 50 m level. Their journey will lead them to Agula on the Ethiopian plateau at 2400 m. Situated in the Afar Triangle, characterized by volcanic and tectonic activity, the salt deposits were created when water from the Red Sea flooded in this area and then evaporated when geological mutations have created an inland sea. The most recent flood was roughly 30,000 years ago. this was my third trip to Dankalia, I had imagined this scene so many times and finally it was perfect. Danakil, Ethiopia
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Prayer time in one of little temples in the plain of Bagan: in the morning at dawn before going to school she stops in the small temple that has been incorporated into the village. Bagan was founded in 849 AD by King Pyinbya. Over the course of 250 years, Bagan's rulers and their wealthy inhabitants constructed over 10,000 religious monuments (approximately 1000 stupas, 10,000 small temples and 3000 monasteries) in an area of 104 square kilometres Today part of the major temples have been restored and are protected, but many of the small temples are among the houses of the villages in the plain of Bagan and are used by the inhabitants. Bagan, Myanmar
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A Baye Fall in the Touba Mosque. The Baye Fall were originally followers of Cheikh Amadou Bamba also known as Serigne Touba, head of the Muridiyya brotherhood the most 'known and most' influential in Senegal, Following the baye fall movement was founded by Cheikh Ibrahima Fall, broke away from muridism Bayefallism was born so fearsome in the Islamic community of Senegal, as they do not observe the Ramadan fast and the five daily prayers still share the importance of zykr, the hypnotic repetition of sacred verses walking in circles around some drums, which would bring them into "trance". Bayefallism is the supreme state of muridism, perfection. They wears long ndiakhass tunics, large belts and dreadlocks hair. Great Mosque of Touba, Touba, Senegal
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Szechenyi Baths, built in 1913, it is the most frequented by the inhabitants of Budapest who come here to relax with friends, sometimes with a chess game in the pool. Is one of the best Baths in Budapest and largest spa baths in Europe with its 15 indoor baths and 3 grand outdoor pools. Relaxing, fun, affordable and, at night, romantic. In addition to the marvelous medicinal natural hot spring waters, there are 10 saunas steam cabins, several massage therapies, facial treatments, and more. Széchenyi Spa - Budapest - Hungary
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A moment of relax on the streets of Badami in front of the entrance to a gym for wrestlers. What if everything we have come to know as reality is just a dream? Maybe it's time to wake up… The murals represent just two wrestlers and God Hanuman, the God Monkey, one of the most important figures of the Indian epic Rāmāyaṇa. In literature, Hanuman he has been the patron god of martial arts such as wrestling, acrobatics, as well as meditation and diligent scholarship. Badami, Bagalkot district, Karnataka state - India
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A walk through the narrow streets of Jugol, the medina of Harar. Harar is a city in the westerner Ethiopia, and is considered the fourth holy city of Islam. Its medina is a Yemen fragment built in earth of Africa: the historic center of Harar “Jugol” houses 82 mosques and hundreds sacred places to Islam. A concentrate of Islam that in its 368 lanes looks more like the villages of Morocco than of black Africa, whith beautiful medina with its high walls that line the narrow alleys of white and blue green. Harar, Ethiopia
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Potfolio 6 photo about Yellamma Devi fair held in Saundatti on the full moon day of Margasira month (North Indian Hindi Hindu calendar). On this occasion women become Devadasis or slaves of God. This age-old practice has been dubbed as religious prostitution by many social organizations. More than 200.000 pilgrims came and stay in the plain where they can camp. Yellamma is the Goddess of "different people" brings together people eager to get out of the shadows, manifest themselves, claim the attention of others. In the full moon day of Margasira, the goddess Yallama, is shown in the bodies of Devadasi, prostitutes, eunuchs and transsexuals who reach her temple on pilgrimage with humble families, joined by the same hope for redemption. Saundatti, Belgaum district, Karnataka, India
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