Kalpesh Lathigra

Kalpesh Lathigra was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Innovation Award for ‘This is us.’ 

Kalpesh Lathigra (1971, London, UK) studied at London College of Printing and lives in London. Lathigra’s work occupies the space between documentary and art. Recent exhibitions include Lost in the Wilderness at Webber Gallery, London, Return to Elsewhere for Photoworks/Brighton Photo Biennial 2014, National Portrait Gallery (UK), PhotoEspana and Noorderlicht. He has been awarded the  W.Eugene Smith Fellowship, World Press Photo Award and Lightwork Residency. His first book “ Lost in the Wilderness” is a body of photographs of the Oglala Sioux and the Pine Ridge Reservation was published in 2015. His forthcoming book “Memoire Temporelle” will be published in the summer of 2022.

Simon Koy

Simon Koy was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Innovation Award for ‘This is us.’ 

Simon Koy, born in 1979, is a photographer from Munich with a focus on portraiture and reportage with a penchant for travelling all over the world and Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. He studied at the Fh für Fotodesign in Munich 2007, since 2006 freelance photographer for magazines, advertising agencies and various institutions.