88 | Smart Photography | September 2019 http://www.smartphotography.in
LENS REVIEW
T
he winners of the Expert
Imaging and Sound Association
(EISA) Photography Maestro
2019 have been announced. The
competition, the theme of which was
‘Power’, saw participation from 16
EISA countries. The submissions were
judged at the association’s GeneralMeeting in June 2019. Photographer
Markku Pajunen from Finland won
first place. He will win a cash price
of Euros 1,500 and the EISA Photo
Maestro 2019 trophy. The second and
third place winners were Cletus Nelson
Nwadike from Sweden and Izabela
Urbana from Poland. Founded sevenyears ago, the EISA Photo Maestro is a
contest instituted to support amateur
and semi-professional photographers.
The themes of the competition
encourage photographers to think
in a documentary way by creating/
submitting a body of work that are
connected to each other.EISA Photography
Maestro 2019 Winners
MARKKU PAJUNEN,
FinlandMarkku Pajunen is a
professional photographer
based in Espoo, Finland. His
interest lies in commercial
photography. He tries to pictures
that are characterised by drama
or humour. He also likes to make
photographic composites, and
employs photo manipulation to
tell stories through his pictures
that would otherwise not be
possible. In his winning photo
series, Markku has tried to
capture emotions that would
evoke amusement or make
viewers of his photos smile.1