ViewSonic Unveils 2022 ColorPro Award Top 10 Winners

Photograph from Iran Wins Top Honor, Digital Art from the U.S. Ranked First.

ViewSonic, a leading global provider of visual solutions, today announces the Top 10 winning photography and Top 3 digital artworks from the ColorPro Award 2022 Global Visual Arts Competition. ViewSonic will showcase these outstanding arts with incredible creativity and powerful composition along with other 100 pieces of distinctive artwork at exhibitions in London and Taipei.

“We created the ColorPro Award to unite the creative community and to ignite more possibilities. With the event entering its third year, we’re glad to see more art formats and a good mix of participating countries. The top 10 photographs have artists from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North and South America. Such diversity is a “breakthrough” to the event itself,” said Oscar Lin, General Manager of the Monitor Business Unit at ViewSonic. “We hope, through the free expression of creativity from photography and digital art, the art pieces can create a positive ripple effect from the creators to the everyday consumers.”

The first prize photograph from Iran, titled “No.3” couples a minimal street shot with a cold, dark-grey color tone to create a serene and simple image. However, with delicate changes to the doors and a splash of a highly contrasted yellow, the artwork shows that simplicity and creativity can come in many forms to elicit emotions.

The second prize winner, “Unfazed”, captures a fleeting moment of two eagle hunters riding horses. It is a long-awaited scenario for the photographer often explores sparsely populated areas and captured this photo in Kyrgyzstan, where he lay on the ground, waiting for the horse to gallop and jump over him. The third prize winner, “The Priest”, depicts an elderly priest standing on a narrow and dangerous rocky path. He overlooks a valley at dawn on his way to a 12th-century Orthodox church in Northern Ethiopia.

Digital art is a new sub-category in this year’s award, and it takes the exhibition to a new frontier with unrestricted creativity and innovative tools. The first prize winner, “I am the pacific”, depicts the artist as a powerful man with feminine features. A judge noted that the extra hands you see represent the support he got from his grandmother and wife. That was his moment of breakthrough when he could finally see what others loved in him. It was their love that helped him love himself. In the digital art category, striking visuals and surrealistic compositions are created without any constraints on the imagination.

ViewSonic will host two award ceremonies and exhibitions to showcase these winning artworks. The events will be held in London, the United Kingdom, from Nov. 25th to Nov. 26th, and in Taipei, Taiwan, from Dec. 9th to Dec. 11th. The company will also host workshops and ColorPro Talks during the exhibition to foster more interaction among the creators and visitors.

For a complete list of featured entries, please click here.

Europe Exhibition Information

Date: 10:00-21:30, Friday, 25 November 2022
10:00-17:00, Saturday, 26 November 2022 
Venue: 133 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG, UK

Taipei Exhibition Information

Date: 10:00-18:00, Friday to Sunday, 9-11 December 2022
Venue: SCCP Creative Space, Songshan Culture and Creative Park

BACKGROUNDER

ViewSonic ColorPro Award 2022
Top 10 Photos and Top 3 Digital Arts

Artists from 139 countries submitted 11,165 artworks with this year’s theme - “Breakthrough.” This amount is five times more entries than the competition received in its initial year in 2020. “Breakthrough” is a natural evolution from last year’s theme, “New adventure.” As the world seeks full recovery from the pandemic, “Breakthrough” represents overcoming an obstacle and permission for further progress. Two times more submissions and three times more countries participating in the contest. The result itself is a great embodiment of a breakthrough.

For a full list of winning artworks, please visit the online gallery.

Photography

1st Place
No.3 by Alireza Bagheri Sani, Iran


The older adult symbolizes long life, and the yellow color in number 3 represents hope. Minimalism, surrealism, and street photography are all wrapped up into one seemingly simple image at first glance. However, the changing size of the doors, the central positioning of the subject, and the pop of yellow ensure the image doesn’t become flattened. Creativity doesn’t always have to be loud.

2nd Place
Unfazed by Callie Chee Yuen Mun, Iran


The photographer ventured into Kyrgyzstan in search of eagle hunters skilled in their hunts and horsemanship. He wanted a never-done-before shot, a breakthrough perspective of the horsemen and eagle that is able to demonstrate the speed and control of the rider-animal dynamics. He lay flat on the ground (with no protection) and waited for the horses to gallop and jump very close and over him.

3rd Place
The Priest by Andrea Peruzzi, Italy

Illuminated by the sun's golden light, the elderly priest stops on the narrow and dangerous path that, overlooking the valley and along the rocky wall of the mountain, leads to the 12th-century rock church, of which he has been the guardian for 60 years. This Orthodox church, carved into the rock atop a mountain in northern Ethiopia, houses frescoes of biblical stories and ancient relics handed down to the present day.

4th Place
Flair by Rhon Paolo C. Velarde, Philippines


Marco is a Paralympic athlete competing for his province to join for the International Olympics representing the Philippines. The photo captures the positivity of a person in the face of adversity and the pursuit of his dreams, a breakthrough that inspires us all.

5th Place
Two worlds by Viktor Lyagushkin, Georgia

The diver dives into the freezing waters of the White Sea through the ice hole onto the top of the Beluga Whale Rock covered with tousle of laminaria seaweed. The support person holds a rope in her hands to help the diver to find her way home. We live on dry land, which is just one-third of our planet; two-thirds of the surface is covered with water. I hope humans will not only explore but find a sustainable way to live in harmony with the environment and nature.

6th Place
Above the clouds by Marleen Kuijpers, Netherlands


Last year, I took this photo in Grindelwald, located in the Swiss Alps. The drone hovers above me and what I see on my screen sums up the whole moment. A breakthrough moment because everything can change in one day. A breakthrough moment because you suddenly feel so free and small, standing there above the clouds and on top of the world. Every time I look at this photo, that feeling comes back—one of the happiest moments of my life.

7th Place
Well Of Death by Siddharth kaneria, India


The “Well Of Death” is a junction of life and death & breakthroughs are inevitable in the space between those two phenomena. This photograph is of Daredevil Stuntmen at a “Well Of Death'' performing in their car. Hundreds of spectators are always found crowding around a circular pit to witness daredevil drivers in cars & motorcycles performing stunts in a vertical pit.

The human capacity to evolve and survive in the name of an adrenaline rush was just a fraction of what my camera and I witnessed as we captured this moment. A daredevil stuntman is collecting his livelihood perched on a moving car as he flirts with the idea of gravity being faithful.

8th Place
Take Me with You by Craig Boliver, United States of America


This last year, I’ve tried to hone in on this style of launch photography. This specific shot feels great to showcase the NASA Crew4 launch over Indialantic Beach. SpaceX Crew Dragon w/ a Falcon9 booster at 3:52 am, capturing a full 5:00 minute exposure time. The composition has been sitting in my head for quite a while but had been waiting for everything to line up correctly.

9th Place
Free to Love by Rita Miranda, Portugal

The struggle for LGBT rights is old and far from over. People continue to die for simply having a different sexual orientation from the norm imposed by society or for identifying with another gender. These LGBT pride marches need to keep happening so that these people are not afraid to express their love freely.

10th Place
Abyss by Dominic Beaven, United Kingdom


Remote photography changed this and has been a massive 'breakthrough' in the world of portrait and studio photography. My shot 'Abyss' was taken during the lockdown period. It was shot at a venue called Tankspace, a 'breakthrough' in underwater photography. I had complete control of both camera and lighting settings via screen sharing and could communicate with the model via video conference.

Digital Art

1st Place
I Am the Pacific by Jairo Dealba, United States of America

A breakthrough is something that takes work to talk about with you. At the age of sixteen, I discovered that love was the answer. I saw that kindness invites us to see things. Gradually I began to be kind to myself, and it is still the force that guides me today. So, now it unfolds in front of me. I know that this is what expression is about; this is how truth blossoms. Long before my breakthrough, I saw it. It was distant, but I knew somehow that I would reach forth and grasp it. I knew this because of my grandmother and now my wife. She showed me that I was worthy of being loved, that I was worthy of being a true friend.

2nd Place
Submerged by the Future by Varun Mehra, India

According to a BBC article, the city of Venice could be submerged by 2100 due to rising sea levels. Then there are numerous articles by DesignBoom that examine the rise in water levels and how it may affect major cities such as Mumbai, New York, Tokyo, and Istanbul, among others. As I was thinking about the rise in water levels all over our planet due to climate change and other effects, I began creating my artwork with the help of my tools, and the outputs worked perfectly according to the image I had in mind. This is how most of the major cities will be "Submerged by the Future" if we do not take control of the current situation.

3rd Place
Growing rice on planet B by Dwi Januartanto, Indonesia
 

In "Growing rice on planet B," I try to express the message sarcastically and ironically. It depicts imperfect human figures on other planets, the image of vast agriculture with a small number of humans. The number of people on earth will continue to increase, currently almost 8 billion, and is predicted to increase to 10 billion in 2050. We need to think about how best to meet the need of food, considering it is a basic human need. The latest innovation breakthroughs that can improve human life clearly need to be developed. Still, we must also be wise and balanced in utilizing this intelligence so that it does not become a disaster in the future.

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