The winners in all seven categories of the Epson-sponsored FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards were revealed today.

Portugese photographer André Boto collected two firsts, in Commercial and Illustrative, while the rest were divided between shooters from the Czech Republic, Ireland, Belgium and Spain, and the International category went to Jen Hillenga from the US.

The Federation of European Photographers (a network of 23 National Professional Photographers Associations from 20 European countries, recognised by the EU and officially registered in Belgium) named the top 10 in each category, and the winners in each will now go forward to the final judging for the overall FEP Euopean Photographer of the Year Award, which will be announced on 22 September at the Photokina trade show in Cologne. The winning pictures from the winner, second and third place in each category will also be printed by Epson and will be exhibited at the Epson stand at Photokina. The print collection will then travel throughout major European countries and will also be exhibited at the FEP Congress in Lyon next February.

The contest received nearly 700 entries from 25 countries, which were judged by photographers  Neil Warner (FEP president), Belen Caballero, Davide Cerati, Pierre Delaunay, Peter Mathis, Enrique Oliver Tortosa and Henk van Kooten, along with Ivana Matejkova (FEP vice president).

The results in full:

COMMERCIAL
1 André Boto, Portugal (above) – Winner of the FEP European Commercial Golden Camera Award
2 José Luis Guardia Peinado, Spain – Second
3 Gerry O’Leary, Ireland – Third
Finalists:
4 Igor Sakharov, Russia
5 Xanti Rodriguez, Spain
6 James Newton, United Kingdom
7 J Collingridge, United Kingdom
8 Jonathan Beer, United Kingdom
9 Andy J. J. Hens, Belgium
10 Igor Dvoretskiy, Russia
 

ILLUSTRATIVE
1 André Boto, Portugal (above) – Winner of the FEP European Illustrative Golden Camera Award
2 Xanti Rodriguez, Spain – Second
3 Vincent O’Byrne, Ireland – Third  
Finalists:
4 Sami Tirkkonen, Finland
5 Karel Beneš, Czech Republic
6 Tom D. Jones, Belgium
7 Silvia Sommer-Steffen, Austria
8 Mark Russell-Hill, Ireland
9 Jan Kocovski, Germany
10 José Luis Guardia Peinado, Spain

LANDSCAPE
1 Jiří Stránský, Czech Republic (above) – Winner of the FEP European Landscape Golden Camera Award
2 Filip Santens, Belgium – Second
3 Owen O’Connor, Ireland – Third
Finalists:
4 Tom D. Jones, Belgium
5 Peter O'Donnell, Ireland
6 Edoardo Agresti, Italy
7 Peter Cox, Ireland
8 Maryse Kuypers, Belgium
9 Kelvin Gillmor, Ireland
10 Filip Kulisev, Slovakia

PORTRAITS
1 Padraic Deasy, Ireland (picture at top of page) – Winner of the FEP European Portrait Golden Camera Award
2 Filip Santens, Belgium - Second
3 André Boto, Portugal – Third
 Finalists:
4 Ingrid van Heteren, Netherlands
5 Corin Bishop, Ireland
6 Vincent O'Byrne, Ireland
7 Steven van Noort, Netherlands
8 Igor Sakharov, Russia
9 Xanti Rodriguez, Spain
10 Sylvia Jones, Belgium

REPORTAGE
1 Carl Lapeirre, Belgium (above) – Winner of the FEP European Reportage Golden Camera Award
2 Pierpaolo Mittica, Italy – Second
3 Maryse Kuypers, Belgium – Third
Finalists:
4 Tomás Avis, Spain
5 Johan Brouwers, Belgium
6 Jasmine Debels, Belgium
7 Edoardo Agresti, Italy
8 Alessandro Vaccari, Italy
9 José Luis Guardia Peinado, Spain
10 Norbert Maes, Belgium

WEDDINGS
1 Clemente Jiménez Santander, Spain (above) – Winner of the FEP European Wedding Golden Camera Award
2 José Luis Guardia Peinado, Spain – Second
3 Jorge Miguel Jaime Baez, Spain – Third
Finalists:
4 José María Márquez Mata, Spain
5 Jose Luis Guardia Vazquez, Spain
6 Carlos Felipe Ortiz Morel, Spain
7 Andrey Balabasov, Germany
8 Antti Karppinen, Finland
9 Xanti Rodriguez, Spain
10 Denis Hyland, Ireland
 
INTERNATIONAL SECTION
1 Jen Hillenga, USA – Winner of the FEP International Photographer Golden  Camera Award
2 Thom Rouse, USA – Second
3 Yongjun Chen, China – Third
Finalists:
4 Lynn Damon, USA
5 Peter Eastway, Australia
6 Hualong Miao, China
7 Larry Louie, Canada
8 Jian Su, China
9 Peiquan Wang, China
10 Jianhua Shen, China