Aurel Rapa

About me

Work Histrory
- 2005- Participate the first contest
- I won the third place at Orange national competition on multimedia category
- 2006- I was awarded twice. First, i won first prize at Orange national competition. My pictures were published also by the magazine Photomagazin
- 2007-2008- I won the third place at Orange national competition on multimedia category and I also taken two auxiliary prizes
- 2009- I was nominated at worldnown Cannes`competition SWPA (worldphoto) with my photo called The Fire Ball.
The photo nominated at Cannes had been used by SONY in a worldwide competition, for the contest section called After dark.
http://www.worldphoto.org/competitions/open
The same picture has been also used by Facebook Monthly Photo Competition
22 Oct 2010 November Theme - After Dark Aurel Rapa, Romania, The Fire Ball ... All personal information will be used by WPO in accordance with its ...
http://www.worldphoto.org/competitions/facebook-monthly-photo-competition-november-2010/?showTab=Rules

-2010- The winner of the IPA International Photography Awards
IPA it`s an international contest. There are more than 15.000 photos sent from 103 countries worldwide. IPA`s jury is made up by National Geographics, Magnum Photo, Saatchi & Saatchi, Esquire magazine , BBC etc.
News about the contest :
http://www.libertatea.ro/stire/foto-romanii-au-facut-furori-la-international-photography-awards-2010-301189.html
-2010- Syngentaphoto Contest finalist. My photos had been displayed at the Syngenta exhibition from Kunsthalle Basel Museum, Switzerland
- One of my photos is chosen as the photo of the week at the National Geographic international contest.
http://www.blic.rs/galerija/Kultura/1509/Godisnji-foto-konkurs-za-National-Geographic
http://seawayblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/national-geographic-contest-2010.html
-2011- I was awarded for photo-documentary and photojournalism to a romanian contest and declared the photographer of the month.
http://www.nikonisti.ro/articole/castigatorul-concursului-se-cauta-fotografia-lunii-aprilie/613
-2011- I was the winner of the Libertatea daily contest, „Tu si Libertatea” http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/tu-si-libertatea-336455.html
-2011- I was the winner of section photograph on film to Imatech Nikon contest http://www.amosnews.ro/2011/Concursul_de_fotografie_pe_film-29-85763.html
http://www.nikonisti.ro/articole/castigatorii-cursului-de-fotografie-pe-film/780
2011 - I was awarded and I was also the finalist at the urban views contest with two of my photos
http://www.clubulfoto.com/fotografiile-finaliste-la-concursul-ipostaze-urbane/
http://danaartgallery.ro/index.php?id_art=122&id_s=35
2012- Documentary photography workshop...http://www.fotografa.ro/index.php?cmsID=1&newsID=2777