1st place in Absence
![Warsaw girl runs past the window at the wedding reception room in Masovian Warsaw girl runs past the window at the wedding - Masovian wedding photo](https://wpja.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/width_700__height__auto/public/contests/contest-43516/category-836-badged/1699816.jpg?itok=s-Js4uha)
The WPJA contest judges presented Dorota Kaszuba, a Mazowieckie, Poland wedding photographer, with this Master Piece Award as recognition for top wedding photojournalism in the industry.
The leading documentary wedding photographers in the world enter their best photos to the Wedding Photojournalist Association's photography competitions. They want their wedding reportage photographs to be evaluated and selected by some of the most notable and respected working picture editors and photojournalists in the news industry (these are not wedding photographers or other WPJA members judging their work). Winning these competitions is a true accomplishment for a wedding photographer.
2015 Q3 Photography Contest Judges
Judges
- Nice way to set the scene of the wedding location and still add whimsy with the child in the window. Good seeing by the photographer.
- An empty table segregated (at least for now) from the life happening beyond its enclosure is juxtaposed with symbols of both. Emptiness fills this space - a surreal visual silence set against the promise of flowers, a colored spotlight and a child at play.
Wedding photographer Dorota Kaszuba, was awarded 1st place for photo 1699816 in the Absence category for the WPJA's 2015 Q3 Photography Contest.