The image above was shot by Takumi Wada, one of the winners in the inaugural Africa Photo Awards.

The Awards rewarded excellence in nine categories with one overall winner snapping up an all-expenses paid trip to Photokina 2020 in Cologne, Germany and a Fujifilm X-H with battery grip and lens.

The non-profit competition is designed to showcase the best photography from the continent, and if the winning pictures are anything to go on, we have a lot of talent here in Africa.

Digital Camera World with the winner of this year’s competition.

Pretoria-based Hein Waschefort won the title of Photographer of the Year for his fine-art Salvador Dali-inspired photo ‘Where the Moon and Tusks Collide’. This surreal image was created by Waschefort combining several of his own photos of elephants, the moon, clouds and landscapes.

Take it in:

Other category winners include:

Wildlife winner: Elize Labuschagne, The Jackal Strikes Again

Conceptual Winner: André Badenhorst, Silvablack 01

Fashion winner: Linda Orsmond, Night

Wedding winner: Carlien Haywood, Untitled

Portraiture winner: Thina Zibi, Mother

Abstract winner:  Elizabeth Cook, Doooown

Land & Urban scapes winner: Udo Kieslich, Milky Way

Beautiful – and can we take a moment for the fact that the overall winner is South African?

It feels like everything is coming up South Africa, this week.

[source:digitalcameraworld]