Jury
To select the very best entries, EU-OSHA has assembled a diverse and experienced pan-European jury to provide both excellent analysis of the photo competition entries and solid artistic quality.
Leading the panel will be OSH Communications Expert, Peter Rimmer, who will be joined by three professional photographers and an experienced OSH multimedia specialist.
Mertxe Alarcón (Spain)
Barcelona-born Mertxe Alarcón is an experienced photographer. Her interest in photography started at the age of 16 when she began working in photography shops, and she went on to work for various photography labs (including for Fujifilm Spain) for fifteen years. For two years she was involved in an architectural photography in Spain.
Mertxe was first introduced to the publishing world as photography coordinator for a corporate magazine publisher, later becoming head of photography at ‘El Meuble’ interiors magazine. She has been Graphic Editor at National Geographic Spain since 2005, combining this task with illustrated features on weddings, children and fashion.
In 2008 her exhibition Fragmentos del Tíbet was held at the Casa de Tíbet in Barcelona and in the same year she co-authored the book Cazadores de Luz National Geographic, Editadorial RBA, 2008. She rejoins the jury having previously been on the panel during the 2009 EU-OSHA Photo Competition.
Jørgen Brandt (Denmark)
Born in Aalborg, Denmark, Jørgen Brandt has run his own Copenhagen based photographic studio since 1987. To him photography is both a lifestyle and a business. He specialises in capturing personalities, taking shots of individuals, groups, weddings, families and fine art nudes (and also creates his own fine art). Across the years his photographs have been exhibited in galleries and art organisations across Denmark.
Jørgen was the first Dane to achieve the Master Qualified European Photographer (MQEP) certification from the Federation of European Photographers (FEP). The FEP represents photographers in some 24 European countries with approximately 50,000 members, he has been Press Officer since 2010 and FEP Board Member 2010-2012. He is also elected to become the President of the FEP starting his term during 2012.
In addition, he is Chairman of the Board for the Museet for Fotokunst, a state-approved national museum of photographic art.
Marco Di Lauro (Italy)
Award-winning photojournalist Marco Di Lauro studied literature and philosophy at Milan State University, followed by journalism at Boston University and photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan.
He started his professional career in the 1990s as a freelance photographer. In 1998 he covered the Kosovo war, before moving to Rome to cover the jubilee of the Catholic Church. In October 2001 he went to Afghanistan where he was one of the first Westerners to cover the fall of Kabul from the inside.
Since 2002 he has covered international news stories for Getty Images and joined Reportage by Getty Images in 2007. Marco’s main topics are war religion and social issues: he covered the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and the second intifada between Israel and Palestine and numerous others conflicts in Africa.
His work has appeared in major publications and his numerous awards include two World Press Photo prize in 2002 and 2011, three PDN (Photo District News) awards, nine PX3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) prizes and a Gran Premio Nazionale di Fotografia in Italy.
Peter Rimmer (UK)
Born in the United Kingdom, Peter Rimmer is a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant who worked for 16 years as Director of Information with the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) until the end of 2003. He is also EU-OSHA’s former campaign manager.
He has worked extensively in Europe on PHARE and Twinning Projects, and in partnership with European colleagues in the production of videos, including the Napo series of animated films and acts as an Assessor for Health Promotion Wales, the Corporate Standard. He writes for Safety & Health Practitioner magazine and is Editor of Health Protection Matters, a magazine published by the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA).
Vincent Aubert-Jaquin (France)
Vincent Aubert-Jaquin is a consultant in Social Communication and graduated in psychology and educational science. He was head of the film and multimedia production unit of INRS, the French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk prevention. Vincent Aubert-Jaquin is a founding member of the Napo Consortium, which was established to commission and produce health and safety information videos for use across Europe.
He took part in the jury of EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces Film Award at the DOK Leipzig International Film festival in 2009 and 2010.
