Photography Competition 2023

Congratulations to all entrants in our 2023 Competition and to those shortlisted and awarded prizes. Scroll to view the winning photographs.

The Overall Winner – Shadows in the Cave by David Travis

In honour of our 2022-23 Hon. President, Prof. MM McCabe, we tasked entrants to our CA Competition with taking a photograph inspired by one of the following themes: ‘Shadows in the Cave’, ‘Living Well’, ‘Being Wrong’, ‘Democracy’, all concepts discussed by the ancient philosopher Plato.

Plato’s most famous work, The Republic, discusses many ideas that have been hugely influential, such as the Allegory of Cave, the Theory of Forms and the Philosopher-Kings, and we gave entrants the chance to take part in debates that have been going on for millennia by showcasing their interpretation of what these concepts, such as ‘eudaimonia’ (‘living well’) and ‘demokratia’ (‘democracy’, literally ‘people power’) meant to them.

Judges

MM McCabe was joined by professional photographer Max Barstow and Master of Jesus College Cambridge, Sonita Alleyne, as the judges of this 2023 CA Competition.

MM McCabe

Our 2022-23 Honorary President is a distinguished philosopher, academic and author

Max Barstow

Max is an award winning photographer and a philosophy graduate

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Sonita Alleyne

Sonita is the Master of Jesus College Cambridge, a celebrated broadcaster and a philosophy graduate

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