Capturing the Resilience of Belfast's Youth: Sony Photography Awards Winner

Documentary Projects Award Winner - Toby Binder

Photographer Toby Binder has won an esteemed Documentary Projects Award for his dramatic looking series of images focussing on young people born after the Good Friday Agreement, entitled Divided Youth of Belfast. For many years, Binder has been documenting what it means for young people, all of whom were born after the peace agreement was signed, to grow up under this intergenerational tension in both Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods.

The Lunar Mission Photographer - Rhiannon Adam

Meanwhile, the Creative Photography Award winner Cork native Rhiannon Adam should have been the first woman to fly to the moon but said she would have snubbed the chance to join Katy Perry in space this week. The Bantry-born photographer was chosen in 2021 as the only female crew member from one million applicants given the chance to join a week-long lunar mission aboard Elon Musk owned SpaceX’s Starship. She told Belfast Live: “I would not have gone on the Blue Origin flight as what would be the point? You are doing huge damage to the environ...