Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
2019: In a year that could arguably be described as the most diverse class in Young Guns history, a jury of more than 60 respected creatives — half of them past Young Guns winners themselves — spent two months reviewing hundreds of submissions from a record 45 different countries.
After several rounds of judging, which narrowed down the vast pool of talent to a finalist list of 81 creatives, the jury debated, discussed and ultimately selected 28 superstars to be part of Young Guns 17. This year's class runs across a wide variety of disciplines, and with only three YG17 winners being American-born, the global nature of this accolade is becoming even greater.
Young Guns 17
Evelyn Bencicova
Photographer/Art Director
Evelyn Bencicova (b. Bratislava, 1992) is a visual creative specialising in photography and art direction. Informed by her background in fine art and new media studies (University for Applied Arts, Vienna), Evelyn's practice combines her interest in contemporary culture with academic research to create a unique aesthetic space in which the conceptual meets the visual.
Evelyn's work is never quite what first appears to be. Her photographs depict meticulously-controlled compositions characterised by an aesthetic sterility, tinged with poetic undertones of timeless desire and longing. Evelyn constructs compelling narrative scenarios that blur the lines between reality, memory and imagination — "fictions based on truth".
Evelyn's client repertoire includes fashion and luxury brands such as Gucci, Cartier and Nehera, as well as cultural institutions such as Frieze, Berghain, Kunsthalle Basel, Royal Opera House, Slovak National Theatre and Ballet and Museums Quartier Vienna. In 2018, Bencicova was invited to create visuals for the Institute of Molecular Biology in Austria, and to perform at the closing ceremony for Atonal Berlin.
Evelyn's commercial and artistic projects have been featured in the likes of Vogue Portugal, Vogue Czechoslovakia, ZEIT Magazine, ELLE, Dazed & Confused, GUP, HANT and Metal Magazine. Her work has been published in prestigious international photography books and on several online platforms (Juxtapoz, iGNANT.com, Fubiz media) and she has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Stockholm, London, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague and Rome to mention few.
In 2016, Bencicova received the prestigious Hasselblad Masters and Broncolor GenNext awards. She was shortlisted and awarded by Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, LensCulture, Independent Photographer, Gomma Grant, Life Framer, Photo IS:RAEL, Tokyo International Photo Award and Photo Vogue and OFF Festival.
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
Berghain
Title:
(An)organic
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_043
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
LÁV magazine
Title:
Enlightenment
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_044
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
Personal Project
Title:
Alice
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_045
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
Personal Project
Title:
Artificial Tears
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_046
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
personal project
Title:
Asymptote
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_047
Award:
2019 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Evelyn Bencicova
Client:
Royal Opera House / Nowness
Title:
The Rite
Category:
YG17
Annual ID:
YG17_048