People nominee

The series „Lost Childhood“ tries to give an insight how Madagascan children handle their hard daily life. Some of them live on the streets, live off garbage and in garbage. Others try to survive through begging or heavy physical work. Pictures of these children - their faces, their smiles, their eyes full of hope and pain - cannot leave us indifferent. They help us to reflect, what otherwise we would never have reflected.

Markus Lockauer is a photographer born in 1974 in Austria who works independently of commercial commissions. He holds a Master of Arts in Visual Studies. Over three decades of travel and photography have profoundly shaped his perception of people, emotions, and cultural contexts.
His black-and-white work – often using deliberate compositional alienation effects – creates a timeless and at times nostalgic visual quality. His work has been nominated in international photography competitions and has received multiple Honourable Mentions. In addition, his photographs have been published in newspapers, specialist journals, and various websites.