Every year at the Gulf Photo Plus photography festival in Dubai, attendees are treated to a special event called the GPP ShootOut. Called the “most exciting hour in the photography world” by David Hobby, the event pits famous photographers head-to-head in creating the best photo they can on the spot. It’s a freestyle battle for imaging.
You can watch this year’s GPP ShootOut 2015 in the 18-minute video above, which shows photographers Sara Lando, Ryan Brenizer and Joel Grimes battling each other with their eyes, minds, and camera gear.
This year’s challenge: the photographers were asked to find two complete strangers in the audience and shoot a photograph with the theme “intimacy” without any touching or nudity. They were also given just 20 minutes to plan, shoot, edit, retouch, and present their results — all while giving their running commentary along the way to share their thought process.
In your opinion, who won this year’s GPP ShootOut?
You can watch ShootOut events from previous Gulf Photo Plus festivals here.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.