Winners 2020

Grand Prize Winner

Nisha Alberti (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Source material: Très Parisien | Rijksmuseum via Europeana


3 Runners-up

Nisha Alberti (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Source material: Men’s Fashion | Rijksmuseum via Europeana

Friederike Fankhänel (Hamburg, Germany)
Source material: Boon’s geillustreerd Magazijn | Johann van Caspel | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg via Europeana

Helene Nozon (Rostock, Germany)
Source material: Lavoisier explaining to his wife| Earnest Board | Wellcome Collection via Europeana


2 First-time GIF-makers category winners

Asterios Alexandrou (Berlin, Germany)
Source material: Fotografie der Statue der Aspasia | MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien via Europeana

Henriette Roued-Cunliffe (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Source material: Flowers on the Windowsill| Carl Larsson | Nationalmuseum, Sweden via Europeana


4 Children and Teenagers Category Winners

Jana Brūvere (Liepāja, Latvija), age 17
Source material: 1.Poultry| Jacomo Victors |DK-National Aggregation Service;
2.William Cheselden giving an anatomical demonstration to six spectators | Wellcome Collection via Europeana

Charu Smita (Ranchi, India), age 14
Source material: Jenny Lind| Johan Gustaf Sandberg | Nationalmuseum, Sweden via Europeana

Marta Stankevica (Liepāja, Latvija), age 18
Source material: Woman Writing a Letter | Gerard ter Borch | Mauritshuis via Europeana

Punya Kaul (New Delhi, India), age 12
Source material: Joseph Bienaimé Caventou | Catherine Buisson & Elisa Desrivières | Wellcome Collection via Europeana


People’s Choice Award Winner

Mareks Ziemelis (Liepāja, Latvia)
Source material: Carte postale | Archives Départementales de Seine-et-Marne via Europeana


GIPHY Backdrop Category Winner

Yachiyo Hara (Tokyo, Japan)
Source material: Princess Takiyasha Calling up a Monstrous Skeleton Specter | Utagawa Kuniyosh | Tokyo Fuji Art Museum via Japan Search


Congratulations to the winners – you will be contacted about the prizes via email. And huge thanks to all the participants! Hope to see you again next year.