Children of the World - Amateur

Elena Bolshakova Russia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Adolescence"

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Oliver Raschka Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Here and Now #63"

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Lucio Farina Singapore 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Study" Young monks in Myanmar

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Charles Mifsud Malta Honorable Mention "A lonely boy near the Cemetry" A lonely boy near the cemetry

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Lynn Fothergill New Zealand Honorable Mention "Standing Where I Live" A boy in the slums of Dehradun, India, showing the instamatic photos taken of him and his friends

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Sonia Costa Italy Honorable Mention "The girl, the cross and the hen" The girl, the cross and her hen, Asmara, Eritrea.

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Matty Karp Israel Honorable Mention "Boy" Ethiopian boy in rural area after school.

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Catalin Baican Romania Honorable Mention "Whisper"

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Lezanne Gibbs New Zealand Honorable Mention "Waiting for lift off"

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Wendy Royer Canada Honorable Mention "Ready to Swing" Havana children don't need a ball diamond. Any small space will do.

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Alex Politis France Honorable Mention "Virtual reality" Who (real) is who (virtual) in a not so distant future...

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Shinya Ichikawa Japan Honorable Mention "Math" a girl studying Math in the street after school in Cuba

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Grace Ho Malaysia Honorable Mention "Joy of The Alley" I captured this little boy at a back alley of a village near Agra, India. His smile makes me think a

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Asher Milgate Australia Honorable Mention "Tomah and Jamesy" Tom (4) and James (5) are cousins, each are my brothers son’s. I find it incredibly interesting to o

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Alla Sokolovskaya USA Honorable Mention "Tired"

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Judith Rodriguez Argentina Honorable Mention "Palm Sunday" At church on Palm Sunday, Wilson, NC, US

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Grace Ho Malaysia Honorable Mention "Where Is My Future" I was attracted by the nanchallence expression of this girl at a Badjao Village near Batangas

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Adhya Menda India Honorable Mention "do not enter" A young boy stands at the entrance with his hands stretched out safeguarding his home from intruders

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Debiprasad Mukherjee India Honorable Mention "Story of Abandoned Children" Story of Abandoned Children

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John Eaton USA Honorable Mention "At a Tajic Wedding" A guest at a Tajic wedding high in the Himalayas

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Dr. Ulrich M. Ratschker Germany Honorable Mention "Checkmated" Checkmated - Often it is said today's youth only know PC, Playstation etc. But still they exercice t

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Bindu Chandan India Honorable Mention "Empower" Every child is gifted, it is our duty to empower.

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Keng How Kan Malaysia Honorable Mention "Look Back"

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Federico Odello Italy Honorable Mention "Street peekaboo!"

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Hilaneh Mahmoudi Turkey Honorable Mention "sweet something" Syrian refugee child, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Girls in Yazd Iran" In this photo all 9-year-old girls in Iran were celebrating the day they would begin to wear the headscarf or chador.

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Scooting into the Fog" Venice, IT

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Bernhard Schmidt Germany Nominee "Park Fiction" Park Fiction Hamburg Germany

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Bindu Chandan India Nominee "I See You" I see you as you watch over me

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Catalin Baican Romania Nominee "Childhood"

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Dan Tran USA Nominee "The Story Grows & Grows"

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Dr.Samarendranath Mandal India Nominee "Ring" Children of the local village are playing at North Bengal

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Edie Swift USA Nominee "Daily Ritual" The daily painting starts early every day in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia

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Elmo Tide USA Nominee "Untitled (1)"

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Estevao Lafuente Portugal Nominee "Untitled (2)"

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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee "Childrens of Kond"

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James McNelis USA Nominee "Keep out" SUMMER IN THE CITY

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Jan Demann Germany Nominee "Wild Boys" Vietnam - This superheros made my time in the NationalPark running even faster. Some didn´t know what a camera is and what it does. They just know themselve as a reflection from the water. When I sho

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Jhinku Banerjee India Nominee "INNOCENCE " Two boys playing under a monument inside Dhaka University in Bangladesh

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Jit Rakshit India Nominee "Labyrinth"

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Joan Caulfield New Zealand Nominee "I'm the Boss" These children were sitting on the front step of their home in Agra, India.

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John Alfano USA Nominee "Ladakhi lunch" children eating lunch near our camp in the Markha Valley

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Larisa Korzhenevskaya Russia Nominee "A childish view of this world ..." Flooded area of San Marco in September.

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Leba Marquez USA Nominee "Here I Am" New Mexico, USA

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Lisa Brockman USA Nominee "Belle" For Irish Travellers, the Ballinsloe Horse Fair is a time to dress in your best. Ballinasloe, Ireland

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Marcia Soloff USA Nominee "BOY RIDING STICK"

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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee "Running through the shadows" a little boy runs through a vast space inside the Oculus subway station in New York.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Me And My Girl"

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Michael Paramonti Germany Nominee "Little Army" Myanmar-Mandalay

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Michael Paramonti Germany Nominee "Angel" Myanmar

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Michael Gora USA Nominee "Bubble Boy" At the Circus

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Mithun Haldar India Nominee "Shadow Of Childhood" Children used to play under the tress which are getting lost

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Nominee "Around the corner" Two kids playing in the streets of Havana

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "GUM " KASHMIR KIDS ENJOYING GUM

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Prashanta Hridoy Bangladesh Nominee "Lost Childhood" A Rohingya child and his siblings have no energy left to move forward and along everyone they fell asleep in the water. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

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Rachel Choong M H Malaysia Nominee "Back to Nature" Technology has taken over the world, doesn't mean it has to take over children's childhood.Nature is a Kid’s best teacher.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Krishna" Pushkar, India

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Ron Cooper USA Nominee "Heavy Load"

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Rudolf Koenig Switzerland Nominee "young fisherman" single young fisherman on lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia

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Saud Al Faisal Bangladesh Nominee "Life with snakes " A snake charmer's kid is showing performance with a snake

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee "The reader"

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Simone Nagel Germany Nominee "Catch the bubbles" The girl stands in front of a canvas projected on the bubbles and tries to catch them.

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Stefan Maier Switzerland Nominee "Into the future" Taken in Nicaragua.

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Susan Blick New Zealand Nominee "Solemn" A novice monk in Ladakh locks eyes with me; tears well.

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Ted Lau Hong Kong Nominee "Cage Football" What football has to be in tight little Hong Kong.

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "His New Pig"

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee "Diving" My son is swimming in the direction of a coastal cave.

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Xhin Tok Sin Malaysia Nominee "Higher and higher" One day at the beach,Taiwan.

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Yuan Yu Huang Taiwan Nominee "Sad" I do not go home.I want to play with others.

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