Portrait - Professional , 19th Spider Awards | Black & White Spider Photography Awards™

Boy Surminski

Netherlands

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Don't Bite Your Lip"
Don't Bite Your Lip

Sheldon Sabbatini

USA

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Beams"
Beams of Light - M - Portland, Or

James Sparshatt

UK

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Puro... alegria"
Cigar... happiness. Havana-icon Graciela in typically defiant mood

James Phillips

USA

Honorable Mention

"Asu No. 1"
Portrait of Asu of the Ye People.

Sonia Costa

Italy

Honorable Mention

"Clement"
Rue de La Paix, Paris

Donald Graham

USA

Honorable Mention

"Rastafarian Smoking A Joint, Jamaica"
Photo defended copyright law by winning infringement lawsuit vs. Richard Prince in 2024

Pierre Delaunay

France

Honorable Mention

"Gitane"
Portrait d'une gitane en argentique 6x6

Alison Jones

USA

Honorable Mention

"A woven basket as his throne"
An Ethiopian Karo Tribe teen, learning to project his story via poise and river-clay paint

Bart Boodts

Belgium

Honorable Mention

"Algarve"
Wonderful session with Olive in the streets of the Algarve in Portugal

Ed Lee

UK

Honorable Mention

"Beekeeper"
Ian the beekeeper keeps beehives in by garden.

Lawrence Schiller

USA

Honorable Mention

"Marilyn, 1962"
Marilyn Monroe during the filming of "Something's Got To Give" in May, 1962

Jerome Scullino

Canada

Honorable Mention

"The Gaze"

Richard Cannon

UK

Honorable Mention

"D Day Veteran George Chandler"
George is 99, was a gunner on a torpedo boat. the background image was taken from the bridge on DDay

Brian Cassey

Australia

Honorable Mention

"George at the Bus Stop - Dr George Skeene OAM"
When passing a bus stop I made a few frames .Learnt my subject was reverred Aboriginal leader Dr George Skeene OAM

Pete Saloutos

USA

Honorable Mention

"Brianna & Film"
Retro Portait

Fabrizia Costa

UK

Honorable Mention

"Looking for trouble"
Street Portrait in Genova, Italy

Sheldon Sabbatini

USA

Honorable Mention

"Delly Yelly"
Delwin - Portland, Or

Mark Harrison

UK

Honorable Mention

"Gilbert & George"
The life is their Art, which they make by watching & commenting on us all.

Donald Graham

USA

Honorable Mention

"Robert Mirabal, Taos, New Mexico"
Exhibited for six months in 2024 at The Harwood Museum, New Mexico

Aaron Jean

Spain

Nominee

"She Is Art"
There is a fine line between self sensure and self love.

Ale Ruaro

Brazil

Nominee

"Anonymous"
anonymous, portrait, aleruaro, Ruaro, portrait, tattoo, retrato, black&white, p&b

Alison Jones

USA

Nominee

"A Karo elder at ancient tribal dance"
These river-clay designs and a local ostrich feather indicate status and often enemies slain

Anand Sharan

India

Nominee

"Lo Lo"
A happy Lo LO tribe woman

Andrew Bowen

USA

Nominee

"Taking the High Road"
We are often told to be other than who we are, but art exists in telling your own story.

Andrew Bowen

USA

Nominee

"Finding Balance in an Out-of-Balance World"
There are so many aspects of our lives and careers that constantly strive to disrupt our balance.

Avarino Caraco

Italy

Nominee

" The sacred gaze"
In Burma, meeting an old monk is like reading through time

Brian Cassey

Australia

Nominee

"Last Image of Alf at 100"
Alf Neal OAM - the architect of the 1967 Australian referendum that recognised Aboriginals - shortly before his death at 100.

Caesar Lima

USA

Nominee

"Muhammad"
Portrait of a Cairenes

Caesar Lima

USA

Nominee

"Habib"
making friends in Cairo

Camilla Broadbent

UK

Nominee

"'Your Country Needs…'"

Cees Rijnen

Netherlands

Nominee

"Happy"
happy look

Christian Herbert Hildebrand

Switzerland

Nominee

"Soul Legend Marla Glen"
Soul Legend Marla Glen backstage

Clark James Mishler

USA

Nominee

"Young Couple, San Francisco"
Woman with Tattooed Man, San Francisco

Deanne Fitzmaurice

USA

Nominee

"A Portrait of Cuba"
Jose Soutuyo Lan, a tobacco farmer, smokes one of his hand-rolled cigars in tobacco country in Cuba.

Denis Grudet

France

Nominee

"The child and his dad"
bayahibe dominican republic

Denis Grudet

France

Nominee

"Cabinetmaker"
France

Donald Graham

USA

Nominee

"Nestora, Queens, New York"
Featured in award winning book "One Of A Kind" by Donald Graham

Donald Graham

USA

Nominee

"Rastafarian Farmer, Jamaica"
Featured in award winning book "One Of A Kind" by Donald Graham

Duschan Tomic

Italy

Nominee

"The Reflection Of Youth"
Medieval vs. contemporary, the future belongs to the youth of today.

Ed Lee

UK

Nominee

"Del Bromham, Rock & Roll Survivor"
Del Bromham is still writing and performing after more than fifty years in Rock & Roll

Ed Lee

UK

Nominee

"Ollie and Emma"
Ollie and Emma are surfers and members of the North Norfolk Surf Lifesaving Club.

Elizabeth Holmes

USA

Nominee

"Behind the Screen"
Woman seen behind screen

Evelien Sikkema

Netherlands

Nominee

"Cowboy"
Still a Cowboy

Federico Janni

USA

Nominee

"LA Originals"
In LA with some locals

Gabor Gasztonyi

Canada

Nominee

"Pregnant Couple"

Geoff Green

USA

Nominee

"The Family Portrait"
Reese, Rusty and their people, a family portrait. Large format film, 4x5

Guy Schotte

Belgium

Nominee

"Prestige"

H. Allen Benowitz

USA

Nominee

"Fruit Merchant"
Jerusalem Fruit Vendor, Jewish Quarter, Israel

Henriette van Gasteren

Netherlands

Nominee

"Cornucopia (Selfportrait)"
Cornucopia (Selfportrait)

Henry Fernando

Canada

Nominee

"Maori Man"
Photo of a Maori Man was taken in Taupo, New Zealand

Hilda Champion

USA

Nominee

"Face(t)s U."
So many stories to tell, so many ways and angles to see a person.

James Phillips

USA

Nominee

"Michael No. 5"
Portrait of the artist, revealing his profound sense of inner peace and road-weary wisdom.

Janice Morse

USA

Nominee

"My First Love"
Beautifully anticipating mother and child

Jano Stovka

Slovak Republic

Nominee

"Bathory"

Jeff Schewe

USA

Nominee

"Portrait 1"
Duane Michals, Do Not Touch The Artist

Jeremy Hudson

Australia

Nominee

"Smile"
Port Moresby PNG

Jerome Scullino

Canada

Nominee

"Little Girl"

Jessica Davis

USA

Nominee

"Maasai Warrior"
A Maasai Warrior in front of Kilimanjaro. Kenya

Jiri Sneider

Czech Republic

Nominee

"My skin is so beautiful"
Sneider-Jiri-Myskinissobeautiful.jpg

Joao de Castro

Portugal

Nominee

"Relief"

John Castillo

USA

Nominee

"Moroccan Man"
From the movie Slave Of Dreams

John Siskin

USA

Nominee

"Mindy K. #14"

Laura Jean Zito

Ireland

Nominee

"Ahmed"
I only saw Ahmed once, when he stayed in Nueba Tarrabin for a month. He disappeared back to the mountains and I never saw him again.

Lawrence Schiller

USA

Nominee

"James Earl Jones - Barcelona"
James Earl Jones posing with his hands around his neck during the filming of "The Great White Hope."

Lena Lee

Sweden

Nominee

"Combat Photographer"
Combat Photographer

Lena Lee

Sweden

Nominee

"Shoemacher family"
Shoemacher family

Lena Lee

Sweden

Nominee

"Finally a father"
Finally a father

Lisa Means

USA

Nominee

"True Cowboy"

Lisa Powers

New Zealand

Nominee

"DaDa Portrait of Damien Taylor"
Damien was one of the first people I photographed when I relocated to New Zealand from New York.