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Werner Branz Austria 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Professional "martha" |
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Andrew Farrington UK 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Professional "dylan" |
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Scott Barrow USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Professional "Artist, Maggie Mailer" Portrait of Maggie Mailer while working on a glycerin project. |
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Layzhoz Yeap Malaysia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "naive" Winning entry in both 2009 B&W Single Image Contest Awards and "Point of View", USA |
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Scott Goldsmith USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Bill Clinton" Bill Clinton waits behind the stage while Hillary Clinton makes a campaign speech. |
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Ameen Howrani USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Joe" Saw this gentleman in a similar pose at a bus stop, but I wanted it in my studio. It worked out, even though he was deaf. |
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Gregory Georges USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Homeless in San Diego" |
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Adrian Cook Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Rowland S Howard / Musician" |
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Ady Kerry UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Top Gun" Weapons Systems Operator Flt Lt Sarah Carmichael with her Tornado F3 fighter at Mount pleasant Complex, Falkland Islands. |
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Ahmed Bahhodh Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Houpette" La houpette |
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Alessandro Albert Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "giordano bruno guerri" giordano bruno guerri |
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Alessandro Albert Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "james ellroy" the writer james ellroy |
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Andrew Farrington UK Nominee Portrait Professional "ashley" |
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Andrzej Dragan UK Nominee Portrait Professional "David Lynch & Kura the chicken" |
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Arjun Mark India Nominee Portrait Professional "A native aboriginal tribe of South India" They are the orphans of Indian history, the forgotten faces of the land I’ve inherited. The mighty din of progress has left them unheard. This clan of natives, obliterated from the nation consciousness, on the verge of annihilation survives in distant crevasses of TamilNadu, South India. This is an attempt at chronicling the remnants of an ominous fate, a nightmare from which they may never wake. |
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Binh Trinh New Zealand Nominee Portrait Professional "Contemplation" |
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Carmen Spitznagel Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "journey of life" reflection |
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catherine hall USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Unemployed Coal Miner, Tasmania" |
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chao hsin lee Taiwan Nominee Portrait Professional "bride" |
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Chris Usher USA Nominee Portrait Professional "HOME SWEET HOME" In order to pay her bills with ever decreasing work, self-employed Jennifer Schansberg now lives in a 21ft trailer in a friends back yard in Alexandria, VA on May 20, 2009. (This image was shot on 8x10 paper negative) |
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Chrystie Sherman USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Rice Cutter" On the way home from the rice fields in early evening. Kottareddipalem, India 2008 |
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clarence Shelton USA Nominee Portrait Professional "James " profile |
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Daniel Gonzalez USA Nominee Portrait Professional "WILD CHILD" |
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David Sutherland UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Happy couple" |
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Dilip Bhatia India Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait 01" Society for the Education of Crippled |
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Ertugrul Kilic Suriname Nominee Portrait Professional "Wandelmars March Walker" Wandelmars March Walker |
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Eva Mueller USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Super Hero" Tim Dax with gladiator tattoo |
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Frederic Vanwalleghem Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "His father" |
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Gary Matoso USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Boy on Bike" Boy on bike suffering from congenital heart disease, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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Gary Matoso USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Boy in Plaid" Boy in plaid suffering from congenital heart disease, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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George Mayer Russia Nominee Portrait Professional "Anatoliy" Anatoliy |
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Henny Garfunkel USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Too Cool" |
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Jamie Kingham USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Grant with gun" |
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Jamie Johnson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Boudoir" |
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Jamie Johnson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Newborn" |
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John Hill USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Ritual Beauty" Karen Tribe Beauty in Northern Thailand |
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John Fulton USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Storyteller" Gullah Geechee storyteller. Preserving the oral tradions, hardships, and histories of post slavory generations of Aftrican Americans. |
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Jon Love Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Orphan boy, Tibet" |
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joSon USA Nominee Portrait Professional "young girl" |
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Karen Shell USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Three Generations" Dengfeng, China |
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Kurt Weston USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kill By Numbers" From "Hearts of a Silent Age" portraits of senior citizens Portrait of Stella Rush with one of her Machete’s from her extensive knife collection. |
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Larry Louie Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Tibetan Women on the Grasslands" This tibetan woman is reluctant to leave her nomadic home in the grasslands to move into settlements and towns built by the chinese government. |
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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Venerable Spy" The wrinkles won't hide you what you have within your eyes |
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Majid Saeedi UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Mental Health Problems Plague War Torn Afghanistan" A mental patient poses for a photograph in a sanitarium March 1, 2010 in Harbe, Afghanistan. Not only does Afghanistan hold the position of one of the worst health care situations in the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO) but it is also plagued with a hidden medical crisis of severe mental suffering resulting from decades of conflict and repression. It was reported by WHO that roughly five million Afghans suffer from various types of mental illness. |
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Max Hirshfeld USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Architect" |
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Michaelle Chapoteau USA Nominee Portrait Professional "ESTELLE" |
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Miguel Gomez USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Amphibia" London 2010 |
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Mike Tsang UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Reflections" Man of the Dinka tribe of South Sudan. A village elder who has long lost his sight, his eyes reflect back the world as clearly as mirrors. |
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mike narciso USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Peter G" |
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Monica Denevan USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Murmur, Burma 2009" |
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Nita and Wales Madden III USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Under the Neon Sun" |
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Nouvelle Vague USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Untitled" |
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Olaf Mueller Hong Kong Nominee Portrait Professional "Louis Koo" |
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olivier ribardiere France Nominee Portrait Professional "Blackshadows" |
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Oscar Lozoya USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Mother-in-Law" |
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Patrizia Burra Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Doubt" |
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Peter Adams Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Allan Dennington, Hunter" Allan Dennington, Hunter, Hill End, Australia |
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Peter Dazeley UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Beakman" |
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Ragne Sigmond Norway Nominee Portrait Professional "Kaela" Kaela wearing rubber bands |
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ran shapira USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Eli" |
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Renee Brazel Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "9yrs and tough" |
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Robert Piccoli Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Kemi" |
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Robert Piccoli Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Entertainer (2)" |
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Robert Leon Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Greek woman laughing" Greek woman laughing, Therassia Island, Santorini, Greece |
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Roos Hobe Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Amber " |
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Sergio Pessolano Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Dentist" Pakistan - A dentist in Peshawar |
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Taili Song Roth USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Clint Eastwood: On Shooting" Gunslinging actor and legendary director, Clint Eastwood, makes a single gesture that illustrates the two roles that made him famous. |
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Tapiwa Muronda USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Ashanti" |
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Thomas Vanden Driessche Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Shift" Kalaheera jharia india - june 2010 It is well know that the Inuits have ten or so different names to describe in a subtle way the shades of white. When you arrive in Jharia, you can't refrain of asking yourself if the inhabitants of the biggest mining region of India have a similar gift. Is it possible that these people have developed a particular vocabulary rendering all the subtle shades of black? One thing is sure: this colour is quiet valuable for them! In this region, they used the hindi word "Kalaheera", "the black diamond", when they speak of the coal. More than 100.000 live in Jaharia, a small town next to Dhanbad, the capital of the state of Jharkhand. As a result of bad mining habits since a century huge underground coal fires have spread in the region. It's the equivalent of a volcano that is growing under the city of Jharia. The imminence of a humanitarian crisis is there. The Indian government is well aware of the situation but it seems not ready to allocate enough funds to relocate the communities at risk. But in Jharia, they are not ready to leave without any guaranties. The huge majority of the population is working in the coal business (for the government, private companies or the local mafia). It's an hostile environment but at least they have a job and even for some of them housing facilities offered by their employer. In Jaharia, they are ready to die in a dark pit to give something to eat to their family, but not to be shot like a dog by the mafia. So when murders are on the increase, they explode with anger. Then the streets of Jharia and Dhanbad resonate of slogans and insults that strangely do not accuses the murderers but well the police and the local authorities that have abandoned the city to let it to its fate. |
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Tomer Jacobson Israel Nominee Portrait Professional "Marie Melnikova" Model: Marie Melnikova, Support:: Maxim Golvanov |
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verity smith USA Nominee Portrait Professional "jake and Nico" |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "kid" |
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woody walters USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Edna" Not that long ago. |
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