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	        Alex Shoykhetbrod Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Hanging Around"  | 
  
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        Abhijit Dey India 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "the little fighters" co-incidentally the little village playmates are playing fight and same way the two little dogs also in playing mood.  | 
  
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	        Matej Peljhan Slovenia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus"  | 
  
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	        Vivek Chandrashekaran Netherlands Honorable Mention "Flamenco over tapas"  | 
  
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        Erik Richard Unger USA Honorable Mention "Oma: The Man with the Swan" A sculptor visiting Madrid, NM poses with his pet swan  | 
  
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	        silvio giuliani Italy Honorable Mention "BOY-Firenze"  | 
  
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        Andrei Pfeiffer Romania Honorable Mention "Desire"  | 
  
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        Chong Kok Yew Malaysia Honorable Mention "Kiss of the century"  | 
  
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        Andrea Nuvoloni Italy Nominee "DMZ People" A rainy trip to the DMZ in Vietnam. Walking through the local families shacks.  | 
  
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        Arvid Fimreite Norway Nominee "Global Warming" Glacier Nigardsbreen, Norway. A tourist undressed and started posing towards the glacier. I guess there was a message to the earth or rather the people of this earth.  | 
  
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        Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Old wheelbarrow" Tinitequilaq - Inuit children - Greenland 2011  | 
  
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	        Barbara  Krieger USA Nominee "Sydney Lane" DC Postal Museum  | 
  
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        Bertol Arrieta Spain Nominee "So small" Sometimes you can feel so lonely, so small in a big world  | 
  
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        Bill Allen UK Nominee "Oh I do like to be beside........." Oh I do like to be beside......... (you know the song)  | 
  
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        Bob Tetro USA Nominee "Nepal Mother and Daughter"  | 
  
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        brent washa USA Nominee "Opposite Attraction"  | 
  
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        Carolyn Hampton USA Nominee "Silent Prayer"  | 
  
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	        Christelle Teodoro France Nominee "Lunchtime (2)" Uruguay, 2011  | 
  
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	        Christine Wylie Australia Nominee "The Train"  | 
  
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        Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee "Gioco di bimbo"  | 
  
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        Claudio Allia Italy Nominee "Growing Up #5" Kid from the Mathare Valley slum (Nairobi).  | 
  
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	        Cole Hallarn Canada Nominee "Four Little Ladies" Studio work, taken in the spring of 2011.  | 
  
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	        Daniel  DeFraia USA Nominee "Afternoon Games"  | 
  
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        Daniele Pinti Italy Nominee "Polka dot & stripes" Old man walking through the shades on a bridge, Rome  | 
  
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        David Saxe USA Nominee "Hollywood Beach"  | 
  
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        David Jakelic Croatia Nominee "Nun" From the series Mediterranean Streets, Split, Croatia, 2011  | 
  
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        Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "Hometown Parade 2"  | 
  
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        Douglas Vernimmen UK Nominee "Old Couple"  | 
  
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        Ed Sancious USA Nominee "Modern Romance"  | 
  
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        Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Flying Into Oblivion"  | 
  
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        Federico  Giovannini Italy Nominee "A life together" Old women in the Roman's Ghetto  | 
  
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	        Gerald Fleury USA Nominee "Have / Have Not"  | 
  
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        Gigi Embrechts USA Nominee "Working Man" A Belgian farmer riding the plow behind his horses.  | 
  
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        Gloria Golden USA Nominee "In Awe" Looking through the display case, which housed the Terra Cotta Warrior, I snapped this photograph . . . trying to capture a special moment. I shot so quickly, not immediately aware of the connection between the boy and the gigantic figure. I realized this was a powerful image, as I observed the boy's emotional reaction in his upward gaze.  | 
  
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        Gloriann Liu USA Nominee "Girl from Balkh" Kabul, Afghanistan  | 
  
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        Hugh Jones USA Nominee "Woman with Burka Washington DC" Freedom to practice religion is what we defend  | 
  
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	        Ioannis Gousgounis Greece Nominee "small shop owner"  | 
  
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	        James Watkins USA Nominee "Man, woman, pigeon..." Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL  | 
  
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        Jan Malmstrom Sweden Nominee "A the water tap" A boy is collecting water from a tap inside the Medina, while other kids playing at the square. Essaouria, Morroco.  | 
  
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        Jean-Philippe POLI France Nominee "Sophisticated lady" New York City / May 2010  | 
  
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        Jishnu Changkakoti India Nominee "Blessings" A boy watches and waits for his turn to be blessed by the holy flame. Shot during Durga Puja, New Delhi, Sep 2011  | 
  
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        Jo Goede Germany Nominee "Modernes Antiquariat"  | 
  
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        John McGill USA Nominee "Consoling" Two mentally retarded adults consoling each other.  | 
  
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        John C  Saponara Jr USA Nominee "Just being Silly" Children on the island of Beqa, Fiji  | 
  
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        Jorgen Opsann Norway Nominee "Morning outside Taj Mahal" Taj Mahal,morning,fog,mood,camel,boy  | 
  
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        Josh Bornstein USA Nominee "Berlin--Big Brother is watching you" Lith print, made in traditional darkroom. Finished print scanned into digital format  | 
  
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        Joydeep Mukherjee India Nominee "Grandma " In a Village of West Bengal a Grand Ma is waiting with her Grand Child for other members of Home  | 
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	        Kelly Tringas Australia Nominee "Lets Start" One nipper thinking "Waiting is just not my thing"  | 
  
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        Kostas Maros Switzerland Nominee "Saleswoman" In the streets of New York  | 
  
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        Lida Chaulet Netherlands Nominee "Accelerando" Nun with guitar on bike in Lucca, Italy, 2009  | 
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	        Marjolein Martinot France Nominee "Ghostbusters"  | 
  
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        Mark  Smart UK Nominee "Lunchtime (1)" Pushkar, India  | 
  
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        Marti Belcher USA Nominee "At the Stove" Goan woman making breakfast for the family  | 
  
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        Martin Alpert USA Nominee "Victoria's Secret?" Has their future already been determined?  | 
  
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	        Matej Peljhan Slovenia Nominee "Merry Go Round"  | 
  
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        Michael Schmidt USA Nominee "Spit Shine" While on a recent trip to Avignon, France, I spotted this man who found someone else's old shoes in the street. He sat down and began giving these shoes a classic cleaning with a good old spit shine.  | 
  
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        Mishu Vass Romania Nominee "hide and seek"  | 
  
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        Monika Pietsch Poland Nominee "alone in Kyoto" Kyoto Station  | 
  
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        Nicolas Lotsos Greece Nominee "Super Hero" An athlete performs magic tricks with the ball while hanging in the air.  | 
  
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        Oliver Stegmann Switzerland Nominee "Dancing at the Juke Joint"  | 
  
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        Paolo Patruno Italy Nominee "Breastfeeding my twins" A young women HIV positive breastfeeding her twins  | 
  
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        Patricia Cunegundes Brazil Nominee "Faith (1)"  | 
  
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        Patrick  Heinscher Sweden Nominee "At the platform"  | 
  
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        Patrycja Jadach UK Nominee "Babysitter" Ecuador  | 
  
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        Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Tricycle Rider" The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt  | 
  
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	        Rebekah Lipp New Zealand Nominee "Running Race" Ready, set, GO! Kids running race on the front lawn.  | 
  
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	        Richard Plunk USA Nominee "Likeness" Paris, France  | 
  
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	        Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Santhal Village" West Bengal, India  | 
  
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	        Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Nun at the Vatican" Nun visiting the Vatican  | 
  
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        Robson Rogan Canada Nominee "Barnard's Express" Even the horse drawn "express" requires a little downtime in the heat of a summer's day. Hatcreek Ranch, British Columbia, Canada  | 
  
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	        Rodger Overholser USA Nominee "Isolation" Street Fair, Minneapolis  | 
  
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        Ronald van Beek Netherlands Nominee "The Break" Hazzardhous lunchbreak while labour is going on..  | 
  
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	        Sasson Haviv USA Nominee "The Wailing Wall" Early morning prayer at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem.  | 
  
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        Saud Al Faisal Bangladesh Nominee "Child of a Leather Worker" Leather factories are situated in the middle of Dhaka city, the capital of Bangaldesh. Leather workers are working in a very environmentally hazardous situation. Even their children play in this environment.  | 
  
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        Sebahat Ersoy Turkey Nominee "dialogue"  | 
  
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	        Sebastian Sifft Belgium Nominee "Woman on a Balcony"  | 
  
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        Sergio Muscat Malta Nominee "The Three Voyeurs" Others do it too, just without a camera.  | 
  
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	        Shaikh Jan Mohammad India Nominee "The Potter" The Potter who can make earthen pots according to your need.  | 
  
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	        Sophia  Shine UK Nominee "Untitled (2)"  | 
  
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	        STEFANO MACEO CARLONI Italy Nominee "Bologna night and day"  | 
  
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        Sushrutha Metikurke New Zealand Nominee "News at a Cafe"  | 
  
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        Tatsuo Suzuki Japan Nominee "Walkin'"  | 
  
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        Tatsuo Suzuki Japan Nominee "No Nukes" Protest demonstration against Fukushima nuclear power plant  | 
  
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        Ted Poweski USA Nominee "Contemplation"  | 
  
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        Terje Abusdal Norway Nominee "Courtship" Traditional Georgian folk dance in Tbilisi  | 
  
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        Theodore Van Pelt USA Nominee "A Plea for Purging" Lead singer for the band Plea for Purging, Chameleon Club Lancaster PA  | 
  
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	        Tom Szabadi USA Nominee "Barry" Halloween 2011  | 
  
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        Ulrike Lugert Germany Nominee "Fly" Dancer in Hamburg (habour), 2011  | 
  
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        Yasuteru Kasano Japan Nominee "A Girl 2" ZOETROPE -Japan-  | 
  
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        Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee "Smiling Face"  | 
  
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	        Yossi Manor USA Nominee "High Note" Concert pianist at play  | 
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