Nude - Professional

NYX Jeff Wack
USA

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"NYX"
Nyx, Goddess of the Night



Torsi 2 Klaus Kampert
Germany

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Torsi 2"



Merman Jeff Palmer
USA

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Merman"



Autumn in the City Ruslan Lobanov
Ukraine

Honorable Mention

"Autumn in the City"
Kiev. september 2011, from the project "the city"



Speakeasy Beauty Claire Mallett
USA

Honorable Mention

"Speakeasy Beauty"
Beauty is timeless...



Nude 2 Terrell Neasley
USA

Honorable Mention

"Nude 2"



Dfg Binh Trinh
New Zealand

Honorable Mention

"Dfg"
dfg



Bridgewerks Jim Fredlund
USA

Honorable Mention

"Bridgewerks"
Shot on a steel bridge constructed in 1931



Creationists Aaron Feinberg
USA

Nominee

"Creationists"
Inspriation drawn from Michelangelo. Took many takes to finally get the poses correct.



Tree of Life Adri Berger
Laos

Nominee

"Tree of Life"



Pulchritudo Adri Berger
Laos

Nominee

"Pulchritudo"



Body Works 1 amir weinberg
Israel

Nominee

"Body Works 1"
amir is an art photographer & photojournalist.Video Artist & Documentary ailm maker. Amir is doing art since his childhood. In his 20's and actually untill now Amir has worked as a press & documentary photographer for leading newspapers in Israel and abroad such as "Yediot Aharonot", "Time magazine", "Stern magazine", "Paris match" and for leading photo agencies such as "Reuters", "AFP" and "sigma". As well as documentary videos & video art. In the last 15 years he put his effort in fine art photography. His main subjects are- the human body, nature, abstract, movement & materials.''for me photography is total freedom and powerful scientific toll by trying to ask and understand ''what's life is all about''. as well as great admiration to nature in all it"s forms and shapes including us poeple, for better for worst" . Amirs works exhibited in galleries & museums around the world.



Broken Hearted Andrew John Sherriff
UK

Nominee

"Broken Hearted"



Pair Ann Elliott Cutting
USA

Nominee

"Pair"
Two woman vintage style nude



Vegetable set #1 Azat Gainutdinov
Russia

Nominee

"Vegetable set #1"
Associations



Vegetable set #2 Azat Gainutdinov
Russia

Nominee

"Vegetable set #2"
Associations



Atlas Barend Houtsmuller
Netherlands

Nominee

"Atlas"
Angela levitates at Chateau Nederhemert, NL (Hasselblad H3D)



Smoke Barend Houtsmuller
Netherlands

Nominee

"Smoke"
Sasja with cigar and whisky at Café Central, Gouda, NL



Angela and Shawl Barend Houtsmuller
Netherlands

Nominee

"Angela and Shawl"
Angela moves her shawl in the wind at Chateau Nederhemert, NL (Hasselblad H3D)



Cow Skull Bently Quast
Canada

Nominee

"Cow Skull"



At the Gates Billy Monday
USA

Nominee

"At the Gates"



5 Bums Binh Trinh
New Zealand

Nominee

"5 Bums"



Emerge Binh Trinh
New Zealand

Nominee

"Emerge"



Black Pearl Brigitte Kroone
Netherlands

Nominee

"Black Pearl"
Hilversum,Holland



The Haunting Charles Dufour
USA

Nominee

"The Haunting"



Jen & Nat, Lipstick Christopher Lee Donovan
USA

Nominee

"Jen & Nat, Lipstick"



Shell Dave Hunt
UK

Nominee

"Shell"
Natural modesty



Bridge David Alley
USA

Nominee

"Bridge"



Nude on Barrell David Zadig
Norway

Nominee

"Nude on Barrell"
Part of a series shot with Carte Blanche the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance with idea of taking the dance out of the theater and, instead making Norway the stage. This image of dancer Mate Mezaros shot on the wild landscape of coastal Sotra near Bergen.



Jodi Dennis Mecham
USA

Nominee

"Jodi"



Time to Lose and Time to Seek Dina Bova
Israel

Nominee

"Time to Lose and Time to Seek"
Inspired by Bible stories from Ecclesiastes books. "A time to seek and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away"



Film Noir Light Through Door edward olive
Spain

Nominee

"Film Noir Light Through Door"
Scan of hand made silver gelatin print Ilford MG IV from 120 medium format black and white film from Hasselblad V series. Bowens Gemini Pro strobes. Shot in 2011 in Madrid Spain.



Pastel Edward Gajdel
Canada

Nominee

"Pastel"
Figure studies with a jaw bone from a blue whale.



Air Geometry Elena and Vitaliy Vasilievy
Ukraine

Nominee

"Air Geometry "
photo by Vitaliy & Elena Vasilieva



Allegory Elena and Vitaliy Vasilievy
Ukraine

Nominee

"Allegory "
Vitaliy and Elena Vasilieva



Bed Time Stories 4 Gabi Mardare
Romania

Nominee

"Bed Time Stories 4"
Bed.Time.Stories.4



Squashed Gary Breckheimer
USA

Nominee

"Squashed"
Photographed in the streets London



Lovers Gary Cloud
USA

Nominee

"Lovers"



Chimera Giordano Cipriani
Italy

Nominee

"Chimera"
Underwater body trans



Joanna 2 Jacek Jedrzejczak
Poland

Nominee

"Joanna 2"
Mature bodies conscious, calm. Telling face, look. Record of a lifetime on the skin - wrinkles, scars, marks, spots. Grey hair, blue veins visible under the skin, changed hands... Passing time is a topic which may be presented through the body in the most spectacular, fullest, one of a kind way. How can you actually do it differently?! (...)



Maria Emerging From Tree Jason Homa
USA

Nominee

"Maria Emerging From Tree"
The Forests of California are a place i gravitate to when i want to get out of NYC and connect with the natural world in a meaningful way. "Maria Emerging From Tree" conveys the feeling of renewing my spirit when i'm there.



Nude In Attic Jim Tetro
USA

Nominee

"Nude In Attic"
Nude In Attic



Phantom Joanna Kustra
Spain

Nominee

"Phantom"
Phantom of the Opera



Hourglass Josh Blumental
USA

Nominee

"Hourglass"



Image#5887 Joy Goldkind
USA

Nominee

"Image#5887"
From the Distortion Series



Doubles #5 Kevin Necessary
USA

Nominee

"Doubles #5"
4 bending



Torsi 1 Klaus Kampert
Germany

Nominee

"Torsi 1"



DalmaTina Kristian Liebrand
Germany

Nominee

"DalmaTina"
black and white bodypainting



Python Ani-human 366 Lennette Newell
USA

Nominee

"Python Ani-human 366"
ani-human series of live python snake and body painted human python



Underwater 3 Lubo Spirko
Slovak Republic

Nominee

"Underwater 3"
from the project UnderEmotion - Underwater and dancers



Twisted Stream Mayumi Yoshimaru
USA

Nominee

"Twisted Stream"



Black Sand Nude Mike Brown
Ireland

Nominee

"Black Sand Nude"



Stacy with Octopus Nathan Small
UK

Nominee

"Stacy with Octopus"



Limits of Representation neil craver
USA

Nominee

"Limits of Representation"
OmniPhantasmic* ------------------------------------------ *Omni-             1. A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent; omnivorous.  *Phantasmic-          1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma. 2. An illusory mental image. 3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. This project is meant to be consumed with your emotions, and not simply perceived with your sense organs. I wanted a transcendental meaning behind them; not only with the use of chromatics and aesthetics. But with my intended focus be on the philosophical theories, I wanted a “subliminal composition” to create an under tow of messages to stress the strong influences of unconscious elements affecting and driving people's lives. And with the creation of a strong undercurrent of incommunicable thoughts, would be the stage for illuminating the subconscious intellect into a perception; not deception. The visual aesthetics are purely symbolic in their thought application and structure; with decomposing forests of broken memory connections, and tumbling of vertigo into the correct positions of phenomenal reality. The shallowness of the area above the horizon line indicates the division of the limited amount of information consciously perceivable (atmosphere-above) and the larger mass storage of all the sense information, rationalizations,and prejudices of the subconscious below (hydrosphere-below). The nexus of contingents between drowning and floating, falling and flying, dying and living are some of the main unphysical-intangible themes in this series. A dominant temporal element of composition would be the use of the female form. I used the intrinsic values of this object to exploit and illustrate the submerged network of the unconscious condemnation and restriction of the nude form in popular society. With this formation of energies being repressed in the subconscious state, one's behavior could start to dissolve the foundation of the self. With no outlets for expression, one could only predict the unconscious wishes could turn into anxiety and transform into synthetic states; such as phobias,aggression, and other maladjusted personality disorders. What you can perceive and process is an extremely finite portion of what you receive from the physical environment. And to truly grasp the vexing questions of your inner facilities, you must open yourself to a flood of unrestricted information. So one must dive into the cloudy placid waters of the subconscious world to uncover a linkage between the conscious and the subconscious mind. Once the excavation is started; the illumination of the self imposed restrains of values, ideas, and moral codes will dissolve. When the subconscious floods pass society’s imprisonment; starting a process of uncontaminated awareness; a penetrating understanding will unfold!



IV-3 Nicolo Sertorio
USA

Nominee

"IV-3"
From the series 'Explorations'



Ballerina Nyk Sykes
Australia

Nominee

"Ballerina"
A portrait of Loarna Okan. A graduate of the Australian Ballet School. Shot at the studios of the Sydney Dance Company



Untitled Pagratis Pagratidis
Greece

Nominee

"Untitled"



Hidden Hurt Patrick Ryan
South Africa

Nominee

"Hidden Hurt"
the visual portrayal of the hidden emotional turmoil and hurt we accumulate in life



Megan Arch Paul Swen
USA

Nominee

"Megan Arch"



Erinyen 3 Peter Day
Netherlands

Nominee

"Erinyen 3"



Presence Ric Frazier
USA

Nominee

"Presence"
Live in the now and experience your environment.



untitled #07 Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich
Brazil

Nominee

"untitled #07"



Cabizbaja Yuri Benitez
Mexico

Nominee

"Cabizbaja"
intimate emotional moment



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