People - Professional

Paul Wager Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Adversity" There are few opportunities for children from the mountain areas of Laos.

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Jack Picone Thailand 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Brothers" The Amish: A cold winters morning in Upper State NY and young Amish brothers fall perfectly in line on their walk home.

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Alvaro Villela Brazil 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Europe" Germany 2009

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Eric Loh Yong Kim Singapore Honorable Mention "Kids dived off the jetty"

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Dirk Rees UK Honorable Mention "Himba"

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Nate Gowdy USA Honorable Mention "The Go-Go Dancer" A woman marvels at a go-go boy at a Seattle club in February 2011.

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Leslie Alsheimer USA Honorable Mention "Peekers at Bofina Pub, Kybira Village, Uganda" Orphan children view a movie through shak slats of the pub. Often sent home from school for not having shoes, 80% of the 67 million children out of school live in rural areas, the majority are girls.

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Nate Gowdy USA Honorable Mention "Elderly Drag Queen" Jack-e Edwards, visiting from Reno, NV, gives Mike Dumoulin a look at an annual drag celebration at the Renaissance Ballroom in Seattle in February 2011.

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Dina Bova Israel Honorable Mention "At Home Among Strangers" Allegorical portrait depicting not only a single person, but the whole layer of Russian intellectuals.

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Alan Skyrme Brazil Nominee "Tango"

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Anand Sharan India Nominee "Naga Sadhu at Maha Khumb Mela" Indian Holy men at the Khumb Mela. It is the worlds largest religious gathering, which was attended by 80 million people on 14th Feb 2013 in Allahabad .INDIA.

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andrea de franciscis Italy Nominee "Sangam" The ascetic sect of the Naga Sadhus during the ritual bath of purification at the Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers

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Andreas Heumann Germany Nominee "Runaway Child" Seen as I was approaching this Restaurant in Colmar a loud mothers voice and a running baby

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Andreas Heumann Germany Nominee "With Monet" Seen at the Beyeler Foundation

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angelo cirrincione Italy Nominee "Life is funny" New York 2012

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Cuban Guitar Hand" An old Cuban man's hand, with cigar, playing his guitar in Havana.

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Bruce Byers USA Nominee "Camel Boy" Camel boy in Dehli

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Carlos Cazalis Mexico Nominee "Enamored" Three hearts line the suit of Spanish matador Jose Tomas during his triumphant return campaign. Burgos, Spain, 2007

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee "Porter" Port worker in Myanmar

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee "hardworking" working hard the last piece

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Cormorant fishing, China" The ancient art of Cormorant fishing on the Li River, China. The trained cormorants catch the fish which are attracted to the lamp and bring them to the fisherman.

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Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Eskimo dreaming" An Inupiaq Eskimo woman gazes out over the frozen Bering Sea, Alaska.

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Christine Rauschmeier Switzerland Nominee "The Child, the Man, the Wings" Burma

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Christine Rauschmeier Switzerland Nominee "Fisherman" Burma

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Christopher Lee Donovan USA Nominee "Jen & Bride, Newbury St II" Bride (on bed) is a Boston burlesque troop leader who is visiting Jen as she prepares to become homeless and work as a traveling art model.

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "Crab fisherman " A crab fisherman walks his net down the beach; Bahia, Brazil

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "Boy in the ladder" A young Mayan boy climbs a ladder out of a sacred cenote, Yucatan

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Cristina Mittermeier Canada Nominee "Madagascar fishermen" 2 Malagasy fishermen collect the meager results of their efforts; Morondava, Madagascar

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DAEWOONG KIM UK Nominee "Alienated Eye in the Urban Labyrinth" Alienated Eye in the Urban Labyrinth, Elephant & CASTLE SHOPPING CENTRE UK, 2011

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Darcy Brown UK Nominee "Old Friends"

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Darragh Hehir Italy Nominee "View over Ortisei" Appreciating the Alpine panorama while awaiting the cable car.

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David Saxe USA Nominee "Boy + Bird"

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David Stubbs USA Nominee "Destination Unknown" Wilhelmsdorf, Germany

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Derek Godridge UK Nominee "London 2012"

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Derek Seaward UK Nominee "Steve" Graffiti

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Dilip Bhatia India Nominee "Day In the Park 2"

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Dingyang Yee Singapore Nominee "Life on Burmese Train" One of the cheapest mode of transport in Yangon for locals to travel around.

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Duncan de Fey Netherlands Nominee "bus"

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Edgard De Bono Italy Nominee "Coal Slaves " A woman moves a heavy basket full of coal. Illegal mining of coal is a serious phenomenon that particularly affects the state of Jharkhand in India.

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Edoardo Agresti Italy Nominee "Mine salt" Working in a mine salt. Salt is one of the most important activities close to the coast in the south of Mozambique

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Edward Yanowitz USA Nominee "Demolition Lady" New York, N.Y

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Edward Yanowitz USA Nominee "Skyrider" Santa Cruz, California

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Elena Isenegger Russia Nominee "fellows"

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Eloisa Callender USA Nominee "Novice Monk and Dog" Novice monk having his hair shaved for the first time. The dog, looking woried, sat by his side until it was all over.

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Eugeni Pons Pau Spain Nominee "Reflections" Shadow and light capture that woman's thoughts

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Fausto Podavini Italy Nominee "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" Ethiopia. Omo Valley

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Francesco Zanet Italy Nominee "Fireman" Earthquake and the fireman - Emilia Romagna Italy

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Francesco Carella France Nominee "Black an White" Religious sister in the streets of Vicenza

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Francine Filsinger USA Nominee "Before The Return" "Before the Return" is part of an eight image series funded through a Grant from the Women's Museum of California for a solo exhibition during Women's History Month 2013. The series, "Aftermath"...

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Frederic Courbet Kenya Nominee "Natron 1" Maasai Warrior on Lake Natron, Kenya

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Frederic Courbet Kenya Nominee "Natron 2" Maasai Warrior on Lake Natron, Kenya

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Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee "SUNDAY POSITANO...WHY NOT!"

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Garth Oriander Oriander Australia Nominee "Sorrento" a day at the beach

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Gary Latham UK Nominee "Cambodia" Swimmers-Angkor-Cambodia

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Geo Oplaat Netherlands Nominee "Girl"

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Geo Oplaat Netherlands Nominee "Bubbles#1"

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Gianluca De Bartolo Italy Nominee "Traces of a new journey" New Delhi rail station-India

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Gianluca De Bartolo Italy Nominee "A look inside Bangladesh slums" Daily moment in a slum of Mongla, Bangladesh

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Gill Shaw, Abipp Ampa UK Nominee "Having Fun" It does not matter where I go in the world, children just want to be children and have fun

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Girish Menon India Nominee "The Bass Violinist " Dam Square in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Girish Menon India Nominee "Summer Time" Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Girish Menon India Nominee "Tightrope" India.

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Girish Menon India Nominee "Girl on a tightrope." India.

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Gregg Newton USA Nominee "Yawalapiti indians" Yawalapiti indians play ceremonial 'Urua' flutes at their Amazonian village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil.

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Gustav Willeit Italy Nominee "Smoking India"

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Hal Kaye USA Nominee "Jam Session, Jamaica, W.I. - 1967"

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Chimney Rock Vista" Hiker sits on top of Chimney Rock, located in Catoctin Park outside of Frederick Maryland, admiring the view on a mid-Fall afternoon.

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Herve Haddad France Nominee "India 3"

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Herve Haddad France Nominee "India 4"

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Herve Haddad France Nominee "India 8"

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Herve Haddad France Nominee "India 9"

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Igor Chirikov Russia Nominee "Fresh beer" A man in a wheelchair at the beer festival in Bruges.

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Ilja C. Hendel Norway Nominee "Two faces" A girl and a gorilla meets in a reflection. Germany, Munich.

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Ingetje Tadros Australia Nominee "Bless in the desert" A man admiring a dumped religious statue from a previous Festival, in the White Runn Desert, Gujarat,India 2012

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Jacek Piotr Pulawski Switzerland Nominee "Noel" Noel, a totally impaired man, during his daily bath at a hospital. Switzerland.

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Jacek Piotr Pulawski Switzerland Nominee "Project Brockenhaus" Portrait of the theatre company "Project Brockenhaus", Lugano Switzerland

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Jaime Travezan UK Nominee "Humanitarian daily ration" Refugee camp during the Kosovo War 1999

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James Hughes UK Nominee "Saddle man" Istanbul saddle man who carries goods on his back on a saddle

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javier solis Colombia Nominee "Retratos de Carnaval 4" Carnaval de Negros y Blancos en Ipiales - Nariño - Colombia

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javier solis Colombia Nominee "Retratos de Carnaval 3" Carnaval de Negros y Blancos en Ipiales - Nariño - Colombia

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javier solis Colombia Nominee "El Barbero de mi Padre I" Barberia Bastidas - Ipiales - Nariño - Colombia

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Jeff Widener USA Nominee "Chips" A policeman chomps down some french fries at a Honolulu, Hawaii carnival.

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Jenet Stewart Australia Nominee "Smoko Time" Here we are in NSW shearing sheep as big as whales!

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Joanne Scherf USA Nominee "Patriot" A pedestrian glance at the American vernacular of the patriot.

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Joel Ventura Spain Nominee "BlackInYork. Harlem, NYC" Two young hairdressers siting in front of a laundry in Harlem. NyC

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Joel Ventura Spain Nominee "America needs a push." Coney Istand, during the week. NewYork

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Jonathan Banks UK Nominee "Shop keeper in Armenia"

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Jose Fangueiro Switzerland Nominee "morning light" Portugal

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Julie Wajs Australia Nominee "Rene & Jules"

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Julie Ewing Australia Nominee "Many tales to tell" This old Vietnamese lady in a fishing village would have many stories, if only we spoke the same language.

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Julie Ewing Australia Nominee "You buy from Me" Taken through the car window in light rain, the Black Hmong tribe ladies wait to sell shoes to passers by. Had we of stopped, they would have asked....

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Julie Ewing Australia Nominee "Love" Passion, joy....unending LOVE.......parenthood.

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Justyna Zdunczyk Poland Nominee "view..."

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K M Asad Bangladesh Nominee "Slum children" Slum children stands in front of the tannery wastes at Hazaribagh in Dhaka. Luxury leather goods sold across the world are produced in a slum area of Bangladesh's capital where workers, including chi

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Ken Loyst USA Nominee "World's Best" Locals enjoy morning coffee and reading at a neighborhood cafe in the French Quarter, New Orleans.

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Ken Loyst USA Nominee "Jazz Scene" Jazz fans collect outside Maison Bourbon, waiting for a seat, Bourbon Street, new Orleans.

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Kentaro Sekine Japan Nominee "Life" Life in up hill small village in Northern Laos

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Krishna Iyer India Nominee "Shutters #Xerox Twins" This image is part of my Shutters series. Project Shutters is a photo journal of the dying shutter art in India.

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Krishna Iyer India Nominee "Love / Hate"

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Ksenia Yurkova Russia Nominee "no title" japan 2012

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Lars Nyman Sweden Nominee "Guca-festival2, Serbia."

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Lars Nyman Sweden Nominee "crossfit-gym, Stockholm"

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Laura Jean Zito Ireland Nominee "HITCHING TO MARS" Crossing the George Washington Bridge one Halloween....

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Laura Jean Zito Ireland Nominee "TAKE A CHANCE" A Man encourages use of the roulette wheel to increase one's fortune at the Dingle races in Ireland

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Lee Craker Thailand Nominee "Making Rice" Swai, a rural Thai farmer separates the rice from the stalk by hand, in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand.

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Lee Craker Thailand Nominee "Rice Harvest" Sri, a rural Thai woman harvests rice that will sustain her family in the coming year.

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Leslie Alsheimer USA Nominee "Girls Laughing" Following malaria, HIV/AIDS pandemics & decades of brutality at the hands of JosephKony & the LRA, survivors live on embracing life & rejoicing not because of their circumstances, but in...

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Liyun Yu USA Nominee "Parenting 101" The excellence of parents are being challenged all the time, as well as babies. USA

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Liyun Yu USA Nominee "Best Friends" A dog is playing with his best friend in the lagoon beach in Tahiti.

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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Nominee "Stonetown School Girls, Zanzibar" School girls wearing their school uniform Burkas

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Nominee "Carriage Horse"

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Mark Westerby UK Nominee "River_Football"

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Matt Lit USA Nominee "Leadville Cowboy" John and "Red" make their way down a Leadville, Colorado alley.

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Matt Lit USA Nominee "Revere Beach, Massachusetts" Boyhood Friends at Revere Beach, Massachusetts

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Matt Lit USA Nominee "Wedding Memories" A father and daughter dance with a projection of their earlier memories.

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mauricio gonzalez Colombia Nominee "Wasn't Me" YoYo came from Cuba more than 30 years ago as a bongo player in Bogota's salsa circle, with time the streets and drugs took him captive, nonetheless, he's still an ARTIST!

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Maxine Olson Olson USA Nominee "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" Taken at Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, Ca.

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Mervyn Dublin Malaysia Nominee "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" Shot this while doing street photography in George Town Penang. I just love the expression on the man's face looking at the old lady.

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Mervyn Dublin Malaysia Nominee "Prayers (2)" Shot was taken at Petaling Street Temple located in Malaysia

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Michael Hart USA Nominee "Cowboy Hats" Cowboys With Cowboy Hats at Cattle Auction

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Mikael Pilstrand Sweden Nominee "Jack" Late night pee in the last light of Swedish summer

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Mircea Preda Struteanu Romania Nominee "Hands up!" A young boy, the only son of a nomad family from the Mongolian Gobi Desert, plays with a large tube, as if letting you know about his ancestor's fame, his warrior's roots and his quest for conquer.

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Mohammad Rakibul Hasan Bangladesh Nominee "Spirit of Youth " Taken at Dhaka, Bangladesh / 2012

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Morne De Klerk Australia Nominee "Middle School" A school courtyard. June 2012, Northern Cape, South Africa

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Murat Pulat Turkey Nominee "Tea Seller" The tea seller in a snowy day in Arasta Bazaar Istanbul

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Murat Pulat Turkey Nominee "The waiter" The waiter is cleaning windows under Galata Bridge, Istanbul

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Nunzia Borrelli Italy Nominee "happy feet"

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Paolo Patruno Italy Nominee "Gentle touch" Bling girl reading her braille school book

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Paolo Patruno Italy Nominee "My new born" Christine, 20 years old, facing her first child few months old. DRC 2012

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Paul Bride Canada Nominee "The Hunter" The flight home

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Paul Foley Australia Nominee "Friends (2)" Photographed in Western Sydney, Australia, as part of commission by a local council that included interviews seeking opinions on improving facilities for children and teens

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Phyllis Burchett USA Nominee "Ridin and Ropin" Cowboy on Working Ranch near Big Timber, Montana

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Piotr Krysiak Poland Nominee "The child from Cuba"

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Rakesh Sahai India Nominee "MY BOAT"

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Rakesh Sahai India Nominee "OWNER"

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Richard BRADBURY UK Nominee "Cecilie Skog, Polar Explorer" Cecilie Skog is a Norwegian born polar explorer and mountaineer. She is strong, beautiful and very funny.

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Roberta Vivoli Spain Nominee "Viktor & Rolf during the show Pitti Uo" roberta vivoli © 2007 Viktor & Rolf during the show Pitti Uomo —

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Ronnie ginnever Ginnever USA Nominee "St. Anthony's Street Fair" Mademoiselle Lulu

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Sandra Mu New Zealand Nominee "Pe'a" Clyde Cowley displays his pe'a, a traditional Samoan tattoo during a photoshoot on September 26, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. The pe'a covers the body from waist to the rectum and then to the knee

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Serdar Sunny Unal USA Nominee "Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico"

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Sergio Pessolano Italy Nominee "American Dream" Burkina Faso

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Simon Williams UK Nominee "Off to market" Dar Es Salaam trader heads to market

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Simon Williams UK Nominee "Dar Es Salaam Side Street" Woman haggling for bananas

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sohel ahmed India Nominee "get together" naga tribal people are spending time together in side a hut during cold month of december,India

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sohel ahmed India Nominee "hunters" highlanders of nagaland,bassically they are hunters,India

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Steven Edson USA Nominee "Family Eating Casual Dining 1973" Family Eating Casual Dining 1973

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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee "Paddlers"

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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee "Peanut seller"

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Sue Foll UK Nominee "Ray and Heshe" Eurasian eagle owl and custodian, Ray, Cheshire, England

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Tertius Pickard Australia Nominee "Italian paparazzi" Sophia Loren arrives at the Taormina film festival

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Tim Buchman USA Nominee "Piazza della Signoria"

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Torbjorn Mohlin Sweden Nominee "Mohlin Torbjorn - Akrobat"

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Vo Anh Kiet Vietnam Nominee "Lighting The Way Home" Picture taken on Feb-2012 at Ha Giang - Vietnam. Daily this old lady must carry her granddaughter going to the field. In the evening she used hays on fire to light their way home

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Vo Anh Kiet Vietnam Nominee "My Balloon" Hmong children enjoying their balloons in Moc Chau, Son La - Vietnam on Feb 2012

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Vo Anh Kiet Vietnam Nominee "Against The Wind" Two young ladies crossing the sand dunes on the way return home in Mui Ne - Vietnam.

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Wagner Assis Brazil Nominee "Symbolism" The religious symbolism of Muslim women and their burqas, and symbolismo magical fascination caused by the Eiffel Tower.

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Werner Anderson Norway Nominee "isrlvsplstn" Fighting over their roots

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