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Girl

Claire Birks

New Zealand

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Girl"



Girl With Red Hair

Herman Nicholson

UK

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Girl With Red Hair"



Bistro Fada

Wagner Assis

Brazil

3rd Place - Honor of Distinction

"Bistro Fada"
Picture taken in Paris. A woman takes a brake during workig day time. A beautiffull moment, of a single moment!



Boy and Bird

Marilyn Maxwell

USA

Honorable Mention

"Boy and Bird"



David

Ashleigh Lauren Bradley

Australia

Honorable Mention

"David"



Homeless actress and Yamuk the cat

James Hughes

UK

Honorable Mention

"Homeless actress and Yamuk the cat"
Homeless actress with Yamuk the cat in the streets of Istanbul , Winter 2013



Noel Charlie

Tobias Titz

Australia

Honorable Mention

"Noel Charlie"
I met former boxer Noel Charlie in Port Hedland Western Australia. He was travelling with the Kiwikurra boys - a band from the remote Western Desert. I was just finishing up a photo session for my...



Summer

George Mayer

Russia

Honorable Mention

"Summer"



Cadiz924

TM Reymond

Netherlands

Honorable Mention

"Cadiz924"
Fishmonger Cadiz 2012



Secret Identity

AJ Raina

India

Nominee

"Secret Identity"
Manual Labourer, New Delhi - Spiderman's secret identity.



Wounds

AJ Raina

India

Nominee

"Wounds"



Laila

Alan Skyrme

Brazil

Nominee

"Laila"



Proud African Mother Entrepreneour

Aldona Kmiec

Australia

Nominee

"Proud African Mother Entrepreneour"
Share Africa, Ballarat, Australia



FUTURE OF AFRIKA 1

ALEX BAYER

Switzerland

Nominee

"FUTURE OF AFRIKA 1"
MISSIO AFRIKA



THE NUN

ALEX BAYER

Switzerland

Nominee

"THE NUN"
MISSIO AFRIKA



Devotion

andrea de franciscis

Italy

Nominee

"Devotion"
Hindu women with their head shaved: for centuries Hindu pilgrims have donated their hair in a ritual of purification.



autoportret

Anna Beyger-Pasternak

UK

Nominee

"autoportret"
This "self portrait" image powerfully expresses the character rather than the beauty of a woman.



Holi Festival

Antonio Gibotta

Italy

Nominee

"Holi Festival"
Holi is the festival more colorful and fun of the Indian calendar and falls on the full moon of the month of Phalgun which is the month of March in the Gregorian calendar. This festival has many eleme



Maralinga

Belinda Mason

Australia

Nominee

"Maralinga"
Uncle Yami Lester , is a Yankunytijatjara man, an Aboriginal man from SouthAustralia. In the 1950s, while still a young boy, he became vision impaired by a "black mist". After the mist...



self1

benedict campbell

UK

Nominee

"self1"



Toby Foote

Bev Pettit

USA

Nominee

"Toby Foote"
working Arizona cowboy and his horse



Arizona Cowgirl

Bev Pettit

USA

Nominee

"Arizona Cowgirl"
Arizona Cowgirl



William H. Macy

Brian Smith

USA

Nominee

"William H. Macy"
William H. Macy photographed at Sundance Film Festival for the Be a STAR Anti-Bullying Campaign by WWE and The Creative Coalition



Maestro

Carlos Cazalis

Mexico

Nominee

"Maestro"
Spanish matador Jose Tomas returns to bullfighting 15 months after a near fatal goring in Mexico. Gijon, Spain, 2011.



Juan Lopez-Shy Silversmith

Charles Crain

USA

Nominee

"Juan Lopez-Shy Silversmith"
From Corrales, New Mexico, Juan is one example of the face of diversity: part of a series of images expanding an understanding of ethnicity in the southwest



Maori Princess

Claire Birks

New Zealand

Nominee

"Maori Princess"
Portrait of a Maori Princess



boy

colin davison

UK

Nominee

"boy"
my friends son who normally pulls a face when a camera comes near looking serious



Storm

Darran Rees

UK

Nominee

"Storm"
Portrait of 'Storm' , Female Pecan Picker, Mississippi.



Richardson Merriman Privately Commissioned Portraits

Dave Moser

USA

Nominee

"Richardson Merriman Privately Commissioned Portraits "
A series of commissioned portraits, over 60 in all, of Richardson Merriman's closest friends and family to be exhibited in his office as a permanent installation.



Young Indian miner

Edgard De Bono

Italy

Nominee

"Young Indian miner"
Portrait of a young miner in a mine of Jharkhand in India



?

Edoardo Agresti

Italy

Nominee

"?"
Look into an empty space



Actor Henning Jensen

Egon Gade

Denmark

Nominee

"Actor Henning Jensen"
Actor Henning Jensen at The Royal Danish Theatre



Actor Henri Jandorf

Egon Gade

Denmark

Nominee

"Actor Henri Jandorf"
Actor Henrik Jandorf at The Royal Danish Theatre



Delhi Recycler

Francois Pesant

Canada

Nominee

"Delhi Recycler"
Recycler loading a truck of metal to be sent to a recycling factory. In Delhi, India, hundreds of thousand of people live off the 8,500 tons of garbage produced daily by this megacity.



Trasparency of a look

Gianluca De Bartolo

Italy

Nominee

"Trasparency of a look"
India



The Fisherman,Greece.

Giuliano Del Gatto

Italy

Nominee

"The Fisherman,Greece."
Greece,2008.



Pipeline Painter

Greg Whitaker

USA

Nominee

"Pipeline Painter"
Painter on the Ruby Pipelinie, Northern Nevada



Untitled (2)

Helen Gromova-Kal`minskaya

Russia

Nominee

"Untitled (2)"



India 1

Herve Haddad

France

Nominee

"India 1"



India 2

Herve Haddad

France

Nominee

"India 2"



Selfportait 159

Jaap Bijsterbosch

Netherlands

Nominee

"Selfportait 159"
From 2008 on I am making selfportaits on a regular base



Mario Vargas Llosa

Jaime Travezan

UK

Nominee

"Mario Vargas Llosa"
Picture of Literature Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa at his home in peru



Homeless cat lover

James Hughes

UK

Nominee

"Homeless cat lover "
Homeless actress with Yamuk the cat in Istanbul doorway



Davy

james williamson

UK

Nominee

"Davy"
Steam engine driver Davy



itchy ribs robinson, new orleans

jarrod mccabe

USA

Nominee

"itchy ribs robinson, new orleans"
portrait of itchy ribs robinson, a washboard player. busking on the streets of new orleans.



tripoli café

jean-marc caimi

Italy

Nominee

"tripoli café"
Cafes in Tripoli are the gathring place for a human variety



Civil War Born

Jeff Widener

USA

Nominee

"Civil War Born"
A 113-year-old Native American poses for the camera in Las Vegas, Nevadaevada.



Balvir Shargill

Jeremy Fokkens

Canada

Nominee

"Balvir Shargill"
Balvir Shargill comes from the city Ludhiana located in the Punjab province of India. Using Balvir’s work supervisor as my translator, I asked Balvir when he was born, he responded by saying “…I don’t



Trinidad

Jimmy De Bock

Belgium

Nominee

"Trinidad"



BlackInYork.  Harlem, NYC

Joel Ventura

Spain

Nominee

"BlackInYork. Harlem, NYC"
Hairdresser, after shaving my beard.



The Tear

John Quintero

UK

Nominee

"The Tear"
Memories told with tears. Cauca, Colombia



Roots

John Quintero

UK

Nominee

"Roots"
Young girl from the Dassanech Tribe in Omorate, Omo Valley, Ethiopia



Philipa's Story

Julia Gunther

Netherlands

Nominee

"Philipa's Story"
I began my project 'Proud Women of Africa' in Cape Town, 2008, by documenting my friend Philipa's fight against cancer, a proud and difficult fight which she unfortunately lost in early 2012:...



Barry

Julie Wajs

Australia

Nominee

"Barry"



Untitled 08, 2012

Juul Kraijer

Netherlands

Nominee

"Untitled 08, 2012"



Time goes to ends

K M Asad

Bangladesh

Nominee

"Time goes to ends"
When people going to ends of life.



tibetan #1

Kenzaburo Fukuhara

Japan

Nominee

"tibetan #1"
The village young women wears the family treasure for the festival. Regong, Qinghai, China



Maizie Red Bow

Libba Gillum

USA

Nominee

"Maizie Red Bow"
Elder Lakota Sioux



Cousin Tommy

Lonnie Duka

USA

Nominee

"Cousin Tommy"



The lady and the sea

Luca Kleve-Ruud

Norway

Nominee

"The lady and the sea"
Herbjørg Wassmo, norwegian writer.



Bubble

Luigi Grieco

Italy

Nominee

"Bubble"



The Suit

Marc Cartwright

USA

Nominee

"The Suit"
"Hommage to Brando"



Market sales man

Marie-Andree Armynot

France

Nominee

"Market sales man"
Cadix Market Spain



Father

Marilyn Maxwell

USA

Nominee

"Father"



Fair Exchange

Marilyn Maxwell

USA

Nominee

"Fair Exchange"



Rituals

Michelle Chaplow

Spain

Nominee

"Rituals"
Rituals, Spain.



The hatter

Murat Pulat

Turkey

Nominee

"The hatter"
A hatter in the Istanbul Subway



Cornel West

Nigel Parry

USA

Nominee

"Cornel West"
Professor and Activist Cornel West profiled in New york Magazine



China Man

Oliver Klink

USA

Nominee

"China Man"



Erin in the Hood

Paul Kennedy

USA

Nominee

"Erin in the Hood"
Portrait of my assistant made while setting up for a location shoot



Blind monk of Bhutan

Paul Wager

Australia

Nominee

"Blind monk of Bhutan"
Blind and deaf a monk in Punakha Dzong in Bhutan must struggle through life.



Ned 2

Peter Whyte

Australia

Nominee

"Ned 2"



Plumber, Hill End, NSW

Peter Adams

Australia

Nominee

"Plumber, Hill End, NSW"
Two days after the photo was made, the NSW police 'arrested' the skeleton, and turned the area into a crime scene.



Mr Gendreau

Pierre Delaunay

France

Nominee

"Mr Gendreau"
Mr Henri Gendreau's portrait a character the historian my city which looks like The Abbé Pierre.



Papy

Pierre Delaunay

France

Nominee

"Papy"
The beauty is a meeting a big father in the terrace of a bar which is too satisfied to give to the photographer an emotion come by far.



Boy from Cuba.

Piotr Krysiak

Poland

Nominee

"Boy from Cuba."
Cuba 2012



Daniel

Richard Wood

New Zealand

Nominee

"Daniel"



River of Tears

Richard Wood

New Zealand

Nominee

"River of Tears"



Untitled (1)

Richard Wood

New Zealand

Nominee

"Untitled (1)"



Prince Albert

Richard BRADBURY

UK

Nominee

"Prince Albert"
Ex bank clerk John Lynch AKA 'Prince Albert' is the world's most pierced man.



Trucker

Roy Pope

USA

Nominee

"Trucker"
Trucker, Louisiana



JIMI

Stefan Kuhn

Germany

Nominee

"JIMI"
Location: Allgäu, Germany - When I met him for the first time he had worn exactly this outfit for dancing in a club. I walked over to him and asked him if he wants to be photographed. Two weeks later



Portrait of boy

Steven Edson

USA

Nominee

"Portrait of boy"
Portrait of boy, NYC 1973



Sadhu

Stuart Chape

Australia

Nominee

"Sadhu"



Madiba

Tertius Pickard

Australia

Nominee

"Madiba"
A natural light portrait of Nelson Mandela, he does not allow for any lights/flashes



Nyari Morgan

Tobias Titz

Australia

Nominee

"Nyari Morgan"
this portrait is of Nyari Morgan a senior Martumili painter and community leader from Parngurr in the Western Desert Australia



Rene on the roof

Tomasz Lewandowski

Poland

Nominee

"Rene on the roof"
Skater Rene on the rooftop of a house in Tepito, he lives in. Mexico City 2012



Bamboo Toys

Travis Tank

USA

Nominee

"Bamboo Toys"
In Ghana the children play with bamboo poles pushing wheels. Its one of their only forms of entertainment



Water

Travis Tank

USA

Nominee

"Water"
In Ghana the young women gather water from the local rivers



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