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Klaus Pfeiffer Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Professional "Success" Ambition spurred him to success. |
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Paulo Mittelman Brazil 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Professional "Dona Maria Making Art" This lady makes small objects handicraft, at Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The smile of pleasure that she expressed caught my attention. |
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jayanta roy India 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Professional "Aghori " The Aghori or naga are a Shaivite Hindu sect mostly composed of ascetic sadhus They are, for instance, known to engage in post-mortem ritual, they also often dwell in charnel grounds, have been witnes |
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Chiye Li China (PRC) Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Yi Boy" Yi people are an ethnic group in China who live primarily in rural areas in Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou and Guangxi. This photograph was taken in Southern Sichuan Province, China, 2014. |
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Trond M. Skaret Norway Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Dorka Framed II" |
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Nick Ng Malaysia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Within The Broken Window" This image was shot from outside a home of this man in the rural villages of Yunnan. It shows the poor living conditions of him. |
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Mihai Chebac USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Swimming champs #7" |
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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The stoker" In the narrow alleys of Marrakech he lives and works alone in the underground to heat the hammam in the upper floors for carriage trade and Tourists. |
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Bencai Gong USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Cubans" taken in Cuba in year 2011 |
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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Mutant" This man walked the streets of Paraty, a historical city in Brazil, covered with colored clay body. It was a very cold day. |
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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Enjoying the rain together" Children enjoying with leaf of Arum in the rain |
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Marco Benedetti Switzerland Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Papis Konez" Portrait of a Senegalese Wrestler |
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Donna Pinckley USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Sara with scooter" |
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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee Portrait Professional "Clean eye" Clean eye |
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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee Portrait Professional "The last cigarette" More than ninety years old and smoke cigarettes |
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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee Portrait Professional "Eritrean migrant" Artria refugee living in the desert of Sudan |
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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee Portrait Professional "Consider sharp" Old man with a strange Outlook |
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Abhishek Dasgupta USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Nanny" Nanny |
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Alexander Kamakaev Russia Nominee Portrait Professional "Alexandra" |
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andrea ballaratti Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "The Cook" Venice - Italy |
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Anik Rahman Bangladesh Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of Politics" The recent chronic violent political demonstration by the opposition allies of Bangladesh started posing threat to the lives of common people. Random usage of handmade bombs on streets forced many to |
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Badescu Alexandrina Romania Nominee Portrait Professional "My Grandfather" My grandfather at the beautiful age of 81. |
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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee Portrait Professional "in the Wind" |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Mustafapasha Matron" Woman at Mustafapasha, Turkey |
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Candace Casey USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Prized Possession" An Emirate man and his beloved camels posed at the Al Dhafra Camel Festival. Al Dhafra United Arab Emirates |
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Christopher Moffat Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "The Gaurdian" Lucky he was wearing white |
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Chuck Turner USA Nominee Portrait Professional "In Motion" |
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Colleen Sternberger USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kiowa" |
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Costanza Nicolosi Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride" Nowadays, it's increasingly difficult to find "the one". Here, a young "black bride" poses next to her family's wedding portraits, wondering whether she'll ever be a bride. |
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Daniel Arranz Molinero Spain Nominee Portrait Professional "The shopping bag" Indonesia |
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Dave Rudin USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Girls with Antlers, Nara, Japan, 2005" |
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Don Whitebread USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Jeddet Adham and Her Favorite Scarf, Egypt" A friend's grandmother from the small village of Aqaba in southern Egypt showing off her favorite scarf. |
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Edwin Soriano USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Civil War Soldier" |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Standing Woman" En route to Ladakh |
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Felicia Simion Romania Nominee Portrait Professional "The shape you're in" The woman who took the last train to Heaven. |
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Gloria Golden USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Farmer" He has little, but is happy in China's farmland. |
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Grace Willan Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "MY BEAUTY" Iconically Beautiful/ Omo Valley Ethiopia |
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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Old woman praying" |
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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Madagascar Belles" Beautiful girls selling snacks by the side of the road on market day, southern Madagascar |
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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Mongolian Eagle Hunter" This young competitor is proud of his golden eagle, Golden Eagle Festival, Mongolia |
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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Mardin Donkey-Saddler" In the covered market in Mardin, Turkey, this man is making a saddle for a donkey |
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Henk Langerak Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Balinese lady" |
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Iulia Iacoban Romania Nominee Portrait Professional "The little big man" |
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Julie Garran Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "My Parents" While staying in the holy city of Pushkar, India.A friend invited me to her home, where I met her family. Her father asked me to photograph him with a revered photo of his deceased parents. |
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Julie Garran Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Barbie Dolls" Teenage schoolgirls gathering to dance at the Pushkar Camel Fair. |
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Keran Woods Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Thoroughbred Aussie" This bloke is 'true blue'. |
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Lisa Franklin USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Tenderloin #1" |
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Lizy Manola Greece Nominee Portrait Professional "Untitled" |
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Llewellyn Douglas Jamaica Nominee Portrait Professional "Fudgie" |
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Marian Rubin USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Tobacco Farmer, Cuba " A 93 year old tobacco farmer in Cuba. |
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Marina Proniakova Russia Nominee Portrait Professional "Smile and Laughter" |
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Mario Bejagan Cardenas United Arab Emirates Nominee Portrait Professional "Burqa" Emarati cultural tradition of women wearing the Burqa–a revered heritage worn as an embellishment: to show pride and high morality of the woman who wears it, as well as symbol of elegance & pride. |
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Marius Noreger Norway Nominee Portrait Professional "Sax" |
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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee Portrait Professional "Today's the Day" Taken in Hallstatt/China a copy town of the original place in Austria where couples from all over the country come to have their photo taken. |
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Mauricio Villahermosa Venezuela Nominee Portrait Professional "This is his home" A small house in the Venezuelan Andes |
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Michael Greig USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Greig-Michael_The Fat Woman;Havana,Cuba 2013" |
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Michele Taras Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Cherri" The hard life of those living on the fringe |
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Michele Taras Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Boy with Toy" Boy with Toy |
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Nancy Hill Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "La feinte" |
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Nikolay Smolyak Russia Nominee Portrait Professional "People as elves" |
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Oliver Stegmann Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Girl with Umbrella" Day of the Dead Festivities, Mexico, 2013 |
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Patricia Dinu USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Innocence" |
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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee Portrait Professional "Nina" |
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Philip Lawrence Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Village Elder" 105 year old head of family in a small village near Tabanan , Bali ,Indonesia |
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Porus Khareghat India Nominee Portrait Professional "Buddhist Monk" A teary eyed monk with a captivating smile in remote Ladakh |
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Porus Khareghat India Nominee Portrait Professional "Hindu Priest" A Hindu Priest stretching to to see into the distant furture |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The street kid" Kolkata, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Indian Village" Nandgaon, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Muslim Lady" Hajipir, Bhuj, Gujrath, India |
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Ron Cooper USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Omaha Dancer" |
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Saibal Gupta India Nominee Portrait Professional "Tuning" Young minds unite in music. |
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sankar sridhar India Nominee Portrait Professional "drummer heralds rain" A drummer from a remote monastery in the high altitude cold desert of Ladakh declares the beginning of a harvest festival, aimed primarily at appeasing rain gods |
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Sesh Sareday USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Tribal enchantment" "There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me" Did Rudyard Kipling mean her or her great grand mother in his poem Back to Mandalay ? |
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Sesh Sareday USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Prayer " Eighty two year old woman from a vanishing Myanmar tribe praying to her ancestors. |
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Shashwat Nagpal India Nominee Portrait Professional "Pretty Lady from Tibet" Pretty Lady from Tibet, Darjeeling, India. 2014 |
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Stanley Padilla USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Peru" Peru |
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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Himba Mother" A Himba mother with child - Epupa Falls, Namibia |
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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Speak no evil" A Masai boy through my 50mm lens |
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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee Portrait Professional "own" |
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Tomasz Dziubinski Poland Nominee Portrait Professional "Craftsman - Medina of Fez" The picture was taken in November 2010 in Fez, during my trip to Morocco. |
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