Photojournalism - Amateur

Arka Dutta India 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Jump" A man jumps from one train to another in Bangladesh

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Alfredo Macchi Italy 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "War Landscapes (1)" Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002

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Tami B. Sojka USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Mission District" San Francisco, California

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Amy Siqveland USA Honorable Mention "Raising Awareness in the Push for Justice" Over 2 mill people died under Pol Pot between 1975-79, almost 1/4 the population of Cambodia.Justice is being sought 30 yrs later through a UN war crimes tribunal which has stalled due to corruption.

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Rudi Neumaier Switzerland Honorable Mention "The Encounter"

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Bjorn Bjornson Sweden Honorable Mention "Before the Soccer Game" Before the first soccer game of the year Bajen fans is gathered

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Prashanta Hridoy Bangladesh Honorable Mention "Beggar of Bangladesh" Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Honorable Mention "Anesthesia"

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Elisabeth Murray Portugal Honorable Mention "After 9/11" Just as I wanted to leave the 9/11 memorial I caught these two sailors checking their cellphones.

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Nora Hartfelder Canada Honorable Mention "Gentrification" NYC, Manhattan

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Kerstin Arnemann Malta Honorable Mention "Nameless" Migrants are referred to, by the military personnel, by the reference number given to them when arriving in Malta. The piercing gaze of this woman is still on my mind.

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Arlene Vidor USA Honorable Mention "Better Off"

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Jit Rakshit India Honorable Mention "Panic Stricken" Suddenly bridge collapsed in rush hours of busy streets in kolkata.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Honorable Mention "Black Lives Matter" At a protest march in Minnesota, USA

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Steve Bingham USA Honorable Mention "This Is My Home, Forever" This Is My Home, Forever

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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Honorable Mention "Recovery Room" Image of the operating room war wounded Syrians

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Klaus Tesching Germany Honorable Mention "Lehmkinder"

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Werner Dursteler Spain Honorable Mention "La Habana 03" Leica Monochrome

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Alfredo Macchi Italy Nominee "War Landscapes (2)" Kabul, Afghanistan, 2001

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Unexploded Ordnance Clean Up in SE Asia" The Obama administration made efforts this year to clean up leftover undetonated Vietnam bombs.Clearance of UXO is a huge concern because there are still thousands of casualties each year.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Detroit Classroom" Many institutions have been greatly affected over the years by racial discrimination, unfair economic policies, tax cuts and the closure and relocation of the auto factories in the 1950s onward.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Year of the Detroit Sickout" Many open Detroit schools were shut down this winter with teachers protesting crumbling buildings, inadequate funding and public education policies they felt would further disenfranchise residents.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Removal of the Confederate Flag & Importance of Police" After a brutal racially-motivated shooting in Charleston, SC, the state removed the Confederate Flag from the capitol grounds. KKK members & counter protestors both marched in Columbia.

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andrea ballaratti Italy Nominee "Let Us Not Forget" Srebrenica 20 years after the genocide -Potocari Memorial Center (BOSNIA I HERZEGOVINA)

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Annette Ruzicka Australia Nominee "The Fight Against Feral Cats" The gory business of gut analysis in the fight against feral cats in Australia's extinction crisis.

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Home (For Now)"

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Bill Motley USA Nominee "Missing You"

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Bill Motley USA Nominee "The Flood"

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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee "Memories Held" The bronze of the young boy in the foreground is "Field Of Blue" by the artist George Lundeen and it stands in front of the Cornell Museum located in downtown Delray Beach, FL. I was out doing some...

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Bjorn Bjornson Sweden Nominee "Stop the IS Killing" From time to time ther are demonstrations aginst the IS killing in Syria

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Bjorn Bjornson Sweden Nominee "From the White Man's Hand" This picture has a symbolic value describing political realities on the globe

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Brian Rope Australia Nominee "Clearance Special" A young child plays in a stroller near a decrepit item advertised as a special.

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "Manila Marketplace" Manila, Philippines

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "Immigration"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Memories" A shot captured during the feast of the Dead in Patzcuaro Mexico

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Daniel Malter Germany Nominee "California Primary 2016" Ashley in Dolores Park, San Fran, informing herself before the California primary. Unedited. Minolta XD-11

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Dr.Samarendranath Mandal India Nominee "Workers of Leather Industry" The Leather Industry workers work in extremely polluted environment.

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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee "My Grandpa"

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Henry Jager Switzerland Nominee "Kitchen Area of the Teru Kaze Maru Wreck" Kitchen Area of the Teru Kaze Maru Wreck, which was bombed at WW2 on 24th Sept. 1944 at Coron (PH)

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Jacek Labedzki Poland Nominee "Formoza" Polish soldiers of the special unit FORMOZA

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee "Just Another Day at the Office"

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Jay Bransfield USA Nominee "Bilboard"

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Jay Bransfield USA Nominee "911 Memorial"

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee "Woman In Charge" TPPA March 2016 - Auckland NZ

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee "Passion for the Cause" TPPA March 2016 - Auckland NZ

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Luke Gordon Canada Nominee "Declining Shrimp" Freshwater shrimp populations are heavily declining in Fiji, seriously affecting local fishermen

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Luke Gordon Canada Nominee "Dangerous Food" With regular food fish stocks declining local Fijian spear fishermen are forced to improvise

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Manash Ray India Nominee "Lost in Faith" A woman observing the Hindu ritual of Dondi, loses her senses for some time on the road, is believedto be possessed by the Goddess Sitala for whom the sacrifice and prayers are offered.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Tiled In Solidarity" The civil rights message that resonates from the statue of Olympians Tommy Smith and John Carlos at San Jose State University is still very relevant today.

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee "White Balls"

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Nigel Bullers Canada Nominee "Beached" Beached on stormy day in Vancouver

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Nigel Bullers Canada Nominee "Fall Storm" after the storm in eat end of vancouver

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Prashanta Hridoy Bangladesh Nominee "Victims of Petrol Bomb " Yeasin a 14 year old, He attacked the petrol bomb on his bus and he admit burn unit in Dhaka Medical Hospital. Bangladesh.

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "In Search of Water" Drought, Kutch, India

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Sandra Nieuwenhuijsen Canada Nominee "S21 Torture Room" Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016. One of the torture rooms of S21 now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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Sandra Nieuwenhuijsen Canada Nominee "S21 Victims" Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016. S21 now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "Unloading the Lorry"

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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee "A Restful Moment" Tired and weary after working outside the mosque, Casablanca, Morocco

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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee "Outside the Mosque" Woman working in the street outside the mosque, Casablanca, Morocco

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Susan Blick New Zealand Nominee "Wasted Eyes, Wasted Lives" Nepal, some kind of Shangri La, but this one isn't Far From Hell

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Sylvia Gardner USA Nominee "Clean As You Go" Kitchen sign from Ft.Ord

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Tony Gorham New Zealand Nominee "Lest We Forget" Auckland War Memorial fountain

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Abandoned Auto Plant, Detroit" Hudson Factory

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Werner Dursteler Spain Nominee "La Habana 05" Leica Monochrome

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Werner Dursteler Spain Nominee "La Habana 04" Leica Monochrome

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William Gleeson Ireland Nominee "My Patch" Homless person unknown Cork Ireland

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Yossi Manor USA Nominee "Stormy Sea" A pilot boat caught in high surf

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yu cyuan huang Taiwan Nominee "After the Flood" Typhoon brings cruelty is profound

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