Children of the World - Professional

Eduard Genserek Slovak Republic 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Suri Boy" Suri boy, Omo Valley, Ethiopia

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Ken Opprann Norway 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Innocence" On July 4th 1999 some 1,7 million devotees gathered at Ayatollah Khomeinis grave outside Tehran to commemorate the 10th annivesary of his departure.

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Michel Merce Canada 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Young Photographer Smile"

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Chee Keong Lim Malaysia Honorable Mention "Playing" children happy playing after school time

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Philip Lee Harvey UK Honorable Mention "Children, Papua New Guinea" Children from a remote island on Lake Murray

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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Honorable Mention "Waiting for Start Festival, Myanmar" My hopes are that this amazing nation and especially the energy of its beautiful inhabitants may influence our modern, manipulated lives. With the help of my photo art & books I aim to contribute...

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Robert Leon Canada Honorable Mention " Mam Mayan Shepherd, La Ventosa Village, Guatemala" Jose Mendoza, a Mam Mayan from La Ventosa village, Sierra De Los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala

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Dianne Yudelson USA Honorable Mention "Irish Dancers"

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TM Reymond Netherlands Honorable Mention "Bommenee"

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Ziaul Haque Bangladesh Honorable Mention "Again Child Labour" A boy was working in a ship repairing company in a awful working condition.

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Yingting Shih Taiwan Honorable Mention "Hard Wind"

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Shoji Fujita Japan Honorable Mention "Defeated" I followed a young Japanese baseball teams for six years. They are one of hundreds of teams who want to be the best and to be one top one day for six years.

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Honorable Mention "When I Grow Up"

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Suzanne Taylor Canada Honorable Mention "Carbon Copy" Just like carbon paper, identical twins make the perfect black and white copy.

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Chee Keong Lim Malaysia Honorable Mention "Muddy Football" children playing football at rice field after harvest

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Chieko Tanemura USA Honorable Mention "Little Amish Girl"

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Gilchrist Yeo Malaysia Honorable Mention "Lonely" Lonely

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Sandra Hoever Germany Honorable Mention "Kids of Katutura" proud boy stands in front of his friends

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beatrice heydiri Germany Honorable Mention "Namib 01"

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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Honorable Mention " m_Moray, Peru" Moray, farming village.

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Reece Donihi USA Honorable Mention "Boys Contest" Boys in a contest

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Ken Opprann Norway Honorable Mention "Breakfast" A child in the village of Muang Sing, Laos is content after beeing breast-fed as the mother makes her way to the morning marked.

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Jonathan Banks UK Honorable Mention "Happiness (1)" This boy was playing and cooling off after a day at school in Rwanda

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Pino Galasso Italy Honorable Mention "Border's Lives" Children of Myanmar villages play in turns with a small tricycle - Myanmar, october 2015

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Adolfo Enriquez Calo Spain Nominee "Glances" The look of wonder of a child the first time you enter the Grand Louvre Museum

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Adrian Streun Switzerland Nominee "Child Plays Among Tables" A child plays on a terrace of a mountain restaurant that's been covered by fresh snow.

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Alex Pitt USA Nominee "Cuban Girl Looking Out from Behind Bars" A Cuban girl looks out a barred window into the streets of Havana.

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Amador Guallar Perez Spain Nominee "They bear all the pain, child labour in Afghanistan" A young Afghan boy takes his two brothers to work in a cart, Kabul

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Annette Willis Australia Nominee "The Shot" Part of a series taken from my iPhone journal of daily life.

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Cuban Boys at Play" Photo taken in Santiago de Cuba of three young boys playing with their toy car in the streets.

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Asa Deleau Wiklund Sweden Nominee "Indian 1"

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Asa Deleau Wiklund Sweden Nominee "Giggles" Two giggling brothers during a recent studio shoot

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Bahaadeen M. Al Qazwini Kuwait Nominee "Dates Boys" Ashura 2015, Iraq, Kids give the dates to the people in the way to Kerbala. City of holy Imam Hussai

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Bahaadeen M. Al Qazwini Kuwait Nominee "Flies on the Baby Face" March, 2016. India, The flies on the face kid when feeding.

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Beate Walden USA Nominee "Man Child" The grand, old ways of a Northern German estate are challenged by a boy.

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beatrice heydiri Germany Nominee "Namib 02"

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beatrice heydiri Germany Nominee "Kika 1"

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Carol Allen-Storey UK Nominee "Dispelling the Myth" James is autistic. This is his world. His room is decorated to reflect his passion for trains.

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Carolina Paltrinieri Italy Nominee "Malnutrition" Malnutrition in Ethiopia consequence of famine

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Chee Keong Lim Malaysia Nominee "Happiness (2)" happiness is hiding under banana leaf when raining

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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee "Andre3 with His Daddy"

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Christian Mushenko Australia Nominee "Harlem Youth" Two girls walking in Harlem

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Christine Spring New Zealand Nominee "I Can Do It Too"

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Christine Spring New Zealand Nominee "Uh-oh"

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Darcy Brown UK Nominee "Windermere Wondering"

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Darren James Australia Nominee "Swing" Swinging over the lagoon on Abaiang Island, Kiribati.

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "Determined"

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Dilip Bhatia India Nominee "Darkness to Light" WHAT YOU ARE BORN WITH,WHAT YOU MAKE OUT OF LIFE

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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee "Child in the Moabi Primary School of Lephalale, South Africa" A visit to the poor village, where the cow's where walking in the streets. Lephalale,Marken, South Africa

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Eric Loh Yong Kim Singapore Nominee "Copycat"

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Eric Loh Yong Kim Singapore Nominee "Kids and Turtle"

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Erika Masterson USA Nominee "Secret Garden" Secret Garden

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Hartmut Ahlers Germany Nominee "Nice Morning"

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Ivan Joshua Loh Singapore Nominee "Chase"

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Jacqueline M. Koh USA Nominee "The Golden Hour Glare" Standing between me and the hut was a little Maasai girl with a larger-than-life glare.

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Joe Patronite USA Nominee "At Mt. Rushmore" Being youngsters, these two boys are more interested in other sites at Mt. Rushmore National Monumen

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Jonathan Banks UK Nominee "Stronger" This little girl has to fetch water for the family four times a day.

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Juan Carlos USA Nominee "Pastime" Children playing cards as a pastime in Grand Goave, Haiti.

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Julia Cumes USA Nominee "Forsaken Lives" Two brothers at their family's makeshift home in Syfterbult, South Africa--a desolate squatter camp.

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Julie Wajs Australia Nominee "Domestic Duties" A child cleans the home in a remote village in Cambodia

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Julie Wajs Australia Nominee "A Village Child" A child with a skin condition in a remote village in Cambodia

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Larry Louie Canada Nominee "Avipsa Hamo " Avipsa Hamo age 11. Earthquake survivor. 6 months after the devastating earthquake in Nepal

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Larry Louie Canada Nominee "Dhaka Youth" A young man in Dhaka

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Laurie Freitag USA Nominee "Catching the Train" Two year olds

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Laurie Freitag USA Nominee "In The Hammock" Nine years old, the year before double digits.

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Laurie Freitag USA Nominee "Watching The Spider" A three year old watches a spider spin it's web

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Lisa Tichané France Nominee "Bursting Energy"

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Lisa Tichané France Nominee "What Happiness Looks Like"

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Luigi Grieco Italy Nominee "Spinner"

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Madhur Shroff India Nominee "Follow Thy Master"

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Michael Philip Manheim USA Nominee "Elementary Dance"

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Mirko Turatti Italy Nominee "Rio San Isidro" Babies play in Rio San Isidro BOLIVIA

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Nicholas Winter Switzerland Nominee "Four Queens"

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Nick Ng Malaysia Nominee "My Father's Father" A young boy sits in front of his grandfather's teashop in Dhaka.

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Nina Reistad Norway Nominee "Looking Out (1)"

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Javeena and Ganesha 1" Bond between human, animals and their spirit.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Javeena and Ganesha 3" Bond between human, animals and their spirit.

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Patrizia Burra Italy Nominee "Grace"

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Pierre Delaunay France Nominee "Eyes Hospital" leica x

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Piers Golden UK Nominee "The Catch" Boy & fish, Zanzibar, East Africa

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "Nepalese Children " Nepalese village children playing in river

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Riccardo Ghilardi Italy Nominee "Small Chickens" Little child play with small chickens in a small village of area of Gaza in Mozambique.

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Riccardo Ghilardi Italy Nominee "With Eyes As Adults" Portrait of two little brother, taken into a village of Guija district , Area of Gaza, Mozambico.

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Robert Leon Canada Nominee "Cuban Children of The Embargo" Cuban Children of The Embargo, Santiago De Cuba, Cuba

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Children of the World" Paquetá Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Scott Fowler New Zealand Nominee "Fingers"

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Scott Fowler New Zealand Nominee "What You Looking At"

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Scott Fowler New Zealand Nominee "Mum"

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Shoji Fujita Japan Nominee "Boys of Summer" I followed a young Japanese baseball teams for six years. They are one of hundreds of teams who want to be the best and to be one top one day for six years.

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Shoji Fujita Japan Nominee "Team" I followed a young Japanese baseball teams for six years. They are one of hundreds of teams who want to be the best and to be one top one day for six years.

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Simon Brown UK Nominee "Five Boys on the Road to Hawzen" Five Boys on the Road to Hawzen, Northern Ethiopia, from "A Journey Around the Simien Mountains"

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Simon Brown UK Nominee "Girl with Cross on Forehead" Girl with Cross on Forehead, Sunday service, Bete Maryam, Lalibela, , from "A Journey Around the Simien Mountains"

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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee "Elves"

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Subhasish Banerjee India Nominee "Look (2)" One little snake charmer trying to control over a snake.

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Tariq Zaidi UK Nominee "Girl Milking Cow, Mongolia"

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Tariq Zaidi UK Nominee "Mundari Boy In Cattle Camp" A young Mundari boy holds his precious Ankole-Watusi cow in the middle of the camp.

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Theresa Scarbrough USA Nominee "King of the Hill" King of the Hill

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Tony Corocher Italy Nominee "Something Ahead… Maybe" Beauty In Hell Project - Mathare Slum (Nairobi). Notice contrast with "Strong" written on the jacket

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Tony Corocher Italy Nominee "Laughing from the Heart" Inside a Buddhist orphanage for children with mental or physical problems. Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Torfi Agnarsson USA Nominee "Super Hero" Little boy hides behind a mask in his home/coffeeshop, Bali, Indonesia

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Torfi Agnarsson USA Nominee "Kids on the Beach" Brother and sister wait for the waves to crash on them. Tedalwangi Beach, Indonesia

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Torfi Agnarsson USA Nominee "Boy Running" Young boy playing on the beach in Gili Air, Indonesia.

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Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee "Out of its Waters" The girl was watching this giant stranded animal in awe, a rare sight in Denmark.

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Vito Finocchiaro Italy Nominee "Peru, Moray village" In Peru, in the area between Cuzco and Maras, altitude of about 3.400 meters.

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Wei Tan USA Nominee "Orphanage" Children are protected by a gunman at a orphanage in Kutru, India. Conflicts between government troops and Maoist rebels, leading violence and leaving many children without families. August 31,2015

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Wilco van Dijen Netherlands Nominee "Boy in Cloth" Uganda 2015

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Wilco van Dijen Netherlands Nominee "Laundry Boy" Uganda 2015

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Willy Wilson USA Nominee "Porch Pie"

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Ximena Gonzalez Echague USA Nominee "Old Delhi Kids" Taken in Old Delhi, India. 2016

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