Portrait - Professional

Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Anger"

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Marc Stapelberg Australia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Beard" An Indigenous Australian Trevor from the Casino area in Australia.

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Tariq Zaidi UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Celmantine. The Sapeuse of Brazzaville, Congo" Celmantine, 52, has been a "Sapeuse (a fashion subculture in Congo) for 36 years. Brazzaville, Congo

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Henry Fernando Canada Honorable Mention "Aminata" Portrait of Aminata

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Jose Luis Lopez de Zubiria Spain Honorable Mention "SANTO"

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Joseph Ruesing USA Honorable Mention "Young and Alive"

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Frederic Aranda UK Honorable Mention "Zebra Katz" Rapper Zebra Katz photographed in London

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Scott Fowler New Zealand Honorable Mention "Hesitant"

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Andre Melo-Andrade Brazil Honorable Mention "Through" The human look acts as a means of connecting between interlocutors, even when there are no words.

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Boy Surminski Netherlands Honorable Mention "FAYE" PORTRAIT OF FAYE

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Lilian Caruana USA Honorable Mention "Frenchie and Lucifer" Frenchie, a skinhead, and his dog Lucifer in New York's East Village

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June Greenspan USA Honorable Mention "Bottom of the Caste" A lower caste man feeling safe inside the dark, ancient carved temple

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Kirsten Heer Germany Honorable Mention "A feminine man"

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Tatsiana Tsyhanova Belarus Honorable Mention "Burlesque" The weird woman is looking directly at the camera and trying to be sexy

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Riccardo Ghilardi Italy Honorable Mention "Three minutes" portrait of actor Ian McKellen taken in Rome during the International Film Festival 17.

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Sebastian Copeland Germany Honorable Mention "Henry Worsley--Explorer" The late explorer Henry Worsley at the South Pole manifesting his hero Sir Shackleton.

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Mark Harrison UK Honorable Mention "A Liberty Choir Chorister by Mark Harrison" The Liberty Choir brings singing into selected British prisons.

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Luigi Fieni Germany Honorable Mention "The awakening - Damba III"

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Adrian Zator Canada Honorable Mention "Mask of Shadows" The shadows created by a piece of crocheted lace complement the delicate beauty of the woman's face and create a mysterious mood.

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Barbara Zanon Italy Honorable Mention "Bride Portrait" Bride portrait IN Venice, Italy

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Jaap Bijsterbosch Netherlands Honorable Mention "Self Portrait 484" Diemen NL 2017/04/06 1123 am

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Tariq Zaidi UK Honorable Mention "The Watch Maker. Kutaisi, Georgia" Hamlet, 77. There were many Jewish watchmakers in Kutaisi, but now he is the only one that remains.

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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Honorable Mention "Johan Leysen" Belgian actor Johan Leysen

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Sandra Ventura Portugal Honorable Mention "pray"

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Kristofer Dan-Bergman USA Honorable Mention "stiLife #01" stiLife #01 is part of my new stiLife series where I explore Time, Space and our conscious.

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Andrzej Bochenski Poland Honorable Mention "glass" portrait of young woman

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Alexander Varvarin Russia Nominee "Childhood"

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Amir Lavon Israel Nominee "color matters " Slava and Mud Boy are absolute opposites, one from Russia and the other from Africa. Both have stree

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Anand Sharan India Nominee "Naga Tribal" Fiercely freedom loving tribe from the hilly regions of east India.

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Antonio Peinado Spain Nominee "Wet Plate Portrait" Collodium Wet Plate Portrait

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Arnaud Gras France Nominee "Mauricette" Mauricette

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Cara Taylor Swift USA Nominee "Distraction At The Water Hole"

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Cheryl Clegg USA Nominee "Alendre Amonia" 77 year old Alendre Amonia, Haiti

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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee "Stephen 12, Raphael 6, Andreas 14 and Hans 8"

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Christian Klant Germany Nominee "Walter Schels" Wet Plate Collodion Tintype

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Christo Stankulov France Nominee "Danish goddess" portrait of a lady

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Deborah Gray Mitchell USA Nominee "Local Color in the Chinese Redland" A man and his dog pose for photos in the Chinese Redland, September 2015

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Delphina Fuchs Switzerland Nominee "Cocoon" Portrait of Tindra, April 2018

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Diana Blok Netherlands Nominee "portrait of my mother and father" My most precious portrait

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Djeneba Aduayom USA Nominee "Capsulated"

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Edu Bosch Spain Nominee "Mothern"

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Eike Michler Netherlands Nominee "Karen Shaman" Karen shaman from a mountain village in the Chiang Mai Region, Thailand

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Emmanuel Zouboulis Germany Nominee "Desert Eyes" Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

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Ewa Cwikla Netherlands Nominee "Madame Butterfly" Serie Madame

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Fabeha Monir Bangladesh Nominee "The Face of Hope" Nomita Halder (55), an acid survivor is serving as a teacher in a blind girl's school. Dhaka

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Federico Janni USA Nominee "welcome" a portrait of an homelesss in Venice, CA

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Frederic Aranda UK Nominee "Tia" Tia, London, April 2017

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Georg Gutschi Austria Nominee "hunting" at home in kaernten

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Donald Dragon Paint Foreman" From Shipyard Workers of Hampton Roads

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Glen McClure USA Nominee "Mr. Jones" Mr. George Jones, waiting for church service, Newport News, Virginia

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Helene Wiesenhaan Netherlands Nominee "Sanele Xaba" Sanele Xaba, the first international South African male model with albinism

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Hemali Acharya USA Nominee "Immigrant " From the Series- Portraits of Immigrants

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Jasmine Rossi Argentina Nominee "Himba I" The Himba are the last nomads of the Namib desert, the seashell is very valuable and comes from bartering with a tribe near the ocean

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Jens Honore USA Nominee "The New Residents of Maine" Maine has the oldest and whitest population in USA. New residents are coming from far away.

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Julia Smirnova Germany Nominee "Old Woman" From the project "Memories of Lost Moments” about natives in India. Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400.

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Julie Shipman USA Nominee "A New Father" Tyler, US war veteran who lost both legs in an ambush. Now a 2018 Paralympian Snowboarder.

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Karsten Thormaehlen Germany Nominee "White Donkey foal" Zoo keeper, holding a 5-days old White Donkey foal, Burgos, Sardinia

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Katarina Grajcarikova Slovak Republic Nominee "Katka" woman with vitiligo

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Katti Borre Belgium Nominee "boy" A handsome little boy ready to join the adult world.

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Kent Miller USA Nominee "Mark in the basement " Portrait project using Kodak 5x7 film from 1964

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Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "An entangled Adrien"

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Madhur Shroff India Nominee "Denise 1" She had a way with hand gestures!! Portrait shot on 120 Format film with high contrast

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Madhur Shroff India Nominee "Denise Johnson" Portrait of Denise Johnson. Shot on 120 format Film & printed on Ilford B&W paper.

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Michelle Chaplow Spain Nominee "My Smokey Stories" A wise old lady from Mandalay. A face full of stories.

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Nick Ng Malaysia Nominee "The Rohingya Refugee" Ershad bin Soul Amin, 28 years, was born with deformities of both his upper limbs.

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Olga Nebot Australia Nominee "ANDRES, Tattoo Artist from The Bronx, NY" I photographed Andres and other members of the community as part of my personal work.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Head Shot" Eagle Hunter in Western Mongolia

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Patrick Desgraupes France Nominee "Voodoo Spirit" In the African tradition, Voodoo rites combining prayers songs and dances

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Peter Rodger USA Nominee "Stick Man" An ancient man carrying sticks on the Silk Road, Pakistan

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Pierre Delaunay France Nominee "SDF" Hasselblad 500c

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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee "Walk The Line" Belgian actor Kevin Janssens in Film Noir style, photo made for the poster of Filmfestival Oostende

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee "Nepali Farmer" Smile face of Nepali farmer

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Ramiro Cueva Ecuador Nominee "Hollywood Glam" This is a portrait that evokes the golden age of Hollygood, made in Ecuador

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Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Cusco's Woman" Peruvian Woman, Cusco, Peru

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Roberto Pastrovicchio Italy Nominee "Magnetic Field" Magnetic Field

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Rajasthani " Rajasthan, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Burmese man" Burmese man waiting on a bridge, Myanmar

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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee "Outside Looking In" Young people growing up feel as though they are on the outside looking in. They struggle to connect.

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Sandra Ventura Portugal Nominee "IN THE DARK"

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Scott Fowler New Zealand Nominee "Mummy 2"

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Scott Hoyle USA Nominee "Observation" This photograph was taken at the 2018 Seattle Women’s March.

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Sergey Sergeev Russia Nominee "Warface" Beautiful women take up arms and go to war... What's wrong with this world?

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Simon Stock UK Nominee "Maasai Warriors, Kenya (1)" Maasai Warriors, Kenya Photographed after 3 years living in the bush on walkabout.

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Simon Stock UK Nominee "Maasai Warriors, Kenya (2)" Maasai Warriors, Kenya Photographed after 3 years living in the bush on walkabout.

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Stefan Nimmesgern Germany Nominee "Savanna-Hero" Kenya, Massai, Climbing Mt Kenya, Savanna, Black people, Africa, report

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Stefan Michael Kothner Austria Nominee "Housewife-Shepherdess" Human-Turkish Woman

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Steven Edson USA Nominee "Ticket Booth" Portrait of woman working at the ticket booth at the County Fair

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