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Jeff Wack USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "NYX" Nyx, Goddess of the Night |
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Klaus Kampert Germany 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Torsi 2" |
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Jeff Palmer USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Merman" |
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Ruslan Lobanov Ukraine Honorable Mention "Autumn in the City" Kiev. september 2011, from the project "the city" |
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Claire Mallett USA Honorable Mention "Speakeasy Beauty" Beauty is timeless... |
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Terrell Neasley USA Honorable Mention "Nude 2" |
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Binh Trinh New Zealand Honorable Mention "Dfg" dfg |
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Jim Fredlund USA Honorable Mention "Bridgewerks" Shot on a steel bridge constructed in 1931 |
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Aaron Feinberg USA Nominee "Creationists" Inspriation drawn from Michelangelo. Took many takes to finally get the poses correct. |
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Adri Berger Laos Nominee "Tree of Life" |
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Adri Berger Laos Nominee "Pulchritudo" |
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amir weinberg Israel Nominee "Body Works 1" amir is an art photographer & photojournalist.Video Artist & Documentary ailm maker. Amir is doing art since his childhood. In his 20's and actually untill now Amir has worked as a press & documentary photographer for leading newspapers in Israel and abroad such as "Yediot Aharonot", "Time magazine", "Stern magazine", "Paris match" and for leading photo agencies such as "Reuters", "AFP" and "sigma". As well as documentary videos & video art. In the last 15 years he put his effort in fine art photography. His main subjects are- the human body, nature, abstract, movement & materials.''for me photography is total freedom and powerful scientific toll by trying to ask and understand ''what's life is all about''. as well as great admiration to nature in all it"s forms and shapes including us poeple, for better for worst" . Amirs works exhibited in galleries & museums around the world. |
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Andrew John Sherriff UK Nominee "Broken Hearted" |
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Ann Elliott Cutting USA Nominee "Pair" Two woman vintage style nude |
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Azat Gainutdinov Russia Nominee "Vegetable set #1" Associations |
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Azat Gainutdinov Russia Nominee "Vegetable set #2" Associations |
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Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee "Atlas" Angela levitates at Chateau Nederhemert, NL (Hasselblad H3D) |
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Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee "Smoke" Sasja with cigar and whisky at Café Central, Gouda, NL |
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Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee "Angela and Shawl" Angela moves her shawl in the wind at Chateau Nederhemert, NL (Hasselblad H3D) |
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Bently Quast Canada Nominee "Cow Skull" |
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Billy Monday USA Nominee "At the Gates" |
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Binh Trinh New Zealand Nominee "5 Bums" |
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Binh Trinh New Zealand Nominee "Emerge" |
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Brigitte Kroone Netherlands Nominee "Black Pearl" Hilversum,Holland |
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Charles Dufour USA Nominee "The Haunting" |
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Christopher Lee Donovan USA Nominee "Jen & Nat, Lipstick" |
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Dave Hunt UK Nominee "Shell" Natural modesty |
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David Alley USA Nominee "Bridge" |
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David Zadig Norway Nominee "Nude on Barrell" Part of a series shot with Carte Blanche the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance with idea of taking the dance out of the theater and, instead making Norway the stage. This image of dancer Mate Mezaros shot on the wild landscape of coastal Sotra near Bergen. |
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Dennis Mecham USA Nominee "Jodi" |
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Dina Bova Israel Nominee "Time to Lose and Time to Seek" Inspired by Bible stories from Ecclesiastes books. "A time to seek and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away" |
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edward olive Spain Nominee "Film Noir Light Through Door" Scan of hand made silver gelatin print Ilford MG IV from 120 medium format black and white film from Hasselblad V series. Bowens Gemini Pro strobes. Shot in 2011 in Madrid Spain. |
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Edward Gajdel Canada Nominee "Pastel" Figure studies with a jaw bone from a blue whale. |
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Elena and Vitaliy Vasilievy Ukraine Nominee "Air Geometry " photo by Vitaliy & Elena Vasilieva |
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Elena and Vitaliy Vasilievy Ukraine Nominee "Allegory " Vitaliy and Elena Vasilieva |
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Gabi Mardare Romania Nominee "Bed Time Stories 4" Bed.Time.Stories.4 |
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Gary Breckheimer USA Nominee "Squashed" Photographed in the streets London |
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Gary Cloud USA Nominee "Lovers" |
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Giordano Cipriani Italy Nominee "Chimera" Underwater body trans |
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Jacek Jedrzejczak Poland Nominee "Joanna 2" Mature bodies conscious, calm. Telling face, look. Record of a lifetime on the skin - wrinkles, scars, marks, spots. Grey hair, blue veins visible under the skin, changed hands... Passing time is a topic which may be presented through the body in the most spectacular, fullest, one of a kind way. How can you actually do it differently?! (...) |
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Jason Homa USA Nominee "Maria Emerging From Tree" The Forests of California are a place i gravitate to when i want to get out of NYC and connect with the natural world in a meaningful way. "Maria Emerging From Tree" conveys the feeling of renewing my spirit when i'm there. |
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Jim Tetro USA Nominee "Nude In Attic" Nude In Attic |
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Joanna Kustra Spain Nominee "Phantom" Phantom of the Opera |
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Josh Blumental USA Nominee "Hourglass" |
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Joy Goldkind USA Nominee "Image#5887" From the Distortion Series |
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Kevin Necessary USA Nominee "Doubles #5" 4 bending |
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Klaus Kampert Germany Nominee "Torsi 1" |
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Kristian Liebrand Germany Nominee "DalmaTina" black and white bodypainting |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee "Python Ani-human 366" ani-human series of live python snake and body painted human python |
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Lubo Spirko Slovak Republic Nominee "Underwater 3" from the project UnderEmotion - Underwater and dancers |
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Mayumi Yoshimaru USA Nominee "Twisted Stream" |
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Mike Brown Ireland Nominee "Black Sand Nude" |
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Nathan Small UK Nominee "Stacy with Octopus" |
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neil craver USA Nominee "Limits of Representation" OmniPhantasmic* ------------------------------------------ *Omni- 1. A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent; omnivorous. *Phantasmic- 1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma. 2. An illusory mental image. 3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. This project is meant to be consumed with your emotions, and not simply perceived with your sense organs. I wanted a transcendental meaning behind them; not only with the use of chromatics and aesthetics. But with my intended focus be on the philosophical theories, I wanted a “subliminal composition” to create an under tow of messages to stress the strong influences of unconscious elements affecting and driving people's lives. And with the creation of a strong undercurrent of incommunicable thoughts, would be the stage for illuminating the subconscious intellect into a perception; not deception. The visual aesthetics are purely symbolic in their thought application and structure; with decomposing forests of broken memory connections, and tumbling of vertigo into the correct positions of phenomenal reality. The shallowness of the area above the horizon line indicates the division of the limited amount of information consciously perceivable (atmosphere-above) and the larger mass storage of all the sense information, rationalizations,and prejudices of the subconscious below (hydrosphere-below). The nexus of contingents between drowning and floating, falling and flying, dying and living are some of the main unphysical-intangible themes in this series. A dominant temporal element of composition would be the use of the female form. I used the intrinsic values of this object to exploit and illustrate the submerged network of the unconscious condemnation and restriction of the nude form in popular society. With this formation of energies being repressed in the subconscious state, one's behavior could start to dissolve the foundation of the self. With no outlets for expression, one could only predict the unconscious wishes could turn into anxiety and transform into synthetic states; such as phobias,aggression, and other maladjusted personality disorders. What you can perceive and process is an extremely finite portion of what you receive from the physical environment. And to truly grasp the vexing questions of your inner facilities, you must open yourself to a flood of unrestricted information. So one must dive into the cloudy placid waters of the subconscious world to uncover a linkage between the conscious and the subconscious mind. Once the excavation is started; the illumination of the self imposed restrains of values, ideas, and moral codes will dissolve. When the subconscious floods pass society’s imprisonment; starting a process of uncontaminated awareness; a penetrating understanding will unfold! |
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Nicolo Sertorio USA Nominee "IV-3" From the series 'Explorations' |
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Nyk Sykes Australia Nominee "Ballerina" A portrait of Loarna Okan. A graduate of the Australian Ballet School. Shot at the studios of the Sydney Dance Company |
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Pagratis Pagratidis Greece Nominee "Untitled" |
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Patrick Ryan South Africa Nominee "Hidden Hurt" the visual portrayal of the hidden emotional turmoil and hurt we accumulate in life |
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Paul Swen USA Nominee "Megan Arch" |
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Peter Day Netherlands Nominee "Erinyen 3" |
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Ric Frazier USA Nominee "Presence" Live in the now and experience your environment. |
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Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich Brazil Nominee "untitled #07" |
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Yuri Benitez Mexico Nominee "Cabizbaja" intimate emotional moment |
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