Tomasz Lewandowski Poland 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Pole Dancer Kate with her Sons" Kelly is associated with Bobbi's Pole Dance Studio in Sydney |
Dilip Bhatia India 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Happy Home School for the Blind (1)" |
Terri Gold USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Kushti Wrestlers in Delhi" Indian wrestling isn't just a sport - it's an ancient subculture where wrestlers live and train together at Guru Hanuman’s Kushti Akhara (a traditional Indian mud pit wrestling arena). We will all lose when ancient skills are forgotten. Traditions and rituals are our connections to the past and they are our future as well. As a “visual archeologist” I am interested in capturing these last moments in the rich tapestry of tribal life. |
Jez Coulson USA Honorable Mention "Brutal Attack" Skinheads at a BNP rally - London |
Lars Nyman Sweden Honorable Mention "DesmiondTutu" |
Fausto Podavini Italy Honorable Mention "Alzheimer" Mirella 71 years old. After 43 years spent together with the only person loved, Mirella was suddenly forced to face the husband's illness: Alzheimer. Only strenght, devotion and love can support Mirella giving her hope. |
Ann Elliott Cutting USA Honorable Mention "Carnival Ride" |
Edward Yanowitz USA Honorable Mention "Eulogy" Nassau, Bahamas |
Alan Gignoux UK Nominee "Pool Hall Clarkesdale" One of the last Pool Halls in town. |
Alan K. E. A. Marques Brazil Nominee "Carole" Carole Gedeson, 40, lives in Cité Soleil (Haiti) and this photo is preparing a biscuit which is known as “mud-cake”. It's a sort of biscuit, made from clay, salt and a little bit of cooking oil, then baked dry in the sun. |
Alastair McNaughton Australia Nominee "Salt Reflection" Salt reflection-Vietnam |
Alexander Martirosov Russia Nominee "The Life of French People" |
Amy Lyne USA Nominee "Newlyweds" Michael J., 55 and Michael R., 81, embrace after getting married at the City Clerk's office, on the first day New York State's Marriage Equality Act goes into effect. They have been together 30 years. New York, NY, July 24, 2011 |
angelo cirrincione Italy Nominee "Streets of Istanbul" |
Antonio gibotta Italy Nominee "A Helping Hand" The Italian volunteers of Caritas. |
Audrey Gottlieb USA Nominee "Jones Beach Lifeguards" Annual Fourth of July Portrait, Jones Beach, NY |
Barend Houtsmuller Netherlands Nominee "Maartje and Icarus" Maartje with her beloved horse Icarus at Chateau Ygrande, FR |
Bev Pettit USA Nominee "Looking Back" Ms Susie Yazzie, legendary Navajo rug weaver, standing outside of her childhood Hogan in Arizona. |
Brandon Thibodeaux USA Nominee "New Braids, Duncan, MS" Maw Maw has a displays her new braids outside of her home in Duncan, Mississippi. |
Bruce Byers USA Nominee "Mother Son" Palestinian mother holds down syndrome son in the West Bank |
Camilla Watson Portugal Nominee "Flour Alley" Children play outside their home in the Beco das Farinhas (flour alley), Lisbon |
Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee "Peasant Woman" |
Cem Turgay Turkey Nominee "Light" lake of no god |
Charles Crain USA Nominee "Gathering Storm at Cypremort Point" This image was captured on a photo trip documenting the shabby state of conditions on the beach at Cypremort Point State Park, Louisiana while working for a museum in Lafayette in 1971. It is one of only two I was able to take of this elderly couple who were preparing to depart before the threatening thunderstorm reached them. |
Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Huli Wigman" Huli wigman tribesman playing his traditional flute in the remote papua New Guinea highlands |
Chris McLennan New Zealand Nominee "Chief and Wife" The chief of Paiya Village and one of his 3 wives. Mount Hagen region, Papua New Guinea. |
Chris Usher USA Nominee "July the 4th" 7/4/11--Mount Vernon, VA--Scouts from Troop 1519 in Alexandria (from left: Scott Greenlaw, Troy Lewis, Mark Greenlaw and Keller Corfield) during Fourth of July ceremonies at Mount Vernon on July 4, 2011. |
Darcy Brown UK Nominee "Poetry in Motion" In-flight meal, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy |
David Morris UK Nominee "The Last of It" The Sabbiston's were two sheep farming brothers with a small holding in the Cotswolds. For years they had struggled to make the farm pay, but it was no longer viable. This was their last season - an end of a way of life. |
Denis Defibaugh USA Nominee "Repent" Repent |
Deon Reynolds USA Nominee "Firemen" Created with a Kodak "Fun Saver 35 Panoramic" disposable camera |
Dilip Bhatia India Nominee "Happy Home School for the Blind (2)" |
Douglas Kurn UK Nominee "Graduation Day" |
Duncan Hill USA Nominee "Ice Cream Pier" People enjoy fishing, sight-seeing, and most importantly, ice cream at Kure Beach Pier. |
Edmond Terakopian UK Nominee "Outfits" Having a rest. Shots around London's Southbank. |
Edoardo Agresti Italy Nominee "Walking on a Wire" A young boy walks on a wire while his friends are looking him |
Edward Yanowitz USA Nominee "Tropic Bird" Nassau, Bahamas |
Eva Kelety Austria Nominee "Lilly" Ann Arbor, 2010 |
Frank Brandwijk Netherlands Nominee "Artist\'s Studio" Lith print |
Garry Wapshott Australia Nominee "Good Yarn" SATURDAY MORNING CATCH UP CHIANTI |
Gene Taylor USA Nominee "George" Guitar player spotted on roadside in Union County, SC |
Giordano Cipriani Italy Nominee "Narcissus" Children of the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. |
Gregory Gieske USA Nominee "Crazy Troop" Soldiers from Crazy Troop, 3rd Squadron 7th U.S. Cavalry, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, visit the ancient ruins of Al Hatra in the Ninewa Province, Iraq. |
Harvey Duze USA Nominee "Blind Man, Midtown Manhattan" Blind man begging on busy sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan |
Henk van Mierlo Netherlands Nominee "Looking the Wrong Way" Looking the wrong way |
Honey Atkinson Australia Nominee "Waffles" The carnival people share their dark stories with the local town each year. |
Ilja C. Hendel Norway Nominee "Where it Comes From, Energy Production in Norway." Workers on the way to Ormen Lange, Europe’s third largest gas field. EUROPE, NORWAY, AUKRA, NYHAMNA, 04/2011. Copyright: Ilja C. Hendel |
Irina Shebeko Russia Nominee "Untitled (3)" |
Jack Picone Thailand Nominee "Golden Horse Monastery" Young novice monks bath their horses in a mountain stream on the Thai-Burma border. |
james williamson UK Nominee "Waiting for Benedict" Nuns await the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI for his open air mass in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow |
Jean-Claude FLACCOMIO France Nominee "Lettres" Série 'Influenzium' |
Jeremy Fokkens Canada Nominee "Fisher Boy" The youngest of the Bengali crewmembers, this young boy enjoys hanging off the bow as the crew head back to the main land where they will sell their catch in the markets of Daullatkhan, located on Bohla Island in Southern Bangladesh. |
Jeremy Fokkens Canada Nominee "Fisherman's Son" A young boy waids in the water with his father before he heads out to sea in overnight in Kuakata, Bangladesh. |
Joan Davis USA Nominee "Lauren" |
João M. Gil Portugal Nominee "Fragments" Cape Verde, in the streets of Mindelo. Outside of a bar, I see fragments. I see many of them. Pieces of lives in every detail. Hasselblad Xpan II with 45mm lens. |
Joel Simpson USA Nominee "Hopewell Rocks Triple Frame" At Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick people can walk on the sea floor among the monumental rocks at low tide. |
john blais USA Nominee "Rat Man" Look @ ME |
john blais USA Nominee "Akin Rhett House" KIds of the neighborhood pose for a portrait |
Jonathan Banks UK Nominee "Wedding Shop in Havana, Cuba" Wedding Shop in Havana, Cuba |
Julie Wajs Australia Nominee "Julia" |
K M Asad Bangladesh Nominee "Day Labour" Men loading stones in vehicle for transport to other place in volagong . Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world, where nearly 40 percent of the population survives on less than a dollar a day. |
K M Asad Bangladesh Nominee "Faith (2)" The Rash Mela, the oldest traditional festival of Hindu religious. People are praying and bathing in the Bay of Bengal on the ocassion on the full moon of the bengal month of Kartika at Dublarchar, Bagerhat, Khulna, Bngladesh. Devotes are coming to celebrate this program. |
Keith Nolan Ireland Nominee "Sweet Reward" Children's entertainer on Regatta Day in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim. Ireland. |
Kerry Sharkey-Miller USA Nominee "Man with Puppy at The Chocolate Factory" Resident of a burnt out and abandoned Chocolate Factory in Salvador Brazil. Approximately 40 families live in the burnt out shell of a building. Part of a larger series of portraits of the residents of this community. |
Larry Louie Canada Nominee "At the Ferry Port" |
Larry Louie Canada Nominee "Grandmother Sewing" |
Lars Nyman Sweden Nominee "Bride in Belgrade 6" |
Laura Jean Zito Ireland Nominee "The Odd and Even Couple" I was walking down Bleecker Street in New York City's Greenwich Village. As I crossed Sullivan Street, I spotted this couple at an outdoor cafe. I "grabbed" a shot, then asked them if I could take a few more. They agreed somewhat reticently but not defensively. I shot about five or six frames. Upon examining each frame carefully at a later date, I realized that, though the images appeared more or less the same, a slight pursing of their lips had taken place that replaced the inviting quality of the first expressions when they were taken unawares with an almost sardonic one. The difference is ever so subtle, but reminds me how difficult it is to manufacture a smile, and how trained experts can always tell as different muscles are used in a real smile than in an artificial one. As I examined other series of shots I had taken of people, invariably that first shot is always a tad more natural. Now I try to be as ready as possible before my first approach. This couple engages in their differences by adopting each other's manner of dress. The coffee table serves as a line of delineation, below which the man and the woman are both sporting blousy white slacks, fishnet stockings and high heels, and above which they adorn themselves with large sunglasses, fists full of rings like brass knuckles, bobbed haircuts and mannish black shirts. She on the right wears white sunglasses and he on the left black. They have achieved a kind of equality that they both seem at ease with, and that makes us all think about how tied we are to prevailing attitudes of attire. |
Lee Craker Thailand Nominee "Woman Making Change" A woman vendor in Bangkok Thailand gives change to a customer. who purchased a small wooden back scratcher. |
Linda Naesfeldt Norway Nominee "Full House" Oslo;Norway A couple is waiting for the show to start at the operahouse in Oslo. |
Louis Montrose USA Nominee "Madrasa" Karnataka, India, 2010 |
Luigi Fieni Germany Nominee "Day Care II" Children waiting for their teachers to start their class at the day care center in Ghami, Mustang, Nepal. |
Mark Leibowitz USA Nominee "Home" Sandra completes her chores before sundown in Mozambique |
Martin Waalboer Netherlands Nominee "At the Bus" At the bus in London,, Tri-X |
Matt Lit USA Nominee "Dreams of our Fathers, Santa Fe Plaza, NM" A boy and his father enjoy a Santa Fe Plaza festival. |
Matthew Duchesne Australia Nominee "Dad Going to Work, Norfolk Island" I managed to spend a few days with my father while he spent time as the Parish Minister on Norfolk Island. |
Michal Josephy Czech Republic Nominee "Fashion Street" Naples famous fashion street. |
Nicky Alekna Australia Nominee "Birdman" Flying Solo |
Niels Peter Riisbro Denmark Nominee "Going Home" Hospital in Helmann Afghanistan |
Nita and Wales Madden III USA Nominee "Rain Walker" from a rainy street in Italy |
Patrizia Dottori Italy Nominee "Cuba Che Cuore" It’s a part of a work (Cuba on the wall) over the essential elements that contribute to the formation of the animus (soul) of this country, a unique island linked by a fil rouge that connects politics and life, the past and the present. A work that illustrates the light, the colours, the joie de vivre of its people, the streets and the big messages, in particular the exchange between new and old as seen through its political manifestos. |
Paul Swen USA Nominee "Jane Goodall" |
Paul A Wright UK Nominee "Wedding 01" |
pesarelli stefano Italy Nominee "Child, Lake Malawi" Day life on the Lake Malawi |
Peter Goadby-Watt UK Nominee "Law of Contrast" The Law of Contrast |
Peter Dazeley UK Nominee "First Breath" My son being born by cesarean section |
Peter Ingrasselino USA Nominee "Shrimper at Sea" Coming home with a morning's catch of shrimp |
Pierre Delaunay France Nominee "I Lost Some Thing" The beauty is a meeting |
Pierre Alivon France Nominee "Tokyo 2011 / Paris 1900" 1890-2011: two times, two places, two women, but only a "snapshot" that combines the better to highlight the changes, parallels and contrasts. By far, it is believed to watch a single shot. Closely, you soon realize that this is a montage, the juxtaposition of women over a century, and sometimes thousands of miles apart. Two citizens, two cities, two periods are total opposites ... or close? |
priscilla pompa Mexico Nominee "No Violencia" Priscilla Pompa |
R.D.Wayne Holloway Australia Nominee "Mother & Child" The Wash-Wash tribe from the Muanza region in Mozambique |
Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil Nominee "Arlequim" PARATY CITY, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - 2009 |
Ruben Buhagiar Malta Nominee "Viena Calling" A Momentous Moment |
Sean Stuchen USA Nominee "On the Horizon" |
Shahid Hashmi United Arab Emirates Nominee "The Third Generation" A Bishnoi Tribal from Rajasthan watches his grandson who is in a pensive mood |
Shota Kizu Japan Nominee "Flowers" Sometimes, many umbrellas on stripes look like flowers on garden. |
stephen perry Canada Nominee "Ascension" In Paris I came across this scene as is. |
Sue Foll UK Nominee "Bond Street Men" |
Susan Brunner Switzerland Nominee "Sheepwork" walk 3000 sheep to the shearing shed |
Svetlana Batura Lithuania Nominee "True Life" Made in the place where The Time stops to run |
TC Reiner USA Nominee "The Wave" Surfing Hollister Ranch |
Terrell Neasley USA Nominee "Brown Wedding 2226" |
Terri Gold USA Nominee "At the Bathing Ghats" The Bhils at the Baneshwar Fair: families ritually bathe together in the Ghats. |
Terri Gold USA Nominee "Racing with the Wind" The horsemen at Litang Festival In Kham, high in the Himalayan mountains. |
Thodoris Kottaridis Greece Nominee "Untitled (1)" Deir ez-Zor suspension bridge, Euphrates river, Syria, 2009 |
Thomas Brotzler Germany Nominee "Lensbaby Street IV" Pforzheim, Germany, 2011 |
Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Contestant in 2011 Pole Dance, Australia " Ivy, pole dancer from Sydney. |
Tomasz Lewandowski Poland Nominee "Street Boxers from Sao Paulo" They do boxing at the Academia Garrido-Boxe, a social project in Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Vicki Bell Australia Nominee "Bongiorno" |
Vince Lupo USA Nominee "Untitled (4)" While visiting the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Reims, I sat on a stone bench across from this little prayer area. After a couple of minutes, this lady walked up to the little altar. She just stood there, motionless. Her hair, her dress, her white high heels all seemed to be such a contrast with the rest of the environment. I took about four shots before she walked away. I never did see her face. |
Viva Van Story USA Nominee "Bell Boy and the Mistress" |
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