Portrait - Amateur

Klaus Pfeiffer Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Success" Ambition spurred him to success.

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Dona Maria Making Art" This lady makes small objects handicraft, at Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The smile of pleasure that she expressed caught my attention.

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jayanta roy India 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Aghori " The Aghori or naga are a Shaivite Hindu sect mostly composed of ascetic sadhus They are, for instance, known to engage in post-mortem ritual, they also often dwell in charnel grounds, have been witnes

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Chiye Li China (PRC) Honorable Mention "Yi Boy" Yi people are an ethnic group in China who live primarily in rural areas in Sichuan, Yunan, Guizhou and Guangxi. This photograph was taken in Southern Sichuan Province, China, 2014.

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Trond M. Skaret Norway Honorable Mention "Dorka Framed II"

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Nick Ng Malaysia Honorable Mention "Within The Broken Window" This image was shot from outside a home of this man in the rural villages of Yunnan. It shows the poor living conditions of him.

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Mihai Chebac USA Honorable Mention "Swimming champs #7"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Honorable Mention "The stoker" In the narrow alleys of Marrakech he lives and works alone in the underground to heat the hammam in the upper floors for carriage trade and Tourists.

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Bencai Gong USA Honorable Mention "Cubans" taken in Cuba in year 2011

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Honorable Mention "Mutant" This man walked the streets of Paraty, a historical city in Brazil, covered with colored clay body. It was a very cold day.

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Sanghamitra Sarkar India Honorable Mention "Enjoying the rain together" Children enjoying with leaf of Arum in the rain

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Marco Benedetti Switzerland Honorable Mention "Papis Konez" Portrait of a Senegalese Wrestler

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Donna Pinckley USA Honorable Mention "Sara with scooter"

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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee "Consider sharp" Old man with a strange Outlook

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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee "Eritrean migrant" Artria refugee living in the desert of Sudan

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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee "The last cigarette" More than ninety years old and smoke cigarettes

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abdulrahman alterkait Kuwait Nominee "Clean eye" Clean eye

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Abhishek Dasgupta USA Nominee "Nanny" Nanny

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Alexander Kamakaev Russia Nominee "Alexandra"

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andrea ballaratti Italy Nominee "The Cook" Venice - Italy

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Anik Rahman Bangladesh Nominee "Portrait of Politics" The recent chronic violent political demonstration by the opposition allies of Bangladesh started posing threat to the lives of common people. Random usage of handmade bombs on streets forced many to

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Badescu Alexandrina Romania Nominee "My Grandfather" My grandfather at the beautiful age of 81.

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee "in the Wind"

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Mustafapasha Matron" Woman at Mustafapasha, Turkey

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Candace Casey USA Nominee "Prized Possession" An Emirate man and his beloved camels posed at the Al Dhafra Camel Festival. Al Dhafra United Arab Emirates

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Christopher Moffat Australia Nominee "The Gaurdian" Lucky he was wearing white

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Chuck Turner USA Nominee "In Motion"

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Colleen Sternberger USA Nominee "Kiowa"

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Costanza Nicolosi Italy Nominee "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride" Nowadays, it's increasingly difficult to find "the one". Here, a young "black bride" poses next to her family's wedding portraits, wondering whether she'll ever be a bride.

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Daniel Arranz Molinero Spain Nominee "The shopping bag" Indonesia

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Dave Rudin USA Nominee "Girls with Antlers, Nara, Japan, 2005"

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Don Whitebread USA Nominee "Jeddet Adham and Her Favorite Scarf, Egypt" A friend's grandmother from the small village of Aqaba in southern Egypt showing off her favorite scarf.

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Edwin Soriano USA Nominee "Civil War Soldier"

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee "Standing Woman" En route to Ladakh

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Felicia Simion Romania Nominee "The shape you're in" The woman who took the last train to Heaven.

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Gloria Golden USA Nominee "Farmer" He has little, but is happy in China's farmland.

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Grace Willan Canada Nominee "MY BEAUTY" Iconically Beautiful/ Omo Valley Ethiopia

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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee "Old woman praying"

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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee "Madagascar Belles" Beautiful girls selling snacks by the side of the road on market day, southern Madagascar

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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee "Mardin Donkey-Saddler" In the covered market in Mardin, Turkey, this man is making a saddle for a donkey

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Helen McFadden Australia Nominee "Mongolian Eagle Hunter" This young competitor is proud of his golden eagle, Golden Eagle Festival, Mongolia

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Henk Langerak Netherlands Nominee "Balinese lady"

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Iulia Iacoban Romania Nominee "The little big man"

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee "Barbie Dolls" Teenage schoolgirls gathering to dance at the Pushkar Camel Fair.

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee "My Parents" While staying in the holy city of Pushkar, India.A friend invited me to her home, where I met her family. Her father asked me to photograph him with a revered photo of his deceased parents.

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Keran Woods Australia Nominee "Thoroughbred Aussie" This bloke is 'true blue'.

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Lisa Franklin USA Nominee "Tenderloin #1"

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Lizy Manola Greece Nominee "Untitled"

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Llewellyn Douglas Jamaica Nominee "Fudgie"

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Marian Rubin USA Nominee "Tobacco Farmer, Cuba " A 93 year old tobacco farmer in Cuba.

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Marina Proniakova Russia Nominee "Smile and Laughter"

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Mario Bejagan Cardenas United Arab Emirates Nominee "Burqa" Emarati cultural tradition of women wearing the Burqa–a revered heritage worn as an embellishment: to show pride and high morality of the woman who wears it, as well as symbol of elegance & pride.

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Marius Noreger Norway Nominee "Sax"

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee "Today's the Day" Taken in Hallstatt/China a copy town of the original place in Austria where couples from all over the country come to have their photo taken.

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Mauricio Villahermosa Venezuela Nominee "This is his home" A small house in the Venezuelan Andes

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Michael Greig USA Nominee "Greig-Michael_The Fat Woman;Havana,Cuba 2013"

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Michele Taras Canada Nominee "Boy with Toy" Boy with Toy

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Michele Taras Canada Nominee "Cherri" The hard life of those living on the fringe

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Nancy Hill Canada Nominee "La feinte"

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Nikolay Smolyak Russia Nominee "People as elves"

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Oliver Stegmann Switzerland Nominee "Girl with Umbrella" Day of the Dead Festivities, Mexico, 2013

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PATRICIA DINU USA Nominee "Innocence"

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Nina"

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Philip Lawrence Australia Nominee "Village Elder" 105 year old head of family in a small village near Tabanan , Bali ,Indonesia

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Buddhist Monk" A teary eyed monk with a captivating smile in remote Ladakh

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Porus Khareghat India Nominee "Hindu Priest" A Hindu Priest stretching to to see into the distant furture

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "The street kid" Kolkata, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Muslim Lady" Hajipir, Bhuj, Gujrath, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee "Indian Village" Nandgaon, India

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Ron Cooper USA Nominee "Omaha Dancer"

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Saibal Gupta India Nominee "Tuning" Young minds unite in music.

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sankar sridhar India Nominee "drummer heralds rain" A drummer from a remote monastery in the high altitude cold desert of Ladakh declares the beginning of a harvest festival, aimed primarily at appeasing rain gods

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Sesh Sareday USA Nominee "Prayer " Eighty two year old woman from a vanishing Myanmar tribe praying to her ancestors.

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Sesh Sareday USA Nominee "Tribal enchantment" "There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me" Did Rudyard Kipling mean her or her great grand mother in his poem Back to Mandalay ?

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Shashwat Nagpal India Nominee "Pretty Lady from Tibet" Pretty Lady from Tibet, Darjeeling, India. 2014

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Stanley Padilla USA Nominee "Peru" Peru

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Speak no evil" A Masai boy through my 50mm lens

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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee "Himba Mother" A Himba mother with child - Epupa Falls, Namibia

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Tiffanie Ragasa USA Nominee "own"

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Tomasz Dziubinski Poland Nominee "Craftsman - Medina of Fez" The picture was taken in November 2010 in Fez, during my trip to Morocco.

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