Ron Cooper USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement People Amateur "Castellers" Human tower builders compete at Festival La Merce, Barcelona, Spain.

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Juan Fernando Franco Colombia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence People Amateur "Caminantes" I feel elderly people in my country Colombia have somehow a little bit of exhaustion, but they are still walking. The word "liberty" in the background prefigures their last expectations; but they are reflected, or –maybe- trapped in the mirror.

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Pekka Isomursu Finland 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction People Amateur "Warp Speed 6 at Copenhagen Metro" A long exposure from a moving subway in Copenhagen

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Ron Cooper USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Man in the Window"

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Leonid Goldin Israel Honorable Mention People Amateur "Fashionable shoes"

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Lucio Farina Singapore Honorable Mention People Amateur "Bricks" Woman piling up bricks making a wall. Backtapur, Nepal

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Alexandru Ilea Romania Honorable Mention People Amateur "Girl from Kolkata" A candid portrait of a girl from Kolkata, India

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Jed Best USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "blue scarf"

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Honorable Mention People Amateur "behind the mask" Nyau dancer in Malawi on the way to a traditional burial

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Helen McFadden Australia Honorable Mention People Amateur "Ashok Tossing Marigolds" Ashok Tossing Marigolds

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Guido Sperzaga United Arab Emirates Honorable Mention People Amateur "Memories of China" An old man still wear the Zhongshan suit, stand outside his house

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Robi Chakraborty USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "A comforting hand" A hand and a prayer on the banks of the Ganges

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention People Amateur "Castle"

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Cindy Bosveld Australia Honorable Mention People Amateur "Pipe Smoking" In the World Heritage Mud Village in Yunnan, China

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Jit Rakshit India Honorable Mention People Amateur "Spirit of festivity" A ritual,quite famous in west bengal is Dhunuchi Dance.I captured these ladies performing this ritual during Durga puja as their enthusiasm and mood attracted me.

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Vincent Morban Canada Honorable Mention People Amateur "Focused" Oblivious to my camera - studying hard

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention People Amateur "Dirty Ship Repair" Bangladesh , Dhaka

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Zsolt Repasy Hungary Honorable Mention People Amateur "Buso with the grey cattle" Man dressed as a "buso" in Southern Hungary, with traditional grey cattle in the background, in Southern Hungary

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Gillian Marshall USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Tea pickers in Assam, India" Tea pickers in one of the world-famous Assam tea plantations, India.

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Honorable Mention People Amateur "Main Street, Houston"

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Sara Babusci Italy Honorable Mention People Amateur "Fishermen" Stilt fishermen in southern Sri Lanka.

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Agnese Mosi Italy Nominee People Amateur "The tea man" A man in his tea factory

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Alex Affolter Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "Old Cuban with Washing Line"

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Alexander Atanesyan USA Nominee People Amateur "Heat" This image is in the "Pepping" series. I’ve been watching this world and trying to capture moments when people don’t know they are being photographed. And it seems to me that this way of shooting shows people in their natural and organic state in the best way.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee People Amateur "Breakdown" The roads in this region of Africa are pretty dire and unsafe and many close or wash away during the rainy season. These men were fighting the clock.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee People Amateur "Birdman" The photos I took before these birds landed show this man unsmiling and quite serious in his portrait. He lit up when the pigeons discovered him.

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Anne Fonteneau Canada Nominee People Amateur "Festival Kengtung" Myanmar

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Anne Marie Hickey USA Nominee People Amateur "The Gondolier" Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee People Amateur ""A man from Beijing""

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Antonio Zarli Italy Nominee People Amateur "Evergreen" Torsanlorenzo Beach Rome

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Belinda Keyte Australia Nominee People Amateur "Trinidad" Street photograph taken in Trinidad, Cuba

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee People Amateur "Chickens in the Dressing Room" Havana, CU

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee People Amateur "Lonely" Apt in Havana Cuba

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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee People Amateur "If I Click My Heels" This is one of those moments that the camera Gods smile at you (as long as you have your camera; you are aware of your surroundings; your mind screams "Take that picture!" and you actually do. One fra

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee People Amateur "Outback Travails, Australia"

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Carolyn Knorr USA Nominee People Amateur "Flight Dreams" Human nature is to find the thrill in flight - even for only a few minutes

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Cheng I Chan Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "Two indian men in the market" The picture is taken in Indian market that the people is full of activity.

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DeAnne Warner USA Nominee People Amateur "Yellow Slicker" The Yellow Slicker, New York, NY, November 2016.

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Deba Prasad Roy India Nominee People Amateur "SADHUS BEFORE BATH" tHE PHOTO OF THE SADHUS TAKEN IN VARANASI, INDIA.

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Dietmar Sorgatz Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Fountain of Youth" People Rejuvenating in the Infinity Pool, Singapore

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Dimo Dimov Bulgaria Nominee People Amateur "Untitled, from the series "Movable Stage"" Every day hundreds of thousands of people in Sofia get on and off the buses, tramways and trolleys of the public transport which resembles a theatre stage

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Dmitryi Chelyapin Russia Nominee People Amateur "Wet walk" Thailand. The rainy season begins.

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee People Amateur "Man With Cane" Ladakh

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Evgeny Ryzhov Russia Nominee People Amateur "Low season" Abkhazia. Like many places wich good in summer for beach vacation, in winter it stays empty.

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Evgeny Ryzhov Russia Nominee People Amateur "Keep going"

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Francisco Alcala Mexico Nominee People Amateur "Jamil Meat Shop" Inside a market in downtown Varanasi Uttar Pradesh India

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Francisco Alcala Mexico Nominee People Amateur "River Cloth Wash" The Hooghly river in Kolkata is also used to wash people's clothes

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Giuseppe Gambino Italy Nominee People Amateur "Fisherman's Hands" Fishermen of small Martinsicuro village on the Adriatic coast in Italy. The hands of a fisherman symbol of those who love the sea and have been fishing for generations.

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Grace Ho Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Take a Break" An Indian hawker is reading the newspaper beside his store at the side lane of New Delhi when he has a break.

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Gregoire A. Meyer France Nominee People Amateur "Inked" Artist Tino Kamal

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Hasan Cem Araptarli Turkey Nominee People Amateur "Gypsy 1" Pushkar Desert Gypsies, India

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Irina Spagnolo Russia Nominee People Amateur "handhelds" this photo could've been taken anywhere :)

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James Alan McClean USA Nominee People Amateur "Tokyo Izakaya" Group of salary men relaxing after work in a local Japanese izakaya, a pub smaller than the the average American kitchen.

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Jan Zychlinski Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "untitled" Stockholm Street

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Jason Lee Potter Canada Nominee People Amateur "It's My Day Off"

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Jay Hsu Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "Reflection (2)" 2girls

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Jean-Marc Felix Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "Reflections at Wadi Shab" Cooling down at the Wadi Shab

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Jed Best USA Nominee People Amateur "corner grocer"

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Jober Costa Brazil Nominee People Amateur "Reflections" Lagunas Altiplânicas / Atacama Desert - Chile

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John McGill USA Nominee People Amateur "Yellow Shirt" Yellow Shirt in the City

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Joydeep Mukherjee India Nominee People Amateur "The Burning Eye" A Man working in side a Factory where we use to check the Liquied Iron - the reflection of the fire on his specs.

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Kanishka Mukherji India Nominee People Amateur "A Spirit Still" A Muslim girl fell asleep with her pet cat while reading the biography of Malala Yousafzai.

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "Time is of no Consequence"

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Laurie McCormick USA Nominee People Amateur "Main Street Ushuaia" Main Stree Ushuaia

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Leba Marquez USA Nominee People Amateur "Curiosity" West meets East in Thailand. This meditating monk is unaware of his visitors

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Leonid Goldin Israel Nominee People Amateur "For Mercedes owners"

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Lesia Maruschak Canada Nominee People Amateur "Did I Have Brothers?" ERASURE: memory condemned

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "Trespass"

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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Tyre Man " Met this man who repair tyre in Jaisalmer India

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Lois Pierris USA Nominee People Amateur "A house in Habana Cuba" Life in Cuba in the late 1990's had been frozen in the 1950's

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luciana trappolino Italy Nominee People Amateur "INTIMITY OF HAMER FAMILY" ETHIOPIA 2017

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "On The Edge" Vendors on the top of a hill in Sapa, Vietnam

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Chatting" Woman paying a visit at friend's shop. India

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Enjoying the Sun" Elderly gathered together, enjoying the sun before it goes down

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Farming" Farmer helping a cow getting out the field. Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, China

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Balloons Vendor" a vendor on the edge of Mekong River. Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Day Out" Indian women enjoying time together. Jaisalmer, India

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Lucio Farina Singapore Nominee People Amateur "Choosing" Woman choosing a saree. Jaipur, India

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Marcel van Balken Netherlands Nominee People Amateur "Red reading hat"

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee People Amateur "Time out" City of the Arts and Sciences (Valencia, Spain)

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Mark Bugeja Malta Nominee People Amateur "Run (1)" Easter Sunday, in Malta, villages do a procession with a statue of Christ the Risen and as an old tradition, the statue bearers run with the statue. Here a statue bearer is seen preparing the way.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee People Amateur "Ready For The Round Up"

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Maryellen Aoibhell Stewart Australia Nominee People Amateur "Lost to Overkill" Too many people, too many voices, so much clutter, turning inward for solice

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Michael Paramonti Germany Nominee People Amateur "Fishermans Light" China near Guilin

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Michael Pollak USA Nominee People Amateur "Johnny get your gun"

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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee People Amateur "A worshipper in Thaipusam" Thaipusam is a traditional Hindu festival in the Tamil community. It is threatened of disappearing because less youngsters are getting involved into it

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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee People Amateur "A worshipper with hooks in Thaipusam" Thaipusam is a traditional Hindu festival in the Tamil community. It is threatened of disappearing because less youngsters are getting involved into it

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Morris Asato USA Nominee People Amateur "Geishas of Gion" Kyoto, Japan

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Morris Asato USA Nominee People Amateur "Spritual Dancer" Havana, Cuba

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Nathalie Vigini Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "Colors of the streets 2" Mexico, San Miguel del Allende

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Nicolas Desport France Nominee People Amateur "the meat market " meat market of Khon kaen Thailand ...

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Nigel Bullers Canada Nominee People Amateur "Jazz Hands" Street Jazz in New Orleans

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Nora Hartfelder Canada Nominee People Amateur "Couple" Cuba - after enjoying the waves breaking over the wall

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Ove Sandvin Norway Nominee People Amateur "Cafe in Ungarn" Café in summer The castle of Keszthely, Hungary. This was during the break during the concert.

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Pablo Madanes Argentina Nominee People Amateur "WOMEN SMOKING"

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Paul Morsey USA Nominee People Amateur "Embargoed" Young people hanging out on Havana, Cuba’s waterfront.

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The train is delayed !" Bangladesh Dhaka

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "' When is the departure ? '" Bangladesh - Dhaka

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Recycling Specialist" Bangladesh , Dhaka

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Fisherman Family" Myanmar , Nga Yoke Kaung

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Boat Builders Break - like Theater !" Bangladesh , Chittagong

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Firewood !" Bangladesh , Mangomarket

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "... for my trousers !" Bangladesh - Dhaka

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Holy Man" Bangladesh , Ship Repair - Dhaka

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "I collect Bottles !" Bangladesh - Dhaka

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Pier Luigi Altieri Italy Nominee People Amateur "Vacanze Romane" Holidays and poorness in Rome.

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Richard Zimmerman USA Nominee People Amateur "Bridging Realities"

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Roberto Alessandrini Italy Nominee People Amateur "The blacksmith" Lofoten Island

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Handpulled rickshaw" Handpulled rickshaws invented by an American for Imperial Japan was later used in China. It made its way to Calcutta where it is still in use in certain areas. The government tried to replace them by

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Robson Rogan Canada Nominee People Amateur "Symphony of Color.." Alpine Meadows in Full Color Mosaic- Sun Peaks British Columbia Canada

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Ron Cooper USA Nominee People Amateur "Doorway Chitchat"

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Ron Cooper USA Nominee People Amateur "Semana Santa Bedroom"

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Ron Cooper USA Nominee People Amateur "Yellow Sari"

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Rudolf Koenig Switzerland Nominee People Amateur "anatolian dancer"

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Sally Stevens USA Nominee People Amateur "Hints of Things to Come..." She dreams of what will be, as the future passes by...

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Sandipan Mukherjee India Nominee People Amateur "THE MAGIC SKY" This shot has been taken at the time of Eid Festival of Kolkata. The most interesting thing was the reflection of a sky at the Wind screen of a vehicle. I have got a nice position of this reflection

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Sandra Uittenbogaart Netherlands Nominee People Amateur "Sheltering from rain"

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Sheila P Morrison Canada Nominee People Amateur "Watching Him Work" Watching the work on the electrical system as soon as the rain stops. Others are avoiding the deep puddles. Street photography on Bananarama Road, Roatan, Honduras.

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee People Amateur "Umbrellas1"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee People Amateur "Umbrellas 2"

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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee People Amateur "Reflection (1)"

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SHM Mushfiqul Alam Bangladesh Nominee People Amateur "climate refugee" A woman on a raft approaches a boat for heading back to the shelter in Jamalpur, Bangladesh. Flood, tropical cyclones, river erosion are the results of the climate change. Bangladesh is at a risky poi

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee People Amateur "The Workers"

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee People Amateur "The Friends"

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Stephen Citrone Norway Nominee People Amateur "Rainbow Steps, Istanbul" A candid photograph of a lady at the rainbow steps in Istanbul.

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Stephen Wooten USA Nominee People Amateur "City Salmon"

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Stephen Wooten USA Nominee People Amateur "Crazy City Folk"

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Sunil Abraham India Nominee People Amateur "Demonetisation - In India" Captured this while the passenger was busy negotiating with the Auto driver to offer change for INR 2000. Its been few difficult months for common man to live with a mere INR 2000. It could hardly g

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Susan Jacobs USA Nominee People Amateur "By the Sea, Fog"

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Suvankar Sen India Nominee People Amateur "Devotions for god" Hindu devotee takes part in the Vel hinduism festival at West bengal,India.

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Terrance R Pack Canada Nominee People Amateur "Pack-Terrance-Introspection"

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Thomas Phoon Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "Monkey see, monkey do" You children don`t follow what you told them, they follow what you show them.

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee People Amateur "Man at station." Man at train station.

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Vincent Morban Canada Nominee People Amateur "One is the Loneliest Number" Studying hard.

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee People Amateur "The Merchants" Father and son at their store. India.

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Wayne Thornbrough USA Nominee People Amateur "Art Basel 1" Cool family at Art Basel take in the show

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Wayne Thornbrough USA Nominee People Amateur "Bad Hair Day" In the Detroit airport I came upon this scene waiting for my flight

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Wayne Thornbrough USA Nominee People Amateur "Chicago Surprise" The statue appears to be reacting to the sight of the passing pedestrian

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Wayne Thornbrough USA Nominee People Amateur "Sicily Street 2" There are clothes hanging out to dry everywhere in Italy but nowhere more so than in Sicily. I took lots of pictures of clothes hanging on our recent trip but this is my favorite

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Willa Davis USA Nominee People Amateur "The Good Life at the Beach" Mid-week break—moms take their kids to the beach.

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