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Ewa Cwikla Netherlands 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Professional "Annemiek" |
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Arnaud Gras France 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Professional "Alone" Alone |
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Kremer Johnson USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Professional "Xavier" A portrait of Xavier Jimenez |
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Edwin Loyola Philippines Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Baste" |
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Jo Hanley UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Pacey" Pacey lost in music |
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Lubos Vtik Slovak Republic Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "my door" |
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Kah Poon USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Nya Kong" ‘Black is Beautiful’. Like Yin and Yang, the shadows and highlights each have their own important role to play. |
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Ewa Cwikla Netherlands Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Papier-mache " |
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Wee Seng Goh Singapore Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "grassman" the grassman with his load of weeds, blandign well with the brown background |
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Zarko Ivetic Denmark Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Early Sunday" |
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Simon Brown UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Marias Yellow Kitchen, Sashiz" The Vanishing Villages of Saxon Romania |
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Guy Farrow UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "remington" beard trend photography |
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Kristian Piccoli Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Azure" |
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Anoush Abrar Switzerland Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Christopher Walken" |
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John Rae USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Maternal Healthcare in Northern Kenya" This pregnant woman had walked for hours in the desert to get to the nearest health care clinic. |
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Carol Allen-Storey UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Florette from a series Out of the Shadows" Florette from a series Out of the Shadows “I met my boyfriend in church, we got close and ended up making love, it was spontaneous. I missed my period and suspected I was pregnant. At the clinic the |
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Kremer Johnson USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Aaron from Chinatown" Aaron Louie in the kitchen of this Chinatown apartment, which he shares with 11 other people. |
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Alain Schroeder Belgium Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The Last Lady Divers I" Anja Son, 76 years old, comes from Myeonsu-dong village. She puts her gloves on and then her hood. As she adjusts her hood she is careful not to tear the delicate rubber suit. Jeju island, known for |
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Samantha Everton Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Khan Dong" From the Series ''INDOCHINE'' The women captured are torn between the cultural values and expectations of their times and a deep interior struggling towards individuality. |
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Ingeborn Kuypers Belgium Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Che Guevara of Congo" Portraits of a forgotten part of Congo "Kahemba" |
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Kristian Piccoli Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Mr Ha" |
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Tim Tadder USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Portrait Study, 1 of 4" |
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Nancy Ney USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Girl in Pink Scarf" Taken at the Turkana festival near Lake Turkana in Kenya |
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Chris Kirby UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The Shabeen Owner" Shabeens are illegal drinking houses in South Africa. Matriarchal older women often run them as they have the respect of the young, who often become drunken and unruly. |
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Jeff Johnson USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The Observer" This fine gentleman was just sitting on his doorstep in Central Havana, Cuba watching the world pass by. |
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Simon Brown UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ianos Sitting On Green Bench, Messendorf" The Vanishing Villages of Saxon Romania |
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Matilde Simas USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Growing up Female in Maasai Society" Female genital mutilation (FGM) is an invasive and cruel act that is done to girls and women with no medical reasoning behind it. This procedure is viewed as a cultural tradition and is usually carried out on girls ranging in age from newborns to 15 years old. It is estimated that 92 million girls 10 and up, have undergone female genital mutilation in Africa. I learned about FGM, in a Woman's Studies during college. I thought, like others in my class, that FGM was a horrific crime against young girls and would be stopped. Sadly, that was 24 years ago and the practice exists still today. I hope this image brings awareness to this issue by informing others and brings about social change. |
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Jose Luis Lopez de Zubiria Spain Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Santos" Once the photo for the TXARRIBODA project was finished, ... we could not resist the temptation to make a portrait to the art director. His name is Santos, which in Spanish means saint. I put wings on |
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Adolfo Enriquez Calo Spain Nominee Portrait Professional "ninety three" |
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Aimee Hoving Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Elly" From a work in progress series of photos. A collaboration between mother and daughter. |
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Alain Schroeder Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Miracle Mud" Techirghiol, is a small Romanian town on the Black Sea famous for its therapeutic mud. The thick black mud (highly-concentrated sediment rich in organic matter) found at the bottom of the lake is part |
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Alan Kent UK Nominee Portrait Professional "N.Y.C. Dandy" |
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Alice Healy Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Peruvian Portrait " On a journey between Arequipa and Chivay in Peru I met this gorgeous woman at a road side tea stop. |
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Annick Donkers Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Jazz" The photo is part of my series about Olson Joseph, a Jazz Musician from Haiti living and working in Mexico City (2018) |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Medicine Man" I took this photo in Uganda when I was traveling through a remote village. This man was the medicine man of the village. He had just finished showing me his plants & herbs that he used for his patient |
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Antonio Peinado Spain Nominee Portrait Professional "Gender in Red" Reflection on whether the woman needs to be beautiful to be fashionable and have social acceptance or if she wants to be beautiful and glamorous to be herself. |
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Asa Deleau Wiklund Sweden Nominee Portrait Professional "Homeless" |
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Beate Walden USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Self Portrait" I am searching for who I am. Am I pretty, good, horrible, weird, open, nothing or everything? Maybe I am like water, dissolving in the flow, slowly, only ever seeing a mirror of myself. |
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Becky Fleury Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Glam Squad" |
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Britta Radike Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Saudi Women Doctor" Between the black Abajas in Saudi Arabia, there is a small pink area at the women department of King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah. |
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Charlie Lim Singapore Nominee Portrait Professional "Mother and Child" |
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Chieko Tanemura USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Oiran Girl" |
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Chris McAndrew UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Chloe Pirrie" Actress Chloe Pirrie shot in London on a cold winters day. |
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Clark James Mishler USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Flynn Creek Circus, 2018" "We call this the Toaster." -Sen Snyder stands in the door of her mobile home with the Flynn Creet Circus at Point Arena, CA. |
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Cristina Venedict Romania Nominee Portrait Professional "the artist my muse" |
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Debbra Ross Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Katrina" One day I will make it |
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Dragos-Radu Dumitrescu Romania Nominee Portrait Professional "Jodhpur, India" Wandering the streets of Jodhpur during the night. |
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Durga Garcia USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Mother and Daughter" Mother and daughter with pond reflection |
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Dylan Collard UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Creative Women: Laurence" Creative Women is an ongoing project celebrating female strength, creativity and identity in all walks of life. |
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Eduardo Soler USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Twins (1)" While visiting the town of Batea, south of Barcelona. I noticed two men walking together, twins! I really wanted to take their picture. Three days later I came back to town and took their portrait. |
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Eduardo Loria Costa Rica Nominee Portrait Professional "Light My Fire" Potrait for Octavio Sanchez Life Coach. We use real fire for the shoot. |
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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee Portrait Professional "Mang Baste " |
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Els Zweerink Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Bart de Backer" portrait of Bart de Backer. Senior head of Hugo menswear design. |
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Emanuel Tosi Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Ana For Q.Esse" Model: Ana Tacu Hair: Costantino De Tommaso |
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Eric Miller South Africa Nominee Portrait Professional "Railroad Portraits Hutchinson" Maria Maseti in her kitchen. |
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Ewa Cwikla Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Vincent" |
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Ewa Cwikla Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Skip" |
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Giuliano Koren Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Blufran" Enrica Carretti, product manager at Marina Rinaldi. |
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Glenn Miller USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Tribal Tradition" The women of the Padaung Tribe, now found in northern Thailand, are famous for an unusual adornment. They employ brass rings to create the visual illusion of longer, stretched necks. While the necks of the Padaung women do not actually grow longer, the weight of the rings pushes their shoulders down, thereby creating the illusion. For the Padaung, who were once persecuted in their country of origin, Burma (Myanmar), this adornment is a defining characteristic of their culture and despite the pain and deformation caused by the rings, it is considered to be an essential element of beauty. This tradition has been a symbol of their society. I was privileged to spend time with this wonderful woman and her child. I wanted to share this moment by presenting this photo to the world in her honor. |
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Hans Zeegers Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Twins (2)" Brooklyn NY |
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Hasan Cem Araptarli Turkey Nominee Portrait Professional "Lady ın Red" Gypsies originated in India over one thousand years ago and a few still remain living the nomadic lifestyle. Gypsies cannot be forced to conform to the rules of modern life. |
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Hasan Cem Araptarli Turkey Nominee Portrait Professional "Gypsy Woman with Camel" Gypsies originated in India over one thousand years ago and a few still remain living the nomadic lifestyle. Gypsies cannot be forced to conform to the rules of modern life. |
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Hasan Cem Araptarli Turkey Nominee Portrait Professional "Angry" Gypsies originated in India over one thousand years ago and a few still remain living the nomadic lifestyle. Gypsies cannot be forced to conform to the rules of modern life. |
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Isabel Corthier Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Afrikaburn 1" Afrikaburn is a festival organized in the semi-desert of the Karoo national park in South Africa, and created by the participants to form a temporary city of art, dance, music and performance. |
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Jack Savage UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Tyler" A picture of my friend from the local football team I play in - Tyler |
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Jack Dzamba (Dziamba) USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Ode to Charis" Ode to Charis |
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Jason Knott UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Melissa" Melissa late afternoon |
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Jason Joyce UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Happy Hour with Duran Duran" Very sore head after this shoot. |
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Jeff Buchanan Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "I Will Survive" Lindsay is still fighting for her life and has never given up. |
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Jens Ellensohn Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "Writer Stefan" Hmm... |
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Jo Elliott New Zealand Nominee Portrait Professional "George 2" My image "George 2" was shot after she had come back from a personally empowering journey overseas. The grey winter light made the colours jump, and accentuated the colour of her eyes against the garage door. I loved the directness of her expression. |
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Joakin Fargas Argentina Nominee Portrait Professional "Cosechador N5" An invisible worker who harvest grapes by hand for Argentina's most expensive wines |
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Johannes Knuth Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Big Apple Lil Moments" From the series "big apple lil moments" |
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John Janssen Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Elia" Portrait of Eljero George Rinaldo Elia. Famous Dutch soccer player |
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Jonathan Banks UK Nominee Portrait Professional "A Portrait of Light" A portrait of the Cypriot lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, pictured in thought with his creation called “Amaâ€. |
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Jos Verhoogen Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Golden Flowers" Fine Art portrait, Grand Mothers dress, studiosetting, |
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Josephine Roberte Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Rock Star" The image of my portrait 'The Rock Star' has great meaning for me as it was a man who didn't know his talents and who could of gone onto bigger and better things in life. He was charming and playful, I applied lipstick to his lips put my scarf around his shoulders to add more colour. This was taken a few months before his death in 2018. He died at 55 years. A great tragedy and a great loss for his family and friends. |
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Judith Orr USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Cigar Artist" |
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Karsten Thormaehlen Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Sigurgeir, at age 99" 99-years old Sigurgeir, from the book â€Aging Gracefully", Reykjavic, Iceland |
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Kate Turning USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Cheff" Portrait of a Mexican Chef for GastroVino food and wine festival. His gastro style :"Use all the Parts." |
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Kingsley Burton Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Kyoto Maiko" Kyoto Maiko |
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Kristian Piccoli Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "The Harpist" |
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Lee Gordon USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Audacity" Audacity late evening |
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Lenghi Teng Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "When I open my eyes I" |
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Lenghi Teng Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "When I open my eyes II" |
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Madhur Shroff India Nominee Portrait Professional "Enlightenment" NATURAL LIGHT PLAY WONDERS WHILE SHOOTING A MONK IN A ROOM WITH SMOKE FROM ISENCE STICKS |
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Marjorie Lord Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Vaudeville Performers" We all need a good laugh at ourselves. |
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Martin Zurmuhle Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Tanja Relaxing" |
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Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic Nominee Portrait Professional "Romana" |
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Matt Carr USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kendy, Industry City" |
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Michael Pollak USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Cookie" Study of a female Rap Star |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Gypsy at the Pushkar" &am at the Pushkar festival in Rajasthan, India |
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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Varanasi Begger" Varanasi India |
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Nick Dolding UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Emile" Emile for Paypal |
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Olga Nebot Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Pedro" From my personal Street Photography collection, met Pedro as he was coming out the Tattoo studio in the Bronx, and he was more that happy to show me his Virgen of Guadalupe (as known is Mexico) |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Theyyam God" This is one of the most important celebration in Kerala, India |
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Pal Hansen UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Sir Robin Knox" The first man to single handedly circumnavigate the world on a boat, without stopping or setting foot on land. |
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Pascal Curtil France Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait Party" Portrait party is a series of photographs dedicated to fun and surprising portraits |
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Patrick Desgraupes France Nominee Portrait Professional "Director of the Museum" Direction of the Museum shot in Provence-France |
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Peter Nitsch Thailand Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of Marlene" Portrait of Marlene Thaler |
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Peter Hoennemann Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Andrew" Andrew by Peter Hoennemann |
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Piers Golden UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Tomorrow I will dress for Success " Senegalese Boat Builder takes a break from building a Pirogue |
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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "Johan Leysen" Actor Johan Leysen |
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Quinn Russell Brown USA Nominee Portrait Professional "DeRay Mckesson 2" A portrait of Civil Rights activist DeRay Mckesson, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement. |
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Quinn Russell Brown USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Flawless Kevin" Flawless Kevin, a fast-talking, colorfully dressed social media star, films YouTube skits and Instagram makeup transformations to talk about LGBTQ issues. |
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Quinn Russell Brown USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Dan Rather" Legendary newscaster Dan Rather, photographed on tour for his 2017 book "What Unites Us." |
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Rebecca Handler USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Ari Merkin " |
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Richard Cannon UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Flin Knapper" 77 Year old John Lord still works as a Flint knapper, breaking up flint rock in his garden. John is one of the very few people in Britain still applying his craft. |
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Robert Piccoli Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Imprint" |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Myanmarese " Myanmarese man with thanaka, Yangon, Myanmar |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Man from Varanasi" Varanasi, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The monk" Hindu Female Monk, India |
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Ross Deverson Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Screaming colour" Local Indonesian woman |
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Sebastien Vincent France Nominee Portrait Professional "Teo Yoo" Korean actor Teo Yoo, during Cannes Film festival. |
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Simon Brown UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Mrs Hudea In Her Kitchen, Mosna" The Vanishing Villages of Saxon Romania |
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Simon Brown UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Old Woman Sitting, Twighlight, Daia" The Vanishing Villages of Saxon Romania |
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Simon Stock UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Maasai Warriors, Kenya" Maasai Warriors, Kenya Photographed after 3 years living in the bush on walkabout. |
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Songquan Deng USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Man with vintage camera" Man with vintage camera at subway platform from New York Vintage Train Festival, USA |
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Steve Turner Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Lady In Hat" Shot On I Phone |
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Stuart Chape Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Felix 1" |
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Tim Tadder USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Glow, 1 of 2" From our Glow series, exploring light, shadow, shape and tone. |
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Tim Tadder USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait Study, 4 of 4" |
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Tinna Björk Ólafsdóttir Iceland Nominee Portrait Professional "Afghan Bistro Boys" Refugees posing in hats made of coffee packages. |
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Tom Atwood USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Alan Cumming, Actor" From 'Kings & Queens in Their Castles', portraits of LGBTQ Americans at home, more at: www.tomatwood.com/kings-queens |
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Ton Dirven Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "InRed" |
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Tony Gale USA Nominee Portrait Professional "California" Portrait in California |
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Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee Portrait Professional "Dance is the hidden language of the soul" |
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Wee Seng Goh Singapore Nominee Portrait Professional "hardened iron" the old trade of iron hardening |