Miriam Ramalho Brazil 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Amateur "Tomato Seller" At Dantokpa Market, Cotonou, Benin, this girl was selling tomatoes and nothing bothered her to take the task so seriously. (2019)

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Josef Buergi Switzerland 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Amateur "Toposa woman" Woman from the Toposa tribe, South Sudan

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Remo Camerota USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Amateur "Ai Wei Wei " Ai Wei Wei Polaroid Triptych Portrait Relaxing between show set ups, Los Angeles

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Jack Weingarten USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Sophisticated Lady" Sophisticated Lady

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Susan Langer USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Reflection"

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Chun Wang USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Self Portrait "

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Vladimir Karamazov Bulgaria Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "As in the past" This is a former commando who has held a weapon all his life. He is now retired and teaches other people how to be good soldiers.

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Vladimir Karamazov Bulgaria Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Our fathers" This is a man I met in the mountains in my country. He is a typical representative of more than one generation that no longer exists. Strong, smart, tough, who is not afraid of work and never speaks i

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Annemarie Spilker Netherlands Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Selfportrait in Church" Selfportrait in Church

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Gillian Marshall USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Bonda Woman, Orissa, India" This woman of India's Bonda tribe carries banana leaves, which will be used for cooking or food-serving; they are also used for decorative or symbolic purposes in numerous Hindu ceremonies.

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Emma Brick United Arab Emirates Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away" This self-portrait was taken during the pandemic lockdown, when access to other people as subjects for photography was limited. The fun pink colour contrasts with the serious nature of the lockdown.

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Kirsty Collister Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Cigar Maker" Cigar Maker in Little Havana, Miami, USA

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Calcutta, Center #4" Holy man , waiting for customers

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Belle Verdiglione Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Zsuzsa" This photo was taken shortly after Zsuzsa escaped her partner for domestic violence. She is 20 weeks pregnant.

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Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Qatar Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Blue Fingers" Nikon D750 with 24-70mm lens , ISO 100 , F4 , 1/60s

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Damaso Avila Spain Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "African Music" I present a photo that I took of one of the members of the Senegalese dance musical group "Hermanos Thioune", during a performance in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)

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Vladimir Karamazov Bulgaria Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "One cigarette" In Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard, one of the characters says the following line: "How nice it is to smoke a cigarette in the fresh air." I uttered this line and the director loaded this sentence w

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James Meldrum USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Portrait in Red and Green"

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Aengus MacNeil USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Hollywood Carnie 3" Portraits of the below the Line workers on Commercial Film sets in Hollywood

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Poultry Guy" Poultry seller in a busy street at Dhaka in Bangladesh.

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Angie Conti Malta Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Devotion" An elderly woman in nepal spins prayer wheels in a Bhudist temple

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Jhinku Banerjee India Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "The Highand Lass" A drokpa lady from the Aryan Valley of Ladakh welcomes guests at her homestay with tea. She is wearing their traditional dress as she was performing in a community dance when we arrived there.

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Ronald Dunlap USA Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Guide, Fatehpur Slkri, India"

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Raymond Williams Canada Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Piercing Eyes" The piercing eyes of this Australian Indigenous elder holds a wealth of history.

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Prashanta Hridoy Bangladesh Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Circus Girl" Swarna (13 years old) is a circus girl. She shows game in circus. She is taking preparation to play in front of spectators. Bangladesh.

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Calcutta #13" blind and deaf - my way home

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Ann Prochilo Malta Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "Barumbara 1" Barumbara (Maltese for dovecote) is our home, a tower where pigeons once came to roost. Now, the eagle is in the dovecote. Covid wreaks havoc. I've gone feral, wing-frayed and flightless in paradise.

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention Portrait Amateur "St. Martin Island, Bangladesh #1" My rest !

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Aengus MacNeil USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Hollywood Carnie" Portraits of the below the Line workers on Commercial Film sets in Hollywood

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Alex Tsarfin Israel Nominee Portrait Amateur "Girl with Thistle Blossoms" I was always attracted by the clarity of eye contact. Eye contact goes beyond the original image and allows to establish this personal connection.

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Allan Maxwell USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Scarlett" Scarlett

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Angie Conti Malta Nominee Portrait Amateur "Granny" An elderly village woman pensively tries to fit in to the city life around her.

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Portrait Amateur "Jonathan"

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee Portrait Amateur "Lullaby"

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Brian Hunt Canada Nominee Portrait Amateur "Brantford Police Officer" Remembrance Day during the pandemic

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Budd Parker USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "New Orleans Dancer"

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Carole Usdan USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "marre"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Portrait Amateur "The Kite Flyer" A portrait of Thomas the expert Kite flyer looking at his kite as it surges into the skies.

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Chun Wang USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Metaphor" Coffin Womb. Life Death Rebirth. Fear Anxiety Beauty? A representation, a statement, a moment to pause?

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Dana Zubaid Kuwait Nominee Portrait Amateur "Huli Hues" A Huli Wigman at the Mt. Haagen Festival in Papua New Guinea

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Diane Waldron USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Campesino" Visiting Vinales, Cuba, and met this charming tobacco farmer.

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Diane Silverman USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Burma Cigar"

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Elaine Klein Israel Nominee Portrait Amateur "Lost" From a series exploring male vulnerability

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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Michael" A Garden of a Man

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Gabriela Landa USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Like a flower" Amid an earthy environment, away from the public eye, like a flower within nature, sits a woman, proudly identifying with her people's attire. Like a second skin, symbolising Maya blood and DNA.

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Disbelief" Young girl from Kauai Village

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Henri Mattocks Malta Nominee Portrait Amateur "Busker and Son" Making people happy is one of the joys of life.

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Hugh Jones USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Interiors"

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Jack Weingarten USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Dresden Doll" Dresden Doll

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JT Schube USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Pickles"

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Kathleen Gerber USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Living at the Yangon Fish Market" The markets in Myanmar are thriving eventful scenes. The San Pya Fish market is a thriving market open from 2:00 to 8:00 am. This image shows a family living in a shipping container within this chaos.

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Keith Manning USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Happy Bride" Happy Bride literally glowing

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Kit Yeung Hong Kong Nominee Portrait Amateur "Orchid"

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Lana Williams Canada Nominee Portrait Amateur "Music on Fire" A London street musician is playing with fire as he belts out tunes on the tuba

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Manish K. Gupta, P.E., Ph.D"

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "The Buddhist Bard of Thrushwood Lake (Poet Dick Allen)"

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee Portrait Amateur "Feeling Gravity's Pull"

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Lois Alexander-Mandel USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Masked Pro"

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Louise Pedno USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Tea time" Tea, Amazigh style, Morocco

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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Nominee Portrait Amateur "Kayan woman" Myanmar - Rings are today, for kayan women, a symbol of beauty.

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Marc Olthoff Netherlands Nominee Portrait Amateur "Ballet"

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee Portrait Amateur "Mirela"

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Marion Rodgers Australia Nominee Portrait Amateur "Player" We were fellow travellers waiting to return on the ferry from Stradbroke Island to mainland Australia

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Martin Babarik Slovakia Nominee Portrait Amateur "Humility" Mr. Stefan Wolf from Slovakia

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee Portrait Amateur "Reeperbahn"

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Rachel" The freckles make this image. Beautiful young lady heading to college.

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Mimmi Moretti Italy Nominee Portrait Amateur "The Starbucks girl"

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Niklaus Fringeli Switzerland Nominee Portrait Amateur "Nelly 1"

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Paul Kessel USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "mother and daughter" Mother and Daughter

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Paul David Shea USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Submerged" Drowning in a kaleidoscope of colors

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Pei-Yi Cheng Taiwan Nominee Portrait Amateur "FiFi"

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Portrait Amateur "Coming from the river " Togo, Benin

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Portrait Amateur "Strong Woman" Togo, Benin

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Portrait Amateur "Angola Tribes #5" Taking care of the goats

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Portrait Amateur "Bangladesh, Cox Basar #2" "It smells"

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Rafael Perdomo USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Memorable Captain" Memorable Captain

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Ronald Dunlap USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "The Artist: Guillermo Bert"

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Ronald Dunlap USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "Lumbermen, Jaipur, India"

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Sasha Sobol USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "portrait"

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "The Grandmother" Masai Grandmother, Southern Kenya

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Sonia Costa Italy Nominee Portrait Amateur "First sun rays " First feeble sun rays after a long winter in lockdown. January 2021

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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee Portrait Amateur "Masai Woman" Masai woman standing in the doorway of her family hut.

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Susan Brandt Graham USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "My Path"

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Taryn Birrer USA Nominee Portrait Amateur "McKenna" McKenna is an avid book reader and exuberant personality

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Terry Self Canada Nominee Portrait Amateur "Haircut?" A barber waiting for customers in Havana, Cuba

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Zuzu Valla Slovak Republic Nominee Portrait Amateur "One eye queen " OLIVIA DEANE Chance took her eye: at 12 years old, she had an eye test done, out of jealousy of her sister’s new glasses. The optician saw a dark mass in her right eye and Olivia was directed to sev

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