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Elena Paraskeva Cyprus 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Professional "Blind Spot" |
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Magnus Laupa Sweden 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Professional "Natural light on Greta " Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: 'We've been greenwashed out of our senses. It's time to stand our ground’. |
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Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Professional "Freckles Romana #1" |
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Giuliano Koren Italy Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Red glove" Dizzi Alfons, owner of the sacher cafe in Trieste, Italy. |
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Scott McDermott USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Jeff Koons" Artist Jeff Koons as an homage to "Picasso with bread hands". |
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Magnus Laupa Sweden Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ida Johansson" Ida Johansson wakes up suddenly, opens her eyes but is quickly pushed down by two health workers. - I feel... wonder... why people can be so mean to those who are different? I´m proud of who I am. |
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Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Freckles Romana #2" |
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Jon Enoch UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The Candy Man " A candy floss (cotton candy) seller is pictured in Mumbai, India. |
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Steve Korn USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Adama" |
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Jacky Chapman UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "A fisherman's Tale" Portrait of a Shrimp Fishermen, Oostduinkerke Belgium |
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Cheraine Collette Netherlands Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ethereal" Many African people with albinism are working to raise awareness about their condition and combat the discrimination they face and try to change negative attitudes to create a more inclusive society |
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Jeff Eden UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Maria" Maria Devaney, Galleries & Exhibition Leader in front of Pip & Pop exhibition wallpaper, in RBG Kew's Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art |
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Richard Cannon UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Blind Veteran who lost his sight in conflict" Stephen Pendleton, a blind veteran who lost his sight in while serving in Northen Ireland in a helicopter crash on November 14th 1991, he was 22 years old |
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Ryan Edy UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Israel Adesanya" Portrait of The Last Stylebender Israel Adesanya, UFC middleweight Champion |
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Hector Herrera USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ballerina" |
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Jennifer Silverberg USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Annie's Bar" Interior designer, Annie Brahler, at her home bar for an editorial shoot |
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Marco Benedetti Switzerland Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The Storyteller" |
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Juan Carlos USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Afghan Cook" A traditonal food spot at the Kandahar marketplace. |
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Gemma Sains UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Pose" |
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Will Faulkner Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Khmer Life" A Khmer woman enjoying an afternoon sit down in rural Cambodia. |
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Sammy Baxter UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Colour me Beautiful" "I am worthy of love without effort and at times I choose to be creative with colour for an interesting expression of my inner child. I know that I am beautiful, the size of my lips, the colour of my |
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Pete Muller UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Barber #2" part of a personal project on tattoos |
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Hector Herrera USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Seventies" |
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Markku Lahdesmaki USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Artistic Swimmers" Artistic swimmers in sync. Rosecityraindrops from Portland OR in Palm Springs IGLA happening. |
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Jonathan Banks UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "The portrait of an unrecognised country" A plasterer takes a break from his work in Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed territory, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. It is actually governed by the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. |
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Erwin van Halteren Netherlands Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Myanmar sigar" Old women with a sigar dreaming |
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Chris McAndrew UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Sheila Atim" Sheila Atim |
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Jeff Harris USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Cabaret" |
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Annick Donkers Belgium Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Cassandro" Cassandro is a cross-dressing wrestler from El Paso, Texas.I followed him around in and outside the arena. A movie about his life will come out next year. |
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Brian Cassey Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Covid Vax & Ice Cream" After receiving a first Covid-19 vaccination in her remote Yarrabah Australia home, aboriginal Leanne Bulmer (67) sits with her 'reward' - an ice cream from the van arranged to follow medical teams. |
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Aaron Packard USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Replicant or Replican" Don't be a replicant, be a replican. Portrait of Artist Klaire A. Lockheart. |
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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Baba smoke ganja (Hemp)" In Hinduism, such fathers are considered devotees of Lord Shiva. During the great Hindu festival Shivratri festival, these Babas spend the whole day smoking ganja (Hemp) in various Shiva temples in N |
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Jerry Stevenson USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Black Messiah" |
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Michael Dorohovich Ukraine Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Hutsul Shepherd Ukraine #1" Ukraine, Transcarpathia, Rakhiv mountains, Lysa mountain - Wind rose. Hutsul shepherd - Pavlo Lazarchuk. We are convinced that we all need to talk more about the stories and traditions of shepherds, about the value of the products they make, about their attitude to the land, forest, and water. |
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Matilde Simas USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Suri Women with Lip Plate" Suri woman wearing a lip plate in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia. |
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Werner Branz Austria Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Mira" MIRA |
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Adam Regan UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Prospect and Hope" Shoot for CD of the same name |
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Adri Berger Laos Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of Daria" |
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Adrienne Maples USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The Antiquated Journalist" The evolution of the 24 hour news cycle has made true journalists irrelevant. When 'breaking news' is a mere headline the truth becomes lost and so do the people who tell it. |
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Ale Ruaro Brazil Nominee Portrait Professional "Ono" A portrait of love |
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Anand Sharan India Nominee Portrait Professional "An overwhelmed bride!" A Bali wedding is celebrated over 3 full days. |
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Avarino Caraco Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "No time to die" The day I learned of my sister's major illness I had her English grammar book in my hand. Art had saved my life in the past, so I chose to exorcise death by making my sister's book become a tree again |
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Brian Cassey Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Scooter" Swim Paralympian Grant “Scooter†Patterson has diastrophic dysplasia, a disability connected to dwarfism. He gained planet wide cult hero status when he won swim medals at the Tokyo Paralympics. |
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Carl Pinnington UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Caterwaul" Image taken from an experimental portrait shoot 'Underwater Scream'; the Model is Dan Mills, MUA: Jennifer Douglas |
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Carsten Fleck Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Meaning of Life" This shot was taken while I was working on a project with elderly people. I could not get any expression out of this women but just when the next person was getting ready to take her portrait and I had kind of given up, I asked her what the meaning of life is to her. She completely transformed, lit up and said "Jesus !" and smiled. In that moment this image was taken. To me this photograph represents the power meaning gives to our lives. |
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Cees Rijnen Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Sensitive" A portrait of mix cultural woman, with naturally sensitive clothes. Made with a mix of photographic techniques. |
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Charlie Lim Singapore Nominee Portrait Professional "Eryannie and Daughter" |
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Cheraine Collette Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "We Are One" Many African people with albinism are working to raise awareness about their condition and combat the discrimination they face and try to change negative attitudes to create a more inclusive society |
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Christian Mushenko Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Hearts and Bones #1" In 5 seconds of touch, all the worlds mysteries are felt. Hearts and bones become one. Unspoken expressions communicating more truth than the words we speak. |
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Clark James Mishler USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Auto Mechanic" Chief Auto Mechanic Curtis McBurney stands in the service bay at Cheda's Garage (established 1923) at Point Reyes Station (population 350), CA. |
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Dana Hursey USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Practice" |
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David Nienow USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The Black Queen Formal Portrait" Model: Marlyn Mason |
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Ellen Friedlander USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of Rollence" This portrait was captured with a digital pinhole lens. |
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Felice Boucher USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Ready For Flight" |
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Gemma Sains UK Nominee Portrait Professional "37.7 Million People Live With HIV" |
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Gemma Sains UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Acceptance" |
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Gerard Luthi Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Sourires ouzbeques" Double portrait, le visage réel et son image sur l'écran du téléphone. |
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Guy Farrow UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Lock down" LOCK DOWN |
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Isabella Bejarano USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Andrea Up Close" Andrea Carrazco in NY |
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Jaap Bijsterbosch Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Self Portrait in moving train" Amersfoort (NL)- Apeldoorn (NL) 22/4/21 10.36 am |
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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee Portrait Professional "Tatoo men" |
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Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Rosa" |
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Jennifer Silverberg USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Sarina" Dancer, Sarina |
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Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Sarah" |
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Jeroen Nieuwhuis Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Bloody Butcher #2" Following the iconic Schorem Barber, Robert Rietveld a.k.a. The Bloody Butcher, through a night across Rotterdam |
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Jeroen Nieuwhuis Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Boer Gerrit" Boer Gerrit (Farmer Gerrit), 75 years old, is about the last farmer in Usselo, the Netherlands, to do it the old-fashioned way. There used to be 80 around the area, now he is the last one. |
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Jerry Stevenson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Circle of Life" |
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Jerry Stevenson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Rock-A-Billy" |
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Joao Carlos Portugal Nominee Portrait Professional "Rainha Catarina de Austria " The painter António Moro, certainly with the permission of the queen, painted a fly resting on the handkerchief of His Royal Highness, to symbolize that as flies land anywhere, death and suffering do |
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Jon Shard UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Tyson Fury" World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury |
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Jon Shard UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Miguel" American singer Miguel |
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Kate Turning USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Brave" Brave. Everything behind her-facing it all alone. |
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Krzysztof Werema Poland Nominee Portrait Professional "Toposa scarf" Toposa are nilotic tribe. They make scarfs on their bodies. This woman has dots on the face, probably made by punctures with a contaminated needle, the wound then swells in the form of a scar |
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Laura Jean Zito Ireland Nominee Portrait Professional "The Confession Box" Outside a pub in Dublin, Ireland, "The Confession Box," a man's red face evokes that which needs confessing, and the blue wall the grief and sadness that which needs confessing encourages.. |
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Marco Benedetti Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Castle Stories" |
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Markku Lahdesmaki USA Nominee Portrait Professional "PowWow" Peak time at ATM. Thunder and lightning POW WOW in my neighborhood. A happening so beautiful, one with a camera should not miss. I saw a mobile ATM tent with three white walls and a ceiling, a pop up |
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Michael Dorohovich Ukraine Nominee Portrait Professional "Hutsul Shepherd Ukraine #2" Ukraine, Transcarpathia, Rakhiv mountains, Lysa mountain - Wind rose. Hutsul shepherd - Pavlo Lazarchuk. We are convinced that we all need to talk more about the stories and traditions of shepherds, about the value of the products they make, about their attitude to the land, forest, and water. |
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Michael Dorohovich Ukraine Nominee Portrait Professional "Hutsul Shepherd Ukraine #3" Ukraine, Transcarpathia, Rakhiv mountains, Lysa mountain - Wind rose. Hutsul shepherd - Pavlo Lazarchuk. We are convinced that we all need to talk more about the stories and traditions of shepherds, about the value of the products they make, about their attitude to the land, forest, and water. |
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Michaelle Chapoteau USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Miss Siyann" Living in Color. |
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Mirella Boot Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "True self" Shake off the shadows and make the jump |
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Miriam Bennouna Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Herr Naseweis" |
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Nancy Scherl USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Villagers Night Out" From my DINING ALONE In the Company of Solitude series and monograph, these two elders are depicted as being strong and independent to 'dine alone' in public. They are separated in their own booths. |
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Nancy Scherl USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Yellow Carnations" Flower man offers one his yellow carnations. Kerala, India |
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NH W UK Nominee Portrait Professional "The Trumpeter" A performer at Giffords Circus July 2020 |
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Nunzia Borrelli Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Mother" |
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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Night Rider" |
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Pal Hansen UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Dame Joan Collins" Dame Joan Collins (89) photographer at her home in Saint Tropez, France |
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Patrick Ryan South Africa Nominee Portrait Professional "Charlotte" Strength and fragility go hand in hand within ourselves and often trust in others determines how we develop these. |
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Pete Muller UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Pool dude #1" part of a personal project on tattoos |
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Peter Arnold UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Karen Tribe Longneck 10" KAREN TRIBE |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Bob" Dubin, Ireland |
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Roy Pope USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Nancy's Portrait" A Spirit, or Ghost in the wall; Hotel Congress, Tucson Friday September 30, 2022 |
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Salvatore Valente Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Paternity" Africa occ Benin un giovane di etnia somba con il figlio |
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Studio Fine Line Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Before it gets chaotic #1" Internal conflict : The only necessity in life is breathing, otherwise it stops. The feeling that so many things are expected of you, the constant strive for more and more. A constant doubt, too much |
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Takamasa Honda Japan Nominee Portrait Professional "Mother" The man wears my mother's pearls. I shot with high-speed film in low natural light. It is a beautiful and powerful portrait work of a middle-aged man with accessories. |
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Tamara Walther Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Gust" Drifting into surreality |
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Terri Gold USA Nominee Portrait Professional "A Coney Island Mermaid" I'm going to change the world but today, I'll just be a mermaid... |
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Thomas Chadwick USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Gold Pants #2" Terence & the Gold Pants 2 |
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Thomas Chadwick USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Gold Pants #3" Terence & the Gold Pants 3 |
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Ton Dirven Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Old and wise" |
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Tony Gale USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Actor portrait #4" Actor portrait |
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Tony Gale USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Model" Portrait in Sun Valley |
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Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of a dancer" |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "Bio" RamTom |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "Bekki" Bekki |
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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "Mona Isla" Mona Isla |
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Will Faulkner Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Barbed Wire" Taking this photograph was easy... I just spent years befriending the local people, learnt their language and culture, married a local woman, brought her back to my country, taught her my language an |