Elaine Klein Israel 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Portrait Professional "birds of a feather"

---

Isabella Bejarano USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Portrait Professional "Drew in Miami" Drew Baptiste at sunset in Miami Beach

---

Brian Cassey Australia 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Portrait Professional "George at the Bus Stop" I met George during a fleeting minute walking past a bus stop. Made a couple of frames and George got on his bus and left. A google search found he was prominent aboriginal Elder Dr George Skeene OAM.

---

Sammy Baxter UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Protection " Protected by inflation. Comfortable in protective clothing.

---

Joe McNally USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "VISITING OLD MEMORIES" A portrait at the gateway to America. Margaret Sellers poses on Ellis Island, holding the ID card she had when she arrived from Scotland at the age of two. This picture was made when she was 92.

---

William Coupon USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Jean Michel Basquiat" Jean Michel Basquiat

---

David Boni UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Sushi Chef"

---

Jonathan Oakes UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Molly"

---

Brian Cassey Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "100 Years & 3 Weeks - Alf Neal OAM" 100 year old Yarrabah Elder Alf Neal OAM with his great great grandson Kailan 3 weeks. In 2019 Alf was awarded ‘Medal of the Order of Australia’ (OAM) for ‘Service to the Aboriginal community'

---

Nicolo Sertorio USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Bishop Terrence Millican" Bishop Terrence Millican inside his church

---

Elaine Klein Israel Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "board surfing"

---

David Boni UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Anthony"

---

Jeff Harris USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Cabaret " Cabaret - From a fashion series based on the film, Cabaret

---

Samuel Hicks UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ollie" This image is from my series title Wilding. Loosely based on that the sitter had created their own personal wild space.

---

Josue Deziga Mexico Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Frozen in Time" Self-portrait in the middle of a snow storm on my way to get COVID tested.

---

Caesar Lima USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Polly" Portrait of Polly

---

Sveta Butko Israel Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Lia"

---

Nancy Scherl USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Busboy" This busboy looks out into the nighttime as he works the graveyard shift

---

David Boni UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Crystal"

---

Paul David Shea USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Eyes Wide Shut" See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

---

Joe McNally USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "A FARMER'S LOVE" An elderly farmer in Provence holding his prized lavender crop.

---

Thomas Chadwick USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Dorian" Dorian & the green top

---

Steffen Hofemann Germany Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "JAEL I" Jael looking in the camera

---

Veronique Vial USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "taken by color" this is a portrait I did in Paris of a sad girl who needed color in her life. color is visual therapy for me.

---

Tom Zimberoff USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Portrait of Paul D. Gibson" Series of San Francisco Artists

---

Richard Cannon UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "A.N. Wilson" Writer AN Wilson

---

Amy Gaskin USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "My Inner Marilyn: 'You'll Be Surprised..." My Inner Marilyn: “You’ll be surprised how many Black women love Marilyn. Marilyn was one of the first people to help Ella Fitzgerald get a performing job and Marilyn promised to show up every nig

---

Tom Zimberoff USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Ballerinas" Portrait of Principal Dancers of the San Francisco Ballet

---

Peter Arnold UK Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "LAST OF THE FEW 2" SO PROUD AND SO STRONG. BUT IS IT GOODBYE ?

---

Ben Yew Australia Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Prayer" Resilience

---

Robi Chakraborty USA Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Aghori Sanyasi" Aghoris are an ascetic Shaivite clan, they practice tantra. Varanasi, India

---

Shankar Subramanian India Honorable Mention Portrait Professional "Moustache Man" Moustache Man, Rajasthan, India

---

Aaron Anderson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Yellow" The man, the myth, the legend.

---

Adriana Escalante USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Solitary Serenity Under the Sunset Twilight-2"

---

Ale Ruaro Brazil Nominee Portrait Professional "Altos da XV" portrait, aleruaro, luigi, altosdaxv

---

Andrew Bowen USA Nominee Portrait Professional "After the Storm" "After the Storm" is a result of a collaboration with Peyton Bond, a dancer with South Carolina Ballet. With the powerful front leg and billowing skirt, I wanted to create dramatic lighting to evoke a sense of emergence. Petyon created beautiful drama and strength from head to toe.

---

Anthony Nex USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Sarah"

---

Avarino Caraco Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "A Man in Calcutta" Vitiligo can be experienced as a shame, but this young boy in Calcutta told me that he has never suffered any discrimination in his life

---

Bart Boodts Belgium Nominee Portrait Professional "The Princess"

---

Brian Cassey Australia Nominee Portrait Professional "Crocodile Hunter George Craig" Former crocodile hunter George Craig (93), shares his Great Barrier Reef island home with his collection of PNG art and his crocs including the World's largest in captivity - 5.4 metre 'Cassius'.

---

Brian Ach USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Taylor" Taylor Swift in NYC, 2010

---

Caesar Lima USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Reuben" The Unusual Beauty Project - Vitiligo

---

Carsten Fleck Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Strength" Pablo, a long distant runner on his home island El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands.

---

Celia D Luna USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Cholita Valiente" Cholita Estefanny landing an ollie in Cochabamba, Bolivia

---

Charles Lovell USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Young Men Olympian Jr. Second Line, New Orleans " From ongoing documentary series of New Orleans cultural traditions including second lines, Jazz funerals and social aid and pleasure clubs.

---

Chris McAndrew UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Birdy" Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde. Better known by her stage name, Birdy.

---

Christian Nielinger Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "no title" theater poster

---

Christoph Ris Switzerland Nominee Portrait Professional "Goldengirl" Picture made with Fuji GFX 50SII and Fujinon 80mm, Elinchrom Studiolight

---

Cim MacDonald Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Myanmar Monk" macdonald-cim_myanmar-monk

---

Danielle Herzog USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Neon Rod"

---

Danielle Herzog USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Clowning "

---

David Boni UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Hamish"

---

Edwin James Gregory UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Strongwoman" strong beautiful woman

---

Elaine Klein Israel Nominee Portrait Professional "noa" noa

---

Elena Paraskeva Cyprus Nominee Portrait Professional "Malevi Is Bullied No More" Part of a portrait series on Malevi, a girl who overcame childhood traumas of physical and mental abuse. The bugs represent her past tormentors, and her impervious gaze shows her strength and resolve.

---

Etienne van Sloun Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "les deux garcon"

---

Fabrice Beauvois France Nominee Portrait Professional "The music girl"

---

Gerald Zoerner Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Intelligence Genrated Butterflies " Non Artificial Intelligence Genrated Butterflies

---

Glen McClure USA Nominee Portrait Professional "TNT, Star City Roller Girls" From the continuing series, Derby Girls

---

Guido Schiefer Germany Nominee Portrait Professional "Lola" Lola is a theatre, singing and performance project by Teresa Col together with saxophonist Leonard Huhn.

---

Guus Rijven Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Grizzly-Man" bears are sometimes just like real people, so they say

---

Hector Herrera USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Gianna Studio Portrait"

---

Hilda Champion USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Sadhu" Dedicated to a spiritual journey.

---

Ingeborg Lukkien Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Soil and Soul" Soil and Soul: Embracing Earths Essence

---

Jay Watson USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Phillip C. San Francisco, CA" Phillip, Tattoo collector. San Francisco, CA

---

Jean-Pierre Giraud France Nominee Portrait Professional "Octobre Rose" Dans le cadre de la lutte contre le cancer du sein

---

Jeff Harris USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kim at the Cabaret" Cabaret - From a fashion series based on the film, Cabaret

---

Jeremy Green USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Slow Burn" Random encounter in the Big Bend

---

Jill Peters USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Debo" Mumbai, India. Debo is third gender, or "hijra". Hijras face severe harassment at the hands of the state and the wider population for being third gender. Police brutality is common.

---

Jill Peters USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Banu" Mumbai, India. Banu is third gender and lives in Mumbai. She is from a small village and moved to Mumbai for her freedom of self expression.

---

Jonathan Oakes UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Graffiti Kids"

---

Jonathan Banks UK Nominee Portrait Professional "A Portrait of the future of datacenters" Spencer Fowers and Mike Shepperd are the architects behind Microsoft's research into the feasibility of an underwater datacentre.

---

Jophel Ybiosa Philippines Nominee Portrait Professional "Mask Festival" A portrait of the Mask Festival cultural performers in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

---

Julian Elliott UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Sadhu of Pokhara" A sadhu sat in an alleyway in the old town of Pokhara, Nepal.

---

Julian Elliott UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Quiet Contemplation" Mrs Song sat in her front room quietly contemplating the day.

---

Jyotsna Bhamidipati USA Nominee Portrait Professional "A splash of sun" Taken with my Iphone as a self portrait in a hotel room

---

Jyotsna Bhamidipati USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait inspired by Ravi Verma painting" I have been inspired by Ravi Verma paintings and working on a personal project to recreate a series of images that are influenced by him to reconnect with my culture as well as to experiment with ligh

---

Kaat Stieber Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Gerberas" Enjoy your meal

---

Katarina Grajcarikova Slovak Republic Nominee Portrait Professional "Patricia"

---

Kathryn Ghiraldini USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Awaiting" A dramatic sunset breaks through the typical San Francisco fog just weeks before the arrival of this couple's long awaited baby girl.

---

Kristofer Dan-Bergman USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Evidence of Resilience #1" Evidence of Resilience was a series I did for a month in Rwand, Uganda and Burundi in cooperation with Spark Micro Grants an NGO operating in these areas.

---

Lee Dobson UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Walter" Walter

---

Louis Tinsley USA Nominee Portrait Professional "BeMo Portrait " Portrait of DC Based Producer "BeMo" Brown

---

Louis Tinsley USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kevin J" Portrait of DC based artist Kevin J

---

Lynn Gilbert USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Diffident" 2 - A Girl on the Cusp of Becoming a Woman

---

Lynn Gilbert USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Waiting" 3 - A Girl on the Cusp of Becoming a Woman

---

Margaux Chopinet Gary France Nominee Portrait Professional "La solitude de l'Artiste" Alone in my colors, I'm looking for ways to speak in silence. I think my art comes from this loneliness, as old as my first dreams, trapped in my own necessity to embellish my ugliest memories.

---

Markku Lahdesmaki USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Desert Royals" One of my ongoing series Desert Royals with art director Anne Kauranen. We wanted to capture the glamour and artistry of Palm Springs’ iconic drag scene. _D

---

Markus Gmeiner Austria Nominee Portrait Professional "SHEPHERDESS"

---

Marshall Clarke USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Math" Portrait of Mathematician at Johns Hopkins University

---

Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic Nominee Portrait Professional "Fogo3"

---

Martin Krystynek Slovak Republic Nominee Portrait Professional "Natural beauty"

---

Mateo Casis Canada Nominee Portrait Professional "Bella Purple" under the table... nothing...

---

Meg Loeks USA Nominee Portrait Professional "She Wore It Better"

---

Meg Smith USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Master Gardener, Michelin Restaurant" Master Gardener, Michelin Restaurant

---

Meg Smith USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Author in the Vineyard" Author in the Vineyard

---

Meg Smith USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Rancher and Chef Elizabeth Poett" Rancher and Chef Elizabeth Poett

---

Meg Loeks USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The Uses Of The Past"

---

Mickey Strider USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Self-Portrait, Facial Recognition" Part of a self-portrait series exploring personal identity.

---

Nancy Scherl USA Nominee Portrait Professional "The Flower Man" This restaurant worker places fresh flowers on each table before opening.

---

Neil Spence UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Sue Simmons" A hot summers day in London

---

Nicolo Sertorio USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Pastor Billie Dixon" Pastor Billie Dixon with his father

---

Nicolo Sertorio USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Pastor Rodney Smith" Pastor Rodney Smith inside his recently burned down church

---

Oliver Klink USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Mr. Mahout" Employing a sense of romanticism, I strive to capture the poetic sensibilities between creatures.

---

Pal Hansen UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Tim Minchin" Tim Minchin - British/Australian musician, actor, writer, comedian, poet, composer and songwriter.

---

Paolo Iommelli Italy Nominee Portrait Professional "Inside a dream"

---

Paula Watts USA Nominee Portrait Professional "RED" Mood, light and color all create this strong, captivating image by Paula Watts

---

Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Cokato Farmer" Cokato, Minnesota, USA

---

Sarah Louise Ramsay UK Nominee Portrait Professional "The Spaniard, Havana, Cuba" The Spaniard is one of THE LAST FEW fishermen in Havana, illegally braving the Cuban waters, using nothing more that the innards of tractor tyres, every voyage is both an adventure and an escape.

---

Sarah Louise Ramsay UK Nominee Portrait Professional "Julio, Havana, Cuba" Julio, is the original Old Man Of The Sea, unlike Hemingway he is one of THE LAST FEW fishermen in Havana illegally braving the cuban waters, where every voyage is both an adventure and an escape.

---

Seungwook Lee Korea (South) Nominee Portrait Professional "Ironing Man" I'm sure you know how to iron clothes.

---

Stefanie Swinkels Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Comtessa" Tamar patiently and creatively draped with voile to image a fairytale like comtessa. Very calm and collected with an almost arrogant like stare which follows you around to keep an eye on you. This Fin

---

Stefanie Hauger Singapore Nominee Portrait Professional "KC Meals 1" KC is a barber, musician and willing tattoo canvas. I enjoy the intensity of his gaze, making the awkward pose appear totally natural to him.

---

Susanne Middelberg Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "Carol-Ann" dancer

---

Sveta Butko Israel Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait with roses"

---

Sveta Butko Israel Nominee Portrait Professional "Cage"

---

Terri Gold USA Nominee Portrait Professional "A Purple Gaze" The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

---

Terri Gold USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Young Rabiri Women in Gujarat" Color Infrared Image Of Young Women in Gujarat

---

Thomas Chadwick USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Timothy" Portrait of Chicago Skater, Timothy Johnson

---

Tom Zimberoff USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kasamune Spirits" Portrait Series called "Bruisers" . . . portraits of prizefighters coming Immediately out of the Ring

---

Tom Zimberoff USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Portrait of Usain Bolt" Portrait of Olympic Champion Usain Bolt made the day after he discover he was embezzeled for $12,000,000

---

Tom Bowden USA Nominee Portrait Professional "Kurt, New Orleans 2022" I asked Kurt if there was anything he wanted me to tell others and he said, "Yes, tell them it's later than they think."

---

Ton Dirven Netherlands Nominee Portrait Professional "IEW"

---

Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee Portrait Professional "The Thai Girl"

---

Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee Portrait Professional "The Chimney Sweeper" Honouring the craft that dates back hundreds of years

---

Ulla Jensen Denmark Nominee Portrait Professional "Black but Golden"

---

Valentin Denyset France Nominee Portrait Professional "Nomadic Wisdom: Echoes of the Sahara" An enigmatic nomadic soul in Sahara's vast expanse—a weathered Touareg woman; her eyes translucent, reflecting the desert's untold tales, beckoning wanderlust in the sands' endless dreams.

---